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I'm coming on the train, Thurs. Not sure when I'm leaving.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link

SHIT there are two Sonic Youth tickets on Trademe going for $70 together and that's the buy it now!! Someone get them! Who needs a ticket?

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh no price is per ticket, I should really read these things.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Phew

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I'll be there.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

okay I'm going on the train all day Thurs.
I guess I'll bump into some of yous

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I might be going to see Shocking Pinks and Disaster Radio on friday night at the eden bar.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah sounds like im there too, apparently golden axe kick ass, so my ass is required to get down

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i get to see them next month in phoenix with LE TIGRE.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

You must tell us if LT're improving on their last record w/their new stuff! Please.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 24 June 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link

either way i'm envious.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 24 June 2004 06:56 (nineteen years ago) link

of you ALL goddamit

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 24 June 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

auckland is scarey, it smells like perfume/cars/rubbish/grime

― cuspidorian's poltergeist, Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

visit me @ hard to find books until 5:30pm today, tourists!

still haven't got a ticket but there's still some left, i'll go on my lunchbreak or whatever. dunc4n was in the store today! he gave me a horror magnet cd! & thurston moore was walking along k rd!

come to the edens bar tonight, yeah.

― etc, Friday, 25 June 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

im up later tonight.. come and harass me, fran and the die! die! die! guys if you want, i think eden bar is on the cards (i have no idea where that is though)..

― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 25 June 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

it's on k rd near the strip bars. just talked to andoru & he reckoned he'd be there . . .

btw got the second-to-last standing ticket for SY, woo-ha.

― etc, Friday, 25 June 2004 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link

awesome. well i'll be in pretty late, but hopefully should be cool

― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 25 June 2004 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link

its tonight, right? have fun, kids.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 26 June 2004 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Look into my eyes, don't you trust me
yr so good you could go far
I'll put you in a movie, don't you want to
you could be a star
you could go far
you've got twistability
you fly hard, don't you wanna
you've got kissability
you could be a star, it ain't hard

yr driving me crazy, I feel so sick
yr driving me crazy, give us a kiss

look into my eyes, don't you trust me
yr so soft, you make me hard
I'll put you on a movie, don't you wanna
you could be a star, you could go far
you've got kissability
you sigh hard, don't you wanna
you've got twistability
you could be a star, it ain't hard

yr driving me crazy, you smell so sick
I feel so tired, you made me sick
yr driving me crazy, if I feel so sick
yr driving me crazy, if I feel so sick

Look into my eyes, don't you dis' me
You're so good, you could go far
I'll put you in a movie, don't you wanna
You could be a star, you could go far
You've got twistability
You fly hard, don't you wanna
You've got kissability
You could be a star, it ain't hard

You're driving me crazy, I feel so sick
You're driving me crazy, give us a kiss

4 anton 4 eva ¢¾¢¾¢¾

― carrie sterling, Saturday, 26 June 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

so how was it?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

wow. skip tracer owned. jim was o, kinda kept in the background, but he was having fun with lee (who got 2.. or was it 3?) songs. kim went all patti smith, varying between gat and bass, and even trumpet on the last song. they played a big mish-mash of material, and one dude basically dry-humped thurston - who kept playing - then fought him to the ground, it was hilarious, going on for a good 5 minutes while the others were in a groove, the dude finally got up and stole a kiss from kim, before the security gaurds hastened his jump into the crowd.

it all started real early (8pm) so i missed kneale, but mascis was funny, he'd switch from acoustic drool to rock-god overdrive in a fumbling breath.. played a short set, sonic youth started early, played for quite a while, including 3 encores.

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 27 June 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

that dude = dyl4n ph4razon from f0t0. it's entirely possible that stunt was an attempt to piss off his thurston-worshipping ex-gf!

lee got "skip tracer" & "paper cup exit", + did backing vocals on about three songs.
kim pogoing & pirouetting to "drunken butterfly" in heels! lee swinging his guitar at him who then whipped him with a lead!! getting to touch lee & jim!!! PLUR!!!!

― etc, Sunday, 27 June 2004 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It was wonderful. Best Sy I've seen, I'm pretty sure. Seemed more like a band having a good time (Kim looked RELAXED and COMMANDING at times even, looked good in that dress, MADE A JOKE!), rather than WE ARE SY, or whatever, y'know. Jim makes more of a diff live than on record maybe. Thurston remains a giant hot indiekid w/stickers all over his guitar. Steve is funky.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 27 June 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

and hunky

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha. ILM just told me Lee tends to do either Skip Tracer or MOTE for his old song. MOTE! MOTE! I mean I really really adore Skip Tracer but MOTE

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

or HEY JONI! tho mote & skip tracer are k-fuckin rad (hearing him recite "the guitar guy played real good feedback" was pretty cool); pity they don't do wish fulfillment. i'm gonna see how well all of lee's songs fit on a cdr. btw andrew, what were the band's problems w/lee around the time of experimental jet set? haven't heard anything about them (or, uh, that album).

