The Burning Spear
Confusion is Next
I Don't Want to Push It
She's in a Bad Mood
World Looks Red
Shaking Hell
Making the Nature Scene
Brother James
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Here's a quote from Guido Chiesa, and if he's referring to this gig my set list must be missing "Be Your Dog": I met Sonic Youth a few weeks after I got to New York, in the summer of
1983. Kim Gordon, serendipitously, worked in a photocopy shop on Mott
Street, behind the same counter as filmmaker Sara Driver. Thurston Moore
came by there too every now and then, because he was Kim Gordon's companion
in life as well as in the band. The two of them knew about the Italian
magazine I wrote for, because Neutral Records had received a few copies of
it. In 1983, New York had only three truly undergraound bands: Micheal
Gira's Swans (the successors to his Circus Mort), UT with Nina Canal, and
Live Skull. In August, UT and Live Skull did a gig with Sonic Youth at the
Folk City Club in Greenwich Village. I went there with high hopes, but all
three groups were too confused, violent and raucous for my tastes.
"Violence, " Kim told me, "is relative. If you write that we're violent,
then people come to see us and expect animal sacrifices on stage. But
actually, something more complicated is going on, where violence is playing
an emotional role." I came out of the concert disappointed and a little
flustered. It was the first time I'd heard Sonic Youth do a remake of I
Wanna Be Your Dog. And it wouldn't be the last.
OTHER PERFORMERS
UT?
Live Skull?
MEMORABILIA
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