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PIXIES
If you're a fan of rock music and you can sort of play a little
bit at least, you can do something. It's usually listenable, so
have a little faith in yourself," says the motormouthed Black
Francis. "There are so many bands and so many musicians
who are walking clichés. Cliché isn't what made your favorite
records your favorite records in the first place."
story about a spy who slept with her target. In the end, the target
gets his eyes gouged out and he kills everyone at the party who's
mocking him. Religion and the Bible are great sources for great
stories and great phrases like, 'I got my Mojo workin' or 'Seventh
Son of a Seventh Sonreal backwoods voodoo talk. It's wild but
it's also something you hear a lot in the blues. Not that I consciously
wrote any of it that way. I think it comes from growing up in a religious
background; that certainly screwed me up"
He calls himself Black Francis but he's also known as Charles.
He yelps and bassist Kim Deal offers cool vocal responses, Guitarist
Joey Santiago melds angular noise with scattershot hooks. Drum-
mer David Loring keeps the backbone pumping, simplistic and solid.
"We don't particularly have a lot of regard for what style we're
playing except that we don't want to play anything too long," says
Charles. "It's jumpy, shaky and works like a symphony. Mind you,
these Pixies are more creatures of nightmare than gossamer delight.
Dig the song titles on their latest Lp. Doolittle-Debaser," "Gouge
Away" "Wave of Mutilation"-as frightening as they are compelling.
"It's funny, rock and roll has this dark, entertaining quality, a philo
sophical stance that life is dark, life is unfair, life is confusing. Hey.
it's very rock and roll of us to come off dark, but in an entertaining
way. Actually, there's a weird violence to what we're doing-not on
a hardcore 'urban decay' level or even some weird 'slash me' or
6:00 news' level. It's a lot more vague, like a good, old horror movie."
So who is this guy? Hard to say, actually. On the band's past three
records (including Surfer Rosa and their eight-song mini-Lp, Come
On Pilgrim), he's a savage hypochondriac, a helium-voiced bluesman
with "whores in his head," a demented horny child spewing forth
frustrated religion. In person, he's an affable motormouth-slightly
pudgy and obviously neurotic. He grew up in California with a Penta-
costal mother and stepfather. Add to that a part-time upbringing by
his real father around a Cape Cod biker bar and the combination
would seem ripe for fueling the Pixies' latter day sonic incinerator
of fervid words and unholy ideas.
Black Francis doesn't exactly mind pilfering the Scriptures for a
scrap or two of lyrical inspiration-check "Gouge Away," the Pixies'
off-handed retelling of the Sampson and Delilah myth. "It's a wild
The Pixies are unmistakably Bostonian in nature, though it took
widespread European success to win the slightest lota of praise in
their hometown. "A lot of people thought we were from England for
a while," chuckles Black Francis.
"We finally got licensed to a major label, Elektra, and now they
can't ignore us. It's not like we wanted to get patted on the back
or anything like that, but there's no denying the fact that we were
one of the first underground bands in town to be able to quit our
jobs and start making a living off music. Hey, at least we deserved
a review or two in the local papers! Now, it's this weird, precocious,
Oh, those Pixies' attitude.
"Boston seems like a town where mediocrity is rewarded. Every
year they have these ridiculous Boston Music Awards, where the
dumbest shit wins: Jon Butcher Axis, Tit Tuesday. Carly Simon...
Carly Simon! Sheeesh
The Pixies hais from a section of town where garage bands are
a dime a dozen, a students' Bohemia where rents are no longer quite
so cheap and the population dips and swells with the coming and
going of the semester.
The quotient of cool people isn't any higher here at college than
anywhere else. It's all a bunch of jerky jocks-uneducated people.
graced with parents who can afford to get rid of them for four years
before they're supposed to dive into the real world." Note: Charles)
formed the Pixies with roommate Santiago while both were attend
ing U-Mass, Boston,
The stamp of approval came when the band's first demo filtered
into the hands of England's 4AD label. They were so impressed with
the raw, dynamic feel and righteous rage that they released it as
the eight-song mini-Lp, Come On Pilgrim. They were quick to follow
it a year later with the Steve (Big Black) Albini produced Surfer Rosa.
which catapulted to the upper echelons of UK Indie charts and won
overwhelming critical acclaim. They were headlining Europe while
in Boston they were little more than a quasi-recognizable item in
the local gig listings.
"Europe is so much more happening than America. Maybe it's
got something to do with the whole laissez-faire way of doing things
we've got over here maybe that's a positive aspect about living
in America. People aren't so prone to follow the rules quite so
mindlessly. I can appreciate that
Hate 'em or appreciate 'em, there's no denying the simple fact
that the Pixies are creating quite a stir for themselves. Recent months
have found them touring heavily, even supporting The Cure for a
series of stadium-sized shows across America. Call it good fortune,
decent connections or the triumph of an underdog fueled by enough
sheer inspiration and tenacity to propel them light years beyond a
disgruntled student's dorm room in a city that could never compre
hend the magic at work.
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