Mr. Brian wrote:black francis wrote:Well I did share a hotel room with two hunks in New York circa Ocean Rain live.
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black francis wrote:That's a helluva set list but I'm kind of bitchy and would have been very distressed not to hear Velouria. Still think they should have kept Kim Shattuck. What did you think of the new bassist?
Mojo wrote:
Hello Goodbye: KIM SHATTUCK & THE PIXIES
She stepped in to replace Kim Deal. But differing world-views soon made disintegration inevitable.
Hello- Janury 2013
I was taking a break from my group The Muffs, studying photography at college, but I didn't stop writing. Then in 2009 I played bass withthe Pixies at the Winston Calling benefit gig [for ill baby Winston Bertrand]; it was only three songs but I heard from a mutual friend that Charles [aka Pixies leader Black Francis] said he'd felt really comfortable with me on-stage and I seemed like a nice person. I hadn't heard from him for two years, then he Twitter messaged me, asking if I wanted to hear some songs. I said, "Yes,if you wrote them yourself." More time goes by, then he emailed, "I want you to hear the songs, because I wondered whether you wanted to be the bass player of the Pixies."That was shocking, I had no idea Kim Deal had gone. I love Kim Deal, she is a huge part of why I like the Pixies, not the other guys as much. My husband said, "Say yes,you only live once."Charles told me the whole story of Kim, the twists and turns, it was pretty dramatic stuff. She basically walked out on them. Charles had a thing about me being called Kim -one night when he was super-drunk he said it was meant to be (laughs)!
We rehearsed about 80 songs, no exaggeration! When I did the first rehearsal with Joey [Santiago] and Dave [Lovering] it was like three buddies, we had laughs and inside jokes. I remember telling Charles and he was like, "Inside jokes? I feel/eft out." The dynamic shifted slightly when we started rehearsing together, but it was fun and felt really at home.
Goodbye - November 2013
I think they were shocked when I first started playing the shows - I'd get a little bit more into it than them, and rock out a bit. At the Mayan Theatre in LA, I jumped in the pit at the end and started hugging and high-fiving the crowd, it was sweet. By the time I'd finished, the guys were long gone off-stage. I felt a real jerk. Then the manager got in my face, "Don't jump into the pit! The Pixies don't do that." I realised I'd over-stepped my bounds and apologised the next day.
It all seemed OK,except that Dave stopped talking to me. He got very grunty. I thought,"Dave's taking this hard. "Throughout the tour, Charles said, "Don't take it personally," but things would happen and I knew [Dave] hated my fucking guts. But I tried not to make it about me. We had a break,then on the second leg of the tour, Dave was super-nice to me on the plane. I thought he was fucked up and super-high. That was a red flag to me. I kind of knew then they were going to fire me.
After a while, Charles withdrew a little bit as a friend, too; before we'd go visit museums and have dinner on our days off. I asked him if anything was wrong, and he said, "It's just personal stuff." Before the last date at Hammersmith, I read something in the press about them wanting Kim Deal back. I thought, "That's a bit rude." The last show was agreat show, then afterwards there was, like, nobody backstage at all. When I got home to America I was super-tired. It was the day before Thanksgiving when I got the call.
Even though it ended badly, I have fond memories of it - it was the perfect amount of time to be in the Pixies, short and sweet. It was so exciting performing to those crowds. Yes,the title of The Muffs' new album Whoop DeeD00 comes from Charles's quote about firing me. But then Blonder And Blonder in 2005 is a quote from Courtney Love, about [Muffs ~ bassist] Ronnie and I. Charles made it easy for us to think of a title.'
As told to Pat Gilbert
TheMuffs 'Whoop DeeDoo is out now on ?i' CherryRed. ~
black francis wrote:Any Pixies best of list that didn't consult me is invalid.
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