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Yes, yes, I know the dozens of arguments against the whole affair, and I haven't the urge to dispute any of them. Reunions are mercenary, overpriced, opportunistic, cynical, etc etc etc. But it was still pretty neat.

Seeing as how I was 12 when they broke up, I never saw them live (obviously) and therefore allowed myself this guilty pleasure.

In closing, Dear Mr. Black; please consume fewer things that are fried. You are obese and the reunion tour would be truncated by your death. Also, I don't know who the opening band was but they made me wish that a comet would hit the planet and wipe out humanity.


Thanks,
Ed

As he still got bigger boobs than Kim?

Ill be seeing them on this thanksgiving in toronto at the aero hall. The ticket was way too expensive but I bought it anyway for the same reason you did. If the show ends up being bad I will personally get on stage and beat the living shit out of frank, then steal his wallet

I got 2 free tickets to see them from a friend at a label..

While I tend to stridently avoid forms of entertainment costing in excess of $10, I strongly suspected in this situation that when I'm old and gray I will probably remember the concert and not the $30 I threw away on it.

I went to the Sunday show because a friend had extra tickets. I had very low expectations and thought it was probably going to suck. It didn't. It didn't exactly blow my socks off, but it didn't suck and I'm glad I went.

So who's the opening act? I want more humanity-threatening comets.

I saw them last night and really enjoyed it. They are one of my favorite bands and I finally had a chance to see them perform so many of my favorite songs. If you are a fan, you deserve to go see them.

I'm surprised how little kill-yr-idols talk I've heard about these Pixies reunion shows. They're charging an obscene amount of money for these shows; there's this indie-rock-pioneers-who-started-it-all talk going on that makes no sense to me; and now I hear that last night's encore was Gigantic - which they had already played!

I can certainly understand the desire to make stacks and stacks of money off of your earlier success. But come on, folks! $30 a ticket? More? What the fuck? Yet people still seem to hold this band, and these shows they're playing, in extremely high regard. Sure, they put out some good records; but that was long ago. Maybe they're having fun playing the old hits, and good for them if they are; but at this point they're basically playing Vegas. Please, people: show a little disrespect!

i saw the saturday show. the aragon could not sound any worse if the venue owners spent 2,000,000 dollars trying. it is just gross in there.

otherwise, when i was able to discern the music from the strange high pitch screeching sound coming from the back near the roof, i liked it a lot. i did get to see the pixies once years ago, this weekend's show did not compare.

the strangest thing tho: the amount of tickets being sold or given away for these shows. i had 2 extras (which went unsold) and there were about 20 other people trying to sell tickets. all trying to sell for face value. then i got asked to go on sunday, and again on monday. strange. strange.