Sonic Youth rocked Shanghai
 

it was an amazing show! i can't recite the setlist to you but i can tell you some of the songs off the top of my head:

Older gems:
100%
Kool Thing
Teenage Riot
Schyzofrenia (i think that's right)
Skip-Tracer
Shaking Hell
(and another old one, it's a bit of a blur right now)


Rather Ripped:
Incinerate
Do You Believe In Rapture
Turquoise Boy
Jams Run Free
Reena
Rats
Pink Steam
(probably two or three more)

other random moments were when they played noise/chords over a famous chinese song being played through the PA. (really cool moment)

oh ya, the venue was AMAZING! there's photos here and here, just gorgeous, what an evening! this show was way better than the other two times i saw SY!

Well, there must have been plenty of significance attached to the show

Bang on!

And my fav rock song "silver rocket"
i had been crazy from the first guitar sound
when i saw these guys came out from the backstage,tears were full of my eyes at once....

Glad you guys had a blast, I am going to see them in July.

I get to go see them at coachella in 3 days:)

3rd time see da yoof

woo~~~~,hope you guys have a good trip

We posted a write-up about the Shanghai gig — it was awesome — including dozens of photos and a couple videos. There is also a link to the setlist. Check it all out here:

http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/..._youth_sha.php

Thanks man.

one of my livejournal friends went and posted pics. i'm still jealous.

ohh, so thurston bought the washing machine tab book, sat down and relearned the song?

that album plugging headline is a little late.

man that rather ripped material is sounding really tight now, thats the tightest+best version of incinerate I've heard.

amzing selist: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/4...g?v=1177432024

jealousy..
they have never come to korea...

nice setlist .. i believe they'll come
or.. i'll go to amerikka

Thank you!

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whorefrost: last febraury here in mexico city, thurston forgot how to play it and instead the band played mote.

i think he also had problems with the guitar (maybe it wasn't tuned right for the song?) but he forgot alright, at one point, he went up to lee for him to show what he played and see if he could remember.

i'm actually very glad they played mote instead.

i was right in front of thurston's guitar rack, they talked a lot of what they were going to do. again, maybe the guitar wasn't tuned properly and thurston tried to play the song on that other tuning but couldn't do it.