I finally got a chance to listen to the live CD of the Pixies performance at Voodoo Fest that Jude picked up after the show. It is stunning. This is easily the most exhilarating performance I’ve ever witnessed. The recording literally sends chills up my spine, which is nothing compared to the rabid fan-boy hysteria I felt while watching them in person. I hadn’t felt adrenaline on that order of magnitude since I was at least 18. The energy of the crowd was also intensely intoxicating. Before the show some woman from Memphis in her mid-thirties told me that she had once vowed that she would chop off a limb to see the Pixies live and that she would now have to make true on her promise. At the beginning of the show I thought she was talking crazy, but midway though the set I was ready to chop off an arm and by the end of the show I was wishing my entire body would be destroyed and my spirit lifted into the heavens. Thus the power of the reunited Pixies.
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