General discussion about 2008 tour dates

[tatiana]

vacation?

[Son Of Sam]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/n ... ple-pilots


Frank Black to Open for Stone Temple Pilots
As hard as we try to ignore the STP reunion, it just keeps following us

 
Oh so long ago, there was a band from Boston called Pixies. They were very, very good. A guy named Kurt-- who you probably know from another very, very good band called Nirvana-- heard those Pixies, cribbed what he could, added a few more primary influences and plenty of his own touches, and became very famous as a result.

When Kurt's so-called "grunge" band was at the height of their prominence, a bunch of second-stringers thought "hey, why not me?", and just like that, post-grunge was formed. A periodically tolerable but generally unremarkable band called Stone Temple Pilots emerged from this particular genre, recording a string of albums and scoring lots of hits and getting arrested a lot. Then they broke up.

But when the frontman from STP got kicked out of yet another band he was fronting for generally behaving in the way he was accustomed, STP reformed at an economically opportune moment for all parties involved. Which is how we got here, I think.

Onetime Pixies frontman Charles "Some Combination of 'Frank or Francis' and 'Black'" Thompson, fresh off the release of his mini-LP SVN FNGRS, will open a handful of shows on the Stone Temple Pilots reunion tour this summer. The very same Stone Temple Pilots fronted by the fella whose next LP is being recorded by one Steve Albini? Indeed, the same. Could our STP being making their grab at art-rock glory? Is a critical reappraisal of Shangri-La Dee Da nigh? Man, whatever, just as long as Candlebox aren't reuniting or anything. Ah, shit.

In other news, Black plans to issue a recording of an October 2007 gig onto "some USB clips" through his website sometime fairly soon.

Frank Black and Stone Temple Pilots:

06-24 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
06-25 Tucson, AZ - Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre
06-27 San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
06-28 Woodlands, TX - Woodlands Pavilion
06-29 Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Live
07-02 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
07-04 Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest

Video: Frank Black: Various Tracks
MP3: Black Francis: The Seus (Infadels remix) [from the Seus EP]

Posted by Paul Thompson in tour on Mon: 05-05-08: 03:16 PM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink




Ah hell, I was never into this guy.... hopefully for San Antonio there is another opening act after him.

[tatiana]

A periodically tolerable but generally unremarkable band called Stone Temple Pilots emerged from this particular genre, recording a string of albums and scoring lots of hits and getting arrested a lot. Then they broke up.

for some reason - that made me laugh this morning

[STPHEAD]

Haha, Candlebox comment at the end was great... You know, they may even put on a great show. I haven't heard any of Frank Black's stuff but he is opening at the Bowl and a friend has a couple of albums, I'll have to check him out.

[DELEO]

Whoever wrote this is a douchbag.

-Chase

[Long Way Home]

Filter opens up in Holmdel.

Would be awesome if they played an AOA song....I know it won't happen though. Maybe Richard can come on and sing Hey Man Nice Shot as well.

[Matthew]

Frank Black is terrible. Completely overrated.

[STPGurl]

lol

Love when I see stuff like that from a website/webmag/blog/whateverthefuck that I've never in my life heard of.

[keith82]

Frank Black is cool. A little overrated by some, though I feel. If you need to talk about Nirvana to illustrate how cool The Pixies are, there's something wrong.
I like how the author fails to mention The Pixies reunion last year or whatever that came "at an economically opportune moment for all parties involved."

[wayne gretzky]

Maybe you should send that "author" a reminder then Keith

[Curtis1158]

Don't know Frank Black and don't know if this is legit.

[veeno]

I'm curious to find out who is opening for the Detroit show...Anyone have any ideas?

[Promising_Boy]

it's like that comment was written by a third grader.

[MAJOR METAL]

At the K rock gig there will be filter.

[loungefly611]

Haha, Candlebox comment at the end was great... You know, they may even put on a great show. I haven't heard any of Frank Black's stuff but he is opening at the Bowl and a friend has a couple of albums, I'll have to check him out.

That was funny.

Frank Black. Guess I know where I will be -----> Beer Tent.