Death to the Pixies? Phooey! Critic Says Brief Show Worth the Hassle and the Zulus
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Gobble up this entertainment-packed uR-1, you turkeys! 22 WHAT'S UP: November He's gotta have .it! 1990 u R-1 sex adviser Dr. Andrew Barclay de- buts... p. 6 @ The Provoc unloads... p. 6 @ BowWOW, it's Dog Boy... p. 7 Volume I Number 9~ © Classifieds•.• p. 7 MSU's alternative @ Out & about... p.8 and truly independent @ Good stuff... p.xx voice Death to the Pixies? Phooey! Critic says brief show worth the hassle and the Zulus. _ ThePixies started playing, but with by Angie Carozza We walked around for a while to all the pushing, I couldn't tell you uR-1 M.Jsic cOrrespondent see who else was at St. Andrews, what their first song was. and to kill time before the show I pulled out after having sacri We were going to see the Pixies, started.·The Zulus went on around ficed one of the lenses from my and it didn't matter what we had to go 10:45 p.m .. They played a great set, glasses to the crowd. I moved to the through to get there. , which included such awesome tunes other side of the stage, where the Not the half an hour It took just to as "I Can't Walt to Tf;Jlf You the view was most excellent. get the five Inches of snow off the News; "Can't Stop Having Fun; arid Joe, the lead guitarist, stood In windows of my car last Thursday. their best song of the set., "Gotta an almost heroic stance and looked Not the 45 minutes It took to get Have Faith.• · at the crowd through the whole show. on the freeway. The Zulus did their job well. The It looked a8 If he were being cued by Not the average speed of about crowd was psyched. The time had various members of the aUdience. · . .·.·.· .·.·.·... ;.·.·.·.·.·. 40 m.p.h. we crawled at on the trip to come to jostle for position at the front Black Francis, the lead singer, ==~~=~=~·· St. Andrews Hall. of the stage. I pushed my way toward looked like he was sick of touring, Not the two-hour trip that took us the front. It was too tight to go all the and he just wanted to get the show four hours. way up yet. over with. However, we finally arrived. But The crowd was getting restless Kim, the bass player, stood with because we were early..,..... not early and I was standing there waiting fpr her hair hanging over tier face except enough - we had to wait outside for an opportunity to get up there. I saw for when she was singing. She half an hour. When they let us in, we the opening and I went for it. Sud looked like she was having a good were just glad to get out of the cold. denly, I was part of the elite, being time. Every once in a while, she When my brain thawed, I went to thrown back and forth at the will of would just start laughing, mostly at see who the opening band was. To the crowd. Joe or Black Francis. my surprise, It was the Zulus. I had The Pixies made their entrance The show was going really well. always thought that the greatest and as the crowd recognized each Joe was·ripping out these great solos show in the world would be the Pixies member, they yelled their names. that are a distinction of the Pixies. When they played "Vamos, • 1just stood there with my mouth gaping open. Joe's fingers were lightning bolts streaking up and down the neck of his guitar. Kim opened up "Gigantic" on bass. The crowd went nuts. This was one ot the best songs they played, along with "Monkey Gone to Heaven.· . ·_.· ·}Nhaf o_ . ~rgqinl . ·. By now, they had started having Next we~·.·:Wfi will; ' ' problems with feedback from the house P.A. Black Francis was getting more and more fed up. The tension was building and it hit its peak when they started "Debaser.· Black Francis walked up to the mike to sing, when all of a sudden he yelled out "Fuck this!· and threw his guitar down and stormed off.the stage. Kim tried to get him to come back and finish the show, but to no Black •These Boots Were . Made for Walkin' • Francis and Kim Murphy avail. :·... · ·::~~!:Wt@~!~O}'l :.. :: :.:::::·: play last week at St. Andy's. uR-1 photo/CHRISTOPHER LOCKETTE . : : : : : : : : :-: -:-:-:-: :-.·.·.·.·-::::.;.:.:-:-·.:.;-:-. .·. ·.·.· See PIXIES, p. 2 ::~:)::::::::::::: \ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~:: } :::::::: : : ::: :: .. .;. .:. :. : . .. >::: :: 2_• Re orter-lntelli encer 22 November, 1989 From PIXIES, p. 1 · Slowly the angry crowd dispersed. I waited at the bottom of . the steps that led up to the Pixies' dressing room In hopes of · getting up to talk to them. I asked if I could go up to the dressing rooms, and was told: "OK, come on.• · The first thing I asked was What happened?" . Black Francis left the room_as If he didn't even want to talk about it. Finally, Kim gave me an answer. 'We were getting a Low -feedback ·'zzzzzt' sound for the last five or six songs, then Charles (Black Francis) got shocked by his microphone. That was when he walked off stage. We played most of the show though, so it didn't end that ~rly. • But the show seemed'incomplete, like it just stopped. I went down to the Shelter and gathered people up and we left tor the ride home. On the way home, I had time to think about the show. The songs they pl::r.yed were most excellent. I got to meet the band. It really was worth everything that hap ned. The Pixies are thebest~ln~e:rld. parsat.on ::>:11::--:r>t .. _Jii-Bilt ----------- rn~ rn ~ ~ ~ >:.. -:::: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i~ { ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ rn: :-: .. ..... ;:[ - L_· ·: .:; '.: '..:::::-. .. 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