Black Francis - Velouria (Live at 89.3 The Current)

[machbaby]

This is songwriting.

[mwright83]

I still just can't believe how many good songs this guy has written. Not just with Pixies, but the Frank Black solo albums are ridiculous as well. Get Teenager of the Year if you don't have it already!

[Calaverafrost]

Frank loves the cool, refreshing taste of Hansen's soda. It feels cool and crisp on his tongue! :)

[Rollergirl2000]

Simply.......Beautiful, I named my motorbike Velouria...it's my favourite song to sing out loud whilst riding about :)

[taffybuttocks]

I'd kill for his speaking/singing voice

[ThorFrom204]

This is one of my favourite Pixies songs, and I just love watching this video and singing harmonies to this bare boned acoustic version! Well done, Charles!

[mowgli2071]

I should not have heard that explanation.

Doesn't really matter though, I guess, because it still feels to me like an ode to California, as a geographic place, taken as a whole.

[therealbp]

Pixies to do an unplugged album???

[ForgottenMusicSongs]

@therealbp Search 'Pixies live at the Newport Folk Festival' here on You Tube. Sure you will like it ;)

[therealbp]

@ForgottenMusicSongs thank you :)

[corpsemunger]

I want to marry this music, the Pixies are one of the two bands I have ever heard that make me feel that way :)

[onemorebrando]

this is the greatest explanation of a song I've ever heard.

[nostaticatall]

What a great song writer. Wow. Strange to hear about the inspiration to some of his weirder lyrics and find that what inpsired it is even weirder than the lyrics. lol

[lkmrn325]

That was one of the strangest explanations for a song I've ever heard.

[machbaby]

What chord is he playing at 1:36?

[wungabunga]

@machbaby Fmsus4. I think it's called.

Barre the 1st and 2nd (and 6th, normally) strings with your 1st finger at the 1st fret, then barre the 3rd, 4th, and 5th strings at the 3rd fret with a flattened 3rd finger - or use your little finger: like an A chord shape moved up one fret. looks like he probably mutes the 6th string.or just doesn't barre it.

hope this helps.

[machbaby]

@wungabunga That helped a lot. I think you nailed it perfectly. Thanks.

[corpsemunger]

@machbaby I just worked it out, I am not sure of the name but I will describe it... It is the same chord that is the 'F' at 1:32 - just you put the fingers down one string, Its still a powerchord, just on the higher strings? The set of power chords that are rooted on the A string not the E string, like the chord at 1:32.

I hope that makes sense, Frank plays it with wierd fingering so it looks confusing but I think it is a simple chord.

[UniqueFisherman]

Frank....where is your mind??

[electronicmedium]

Cant wait until he comes back to minneapolis

[WCarnation]

I love all the stories behind Frank's songs, they're so straight forward yet intriguing, like the songs themselves!

[Cuuka]

When you see soda and candies in the background you can somehow understand why they're called "Pixies"...

[TSWG88]

VEEEEEEE L. O. U.__R. I. A.

[NAIVADA]

Sublime composition, he's doing a very nice version rendition here, long live Pixies!

[wiserleo]

she was furry...that's funny.  We call those hippies man. Nature's child, Yheti in some circles, Chubacha if she's big enough.

[p1nkAcid]

i think i would bomb some shit if he asked me to

[Pistola425]

What's on his left arm?

[electronicmedium]

@Pistola425 no idea what it is, maybe a brace of some sort

[ranmore30]

he has a superb and beutiful voice

[jackdonkey22]

acoustic kind of ruins the energy of this song, and the lack of of the other voice.

[augustocs]

I'm sorry, but it's just not the same without Kim's haunting backvocals

[DrQuantum27]

I was wanting to do a cover of this and never realized what kim was saying at the end, I thought she was just kinda singing a melody but no real words. Now i see that she was singing VE - L - O - U - R I A. ...cool.

[HowardZinnForPM]

Am F D Bb F?

Can someone who knows what they're doing tell me the whole chord sequence please?

Thanks

[jiminyampersand]

@benympls He did really explain the myth very well,but they say Lemuria stretched fron the east coast of Africa to near California and was REALLY BIG.I get what you mean i was thinking the same thing.Lemuria is a pretty modern name compared to the legend.most people believed they traveled by boat.

[kiwieata]

Yeah MN

[Point432]

what a great story!

[drewfirstblood]

Velour : a fur felt,furry

the lemurian girl he met was hairy so he called her "velouria"

The STORY IS : This large continent Lemuria disappeared overnight into the Pacific Ocean over 12,000 years ago in a vast cataclysm ,The hallow Mount shasta (shasta sheen) in north cali is supposedly the home of the advanced survivors of Ancient Lemuria so the song is about frank meeting a lemurian girl, resident of mnt shasta

(very beautiful but hairy)

"most likely she was just a hairy crazy hippy chick "

[benympls]

Theirs sum BIG problems with this story;1 Madagascar is in the Indian ocean NOT the pacific, also i hate it when people use english words as a base word to prove a point for another country Lemur is the word WE use. In their language lemur is gibberish. 3 they flew? all the way to mount shasta? how did they fly? why did they go so far? are they humans? this is the most hippie BS ive ever heard, he doesnt even know what ocean Madagascar is in

[PONGVIDEO]

@benympls I hope you're trolling.

