Joey Santiago
Joey Santiago
Joseph Alberto "Joey" Santiagois a Filipino-American guitarist and composer. Active since 1986, Santiago is best known as the lead guitarist for the American alternative rock band the Pixies. After the band's breakup in 1993, Santiago produced musical scores for film and television documentaries, and he formed The Martinis with his wife, Linda Mallari. He also contributed to albums by Charles Douglas and former Pixies band-mate Frank Black. Santiago resumed his role as the Pixies' lead guitarist when they reunited in...
NationalityFilipino
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 June 1965
Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.
The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
Am I right in thinking people come and ask us (America) for help or do we just do it? I don't know a lot about foreign policy.