RTP-area local music and culture

["Philip Hammond" <xlate AT yahoo.com>]

Okay, I have to chime in with my first Pixies show. It was at the "Rock 
Werchter" festival in Belgium in 1989. The Pixies were the second act, 
wedged between Texas and Tanita Tikaram (!). I was in the Air Force and 
stationed in Berlin at the time, and had no idea who the Pixies were. Their 
little half-hour set blew my mind. There were some other good acts that day 
(Nick Cave, Elvis Costello and his "song roulette wheel"), but the Pixies 
were by far the best.
It looks like the talent went down a notch the next year (Bryan Adams! 
Sting!):
http://home.hccnet.nl/o.kornegoor/historie.htm

As for Metal Flake Mother, I don't think most of their songs sounded like 
The Pixies but "Deem On" sure does...
-Phil


"Tim Ross" <tubacity AT gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>I still think Doolittle is really great, though obviously not as great
> as Surfer Rosa and Come On Pilgrim. I copped an extra single CD copy of
> the latter two, someone make me an offer if you're like me and hate the
> way Warner Brothers separated those two when they re-released them.
>
> FWIW, I thought Bossanova was really boring and I really didn't like
> Trompe Le Monde at all.  Mark Prindle makes a different argument,
> however:
>
> http://www.markprindle.com/pixiesa.htm
>
> Where did the Pixies play circa Surfer Rosa, was it at The Brewery? I
> saw them at the old BW3 Cradle in October 1989. It was my first-ever
> Cradle show (and on a schoolnight, no less!), so I didn't quite know
> what to make of the moshpit, the big obnoxious skinhead guy who was
> throwing his weight around, or the opening band who broke a beer bottle
> onstage for some reason. But the Pixies were really great.
>
> I am still considering the possibility of going to see them at Disco
> Rodeo but I would be way more sold on it if I knew that they would play
> all their songs in alphabetical order like they did back in the day
> ("Bone Machine", "Break My Body", "Broken Face", "Cactus", "Debaser",
> etc....). Or if they would just limit their setlist to the earlier
> stuff. Otherwise it probably wouldn't be that different from when the
> Pixies played UNC's Memorial Hall on the Trompe Le Monde tour. The
> opening band for that show was Cloudland/Worlds of Collision-era Pere
> Ubu, and Pere Ubu was not the only past-their-prime band on stage that
> night. I remember thinking that the show sucked, though I think I was
> comparing it to the Doolittle tour and so maybe I was just disappointed
> about hearing so much of the Bossanova/Trompe Le Monde material.
>
> Still Tippin',
>
> TR
>