Joey Santiago of The Pixies

[@StealthBeeKid]

This is massively underrated, where are the millions of views? This video is freaking amazing!

[@sixpie.]

I'd need a daily dose of Joey Santiago guitar tutorials

[@JasonSigman]

I love the backstories to these types of songs! All of the Pixies songs are permanently etched into my memory. It's fun to get insight into how they were created.

[@andeegreen]

One of the greatest modern artists to stand on stage with a guitar. So raw and thoughtful. Have loved Pixies almost as long as RHCP.

[@markdog912]

❤

[@markdog912]

I just want to know one thing... Who writes the guitar lines, Frank or Joey?

[@andeegreen]

@@markdog912a bit of both I’d imagine! Frank has the overall ideas and Joey brings them to fruition with his own style

[@clikerzbot]

Ang Galing Mo Sir Joey!!!! Your Fan From The Philippines!!!

[@mkmstillstackin]

As a long-time big Pixies fan, and a self-learning newbie guitarist, this kinda stuff just blows my mind.

[@GIBKEL]

I get it.....I love it when art inspires art. Nothing more natural but often overlooked and underutilized. Deep, simple and perfect.

[@johnariesespan2422]

Happy Bday Joey Santiago

[@kalebvera1841]

i cant believe joey santiago and i are on the same brain wave, i wrote a song about a murder years ago and i wanted violent violins at the end of song because it reminded me of Psycho, if you pay attention to that movie its all violens

[@nebu9786]

1:00 Joey you make me think about Caribou, is very similar like Where is my mind !!!

[@robertd8351]

Joey is such a genius contributor to the Pixies sound, I think Frank would honestly agree.

[@dustystarr2297]

You are a guitar god brother!!! You totally inspired me!!

[@RenegadeShepard69]

I just wrote "how to bend it like joey santiago" while listening to dead and this comes out. The type of "you know what I mean" search.

[@nikkoXmercado]

Shet, Pinoy pala 'to. That's great because I'm a big big Pixies fan. Holy ass.

[@ktakyon]

So cool to hear that he still has a bit of Filipino accent left lol

[@scarlettprepper8080]

Brilliant!

[@gregcoleman6670]

I wanna hear Joey play his riff with Tina Weymouth on bm-bm-bm-bm-bm-bm-bm bass.

[@jesuschrist2284]

Joey is a legend

[@StankPlanks]

Joey is a god of the guitar

[@marcosruiz7665]

Monster of music

[@nalfarbz152]

Ngayon ko lng nlaman na pure filipino pla sya. Membro ng bandang pixies .astig

[@carlosjavierflaiglobos3948]

because the bathroom has a beautiful natural reverb :)

[@cpt.dr.hawkeye1740]

carlos javier flaig lobos No wonder Kim Deal's vocals for Gigantic and Where is my mind were recorded in a bathroom....

[@joearnold2858]

might be a bit late lol but joey played in the bathroom because it helped him focus

[@Steven-og3in]

I get it !!! Thank you make it fun !!!

[@rockinricky4855]

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸rock n rolllll

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

Love that guitar. And that psycho riff! More tutorials, please👍🎸

[@LEMMYCAUTIONROCK]

I love it!

[@leuvenisaplace]

Joey, Baby....

[@Headwyres]

Nice jumpscare element on your guitar work, Joey. Keep it up!

[@angelcastellanosmartinez2412]

Genious!

[@PintsofGuinness]

this rules.

[@imosyon]

proud pinoy moments!

[@LioFuzz]

Nice

[@mariovasquez2025]

Joey's tha mann...

[@therajgreek420]

JOEY!!

[@sauloamorim]

Gênio

[@humanonearth1]

Right on, nice jazz influence there with the dissonance. Cool sh1t bro.

[@fuzzzzy666]

UNDERRATED

[@Nshan94]

Wow. Yes. we need more of these post shower tutorials with joey

[@chem2850]

Got it

[@jackmunch6978]

As Pixies as it gets.

[@franciscotomasmendezmatura4796]

wait, but how does he relate the bending with the choid progression he arrange???

[@jdoe27]

I too would like to know this

[@manuelsabin]

Oh, I think he was trying to explain that in the vid. He seems to mostly be going for dissonance and so for the A chord picks the note G to bend to since that would clash pretty bad with the C# in the A chord (the C# and the G would form a nasty tritone, this is essentially making the A chord an A7 chord), for the C chord he chooses B to bend to which would clash pretty hard with the C note since it's only a half step away (this would kinda make the C a Cmaj7 chord), and then he says for the D chord he just bends to a D to give us some grounding and a break from all the dissonance As for the bending itself, Joey Santiago seems to do this trick a lot where he has one note he's aiming for, say G, so he hits that note on the B string while also hitting the G string on a note a whole step below the note he's aiming for (in this example he'd be hitting F on the G string) and then bends the lower note up to match the higher note. The end effect is you get the G note you wanted but, as it's ringing out, there's a shitload of dissonance that F has to crawl through as it clashes with the G it's being pushed towards A really neat example of this is on their song Hey! where he does this trick three times real slowly, making the lower note really strain and struggle to match the top note and then does it really fast a few times before the whole music hits a hard stop with Thompson's "Huh!" The amount of tension in that little part is ridiculous

[@ivanladon]

Yeah! Outta tune , Yeah we got it. Psycho!😂

[@stevenconnor4221]

hes there for the psycho song explanation plus the rooms acoustics, or else he was just brushing his teeth LOL who knows

[@the_katman2181]

On the edge of the bath. LOL.

[@clayfromplanetearth3509]

I’m getting a slight bathroom vibe here....

[@buddyollie7400]

Why da fuck is he playing in the shower??

[@guitarmaniac004]

He was making reference to the shower scene in psycho probably.

[@guitarmaniac004]

err yeah?

[@gutopeace_]

You know, playing the guitar in the shower is better than be masturbating.

[@thecattywompusonfire7886]

Is he in a bathroom?