Last night Jon and I saw THE PIXIES.
More photos here.
Despite the regular complaints of attending a concert in Minneapolis/St. Paul, seeing the Pixies was unfucking believeable, even more than I expected it to be. They didn't play "Bone Machine", "Alec Eiffel", "Rock Music", or "Planet of Sound", all of which I really wanted and expected to hear. But again, it didn't matter. I think my favorite song was "I Bleed". Fuck.
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hey peter - those are awesome pics :) i won't be seeing them when they come to toronto though, the venue is too far and it's just a little out of my price range for now...
oh, and i responded to your comment about the zutons album...check it! see ya!
-michelle (boltofblue.net/michelle)
"Despite the regular complaints of attending a concert in Minneapolis/St. Paul..."
I am curious as the meaning of this line. Sure the specific venue the Pixies played (St Paul's Roy Wilkins Auditorium) is quite possibly the worst box-cum-music venue in the history of boxes-cum-music venues, you simply cannot argue with the greatness of other venues in the Twin Cities. Notably, First Avenue, merely a skipped stones throw across the river in Minneapolis. Can you?! And it reopens tomorrow because finally something is going right in this damn country. Or the Pantages Theater, brought to life earlier in ROCKvember by Paul Westerberg.
Yes, I can argue with the "greatness" of the other venues. I didn't want to bitch about it.
First Avenue is bad. The sound is bad. The stage is way too high. And they don't have 18+ shows, only all ages shows that start at 5.
The Quest... I don't think I have to say anything. Same for Ascot Room.
The Triple Rock again doesn't have any 18+ shows, and the people who work there can be dicks. The sound there is atrocious.
I won't pay that much to go to Pantages, and they don't ever have shows I want to see.
Compared to Chicago venues like the Metro, the Fireside bowl, logan square auditorium, the abbey pub, minneapolis just doesn't stand up at all. i actually liked the place the pixies played at, compared to comparable rooms in chicago.
the worst part of shows in minneapolis is the crowds. they either stand statue-still or mosh/jump up and down like it's 1994. what the hell? nobody moves during the fever, adn everyone goes stark-raving-grunge-mad for the faint. ridiculous.
Those are great photos!
solace-
I've been to plenty of 21+ shows. I just think it makes sense to have 18+ shows in a city with the nation's second largest undergraduate student body.
We must have been to different shows. Some crowds are always stand-still, but crowds at shows like the Arcade Fire, YYYs, Gossip, Liars, were anything but, yet they still don't mosh or jump up and down (or wear blink-182 shirts).
The high stage is a bit ridiculous I think. It makes for bad photos, for one thing.
And I didn't know that they never played those songs, guess I should have researched a little more.
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