The Volatile History of the band The Breeders who were best known for the album The Last Splash & The 1993 hit 'Cannonball' Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? Fill out our google form! https://bit.ly/3stnXlN -----CONNECT ON SOCIAL----- TIKOK:https://www.tiktok.com/@rocknrolltruestory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rocknrolltruestories Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RNRTrueStories Twitter: https://twitter.com/rocktruestories Blog: www.rockandrolltruestories.com #kimdeal #thebreeders #pixies I cite my sources and they may differ than other people's accounts, so I don't guarantee the actual accuracy of my videos. These videos are for entertainment purposes only. READ OUR DISCLAIMER https://rockandrolltruestories.com/youtube-disclaimer/ The Breeders In the mid 80’s Kim Deal would join the band Pixies. While she didn’t know how to play bass she would learn the instrument. But several years after joining the group she felt confined, unable to express herself musically. By the late 80’s she’d go form the group The Breeders, while still in Pixies. Today, let’s take a brief look at the band The Breeders. The story of the breeders begins with identical twin sisters Kim and Kelly Deal. Raised in Dayton Ohio, where they would be exposed to the likes of led zeppelin, the who and aerosmith, but it would be a friend of Kim’s from the west coast that sent her the tapes of bands that would truly influence their future musical creations - Susie and the banshees, sex pistols and elvis costello. Unlike so many rockstars who grow up in broken homes or move around a lot, neither of this happened to the Deal sisters who came from a stable upbringing. Their father was a physicist while their mother worked with children. The sisters would eventually form a duo and start covering country tunes. Kim would play guitar and sing, while kelley would harmonize. Kim and kelley didn’t strive to become musicians initially, with Kim going to college and getting a 2 year diploma in biology. Kelly meanwhile, would join the military working at a local airforce base. Kim would get married to a man named John Murphy and relocate to boston working at a science lab. It was during this time she saw an ad for the band Pixies who were looking for a bass player, but she didn’t play bass, but she quickly learned. Her sister Kelley almost joined as the drummer, but things wouldn’t work out. Despite being alternative darlings and many, Kim felt underappreciated in Pixies, despite being many people’s favourite member and writing one of the pixies popular tracks gigantic. It was on the tour with Pixies Kim would befriend throwing muses guitarist Tanya Donnelley and they bonded over being creatively stifled within their respective groups. They planted the initial seed of starting a new group together dancing and drinking after a Sugarcubes show in Boston. Deal would tell the LA Times “I said, ‘Ooh, Tanya, I got a great idea--we need to make a dance song and we’ll be cool and rich. We’ll be disco queens.’ Donnelly would add “We started it and figured out we couldn’t do it for beans. We had no idea what to do. But then Kim had all these songs and we just decided to do that instead.” Following the release of Pixies hugely influential record 1989’s DooLittle, frontman Black Francis sought to go solo for a little bit giving Kim the perfect opportunity to put together her own band with Donnelley. Calling themselves the breeders, the band would be formed in 1989. The idea for the name came to kim one day who was at a bar and overheard several gay men talking about a straight man who walked into a bar using a derogatory term “breeder”. Enlisting Surfer Rosa producer Steve Albini, the original lineup of the breeders consisted of Tanya Donnelley on guitar, Josephine Wiggs on bass, and Britt Walford on drums. Wiggs who played in the english band perfect disaster had met Kimduring one of Pixies tour of Europe and hit it off. Deal wouldn’t play bass in her new band though, doing vocals and playing guitar because as she told one publication, she was a guitar player at heart. Playing with Pixies, she already had an in with the label 4AD and they soon nabbed a recording contract. It was in 1990 the band put out their first record Pod, which was recorded and mixed the album in 11 days. The album got some traction thanks to their cover of the beatles tune happiness is a warm gun, which got some attention on college radio. Also landing the band on many people’s radar was the fact that nirvana’s kurt cobain was a huge fan of the band listing pod as one of his favourite albums. What’s funny is that a lot of the press reports around the time of Pod coming out painted the Breeders as a side project for Kim, and there’s quite a few publications labelling them a supergroup. Kim definitely didn’t consider the band a side pproject telling a pub

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