Bonus Breeders: Where Did Those Photos Come From?
The Breeders are set to play their second show at the Fillmore tonight, closing out somewhat a homecoming run in San Francisco by playing their first album, Pod, in its entirety. They'll also be performing the album that made them famous and was recorded in the city by the bay, Last Splash. As I previously noted in my article on the aforementioned shows, the Breeders have a lot of positive memories in the Bay Area. Those hikes to Point Reyes and recording sessions weren't just fond recollections & the occasional musical moment, however. Bassist Josephine Wiggs recently unearthed photo evidence of the pivotal time in the band's life. In Wiggs' words:
I actually hadn't seen the studio photos until the end of last year. Daniel Presley had them & I met him in his studio in New York & asked for the photos. He produced these beautiful 8x10 black & white photos of us. They were really lovely & he'd treated them so kindly. He let me take them & we reproduced them in the booklet for the annivesary reissue.
Along with Mark Freegard, Presley was one of the audio engineers for Last Splash and the man responsible for taking Wiggs up a hill to show her the panorama of SF. Salut to all who worked on Last Splash & happy twentieth to such an iconic album.
