Culture Shock
Ladies and gentlemen, The Pixies live!
Finally got around to watching the excellent Pixies documentary LoudQUIETloud last night (thank you Netflix!)
It feels good to see a band with so much talent but so many problems finally selling out huge venues and doing festivals years after they broke up and stopped recording. It's always sad to see a band like the New York Dolls, for instance, whose influence is so vast and who meant so much to so many people, never really making good financially and enjoying the kind of fame they should until decades later when their powers are in decline and a number of their members have died off.
Though bassist Kim Deal seems to still be taking sobriety one day at a time and drummer David Lovering descended into alcohol and pill problems after the death of his father on the reuinion tour they seem to have stabilized and are touring right now, doing Doolittle in its entirety.
Which you can listen to -- here's their live show from 10/14/09 in Brussels, in its entirety.
Sounds to me like they've still got it.
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