Fans still line up for the Pixies.Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard The hottest concert ticket in town is for a rock band that hasn't played together in 12 years. The Pixies pixies prank-playing fairies; mislead travelers. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 328–330] See : Mischievousness are back, and tickets are going for $250 a pair on E-Bay. "If you're into indie rock Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. The term is sometimes used interchangeably with underground music as a whole, though more specifically implicates that the music meets the criterion of being rock, as , the Pixies are pretty much the godfathers The list of godfathers are organized crime leaders in the United States who are known as "Godfathers" or Dons, who usually control Mafia crime families. See also: List of mafiosi by city, List of Italian-American mobsters Prohibition "I figured it would sell out quickly, but not that quickly," said Helen Schumacher, another diehard Pixies fan who was shut out of the ticket-buying frenzy. Schumacher, a columnist for the Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is an independent daily newspaper published at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The paper, which has been published for more than 100 years, has trained many now-prominent writers and journalists and has made important , lamented la·ment·ed adj. Mourned for: our late lamented president. la·ment  ed·ly adv. her
plight in the campus newspaper and joked that she would be the one
`standing outside the McDonald with a cardboard sign that reads, `Will
Work for Pixies Ticket.' '
Eugene is one of 12 "warm-up" dates for the Pixies before their European tour. They last played together on the 1992 ZOO TV tour as an opener for U2. The two Eugene shows are the only dates in Oregon. Founded in 1986, the Pixies melded punk noise with classic pop and indie guitar rock. The group's signature start-stop dynamics influenced countless bands including Nirvana nirvana (nērvä`nə), in Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, a state of supreme liberation and bliss, contrasted to samsara or bondage in the repeating cycle of death and rebirth. , whose lead singer Kurt Cobain famously fa·mous·ly adv. 1. In a way or to an extent that is well known: "his famously neurotic mannerisms [are] lampooned in the novels of Evelyn Waugh" said that when writing "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Basically, I was ripping off the Pixies." "They were very, very good, very, very influential and then very, very gone," said Brendan Relaford, booking agent Noun 1. booking agent - someone who engages a person or company for performances booker agent - a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations impresario, promoter, showman - a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments for the McDonald Theatre. Relaford couldn't recall a show at the 1,200-capacity theater that sold as briskly as the Pixies. A 2001 performance by the rock band Tool at the Hult Center sold out in 68 minutes. "I think a lot of people didn't think they would ever get to see them," said Greg Bresnitz, a fan explaining the Pixies pandemonium Pandemonium Milton’s capital of the devils. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] See : Confusion Pandemonium chief city of Hell. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] See : Hell . "They're such an icon in the music scene." Because of the Pixies' short life-span and long-standing influence, many supporters, including Bresnitz, discovered the band after they split up. Those who waited in line for tickets for the Eugene shows ranged from teens to twentysomethings to Gen-Xers who may have caught the band during their last Eugene performance in 1989 at the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. "They haven't played in 12 years, and they got even more popular once they broke up," said Abe Nielsen, a self-described "huge Pixies fan." Nielsen, booking agent at the WOW Hall, says there's a special connection between Eugene and the Pixies. The group's lead singer Black Francis, aka Frank Black, has played numerous shows without the Pixies in Eugene, including a surprise free show last year that drew an overflow crowd to Sam Bond's Garage. Black was rumored to have a romantic interest who lived in Eugene. "He's told me at shows that it (Eugene) is his favorite place to play," Nielsen said. "I didn't really ask why, I just said thank you." PIXIES TICKETS The McDonald Theatre, 1010 Willamette St., will be giving away pairs of Pixies tickets in the Lounge from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the following dates: March 26, 27, April 2, 9, 23 Information: Call 345-4442 |
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