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Gettin’ ready to go check SONIC YOUTH!!! t-minus 2 hours and counting…
Friends saw them at a show several weeks ago, and my roommate just saw them last weekend at BONAROO(SP?)…they all said SY really rocked…playing lots of old stuff and really mixing it up!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Will report back w/ a setlist and hopefully some pics of the gig…going to try and find a digi camera so I’ll snap a bunch of photos for ya!!! (if I can get away w/ it)
If I send someone the pics…would anyone be willing to possibly put them up for me??? I can do it on my TRIPOD (sucks) account, but will probably exceed my bandwidth and no one will be able to view them until say…next month
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If someone would share a little space, it would be greatly appreciated!!!
If not, it’s cool and I understand……now where did I put that Dreamweaver software…
Oh yeah…F*CK YOU TICKETMASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F*CKING B*LLSH*IT, CR*P*SS, $6.00 surcharge on a $20 ticket…F*CK Y**!!! You sorry *SS, SONS OF B*TCH*S can EAT ME!!!!!!!
have lots of fun at the gig! … I’d appreciated to see some pics, hopefully your plans could be realized
(although I’m not able to help you out with upload space 
)and yes, those ticket sellers are muggers these days
Yo La Tengo/LeTigre/The Clean, Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, 6.21.03
The Clean opened and were the reason I really went up to LA to see this show, and it was totally worth it. They were awesome last time I saw them, and were this time as well. They played some of the classics like "Anything Could Happen", "Point that Thing Somewhere Else" and "Odditty". In fact, for "Odditty" Ira Kaplan came out and played with them, and had this been the only song they played, it would have been worth it! This was one of the most awesome things I have ever seen at a show!
Second band was Le Tigre, and the dykes were out in full force. I’d never heard this band and didn’t even know until after the fact that Kathleen Hannah was the main singer. Anyway, they put on a good show that was fun and rocked as well. I think they listen to their X-Ray Spex album too much, and Hannah sounds a lot like Poly Styrene too. The band also features one of the ugliest chicks I have ever seen–she looked like a mix between Lou Barlow and Miles from "Murphy Brown".
Then Yo La Tengo… They played a ton of stuff off the new album, but a lot of choice classics. These included the rock version of "Big Day Coming", "Tom Courtenay", a vocal-less version of "Blue Line Swinger"
"We’re an American Band" and the wonderful "Can’t Forget" off Fakebook. Each member of the Clean also came out to play on certain songs. The last song of the set was the Sun Ra cover "Nuclear War" for which all the members of the Clean joined them!Then in the encore it got even better. With The Clean still up there, they played "Block of Wood" by The Bats, from "Daddy’s Highway". And what made it even better was that Robert Scott did the vocals!!
And then they played "Cast a Shadow", which was cool.Great performances by all three bands, but the Clean playing WITH Yo La Tengo really topped it off for me.
"likeaghost" wrote:I just saw the greatest unknown punk/glam/metal joke band. They are called "Cold Slither", named after the CObra band from Gi Joe. They kicked off their first world tour at the Brick House Cafe in historic downtown Warren, PA. Their Lead singer was getting his game face on at my resturant beforehand and we serve a pretty strong drink so after a few gin and tonics he was ready to go. The opening band was "Charlie Brown gets a Valentine", I think they are from DC, they are punk and good at what they do, but the crowd wanted cold slither. THey opened with the COld Slither Theme song, which mezmorized and hypnotized legions of Slither heads in the cartoon days. Joe, lead singer, was double fisting Yingling Lagers thoughout the first set, which turned out to be the only set. He kept lying down on stage and after a thrilling rendition of "Terrible night of the Gorilla" he stood up and walked off stage proceeding to pass out in the coridour leading to DJ booth area. Several die-hard fans woke him up a bit later and got him to mumble through VYI and Maneater, yes a Hall and Oates cover. The highlight was probably boy with a hook in his head, or Masters of the Universe, their tribute to He-Man. THe next and only stops on the world tour are Columbus and Cleveland, so if you are an Ohio native I’d get to this show. Also pick up either or both of their fine albums, Major Blood and Mount Rockmore.A band of Vipers playing their tunes…
:aliensmile:warren, pa rules all. glad to see it is a mecca for glam
pernice brothers–iota, arlington, va 6.21.03
nice little alt-country band. didn’t know much about them, had a good time. kind of mellow, singer seemed like a nice guy, they had a good stage presence. never had been to iota, but it seems nice. kind of reminds me of the grog shop in cleveland, only cleaner. and with windows. next up on monday: wilco & maybe sonic youth (there was a death in someone’s family)Sorry this took so long in gettin’ back to you all
opener-Comatoxic (Comotoxic?)-two chics on guitar and percussion, switched back and forth on vocals…very dreary, depressing, and slow (like CAT POWER)
SONIC YOUTH absolutely rocked!!!
