[ATTENDED: September 23, 2017] Pixies
I saw the Pixies live at Giants Stadium in 1989. They opened for The Cure and played a rollicking set.
I was a huge fan of their original albums and I’ve enjoyed The Breeders and Frank Black’s solo stuff to varying degrees. I was intrigued when they reunited, but I wasn’t super psyched about it. I didn’t really love the new songs they released–they were all fine, but I figured either I was past them or they had changed enough to make their new stuff less dramatic.
But when I saw that they were playing at the Stone Pony Summer Stage (the day after Autumn officially began), I thought I might like to go. The face value of the tickets was $37, which wasn’t too bad, but somehow after Ticketmaster got involved, the total was $59, which was way too much. We were near Asbury Park during the summer and I stopped by the Stone Pony to buy a ticket at the box office. But they were closed! (Closed Tuesdays, apparently).
It turned out that day of the show tickets went up to $52 (!). Well, I was on the fence, and then while I was trying to find out what time the opening band went on (no official word except that gates opened at 5:30), I came across a ticket for sale on Stubhub for $20. I’d never bought anything on Stubhub before, because I’d always heard the prices were crazy expensive. Well, including fees, these tickets were less than face value. Which is pretty awesome. And I was all set.
For many people, the dealbreaker (ha) for this show was that original bassist Kim Deal as no longer in the band. I had heard new bassist Paz Lenchantin and thought she sounded enough like Kim (especially in an outdoor venue) that it wouldn’t be all that noticeable that Kim wasn’t there. What I didn’t realize and which I respect even if it meant that we lost out, was that they didn’t play any songs that Kim sang lead on. Paz did all of the backing vocals and sang lead on the one song she sings on the newest album and the encore, but that was it. (more…)
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