Ok, I saw the pixies last night and they were totally fantastic. GEEMEE pointed out that they wee a little fatigued sounding or something to that effect, which is true they were, but they played a lot of great songs and the execution was great. They opened with that "Heaven" song from eraserhead and then did "Wave Of Mutilation" surf version. For an encore they did it again - regular version. It was actually pretty cool, they got away with doing the same song twice.
But the real star of the show was the guy in business attire with the vanilla ice haircut sitting in front of us. Just to help paint a picture, there can be no question but that this guy is voting for Bush. Now we would never have noticed this little basket of sunshine but after the show started his wife turned around to ask us to be quiet. We were alittle suprised but we kept it down for a bit, but you know, it's a rock concert not a movie. We had been drinking so after a few minutes aI'm sure qwe got loud again and about halfway through the third song "haircut" turns around as says "You have got to be kidding me! Keep it down!"
Well that resulted in some very amused looks amongst our group. I wonder how he felt about the guy in the row behind us who kept shouting "You're boring!" at the Pixies.
He started really jamming out and boppin' around in his seat and it made me realized i was grooving out and I started to feel stupid about it, looking at him. After another song or two, people in the audience started standign up, so we all had to and "Precious Hair" just starts going into it big time! Air guitar, air drums, some left and right jabs, townsend-esque arms swinging guitar picking and finishing off the songs with a fist in the air. Oh man, I mean, the Pixies are light on stage prescence, but this guy made the show! They should have had him up on stage, off to the side, and the camera could pan across him now and then to get the audience
totally pumped! during an energetic lull. We were SO lucky to have this guy in front of us - out of six to eight thousand people. We got to have him.
Anway they were pretty good. I'm down to pretty good because their rendition of "Gouge Away" was a little lackluster, but at least they played it.
So anyway after the show we were sitting in our seats, talking about how great the show was, when "world's best haircut" turns around and says "How would you know, you were talking through the whole show! I came here to listen to a rock concert and instead I had to listen to your life story! Thanks for the worst time in my entire life!" At this point I felt compelled to congratulate him on having a fantastic life. He followed with "Well worst show ever!" Three later commented that this was just impossible considering the way he was rocking out. Len just kept telling him how awesome he was "Oh man! YOu were great! I could've used a little more air bass, but I shouldn't complain the air guitar and air drums were just fantastic! When are you playing again?!?"
We eventually apologized just to shut him up, which of course didn't work then the peopel around us starting telling him to shut up and I was just looking at him and laughing right in his face this was all so ridiculous. Finally his wife pulled him away and Three commented about how it was sad, he just wanted people to be polite, but in this case, he was just being stupid.
