Sonic Youth as Grateful Dead
 

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...c/14922022.htm

...somewhere in Kansas a thesaurus is earning its money.......

Unlike the Dead, the band’s jams were exploratory without being self-indulgent



Hah, true.

Sweet! Youth-heads...

i love the grateful dead!
i used to sleep in this shirt as a kid

and i had another huge one that said "pumpkin head" on it. my mum and dad are the biggest Grateful dead fans though.

My friend's grandpa toured with the Dead and actually helped to create the logo (not to mention manufacture and distribute hundreds of thousands of hits of acid).

Interesting review.

Thanks. It reminded me of these SY/GD comments by Thurston:

THURSTON: I'm telling you, man, if we're going to go on tour with Phish ...
KIM: It's too flower hippies.
THURSTON: But you have to buy into flower hippies because flower hippies are the only way we're going to make money in the future.
JUTTA: Oh, good.
THURSTON: Because Phish sell millions. We sell hundreds. We have to sell millions.
JUTTA: Phish?
KIM: Do they sell millions? I think they have lots of people coming to their concerts.
THURSTON: No, they sell millions. They've usurped the Grateful Dead's audience, which is the audience that we should have usurped, but we weren't as clever as them.
KIM: So this is all about making money?
THURSTON: This is all about making money.
JUTTA: Oh, I see. Is that a driving force?
THURSTON: Money? Not creatively. But it's a driving force for ambitions. I want to tour with Phish because the kind of music we make is more in tune with their aesthetic than it is with any K-Rock or Geffen rock aesthetic. So it's only fair to us, and to that audience. We deserve each other. And I think we can expand their horizon, although they can do nothing for us.
JUTTA: This expansion you're describing ...
THURSTON: Expansion of our market.
JUTTA: But you have other outlets that are the opposite of that expansion.
KIM: You mean, doing improv stuff?
JUTTA: Yeah, improv ... or just floating through the noise.
THURSTON: The local experimental noise scene that we've always been involved with is more referential to post-Grateful Dead listening habits. So it makes sense to me that we'd be able to bring what we do with free improvisation and experimental music into a big arena. And the only arena that exists is the arena that the Dead created, and that Phish have bit into. We want in. We should have in to that. It's just not fair. It's not fair for the kids because they deserve us, in a way.

That's from this interview: http://www.indexmagazine.com/intervi...on_moore.shtml

Ha ha....apples and oranges.

Thanks, Hip, I hadn't seen that before.