SYR1

also appears on:

• 05/28/98 "LIVE IN LOS ANGELES 1998"

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar
Kim - guitar
Lee - guitar
Steve - drums/percussion

Lyrics

instrumental

NOTES:

• In 1997, Sonic Youth began to compose music that was, on the whole, lengthy and instrumental. Of course, most of these instrumentals got vocal treatment when they were released a year later on the "A Thousand Leaves" LP, but in the past, Sonic Youth had never played nearly an entire set of unreleased instrumental music. At the same time, they had started the SYR label and were releasing some of this music on colorful EPs. "Anagrama" was the first such release.
• Anagrama is the only song on SYR1 to be performed live (the live versions were shortened by about 2 minutes), and one of only 2 songs to remain instrumental after their performances in 1997 (Stil was the other, on SYR2) and it stayed in the set through-out the entire Thousand Leaves tour.
• Steve introduces some new percussion devices he's picked up, including a clay drum.
• I've heard about but not seen a Singapore release of A Thousand Leaves that features a live version of Anagrama (and is potentially a pirate). Anybody know anything about this?