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Originally Posted by kingcoffee
Fuck yeah! That show was great! Remember how they opened up with Burning Spear and Thurston was going crazy with the guitar, scraping it agaiunst the walls and the amps? Amazing.
And remember his little spiel aboyt Peter Frampton? Very funny.
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That opening (with Thurston trying to, I don't know, throw his guitar through the ceiling?) was one of the craziest things I've ever seen in person. It was something like 7 solid minutes of noise before "the Burning Spear" really got going, too. It was like a jet took off in that place.
The Peter Frampton bit (how he saw him in 1974 "and he sucked!") was funny, as was Lee saying "We took his beer." Any and all Simpsons references at shows are OK by me.
Another fun story from this show: I was standing along the raised part in the back so that I could see over everyone's heads, and during the last 20 minutes of the show (more or less from "Unmade Bed" on), there was what I think was a NAMBLA couple stitting in one of the booths in front of me. The guy had to be about 50, glasses, cowboy shirt and jeans, the kid about 8, and... man, I don't know, it was just creepy as hell. They didn't act like father/son or uncle/nephew, the guy was acting like this kid was his date, and was sort of singing the words to some of the songs (Unmade Bed, for example) to him... I was weirded out for a while there. They also had matching rings on their left ring fingers. Creepy.
What the hey, here's the setlist that night:
Sonic Youth
Boston, MA
08-14-2004
Burning Spear
Pattern Recognition
Disconnection Notice
Mote
New Hampshire
Sugar Kane
Dude Ranch Nurse
Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Stones
I Love You Golden Blue
Paper Cup Exit
White Cross
1st encore:
Unmade Bed
Pacific Coast Highway
2nd encore:
Expressway to Yr. Skul