Hello Goodbye: Joey Santiago & The Pixies

HELLO – September 1986

CHARLES [FRANCIS] and I were suite-mates rather than room-mates at the University of Massachusetts. Like me, he'd gone to college in the hopes of starting a band. He had this knack of writing original songs – his early tunes were much more innocent-sounding but bits of them eventually made it onto record, like the riff to 'U-Mass' and the opening riff to 'Levitate Me'.