Great narrative John. I was also a massive Pixies fan (and got to work with them when I worked at Beggars in the late 90’s, including a few Ken Goes conversations). But before I worked there, I bought tickets to see them for the first time in Atlanta. Drive down, went to play pool with my girlfriend. While playing pool, someone pinched my car…with the tickets in it (!). They found the car (stripped, with the tickets still in the glovebox) the day after the show. The band broke up for the first time several months later…
Love that Podcast. The Beat Happening and Mission Of Burma episodes are outstanding as well as the Minor Threat one you mentioned.
Beat Happening is up next. I should write about the shows we did in the 80s with BH and other K Records starz.
Please do!
Great narrative John. I was also a massive Pixies fan (and got to work with them when I worked at Beggars in the late 90’s, including a few Ken Goes conversations). But before I worked there, I bought tickets to see them for the first time in Atlanta. Drive down, went to play pool with my girlfriend. While playing pool, someone pinched my car…with the tickets in it (!). They found the car (stripped, with the tickets still in the glovebox) the day after the show. The band broke up for the first time several months later…
Woulda been funny if you’d discovered the thieves attended the concert.
Their loss for sure!