Daniel Robert Epstein: Frank Black

excellent interview.

excellent chat.
And his previous one, Honeycomb, is pretty damn mellow. Luckily im growing old with Mr. Black so I like "Fast Man Raider Man" as well. I could care less if there's another Pixies record. I love the Pixies but I think some of the stuff he's done with the Catholics is as good and if not better than the Pixies. Gasp! blasphemy!

Rock. Great interview, thank you.

That was a cool interview. Fingers crossed for Pixies album but like Frank Black said, there's pressure to match their past recordings.

Though I'd be curious, it would probably be better if there wasn't a new pixies album. Frank Black is a great solo artist, and The Pixies sound awesome live after all these years; I never expected to see them live, much less with Mars Volta opening... but I feel like if they made a new record, it would be more of an excuse to tour than an album that compares to the glory days. Although, it'd be great to see em again!

This pretty much sums up how I feel about any defunct band reuniting and writing new material. I think maybe if they changed the band name (cause time changes things) then they could viably release an album without affecting the "fairly high esteem" that the originals are held.

i think this is the first interview i've seen in which DRE actually puts someone off their ease (referring the first question about how mellow the new album was). it's kinda surprising because DRE's usual style is really smooth, like he's known the interviewee all his life and they're just talking 'bout stuff. good read!

I love a lot of what Frank Black has done "post-Pixies," and I also love Kim Deal's terrific Breeders stuff, but those two in collaboration have always been the absolute best. I'd love a new Pixies album, or at least some kind of collaborative project between those two.

As a musician who grew up in the 60's and 70's, and mostly suffered thru the 80's, my mind was blown by the Pixies when I first heard them. Black Francis was writing something NEW. Actual new music (at the time.)
NOBODY (in my mind) was doing what he was doing. I tried to get my friends to understand, they didn't.
They were mostly into Jane's Addiction (another great band.)

From my first show in 1989 at the Warfield in San Francisco, I've loved their musical ideas, was thrilled (though not surprised) to see the following year that David Bowie was a huge fan of theirs, and thanked god (or someone like him), to see that Kurt Cobain was hip to, and influenced by them.

Thanks for the interview.

As loud as hell
a ringing bell
behind my smile
it shakes my teeth
and all the while
as vampires feed
I bleed