American Evol Tour '86

This was Sonic Youth's first SST tour, paired up with Saccharine Trust in Tuscon at first, then Dinosaur later, beginning in Milwaukee.

Thurston sang Starpower.

You can read Thurston's Forced Exposure tour diaries here.

A fair amount of this tour is covered in Lee's "Jrnls80s" book.

The "most popular set order":

• tom violence
• white kross
• -tape-
• shadow of a doubt
• starpower
• death to our friends
• i love her all the time
• secret girls
• brother james
• expressway
• --
• marilyn moore

Tour Length

Number of Appearances in 26 Partial or Complete Set Lists:

	
Brother James		       15
Burning Spear			2
Death to our Friends	       19
Expressway		       18
Flower			       13
Green Light		       16
I Love Her All The Time	       15
Inhuman				1	06/26/86 New Orleans, LA
Kill Yr Idols			7
Marilyn Moore		       11
Secret Girl		       10
Shadow of a Doubt	       22
Starpower		       24
Tom Violence		       21
White Kross		       20
World Looks Red		       11

Current Release: Evol
Songs from albums:

Sister			1
Evol			8
Flower/Halloween 12"	1
Bad Moon Rising		1
Kill Yr Idols EP	2
Confusion is Sex	2
Sonic Youth EP		1

Other Statistics
Unreleased at time: 1

(White Kross)

Number of different songs played: 16

Non-LP songs performed: 0