I cannot even begin to describe this show…it is simply beyond words…hence my screen name stolen from a SONIC YOUTH song of the same name…INEFFABLESet List: (in no particular order)
-Peace Maker (Truth Maker?)-a new song they are still working on and opened the show w/
-Radical adults lick godhead style
-Rain on tin
-Disconnection notice
-Mote
-Sugar Kane
-Purr (I think, something else off of 100%, pretty sure it was this)
-A Mariah Carrey (Paula Abdul?) cover…Sonic Youth version
-One or two others…sorry, forgot my pen and paper but one was from NYC Ghosts and the other from EvolThis show was INCREDIBLY LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had to turn my stereo up quite a bit on the ride home just so I could hear it. Awoke the next day with my ears still ringing!!! Next time will have to take earplugs (suggest this for anyone going to see SY in an indoor venue)
Lee- is as gray as the day is long
Steve- was tight on the drums
Thurston- still looks about twenty-one and is still almost a foot and a half taller than everyone in the place
Kim- still hot as hell in her little dresses, but looks much older and tired from years of touring
New guy- they have someone else jamming w/ them now, this dude played a lot of the normal riffs while Thurston and Lee soloed over him. He also played a lot of the leads, and in general added to the total chaos of noise that is Sonic Youth…Absolutely amazing!!! Every song, they would switch guitars with the roadies, and Kim and the new guy would switch back and forth between bass and guitar. Lee’s got this sweet looking 12-string electric he brought out for one song. Thurston was all over the place, swinging his guitar by the neck, playing it behind his head, rubbing it all over his body, slamming it into the ground, amp, and microphone…
Have never seen anything like it…much better than the last time I saw them on the 1,000 Leaves tour when all they did was play every song on that album…2 encores!!! Show lasted about 2 hours…
Simply did not know that so many sounds could be produced by a band with guitars, pedals, and a shit load of distortion!!!!!!!!!
Everything just builds and builds and builds until you are inundated with a shear wall of noise (Pink Floyd…eat your hearts out) The Newport was packed!!! Hard hitting pit up front, and had to push a lot just to move around the venue or prevent people from stepping on you.
Sonic Youth- the only band that can give order and reason to what is otherwise complete and utter CHAOS!!!!!!!!! :slap:
Sorry, couldn’t scrounge up a camera so no pics
…but definately go see SY while you get the chance!!!! You will not be disappointed
"the ineffable me" wrote:New guy- they have someone else jamming w/ them now,That’s Chicago phenom Jim O’Rourke.
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BR wrote:
Quote:That’s Chicago phenom Jim O’Rourke.…and absolutely phenomenal he his!!!
thanx for the tip BR, will have to check out his other stuff!!!OK…got the official set list from the 6/20 show…want to apologize in advance for the innaccuracies :slap: (HEY!!!! I was trying to pull all this from memory two days after the gig
and some of these I’ve only heard once or twice)peace attack (something they said they were still working on)
empty page
kissability
rain on tin
mote
plastic sun
radical adults lick godhead style
catholic block
karenology
mariah carey (could’ve sworn Kim said this was a cover, but my ears were already shot by now)
sugar kane
sympathy for the strawberry
disconnection notice
total trash
expressway to yr skullpeace
Thanks for the review Kurtis :aliensmile:
Jim O`Rourke also played with Gastr Del Sol which I recommend checking out,it`s alot different then SY though
hey kurticus, thanks a lot for the review, sounds like you had a great time
when I saw Sonic Youth last year, it was a cool gig, although I had expected it to be louder … well, I haven’t been in the mosh pit but at the side of stage, maybe not in the best position to the amps
cool that they’re playing new stuff, hope they’ll release a new album some time soon.Mariah Carey
:aliensmile:Last saturday, being the 21st of June in this year of confusion featuring double zeros smack dab in the middle of the number 23, I had the pleasure of being at the convergance of two rivers at a park in a city called pittsburgh seeing a free show by a band known as Wilco. Run-ons are so easy to right, yet not fun to read I imagine. Anyway, the show was amazing. I got there a minute or two late, parking was distant being a pirates game across the bridge and all the madness of the arts festivel, whcih was the reason the concert was free and there and cool as all get out. I only discovered Wilco last fall about the time Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was getting too much press to pass up. I had been scared of them based on the Alternative Country label they seem to get slapped with from time to time. I got there during the song "Kamera" from YHF, it was followed by "War on War" also from YHF. After those two songs, or in the middle, all is a bit muddled in my retrospective attempt at a review/setconstruction, Jeff Tweedy, frontman, began speaking about the ememse shurburie inbetween the stage and the first row of fans. He