{"id":351,"date":"2009-10-09T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2009\/10\/17_again.html"},"modified":"2009-10-09T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T23:02:00","slug":"17_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/09\/17_again\/","title":{"rendered":"17 again"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1988, in France, I met this girl Tracey who was from Richfield, Ohio. She really loved this band called the Pixies<\/a>. Apparently a member was from near where she’d grown up. We got to be friends and I grew to respect her musical tastes. In 1989, back in the States, I went to visit her in Cleveland. We went to see the Pixies at a little hole in the wall in the Flats (then a hopeful wasteland along the bit of the river that had caught fire not so many years before) called Peabody’s Down Under<\/a>. I remember nervously proffering my ridiculously fake ID at the door and getting in anyway. I remember being ejected from the corner table by the family of the band. I remember how, when they started playing, the music hit me like a fist to the sternum. I can’t remember which song I liked best, but I can remember the night as clearly as if it were last year. The record they were touring on was Doolittle. <\/p>\n

Tonight, at the Brixton Academy, we saw the Pixies on the 20th anniversary Doolittle tour. About 3 songs in, the music hit me like a fist to the sternum, and 20 years peeled away. I was 17 again, and 37, suspended between the me that was and the me that is on a lush and chaotic line of guitar and Frank’s primal scream. <\/p>\n

I don’t think there’s any other guitar line in the world that makes me as reliably happy as the opening riff of Here Comes Your Man<\/i>. I always expect to be transported and transformed by music, but it’s rare for any gig to be as cathartic as this one was. I knew every note and most of the more comprehensible words, but I heard them with ears that have 20 extra years on them. I heard the shimmery guitar on the B-side version of Wave of Mutilation and it felt like sunset. I heard the crowd singing a 2-part harmony on key. Yeah, I saw them in the 90s, and I saw them in 2004 (twice? three times? whatever). But I still can’t say enough about that bubble between past and present that exists when I’m in the presence of something that truly moved me, transformed me, made a bit of what I am today.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Frank and Kim, Joey and David. See you next time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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