“Thank God we weren’t a bigger success before that,” he grins. I don’t know if the band loved that necessarily, that suddenly I was burning the candle at both ends, wanting to write songs in the moment, spontaneously, doing things that were maybe even ill prepared. Even the last couple of Pixies records, the producer had to deal with a young, stoned, obstinate person that wanted to scratch a whole lot of itches about the stuff he was learning about the recording process.
There was just a lot of unhappy people and I can’t say that I didn’t contribute to that atmosphere, I think everyone did. “The cliché, every band gets five years and it all kind of blows up, and basically that was our schedule.
“I was wanting to free myself of the stress of being in a band context,” he says.
They just need to breathe, count to 10, take a look at the landscape and figure out what is their best f***in’ move.”Įnjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign upīack in 1993, Thompson took a look at the landscape and figured out his best f***in’ move, amid intense internal friction, was to split the Pixies. But it’s amazing that they don’t … On the basic level, like, there’s a fire over there – that’s what it feels like, you guys want to keep talking about all this f***ing abstraction but there’s a f***ing fire right there so all the discussion seems really moot … A lot of people just shouldn’t be talking. “Going, ‘OK, so there’s this thing going on, what’s your best move? Is your best move to take the secret magic medicine, is your best move to put on a mask, is your best move to avoid certain situations? There’s all these survival things that you would think would kick in with a lot of people. “People aren’t tuned into their primal self,” he argues. “When you get people that don’t understand how things work and then you get other people going in and manipulating the s*** out of it, then you get f***ing mobs running down the street trying to kill someone because they think that he’s a witch or something and ‘he’s kidnapping our babies and he’s eating their entrails’ … That’s how you end up with a f***ing genocide or something, because people just believe crazy s*** that other people told them.”Ĭonsequently, Thompson has no time for rock stars casting doubt on vaccine safety or refusing to play shows with Covid restrictions. Right? The Bermuda Triangle or whatever… But let’s duly note that they can be very bad things. Did any of the Covid conspiracy theories take his fancy? “If we could go back in time a little bit you could argue that conspiracy theories can be kind of enjoyable, right? Fun things to think about.