seems a bit off by the distance of the audience. His bantar was comicly cynical fun and I dug the other insights that followed every few songs. After those two songs came two new songs, introuduced as such, and then two form Summer Teeth (How to fight Loneliness and Via Chicago) then more YHF. All in all they played 8 of 11 songs from YHF, obmitting "I am trying to break your heart, Radio Cure, and Ashes of American Flags", althought they may have played them before I got there. Their set concluded with Poor Places sliding beautifully into Reservations, which is how YHF ends, sans the musical connection yet still connected well, as that album fits so well together. While waiting for the encore, the video screen behind the band began showing film clips of monkeys. During most of the set it displayed black and white montouges of buildings. Slightly before the band returned the monkeys, also in black and white, turned into a live real time shot of the crowd in full color
:aliensmile: . Then Mr. Tweedy said they were going to play a song they hadn’t played in a while because this girl in about hte 6th row wanted ot hear it really bad, then he made someone or at least asked someone to pick her up so everyone could see who she was. The song was "Don’t forget the flowers". There was maybe two more songs, both form Being There or maybe AM. I have all of their albums, except AM, which I believe is a bit too country for my taste. I’m a bit sketchy on the song names for Being there being I don’t have them written down. I figured that was that. It had been a beautiful night of music. The sunset beyond the fountian at the rivers convergance created a background not only the band, but the casual crowd conisour/obsevant view visitor. Anyway, I began walking toward town to retrieve my car and head to the next eposide, yet the band returned. JT informed us that it was just too darn good to stop so more must go on. At this point they began "Misunderstood" the first and my favorite track on Being There, also one of the few I know the name of. The instrumental break in about the middle was extended in a slow jammy/noisy fashion that reminded me of how amazing live music truely can be. They proceeded to play three or for more songs, two running together and at least one I had never heard before that had the best lryics about quiting television watching, seriously. It all made me smile and I was so darn happy with the free show, I would have spent big bucks to see Wilco as they never seem to be on tour, although I’ve just put them in my radar so hopefully I’ll get to see them indoors someday. I love the beauty of an outdoor show, but there is something about a good club/arena sound system and a killer band to make it bounce around the room like a kid in a candy store.peace
likeaghost
3 rivers converge at point state park! seriously, though i was supposed to come up for that, couldn’t make it. i will see them in dc, so excited. sonic youth played the arts fest a week before. live in pittsburgh for 26 years, they never have anything that cool, i move and 2 of my favorite bands play for free. ah well, see both next week, and rilo kiley, the gossip, the new pornographers and the aislers set are all skipping pittsburgh, though.
wilco and sonic youth: june 30, 2003; dar constitution hall–washington dc
wow what a great show. sonic youth were their usual crazy, incendary selves. played about an hour and a half, couple of oldies, most of murray st., a song they haven’t actually recorded yet (peace war or something), and another that just came out on a split single. good shit, thurston went apeshit on his monitor. pissed i forgot my camera.
wilco was quite good to. seemed like they played a ton of the slower songs on yhf to begin with, which was ok. eventually they played all of the cd and a few from their other cds. tweedy brought out the flying v guitar and rocked out at the end. there were two encores, during the second, he tried to kick some guy that was talking shit and yelled, "i’m not some monkey in a zoo. i’m trying to sing a song, motherfucker." haha
dar is kind of a wack place. had to drink in the lobby, which was cool i was staying sober as i was drunk all weekend. no smoking was a great plus. our seats were about 20 feet from the stage which was cool, but they were uncomfortable. i’d go back for someone cool. great show, worth the cash. next up: most likely the aislers set a week from friday.
The Brian Setzer Trio at the Wildhorse Saloon, Nashville. Price: Free. Opening bands: awful.
I want two tone shoes now!
Nina Nastasia at the Casbah.
This was a really nice show. She had 5 guys backing her up–cello, stand up bass, violin, drums, keyboard sort of thing. I think the drummer was the drummer from Dirty 3, but that is unconfirmed. There were about 30 people there, in what is already a small venue. Kind of an ideal setting.
Well kiddies…haven’t seen them yet, but got 2 (yes, count’em) 2 FREE tix to see WEEN on Friday. I love WEEN. They definately put on a great show every time they roll into C-town. Will give you all a great review as always, and hopefully some cool pics too… if I ever get this damn camera figured out (see Geeky Tech Chat)
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