Pixies.- Black Francis interview & Tame (VPRO Onrust 1989)

Black Francis interviewed by Bram Van Splunteren for Dutch TV show "Onrust" (1989).

[@davidswanson8493]

He was worried about writing more song’s,then he writes Doolittle!

[@burrrrrrrrrrrrrrp]

It’s weird how someone you don’t know, have never met and will probably never met.. can enrich your life so much. Thanks for some of the best rock’n’roll records we’ve ever heard Charles

[@naguszed]

music is accents, anti-accents, mathematical. dude is a dope genius

[@chrisari101]

he's so sweet 😭

[@robertd8351]

I had never seen or hear him so young, humble and candid, a genius unbound, a true rock'n roll hero (in my appreciation). Not a weirdo.

[@danelmore6553]

Wow. This initial question is now one of the most hilarious (and ironic) questions in history. "So Frank, after the 300 songs you have previously written, I am getting nervous that you might not be able to write any more."

[@eduardorivera508]

If I ever meet Black, I'm gonna pay him on the back and tell him "You make good Rock n' Roll records man. Thank you."

[@yvesd1663]

When I met him, I shook his hand and said: "Mr Thompson, thanks for rocking me out over the years."

[@sabrinasjourney]

What he said about playing music and songwriting in the bathroom is true. I discovered it myself last weekend. Great acoustics!

[@kdakan]

Wow best insight into Pixies songwriting from Frank Black. In another interview he mentions the accidents that they seek as a band for excitement.

[@bootcornpolo6803]

2:50 “BABABABABA!!!” Ooo ma mow mow baby! Surfin Bird still playing in 1989

[@tallkidmofo]

thank you for this Black. love your songwriting approach, and it has really influenced me when I try and write songs. thanks for your contribution to this world my friend

[@pullywullypirate]

holy shit he's got some wise words

[@pitbullvicious2505]

It's just watching over whelming ingenuity in this.. so.. normal -- dare I even say insignificant -- looking person. And I don't mean this as an insult, more in a way that I wouldn't look twice passing him on the street (not a bad thing). I find that impressive an very genuine, admirable. It gives me hope for humanity and maybe even a little bit for myself.

[@yubtubtime]

Dude does not disappoint and seems even cooler than I expected tbh

[@mcbillygoat2413]

Plenty of Captain Beefheart records they showed towards the end. Black was always a Beefheart fanatic.

[@arman8976]

his bathroom demonstration was endearing

[@Allian3]

welp, black, all i can say is that you more than earned that slap on the back. you made good rock and roll records 👍 (understatement of the century)

[@crypttonite]

so great

[@moose4490]

2:35 says it all. black is a great human being!

[@monsieurmitosis]

I need to get myself a shower curtain and then everything in my life will change

[@mattcavallaro8617]

To think he wasn't sure if the songs were any good, and Doolittle became one of the best albums of the 1980's.

[@matiasmatias9521]

If not the best

[@griffon8901]

@@matiasmatias9521 Yes, the best.

[@alejandrovenegasheresi2697]

I've always wanted to be able to scream like people like Black Francis, Kat Bjelland and Kurt Cobain when I sing ...but I've never been able to and probably I never will...I just start coughing and shit. I'm not tough enough, hahaha!

[@SlightlyWetFart]

My favourite weirdo

[@Cause4Alarm]

The way I remember them and if you look at the audience, there wasn't that many people checking them out back then. you couldn't find a pixie's fan if you tried among music people because most people thought they were punk or never even heard of them! 😂!

[@americanpancakelive]

Bowie wrote in the same way a lot of the time. Putting words that just sound good together and the meaning comes later.

[@peteskyrunner4845]

Yes! Bowies lyrics are amazing, I just not sure what they mean lol.

[@gabriell6380]

It´s called Cut-Ups. read about it , really interesting.

[@gonetoheaven7478]

pixies forever and ever!!!

[@JAYDUB1279]

What an unbelievable jerk interviewer but Francis answers in humility. That's why Francis is a legend and this interviewer is, where?

[@edybocman76]

Lol this dude was done a lot interviews , from this to faith no more , rhcp , dazing etc

[@jeans.plante512]

A bit blunt but maybe it's the Dutch style, very direct, and Mr Black didn't seem to mind.

[@hihello-sx1sx]

2:49 BABABABA

[@alexandra4334]

Love this unique interview pressing him on the process and his honesty. Then the tame performance has cringe-y women’s heads flashing past the screen wtf were they (who put the news piece together ) thinking its so weird.

[@oasisbeyond]

lol so funny and awesome.

[@whereismyphonebook]

good guy

[@rigocolas]

Sweet

[@yolo_zen]

black francis on the green?

[@haajelixir9462]

Adrien Koo looks like it!

[@eduardorivera508]

Adrien Koo I don't think so. I think he was purposely fucking with the interviewer for asking such a stabby question in the beginning of the interview. Black was probably just stabbing his ass back by purposely giving the interviewer false info with an oddball attitude.

[@artrock101]

Some marijuana? If you got some...

[@louminisalouminios9559]

i love the song but this live made me laugh idk if that's good or bad

[@SilentAttackTV]

Does he make the "poetic structure" before the melody, though, or is melody part of it (just without words)?

[@philiom7724]

yes

[@colin8007]

melody is part of it. he wouldn’t have separated structure and chord progression from the vocal melody and cadence. it all goes together at the same time. words are different though and he said he did those later

[@daniels.segura8993]

8:47 Rock & Roll fans, which albums do you recognize? I juts see Dolittle, Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation, Candy and Iggy Pop, the albums' names are not clear.

[@finality42069]

Daniel S. Segura Jokes on them, I already know all of them.

[@daniels.segura8993]

@@finality42069 What are the other ones?

[@horaciopin21]

also Pixies' Surfer Rosa, Bad Moon Rising by Sonic Youth, Clear Spot and Shiny Beast by Captain Beefheart, the three Stooges albums (Stooges, Raw Power and Fun House), and two Johnny Cash i don't know the titles.

[@finality42069]

Daniel S. Segura I see their debut of The Jesus and Mary Chain.

[@daniels.segura8993]

@@horaciopin21 thank you so much.

[@Fireguy65]

I gotta broken faaace 0:51

[@yolo_zen]

great interview tho!

[@bryanc.8441]

Truth.

[@sexobscura]

TAME is a phenomenal song and The Pixies have a mound of such

[@1ColdFuture]

--------3:50---5:05tame 5:29

[@yubtubtime]

Yo, what a great pro tip: just play G together until "it feels like you're driving a car" to warm up as a band. I do that as a solo guitarist but NEVER thought about it that way in 20 years of playing! Perfect metaphor 🤌

[@jusqici_toutvabien]

He isn't bs'ing about the bathroom. If you want to record vocals at home, recording and singing in the bathroom and specially a shower with glass doors will give you a really clean sound

[@Brokenface]

Like they did for Kim vocals in Gigantic and Where Is My Mind

[@jon1982.]

Toilet seat up... Lad points.

[@edp3202]

According to Kim Deal hes a control freak and wacky. But he's talented for sure.

[@griffon8901]

According to Paz Lenchantin, the last Pixies albums are great. And she's right.

[@miracles4u]

Luxury to buy a rock record or ticket to a club now gone..... Thanks plandemic