Black Francis
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Nov 3, 2026
Jeremy GaudetGUEST
That was kind of the North Star for this record is like, don't do things that you think sound good on paper or sound good in your, you know, when you're discussing the idea, but, you know, really do just like trust your ears on what sounds good when you actually hear the record.
Jeremy GaudetGUEST
You know what I mean? Like, you know, I could, I remember specifically one time years ago, like when I was singing a song and I was really like yelling it into the mic because I was listening to the Pixies a lot and I was like, oh, you know, maybe Frank Black could sing this song and it would sound really cool.
Jeremy GaudetGUEST
And then just, I don't know if it was the other guys in the band or something like, hey, that just doesn't work.
Jeremy GaudetGUEST
Like that might work in your head, that type of sound, but that's not what you're good at.
Jay PontiGUEST
And they kind of choked out the local music scene.
Jay PontiGUEST
So I started a DIY kind of punk rock scene and um a lot of the organizing principles i learned there that was yeah so that was right after 9-11 um my first my first uh kind of benefit show that i did was a a 9-11 benefit show for the red cross um at a chinese restaurant and then but we had a an eagles club a fraternal order of eagles club and uh and a bowling alley and we had like Frank black come in.
Jay PontiGUEST
Wow.
Jay PontiGUEST
Super, super cool.
DudeHOST
Good.
DonHOST
So, you know, in the Pixies, Black Francis or Frank Black or whatever you want to call him, Charles Thompson, I think is his real name.
DonHOST
He did almost all of the songwriting and most of the singing.
DonHOST
So Deal, you know, really needed an outlet for, you know, for, you know, her stuff.
Wayne BledsoeHOST
My nephew went with me, and he was excited to see them.
Wayne BledsoeHOST
And it's like I've never seen any band that looked, I mean, especially Frank Black.
Chuck CampbellHOST
Yeah.
Wayne BledsoeHOST
Just looked like he was dialing it in.
Yasi SalekHOST
It's such like an elegant sport, I feel like, for a woman to play.
Yasi SalekHOST
Are you neighbors with Frank Black from the Pixies and do you guys see each other often?
J MascisGUEST
Yeah, he used to live on my street, but he moved to the next town.
J MascisGUEST
But his ex-wife still lives on my street in a different house.
Yasi SalekHOST
old one.
Yasi SalekHOST
For a certain type of man, I feel like that street is like Mecca.
Yasi SalekHOST
Do you know what I mean? Imagine you accidentally ended up living on the same block as Jay Maskis and Frank Black from The Pixies.
J MascisGUEST
Well, it was sort of like the fancy street in town when I was growing up.
DeathHOST
If you can conglomerate that down to fucking 10 songs that are awesome, it's going to leave an impression on somebody way more than 20 songs where the second half is just mediocre.
DeathHOST
Like that Frank Black record.
DeathHOST
Dude, if that record was 12 songs long, it'd be fucking banger, but it's not.
DeathHOST
It's fucking 19 songs long and half of it sucks.
Max GillHOST
Patterson would bring in groups like The Clash and The Pixies, and his father would kind of look down upon that.
Max GillHOST
But because things tend to come around, there's an interview I heard on, this is a Marc Maron interview with Patterson, where he says that even though his father kind of looked down on The Pixies at that time, he later ended up recording with Frank Black of The Pixies.
Max GillHOST
Fantastic.
Max GillHOST
That's great.
Jake BrennanGUEST
Okay.
Jake BrennanGUEST
I heard the other day someone say that if Frank Black looked like Kurt Cobain, the Pixies would have had the success that Nirvana had.
Jake BrennanGUEST
Now, just hold on one second.
Zeth LundyHOST
Yeah.
Jake BrennanGUEST
Now, just hold on.
Jake BrennanGUEST
Frank Black, Charles, I love the guy.
Jake BrennanGUEST
Yeah.
Jake BrennanGUEST
Toured with the guy.
Pablo StarrGUEST
She was already successful when I met her and she did much, much better.
Pablo StarrGUEST
I had the producer of Frank Black and the Catholics was a guy I grew up in high school with.
Pablo StarrGUEST
He produced one of my records.
Pablo StarrGUEST
Tanya Hayden, who later married Jack Black, played and sang in one of my songs.
Paul MedewGUEST
It was amazing.
Paul MedewGUEST
We turn up to the studio and all Frank Black's guitars are there for us to use.
Paul MedewGUEST
And I was just like, you're kidding me, you know? It was really phenomenal making that record.
Paul MedewGUEST
My favourite bit is in that there's a little instrumental song called Cut Lunch and it's got Ralph Carney from Tom Waits' band playing the saxes.
13 MINS LATER
Paul MedewGUEST
And yeah, it was all very relaxed.
Paul MedewGUEST
It was good, good times.
JohnHOST
In 94, Custard and Holocene supported Frank Black.
JohnHOST
Thank you for giving me your spreadsheet recently.
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