The Pixies: ‘We have we have one thing in common with Kurt Cobain – he was a Beatles fan’
Joey Santiago on the making of ‘Debaser’ from ‘Doolittle’ and how the band feels about playing in Ireland
The Pixies play three Irish concerts at the end of August. Photo: Getty
Kurt Cobain admitted he was trying to rip-off the Pixies when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit for Nirvana in 1991.
“I have to admit,” he told Rolling Stone magazine in 1994, “when I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band — or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.”
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