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So any of ya goin to the Austin/Dallas shows?

I will be at the austin show

fucking rockin out
wearing my new sonic youth t shirt that my girlfriend had made for me for my birthday

Cool man we should hook up at the show.

I have to work at 10pm so Im just gonna go hang out on the knoll or the bridge and catch what I can.

let us rock

so is this considered a tour for the destroyed room I guess?

Hell Yeah

???

well i mean that was their last release

thatd be really cool if they played a ton of songs off it

or starbucks tour i suppose :P

I wonder what type of set they will be playing. Hopefully light on Rather Ripped stuff since we heard the entire album on the last roll thru TX.

oh yeah i guess daydream reissue was the last release

anyways i just mean im wondering how we got so lucky. i know dallas is real fun and all but...

So who's goin tonight?

I'm not.

(a rather miserable attempt at a joke)

Hey folks - I'm new here and I'm wondering if anyone knows if Mark Ibold will be playing with them on these shows? Thanks!

yeah I assume Mark is gonna be playing but I dont know for sure. Not that itll matter too much for me Im just gonna sit outside on the hill and/or bridge if i even go at all. I have to work at 10pm tonight so Id be lucky if i even got to hear one song.

I dont know its still possible I might go to dallas. I am sooo pissed they arent playing MArfa on sunday instead. I would definitely go to that one.

Well to anyone who's goin have fun.

yeah i fucked up. if i had just gotten the meat puppets bulletin before 4 damn oclock literally three lousy hours before the doors opened i wouldve made it a point to go because i didnt know they were gonna start playing at eight and there wouldnt be a third band. at least thats what i gathered from the bulletin. everything i had seen previously had just said 8pm so i thought naturally that meant the doors opened at eight. i have never been to a show at stubbs before so i didnt know what to expect with all that. i went to the free melvins day show in march but thats it.

srsly the fates conspired against me. literally everything that couldve gone wrong did to keep holding me up till i just said screw it.

oh well, i dance like an idiot anyways.

hi all. yea, mark played with them. really inspired show. mostly new stuff with a couple of older ones thrown in. great encore of "bull in the heather" and then "teenage riot>long feedback jam". really great!

hope somebody recorded it! peace, jason

It wasn't mostly new stuff. Only 4 songs off of Rather Ripped were played. The setlist, not in order:

World Looks Red
Bull In The Heather
Trilogy
Teenage Riot
Cross The Breeze
Hey Joni
The Sprawl
Candle
Reena
Incinerate
Rats
Jams Run Free

BTW, there were more dicks at this show than any show that I have been to in a long time. Right before SY came on, a lot of dumbfucks obnoxiously trying to push their way to the front. And all of a sudden just stopping right in front of you or literally stopping right behind you and leaning on you. If you want a good spot, get their early shitheads. I thought Austin was cooler than that.

I hear that the set was great as I knew it would be but all the assholes around me made it hard to enjoy. Oh well maybe there will be less assholes in Dallas tomorrow night.

Oh yeah and if anyone got any good pix or a recording of the show please give me a shout.

sonicstarpower@yahoo.com

Thankx

thanks for setlist

How were the MEAT PUPPETS???

meat puppets did what they do which does and has always sucked major ass in my book

sonic youth blasted through a fucking amazing set of loud fast rock skronk, and they played cross fthe breeze which I had never heard live and it was amazing and it was everything I ever wanted and it was the most rocking sonic youth show I hgave seen since 1992 dirty tour I LOVED IT

Anyone remember Meat Puppets setlist?

The Sprawl
World Looks Red
Cross The Breeze
Incinerate
Hey Joni
Reena
Candle
Rats
Trilogy
Jams Run Free
Bull In The Heather
Teenage Riot


there'sa song or two missing i think.

You lucky bastards got Bull in the Heather.

Damn, I misread it "Theresa's sound world missing"... my heart stopped for a second.

i sonic cummed myself when cross the breeze started.

it is but not at stubbs though. thats why ive never been to a night show there once in the ten years ive lived here. ive sat outside there before with sonic youth but other than that the only time i did go was for the free melvins show during the day for sxsw and the same exact thing happened to me. yeah stubbs is a magnet for everything thats wrong with this city, which is that its home to the second largest university in the world.

srsly its because stubbs is all ages. that has to be the only explanation. not to be an ageist or anything but thats the only real difference i can come up with shitty ten years of bands or not.

