KURT COBAIN was by no means shy about how a lot of an affect Pixies had on him and his music.
“I’ve to confess, once I heard the Pixies for the primary time, I linked with that band so closely that I ought to have been in that band — or at the least a Pixies cowl band. We used their sense of dynamics, being tender and quiet, after which loud and laborious,” he instructed Rolling Stone in 1994.
Apart from Pixies frontman Black Francis having expressed respect for Cobain previously, he hasn’t spoken a lot about his emotions in direction of Nirvana or how they utilized Pixies’ loud-quiet-loud dynamic in their very own music.
Now, in an interview with Final Guitar’s Justin Beckner, the band’s guitarist Joey Santiago has given a bit extra perception into what he actually considered Cobain and co.
“They had been nice,” Santiago mentioned when requested what he thinks of Nirvana. “After they got here out, I didn’t actually take heed to the report [‘Nevermind’] when it got here out. It simply wasn’t the kind of music I used to be listening to on the time. However I’ve listened to it in its entirety, and it’s an incredible report.
“They’re only a nice band. It seems I didn’t actually should take heed to the report as a result of all their songs had been on the f*cking radio already. It was like, ‘Why even take heed to the report?’ as a result of the music was all over the place. I’ve heard it at malls. I’ve heard it at cafes. I’ve heard it all over the place.”
When requested if there are specific Nirvana songs he’s listened to the place he can clearly acknowledge Pixies’ affect or that he thinks feels like a Pixies music, Santiago replied:
“Yeah, I can hear it. However I also can hear loads of the stuff that I lifted from different artists. So it’s simply the way in which music is. You hand your influences over to the subsequent band.”
