I'm looking to take this to featured status soon. Any comments on comprehensiveness, arrangement or quality of prose welcome. CloudNine 12:35, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
*The first song he learned to play was the Velvet Underground's "Rock and Roll". Any idea how old he was? The article jumps to this from when he was eight. No pre-teen would play the Velvs, I reckon. Some words of transition are needed, possibly.
*Santiago met his future wife, Linda Mallari, when he sat beside her after a 1987 tour with the Pixies at The Rathskeller. Couldn't work this out. Straight after? During? What is the connection between the tour and meeting the missis?
*I did notice right away that he was playing music. I didn't want any more distractions, but I took my guitar up and we started fooling around with it. Joey's quote comes over like the same incident as when he rushed home to get his guitar and they started playing together. Maybe the two mentions can be amalgamated a bit.
*"managing wood". I'm not familiar with the expression.
*The article jumps abruptly from 1985 to 1987. Could some transitional information be added about these formative years? What was the band doing?
*Santiago's lead guitar became less prominent in the band's later releases, 1990's Bossanova and 1991's Trompe le Monde. Does this come under that Ganz ref? If so, it could perhaps do with an "according to Ganz" hedge there. I don't agree with it, to be honest. Each member of the group remained crucial to the sound, to my ears (blasting Trompe through the lugs at the moment).
*Florida is mentioned out of the blue, without the reader being told he had moved there or whatever.
*"Their output". Recorded output? (It says later that they had "previous material" before they did Smitten.)
*Did the Martinis gig? The article doesn't say.
*When did he do the Billboard interview? That needs to go in the text, in my opinion.
*Anything about the present status of the Pixies? On the Colin Murray show, Frank was saying that it looks like they are splitting up again. He said the others hadn't forgiven him for splitting them up last time and that was the reason for the coming split.
Anyway, good stuff. Gave me an excuse to play them through my lugholes again, quantifying the prominence of Joey and realising again how good he is.-- qp10qp 01:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
This is definitely approaching FA status. A few minor quibbles:
Tommy Stardust 09:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking to take this to featured status soon. Any comments on comprehensiveness, arrangement or quality of prose welcome. CloudNine 12:35, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
*The first song he learned to play was the Velvet Underground's "Rock and Roll". Any idea how old he was? The article jumps to this from when he was eight. No pre-teen would play the Velvs, I reckon. Some words of transition are needed, possibly.
*Santiago met his future wife, Linda Mallari, when he sat beside her after a 1987 tour with the Pixies at The Rathskeller. Couldn't work this out. Straight after? During? What is the connection between the tour and meeting the missis?
*I did notice right away that he was playing music. I didn't want any more distractions, but I took my guitar up and we started fooling around with it. Joey's quote comes over like the same incident as when he rushed home to get his guitar and they started playing together. Maybe the two mentions can be amalgamated a bit.
*"managing wood". I'm not familiar with the expression.
*The article jumps abruptly from 1985 to 1987. Could some transitional information be added about these formative years? What was the band doing?
*Santiago's lead guitar became less prominent in the band's later releases, 1990's Bossanova and 1991's Trompe le Monde. Does this come under that Ganz ref? If so, it could perhaps do with an "according to Ganz" hedge there. I don't agree with it, to be honest. Each member of the group remained crucial to the sound, to my ears (blasting Trompe through the lugs at the moment).
*Florida is mentioned out of the blue, without the reader being told he had moved there or whatever.
*"Their output". Recorded output? (It says later that they had "previous material" before they did Smitten.)
*Did the Martinis gig? The article doesn't say.
*When did he do the Billboard interview? That needs to go in the text, in my opinion.
*Anything about the present status of the Pixies? On the Colin Murray show, Frank was saying that it looks like they are splitting up again. He said the others hadn't forgiven him for splitting them up last time and that was the reason for the coming split.
Anyway, good stuff. Gave me an excuse to play them through my lugholes again, quantifying the prominence of Joey and realising again how good he is.-- qp10qp 01:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
This is definitely approaching FA status. A few minor quibbles:
Tommy Stardust 09:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)