[benympls]

No not trolling, a friend posted this on facebook and it was the such misstated none sense i couldnt believe it. I really love the fact that Madagascar is in both pacific and indian ocean, oh yeah and they fly or fly in/on something great. Classic, i dont think he's serious but the fact people believe this crap is beyond me.

[mouser98k]

holy shit batman,

frank black singing in falsetto... awesome!!!

like nectar dripping from the heavens...

[HarpoonTorpedo]

This version of the song is insane..its like mind control.

[subby33]

How does this guy scream all the time, yet he's able to sing so beautifully in his falsetto? What an instrument.

[tigerpaw107]

A furry woman...he's funny. I have always liked this song, now with new meaning.

[stugats1]

This was great !!! Thanks for posting it.. Thanks for doing it MR. F

[boladepapelaluminio]

masterpiece

[macfint]

one of my favs. always thought it made no sense though, till now

[lacrossedivaz]

i know right!!! lemur skin i was like whaaat?

[Dryzaum]

This is the man. Ive always loved pixies. Frank Black was the pixies. I miss them.

[andrewvanderleest]

@Dryzaum I don't know man I think Deal was pretty vital to the band too.

[divegator]

@andrewvanderleest

Anybody who's ever listened to the Breeders (or Frank Black's solo work for that matter) knows that Kim Deal was HUGELY important to the band. Hell, Gigantic was the best song on Surfer Rosa, and she wrote it. It's a pity Charles didn't let her write more for the Pixies...they could have been the biggest band of the 90s.

[Dryzaum]

@andrewvanderleest You're right, both were.

[somebodychileno]

@Dryzaum I don't know... I think that Pixies worked like some kind of family. Even in loudQUIETloud they said that they disbanded because they were a disfunctional family but reunited because they need to be together again and try solve their problems.

[reckoner22]

@Dryzaum this comment doesn't infuriate anyone else? frank black was the pixies?

holy shit kid, get the hell out. santiago was the pixies. do you even listen to the pixies?

[Dryzaum]

@reckoner22 No, 14 pple thoug like me. I am thumbed up. You and your santiago can shut up now. Viva Frank Black.

[sooofunny37]

Wow! Madagascar used to be called "Veloria"? This story should be in the liner notes. So freakin' awesome. You Rock Black Francis!

[dillagenceable]

Listen to him again... "Lemuria" is a mythical lost continent like Atlantis. According to legend, it was once part of the same landmass as Madagascar and India and due to plate tectonics just kind of sunk into the sea.

[markx64]

Frank black is a freakin asshole !!

pick a new name fuckstick !!

[johnnyribcage]

Awesome. Always loved this song. Looks like he's having some pain in his left arm, hence the arm band, hope it's not chronic. I worked at a mechanic shop for awhile and one of the older guys there wore one of those for the pain in his arm from constant wrench turning.

[janotosinnumeros]

Hahaha, funny story. Didn't know the song was about that.

[sal26]

God bless Chuck Thompsons possessed mind. This guy is a brilliant!! Pixies music will stay with me forever.

[llickthestars]

I feel the same way

[buzzboy7]

THE F'IN MAN

[joadha]

He is so out of his damn mind... <3

[Jermofoot]

My favorite Pixies song by far. Love the Weezer cover as well.

I had a summer romance end today with the girl moving away. There was nothing I could do but loop this song...

[Louquivole]

@Jermofoot Hope i''ll get better , or that you will see her again if she's the one :)

[Jermofoot]

@Louquivole I can't even describe how crazy it's been, but there is hope. I saw her a couple months after posting and will see her again in a few weeks! :D

[hortontacotoast]

i heard this on the radio as i while driving and had to pull over just to listen in aww of what i was hearing. frank black, youre the best, thank you for your music.

[JuicyOrange]

"because you know velour, velouria, you know she was kinda covered in fur, you know what I mean? She was you know, she was smooth and beautiful, but you know she was furry y'know? "

Haha I love you Frank Black.

[Jeffrywith1e]

I keep coming back to this video. Wish there was more acoustic Pixie classics...

[Jeffrywith1e]

why does this make me want to cry? I love it.

[jaydekaytv]

Wonderful performance.

[Oirish1985]

what kind of guitar is that?

[dharmadude222]

She should have just let him go with the story insted of interrupting him,as she threw him off.

[RootShockerMusic]

I enjoyed the story at the beginning of the video a lot, but the performance is kind of miserable.

[mattpetale]

ALOL

[colinreeter777]

i wanna go meet the mountain people!! heheh great job!

[bjr395]

Frank Black is a class act all the way! Mary Lucia had an awesome interview with him. Love The Current

[francisburns]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

[zz9907ceasar123]

Make your dress all wet in the desert heat, then take it off and send it to me

[zz9907ceasar123]

I know she is here , my Velouria

[BigDaddyRome]

oh frank...you okay?

[TheLMack]

I listened to this on Wednesday.

[DMANANI]

Nice!

[pegrum]

wtf is he talking about a the start! lol

[TheUnderdocker]

I listened to this on friday. Great stuff keep it coming. Much appreciated.