So, the Pixies played at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on Wednesday, and we were there.
We enjoyed the show, although it wasn't a life-altering event. They are older, and so am I. It's hard to compare this show to the first one I saw at the Georgia Theatre in Athens in November 1991. At that show, I had failed to buy a ticket before it sold out, and had to secure entry by wrangling a job (through a friend) unloading the equipment truck and working security at the Theatre for the Pixies. Of course, I wasn't getting paid, so as soon as they hit the stage I melted into the crowd. I recall staring up at a screeching Black Francis and getting caught in a seething wave of moshing humanity, propelling me directly to the front of the stage. Trompe le Monde had been released just the month before, but everyone there knew all the words and sang along heartily. I was eighteen and the Pixies were Gods.
And so Wednesday's show- certainly enjoyable, in a generic sense. I sat in my comfortable chair in a balcony seat and looked down at the former Gods, now mortal. They played the songs we all know and love. We cheered and applauded at the appropriate times. But overall, I was left with the feeling of watching a jukebox.
Approximate setlist(the order might be off, but I believe these are the songs that were played):
1. Here Comes Your Man
2. Winterlong
3. Bone Machine
4. Subbacultcha
5. Dead
6. Cactus
7. I Bleed
8. Number Thirteen Baby
9. Head On
10. Crackity Jones
11. Debaser
12. Umass
13. Levitate Me
14. Gouge Away
15. Broken Face
16. Something Against You
18. Tame
19. Caribou
20. Hey
21. Monkey Gone To Heaven
22. Velouria
23. Mr Grieves
24. Nimrods Son
25. Holiday Song
26. Vamos
27. Where Is My Mind
28. Wave Of Mutilation
29. Gigantic