Sonic Youth/Swans Tour
 

A postcard to the world. Show them how it's done once more, please. I hate nostalgia.

And you can stay at my house if Gira sleeps in the bathroom.

Indeed that would be awesome. I vote yes!

Couldn't hurt trying... right?

gira would never do it.

not even if he made more money?

judging from recent interviews, the principle of the thing would bother him. he doesn't seem like one to dabble in nostalgia.

i'm sure he's fairly well off now anyway with young god having to backorder the new LP when it was released and all the touring, etc.

I don't know what current feelings are, but I seem to remember Gira and Lee pretty much despising each other once upon a time.

That said, def. a show I wouldn't mind attending.

*question answered*

I don't remember her saying that (I know she said it about GG), but it wouldn't surprise me. There is a story about an early Swans show that states Gira jumped off stage and beat up these two punk rock kids (a boy + his GF) that were pogo dancing. He said he did so because "it looked like they were having too much fun".

So, it's possible Kim dislikes, or disliked, him for that reason.

there was an interview recently where the interviewer kept pressing gira's opinion on SY until he was like, "sonic youth are the monkees and i'm jimi hendrix."

someone on facebook asked him about it and he was all, "it was a joke taken out of context. i don't have anything against sonic youth. thurston is a pretty cool guy. besides, kim used to call us jefferson starship back in the day."

something to that effect.

perhaps i spoke too soon. hrm.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=...74179679266305

Well, I invite everyone to get the word to them that we'd like this to RAWK!

once upon a time... where were you in 1982? well nostalgia sucks.

Meh. Playing all of Daydream Nation for a whole tour, I wasn't all over that. But two bands who have continued to grow and change sharing a bill years after they did before, that's not nostalgia. Granted, I'll freely admit that I'd be completely hopeful that they'd jam on "Kill Yr. Idols" at encore with irony in full view.

Facebook:
Michael Gira what a horrible idea.

So... no.

Yeah, it does appear he's answered the petition.

Michael Gira actually messaged me on FB and asked me to stop the group above. So I'm going to let it lie in respect for his wishes. He was entirely gracious in his correspondence.

Why? What did Gira say? I wouldn't mind seeing Sonic Youth with The Pop Group.

I know he said it sounded like a horrible idea.

Yeah, he didn't say a lot more than that in his personal message to me. He just graciously asked that I remove him so that he wouldn't see further updates on the page and said he'd rather it didn't exist, but left that up to me. I hate removing things like that once they've been created, so I'm just leaving it sit and not pushing it any further. Petition made; directly answered; case closed.

If somebody else wants to create a Sonic Youth please tour with the Pop Group group, I wish them well...

I'm honestly a bit surprised he even cared enough to reply to begin with. I mean, everyone KNOWS the likelihood of it happening is slim to zilch...but still, strange. Maybe he doesn't want anyone to be confused into believing that there is a possibility.

Still, I'd much rather see something like this than say Sonic Youth w/ Pavement. But then again, SY + Pavement probably maker better sense these days being that there hasn't been much challenging about the music of SY since Sonic Nurse (I love the Eternal, BTW, but it was still straight-ahead compared to most of their other work...)


I always wondered if there was some level of animosity because of Confusion is Sex. My Swans friends tend to think SY ripped them off on that one...of course, I don't agree. But still...

Die hard Swans fans in the area tend to not dig the Youth so much.

Fuck yes. Doesn't get much better than Y!

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