Fool the World by Josh Frank

Author:Josh Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312340070
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CHAPTER TEN

VAMOS: ALL OVER THE WORLD (1989)

As soon as the Doolittle sessions were finished the band jetted back to Europe for a tour titled “Sex and Death.” Although it meant taking a slight demotion from headliners to openers, when they got back to the U.S., Pixies chose to support the Cure on an arena tour. Despite the fact that the task of writing, recording, and touring kept the band united and enthusiastic, sometimes tempers flared.

LOVERING: The Cure, that was our first big tour. The first grand amphitheater, stadium kind of places we were doing.

BEN MARTS (former Pixies American tour manager): The first tour I did with them was a combo tour. It was Pixies supporting Love and Rockets. Five to six dates were big arena Cure dates where they added Love and Rockets/Pixies to the Cure, and Shelleyan Orphan was the fourth band.

LOVERING: We were opening up for the Cure at Giants Stadium, and I was there early onstage. They got these huge sheets of plywood, laid them all over the field, and then put a huge tarp all over everything. This was done the night before and then it rained overnight. So during the night all the moisture warped the boards, bowing the ends and everything underneath the tarp. So I’m on the stage watching and they open up general admission, and just imagine hundreds and hundreds of goths running in to get in front of the stage and they’re going down like flies because they’re tripping on all the boards underneath the tarp. It was very surreal.*

MARTS: Robert Smith actually came into our dressing room and said hello and, “We’re hanging out afterwards tonight and gonna have a party,” and we thought that was really wonderful. I got the hint from that that Robert Smith was a fan and appreciated both bands being on the bill and wanted to hang out.

DEAL: People would come up to me now and be like, “I saw you in ‘86 or ‘88,” and I think, wow, somebody was there, somebody out of the twenty people who saw us in Montreal. They didn’t really come to see us, they came to see Love and Rockets, which is fine, we were opening for them.

GILBERT: When Doolittle came out, they took the Zulus as their opening act on one of those tours. So we did, like, East Coast and a whole bunch of Midwest. At that point, it was like a professional tour, and the dates were like, bam bam bam bam bam, seven, eight nights in a row, kind of long distances between, so there wasn’t a lot of free time for much hanging out and mischief. It was very work-oriented. There was one night, classic band thing where, you know, the promoter afterwards took us all to this club and gave us these mushrooms and they were way stronger than everyone thought they were going to be. But that’s band cliche story number twenty-two, the band takes drugs that are way more potent

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