For SY, it wasn't under-21 kids that were the problem. And it wasn't college kids either. It was late 20's drunk dicks and their stoned whore girlfriends

well you probably have a really good point then and its just that stubbs has the cheesiest bands in the world and so it is just a magnet for bad taste.

unfortunatley this town has really been hurting for a good mid to large venue ever since liberty lunch closed. i have no other idea where sonic youth would play other than stubbs unfortunately.

oh wait they played at that one other place la zona rosa once. ive never been there before.

ok actually i just figured it out you wanna know what causes it at stubbs?



that stupid fucking barricade

all the really stupid obnoxious people in the back who dont know what the fuck theyre doing see all this space up front and think theyve got it all figured out. that baracade really pisses me off regardless and is one of the reasons i hate that place if not the biggest reason

but yeah id bet my life thats whats causing it. way too much of a coincidence that happened to me. actually now that im thinking of it because that melvins show was my first time there i kinda remember thinking the same thing as those assholes but it wasnt my first rodeo so i knew to err on the side of caution.

about 20 feet from the stage to the right was gr4eat, just people fucking rockin



got lucky!

Marfa was amazing.

I would have loved to drive to amrfa for the saturday show, but I co0uld not do it.
they played a GREAT fuckking show in austin though.

any one have setlists for the shows?

yeah Im up at the coffee shop and just met someone who went. So apparently this was the reason for their mini-texas tour?

Fountain http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...2.4275581.htmlof Sonic Youth


ROCK REVIEW: Group's sparkle stays bright

12:00 AM CDT on Monday, October 8, 2007


By MIKE DANIEL / The Dallas Morning News
mdaniel@dallasnews.com

Name change proposal: "Sonic Youth" should heretofore be known as "Sonic Fountain of Youth."
OK, maybe not. For one, it'd blow the advantage of name recognition for one of rock's most enduring and consistently inventive alternative acts. But there's something invigorating and restorative about Sonic Youth's noise rock – something that, at the very least, has kept its members nearly as exciting to watch and hear live as they were more than 20 years ago.
The artsy Big Apple outfit played Dallas' House of Blues on Sunday night. It scored the reunited Meat Puppets as an opener, which only sweetened the lure for the approximately 750 folks who attended.
Sonic Youth bookended a special gig on Saturday in distant Marfa, Texas, in connection with the Chinati Foundation's Open House 2007 – one of the state's coolest see-and-be-seen modern-art shindigs – with dates in Austin and Dallas that had no ties to any tour. In fact, Sonic Youth singer/guitarist Thurston Moore will commence a trek in support of his fresh solo CD, Trees Across the Academy, in two weeks. His tourshould last well into 2008.
That the Dallas concert was likely Sonic Youth's last for quite a while definitely seemed to energize the proceedings. But even if Mr. Moore, 49, hadn't clutched his mic and yelped like a brazen metal-band frontman during "100%," and even if bassist-singer Kim Gordon, 54, hadn't flailed about in a fashionable silk blouse and black leggings like a postmodern neo-punk scenester vet during "What a Waste," the show would have been phenomenal.
The 85-minute set's songs were heavily sourced from two discs – last year's Rather Ripped and 1988's definitive Daydream Nation. Choices that deviated from those CDs ("100%," "Skip Tracer," "Schizophrenia") tended to showcase for Mr. Moore and guitarist Lee Ranaldo.
Incidentally, the vocals were the least memorable part of the gig; Ms. Gordon and Mr. Ranaldo sounded too matter-of-fact on "The Sprawl" and "Hey Joni," respectively.
But they redeemed themselves later, with choices ranging from the chilling harmonic- and pick -slide-propelled proto-ballad "Do You Believe in Rapture?" to the majestic, proggy hop, skip and leap of "The Trilogy."
That kids barely born when Sonic Youth put out Bad Moon Rising in 1985 were banging their heads during "What a Waste" says volumes about how invigorating the concert was. The members of Sonic Youth don't appear to be aging much, but when they eventually do, they can rest knowing that the band's music will never get old.