4th of July Set List
 

She is not Alone
Bull in the Heather
Silver Rocket
Skip Tracer
The Sprawl
World Looks Red
Cross the Breeze
Hey Joni
Jams Run Free
The Wonder/Hyperstation
Drunken Butterfly
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Making the Nature Scene
Pink Steam
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Schizophrenia
100%


Review to follow...

fucking a that's a nice set list.

does anyone know where this recording can be downloaded from???

ps: the show was great by the way...

it was a cool show, a bit heavy on daydream nation (i only say that because i had seen the show at the pool last year or else i would have loved the Daydream nation material).

Kim totally blew the lyrics to butterfly and they had to restart and Thurston's guitar died during cross the breeze (i think that was the song). She is not alone was a crazy way to start the show.

yeah fo real, was this shit archived? i wanna hear, i wanna hear!

that's prob up to SY not the station.

we were way back from the stage but the sound was very good even there world looks red was sounding particularly savage and sweet today...hope someone was taping

I was up in the front. There were two people in front of me. I was over on the right by Thurston. Silver Rocket was RIDICULOUS. Thurston, like, threw himself into the crowd and the barracade fell down for a second.

nice set list! so... how about the feelies?

^ Great !!!

Please post more pictures ! :)


Looks like Thurston got a haircut since their recent Nashville show.

they started out slow but were pretty rocking at the end.

It's slightly painful to post there horrible cell phone pictures. I took two videos but my phone won't let me send them out because the files are too big :(











Yeah, I was sorta close. How big was the crowd? I couldn't see it.

Silver Rocket here was nuts too. Thurston was headbanging really hard and the crowd were going nuts, despite being stoned still.

I don't often say this about couples that have been together for 20+ years but Kim and Thurston are ADORABLE. For example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F5h9SZPTAAA

isn't that habib in the first picture holding the video camera? he's always video taping their shows, yet we never see shit from them. why is that?

Excellent show! Did anybody else see Lee break his strings during Hyperstation with a drumstick?

Yeah that is practically a dream set list...

By far the best SY show i've been to setlist wise (since nothing can beat that wonderful first time experience), Nature Scene and She is Not Alone were SICK.

Why were everybody saying that there were three encores??

I don't know. I didn't get that either.

i went online to get the tickets but they were already gone. so insteads i got wasted on the beach and listened to 'sister', just as good right? wrong.

what song is thurston playing the slide on?

also curious if they ever get sick of playing bull in the heather...

that's easily one of their best songs, so I'm glad they play it but wow.

It seems like Sonic Youth really know what songs everyone likes by them... you never see 'em playing panty lies..

100%. He uses a slide for noise. I believe the pic is from or near "wastewood rockers"

is there a video for this show ?
or just audio ?

It seemed during the encores, they'd exited twice as the announcers made it sound like they were coming back for a 3rd time. In one of those 'two' encores, I thought I heard one of them say something to that effect. Oh well....I misinterpreted. Thanks for being gentle. :o


Those aren't bad pictures Ripchord, did you get soaked ?

The rain was perfect. almost seemed timed at moments. I hadn't seen SY since the Dirty tour (which was my first concert besides my parents taking me to Stevie Wonder), and it seems they haven't aged a day. This was a great concert and I wish WFMU would put the audio up so I could hear it again. Thanks to SY for keeping their music alive. I'm still tingling.

I also saw SY on the Dirty tour in Newport, RI in June of '92. No recording of that has surfaced, but I keep looking. Your absolutely right about the band, they've LOST NONE of their energy and performance ability. Keep checking the playlist archive's of HotRod on WFMU.org

There is a page already for yesterday, but no link to the SY show...YET. Hopefully it WILL appear.

Nah, it didn't rain that much.

I like daytime shows because theres... daylight. And I mad made eye contact with Thurston and Kim and it was AWESOME.

So they acknowledged you ?

Any winks from Thurston ? :p

Thurston played slide on 100& and kneeled down before Kim on the stage thrahsing out. It was very funny.

There was aot of humour and light-hearted ness in the show which made it fun. Lee was laughing all the time...

There was serious intensity when T jumped in press pit

The vibe was incredible at the show...best at a concert in years....

The recording will surface quickly as it was broadcast

Thx SY

yeh, the feelies set is up on dime already and a "nyctaper correspondent" should provide an aud recording for the sy gig, so we might end up with different sources and do a megamixsupercoolsoundingedit.

Well, you never see em playing 85% of their back catalog, which contains some pretty amazing songs that I know people would love to hear. It seems like they keep short, noisy rockers in the set (100%, Drunken Butterfly, World Looks Red, White Kross, etc) but really, who hasn't heard these songs a trillion times if they've been a fairly regular SY concert-goer (perhaps less on World Looks Red).

They play 100% with pretty much zero energy, and have since they brought it back circa 2000. Too slow, not enough noise. Does anyone disagree? Now, "Bull in the Heather" is one of my all-time favorite songs, and the album version is absolutely perfect, but when I hear it live I just can't get past the lack of harmonics which make that intro riff so haunting. I'd forgive it if they still always paired it with the magnificent "Starfield Road" (hey, it's short! it's noisy! it rocks!) but unfortunately...

K, I'll stop raining all over this thread now. This IS an amazing set list, regardless. Probably the best of the year.

RanaldoN/nicfit: thanks for the recording info!

Chris: totally agree with you on 100%, and I wish they would play Starfield Road as well... I'm also hoping that we see some more from Washing Machine at some point, but that's probably not going to happen.

Yea, that was a dream show for sure. On the way there I was annoying my lady with out-loud pondering of what their set-list would be like, if it would just be Rather Ripper or Daydream. Alas, an awesome retrospective, that I know many people were hoping for. The Daydream songs were on fire. While I was really siked to hear the opening chords to Bull In the Heather, it was kind of a too-mellow version/take.

They had some sweet exclusive WFMU/SY shirts on sale. I know there was
also a limited of 50 one-of a kind poster made that wasn't being sold.

My only real gripe - was that I wish there was BEER being sold there!

I know it will sound pretty silly to those who actually went there, but having the chance to listen it live online and chatting with some fellow boarders (aaaand "talking" about a show without "talking over" the music is so much better) was mighty fun. So, we all had a sort of spiritual connection ha ha, honestly I have a feeling that the live sound was better than the broadcasted one...dunno why.

the sound was impeccable - vocals were crystal clear at the actual show - definitely a big bonus

On the 100% comment, of the three times having heard them play it live yesterday was by far the best i've ever heard them play it. And does anyone else feel like it was extremely LOUD specifically for 100%? Crazy shit.

It was very loud, but the thing with 100% is that they've slowed it down significantly and no longer perform noise during the verses.