Rediscover Pixies' Doolittle Tuesday Night, Courtesy of Your Local Music Corps
Categories: CD review, Only in SF
​There are covers of songs, and then there are reinterpretations of songs. It's the latter that interest the 100-plus local musicians who will perform Pixies' Doolittle at Public Works tomorrow night.
So what's the difference? Well, chances are you've heard bands dive into "You Shook Me All Night Long" or (god forbid) "Free Bird" at the beery end of their encores -- so you know how playing the right notes can produce all the wrong chemistry. Turns out reproducing a song as it was originally designed can be fun -- or awful -- but isn't usually all that interesting either way.
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Reinterpreting a song, now that's risky, involved, difficult -- and entirely the focus of a local group called UnderCover. This group gathers together local artists to cover (in the good sense) classic albums, rerecording them and performing them live. Tomorrow's performance of Pixies' Doolittle is the second such undertaking; the first was on The Velvet Underground and Nico, and its live show included Stephan Jenkins and Liz Phair while featuring a cadre of locals that included Mark Matos, Jazz Mafia's Adam Theis, and Ethiopian-born singer Meklit Hadero. (Full disclosure: I hosted.)
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