Monday, December 27, 2010

Getting Up to Speed

CJ has had 8 gigs to date (over the last 9 months). It is worth noting that the Pixies played their 11th show EVER on Feb 27, 1988 in Amsterdam...as in...on world tour. And their first show ever was on Oct 31, 1986. Their 8th show was 10/03/1987...just about a year after their first.

Now, granted, they prepared for much, much longer for that first show than we did for ours (we had a month to prep...wiki says they formed the band in January 86 or slightly thereafter...giving them 10 months of prep for the first show) and they were, of course, writing original songs rather than copying from someone else. But it is kind of surprising to me how few shows they played early on...and how quickly they went on a real tour. Now yes...they got "discovered"...and had to put together an album (a serious demo with studio time, really) early on. I imagine though that they probably were rehearsing 2, 3, 4...or more times a week. It's just surprising that, after they finally played that first show...that shows were so sparse for the first year and a quarter.

It's just interesting.

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