― etc, Monday, 28 June 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

lee renaldo is totally the george harrison of the group, stealthily writing the best songs while the others get all the attention

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

You said it was their best album once. Uh I dunno, just general personal shit I guess.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Also it was meant to be Kim and Thurston's band really

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Wasn't the personal shit around Dirty 'cause they wouldn't put Genetic on the album and didn't want Wish Fulfillment there either?

― hsimah (hamish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah but I was trying to think of why they didn't want "Genetic" on Dirty in the first place. Kind of terrible cos it's about their best ROCK song ever, maybe they were embarrassed Lee was doing the best at it. Me and Elisabeth yelled for it at the gig, didn't work

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh and S if you didn't know there's NO LEE on EJSTANS at ALL. And it mostly sucks, tho it was cool to hear "Bull in the Heather" live, Jim seemed particularly useful on it

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Some observations from the show:

1. At several points at the gig Jim did the 'Bruce Russell thing' of playing the lead with no instrument. For two way-too-brief moments in the improv bits he played guitar just like he used to in the old days; ie. so it sounds nothing like a guitar.
2. Thurston plays real simple guitar. They would turn into the Grateful Dead if it wasn't for him.
3. Someone yelled "play in New Zealand next time" and Jim looked confused.
4. There was a place you could stand where you could hardly hear the bands vocals. Most of the audience there were better singers than Thurston, Kim and Lee. Not Jim obviously.
5. People in the moshpit were less violent than they were at the Chch Dirty show.
6. Ticket says "Doors open 8pm" and then show starts at 8.05. wtf?
7. Lee played a synth at the start.
8. The J Mascis set was like a free jazz set with all the songs played together without a break and everyone clapping the solos.
8. Steve had a smaller drumkit than last time I saw him and played funky drums instead of big bomastic rolling.
9. Oh yeah and Jim touched my hand.

― hsimah (hamish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried listening to a few Lee songs together once and they all sounded the same.

― hsimah (hamish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember getting EJST&NS home (the last new vinyl album to be cheaper than a CD?) and trying to skip straight to the Lee song. I looked at the titles thought 'In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader' must be the Lee song.

― hsimah (hamish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

You call yourself Youth but you're too fucking old. Sorry I had to say something stupider than above. I wonder if Peter Jefferies was there.

― hsimah (hamish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link

didn't seem him.. in fact the highest profile muso i saw there was probably heath from deja voodoo.. not exactly a superstar

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Stefan from Pumice, Beth from the Futurians and Dean from Nova Scotia. I don't think any of them have written songs about Sonic Youth tho.

― hsimah (hamish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I yelled "I LOVE YOU LEE!" and we think he heard

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw every member of Sonic Youth

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

3. Someone yelled "play in New Zealand next time" and Jim looked confused.

hahahahaha

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link

who said what was their best album? um.
I totally forgot about that synth/organ thing! pretty cool. & yeah, steve's funky drumming was a uh revelation though I didn't look at him as much as I meant to (& I didn't see enough of thurston either, but I was on the other side of the stage & my eyesight really suxx).
I'm annoyed that I didn't see BCM - I heard he was starting at 9pm & sprinted from arch hill to get there, grrr.

― etc, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah missing campbell was a pain, we'll blame androu for that (and the stoopid early start time)

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

You said EJSTANS was when E and I hassled it one time.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link

hamish have you actually heard the grateful dead

― duane, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I got Live/Dead from the library. I only liked Dark Star on it. What other albums from them should i get out?

― hsimah (hamish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link

get "blues for allah"!
sorry if i sounded kind of snide there but i just thought, huh pretty bad example for what he's probably trying to say. whadda i know tho, i haven't even heard any SY records since experimental jet set etc etc. also i'm not even some big time dead head, i've only heard like 3 versions of dark star & to be a real deadnik you've gotta have like a tape library of like 30 versions of that song alone, i believe

― experimental dead set & dark star, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link

that's their best song tho (dark star)

― experimental dead set & dark star, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link

oh hey wait i have heard some later SY, i've heard those SYR ep's. those're pretty good (in a g. dead/d. star sort of way)

― experimental dead set & dark star, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i need to hear more quicksilver messenger service

― experimental dead set & dark star, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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