Third Stone from the Sun impact

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If you made a Mount Rushmore of quintessential eighties alternative bands I mean, first of all Great work, that sounds like an ambitious but fun project. You're probably good at stone carving or whatever. But anyway, if you were deciding what goes on that Mount Rushmore You pulled your friends Pixies would probably be near the top, mayaybe at the top They've influenced countless bands, Nirvana, Radio headad Weeezer, the smmashing pumpkins Pixie sound changed everything Who was behind it? Well, Black Franis, the lead singer. snarl and shout sometimes, soar and lilt over the melody at others David Lovering, the drummer, punchy and playful, Kim Dial, the brilliant bassist and singer who would go on to form the brereeders, another legendary alternative rock and our guest Joey Santiago guy's just as glad to lay back in the cut with a nice quiet riff as he is to shred in his signature style Loud, discordant, and wholly unique o celebrate the Pixies's fortieth anniversary. The band is back on the road. They have dates literally all over the world. If you live, I mean somewhere, anywhere, odds are the Pixies are gonna to be playing a show near you this summer When we asked Santiago about the song that changed his life, his choice of artist didn't shock us was Jimmy Hendrix. He said Hendrix's work on the guitar played a pivotal role in his artistic upbringing. The first time I heard Hendrix was the song. Fire Istand, it's still your f It was Fobby on the radio and I bought the record right away and there was purple haaze I learned that and that's ingrained in me. I will never forget how to play that. And it's such a cool chord too. That chord that he has, I think people call it the Hendrixs chord And I always that's always an Easter egg in every Pixies's record as I sneak that chord in there I spelled it out on Is she weird They're literally noting ding ding ding ding. It's like, yep, that's Hendrixs. And when we learned that Joey had picked a song off of Jimy Hendriickx's Are you experperienced LP, I mean that's not a huge shocker. I mean, like But what twelve year old that plays guitar hasn't listened to Are you Eperienced over andn But on a record full of monster hits, fuzzed out blues standards and guitar shredding masterclasses The song that changed Joey Santiago's life is kind of not any of those things Third stone from the suun is a spacey off kiltter jam. There isn't really any singing in it or shredding There's a solid drum groove and a bassline, and then there is Hendrix Which you are about to hear is basically pretending to be a space alien I'll let Joey Santiago take it from here Rock me, Joe You know When I got the record, I wanted to hear the songs that I heard on the radio 'cause sometimes you would just get half of it, you know, youd just tune in and I would listen to it and just, you know love it. You know That's how I listen to records. But I started listening to the record as a whole concept, you know, because that's the way records were done at the time. The first time I listened to the album, or your Eperience. Yeah, the song didn't really register to me, you know As a kid. The first time I heard thirird song from the Sn, when it really settled in was when I had my headphones on It just blew my mind Just the guitar, just the weirdness of it What struck me about this song was I got an electric guitar and the sounds the other worldorldly sounds he was getting on that song was very inspiring, you know. And I got the guitar. I started thinking about like, o, you know, what if I did something with this guitar that, you know, what if I contributed out there, you know? And I didn't want You know, I didn't want to do anything like bluesy, evenven though Hendriickx is like blues based, but he still has a good sensibility of being weird When the Soniccappe started happening, it's like, that's it. That's what I want to do is all that like weirdness. All the other things that I ignored, you know This is so triumphant D you hit him just like hitting the guitar and all that stuff? Pixies do this song called Bamos, and I can do anything I want with it my trick that I started doing with this was I can't I won't touch the guitar ever. You know, it's a guitar solo. And, you know, my little joke is, it's a guitar solo. I'm not gonna my fingers are never gonna touch this guitar. You know, he doesn't have to touch the string there. He' just letting the feedback go And this is like my introduction to feedback too. The feedback stuff that we just heard, a lot of it was happening there. I started doing that live and in the rehearsal space. and there's more of an art to it. There's probably a ratio or something, I don't know. every room is different. So I have to like go out and almost mark my spot and when I turn, it will do it and then I turn away and it'll like fade away. So there's the control things of it. And there's some clubs where I don't have to do that anymore. likeike the Ratkkeeller, CBGBs, I know where that spot was, so it's you know You know, once you know the spot, that's the spot. as long as your amp is on the same place that you place it at And as a kid hearing that feedback and all that stuff didn't seem like it required you to go to school You know, It's like, I to do that, you know, I could probably play with a tennis ball, you know? And I have done that. actuallyctually when we did Vomos, with Steve Albini, I had a tennis ball and just like plunked it on the guitar. I just, you know, I just did stuff silly stuff like that, you know As a kid, I used to buy guitar world, guitar magazines. and there's always a ranking. And he's always like up there. And rightfully so. And then I saw the woodstock U, when he did the star Sangled banner He was doing the Woodstock, Vietnam War and all that stuff. So he was just like mimicking fighter jets on his guitar You know, it's sound like just Jet's going around and It was just amazing When I watch that some live footagees of It's just It just doesn't look like a he's playing it like it's a part of his body It's like an extension of his arm The approach I aspired to when I listened to Hendriick and a lot of other guitar players they had their own signature, you know. So thirird Stone from the Sn changed my life because It truly inspired me. I started listening to this song again when I was going to go in this program And I do listen to it, but I listen to it. and It brought me back to when I was a kid. It's like, o, I gott to tap back into that wonder. You know? C you get older, you know Hey, sometometimes I would look at the guitar as a pencil. It's not that you got the best job in the world. And don't forget that this music, what Hendrix was doing, that's what propelled you. And it's just fun, you know, it's just just having fun with the guitar Joey Santiago of the Pixies, the song that changed his life Third Stone fromrom the Sun by the Jimy Hendriicks Experience. The Pixies have tour dates literally all over the world this summer in observance of their fortieth anniversary We are just about at the end of the show. Maybe we will go out on one more Pixie song This one's a classic, Valoria That's the end of another episode of Bullseye. Bullse eye recorded at Maximum Fun World headadquarters in the historic jewelry District of downtown Los Angeles. Hey, listen I went out to lunch. We went to a nice restaurant called Perch. It was on a roof. near our office. We had a nice time. Everybody on the whole Bllsseyive team, like a bunch of fancy folk Our show is produced by speaking into microphones. 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