SYR4

also appears on:

• 06/07/01 "LIVE AT L'OLYMPIA 2001"

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar?
Kim - voice/guitar?
Lee - guitar/synth?
Steve - percussion
Jim O'Rourke - synth?
Wharton Tiers - tapes?
Takehisa Kosugi - violin?
William Winant - percussion

Lyrics

let's go let's go let's go let's go

NOTES:

• Originally composed by John Cage (for William Winant, who plays on the original version) in 1992.
• Two quartets each did a version of this piece, then they merged them together. Thurston, Lee, William, and Takehisa perform in the left speaker, and Kim, Steve, Jim, and Wharton perform in the right.
• Again, I don't really know who plays what here. It seems likely that everybody kept switching between instruments throughout the recording.. There seems to be a lot of various unrecognizable sounds throughout the piece, too... among the instruments heard are guitars in both speakers, various percussion devices (bells, cymbals, toms, vibes, tympani, clay drum, marimba), several synths (possibly Lee & Jim?), what's likely an effected violin screeching, a recurring backwards sample in the right speaker that's supposedly taken from a Black Sabbath song (can anybody confirm that?), some whistlin', and of course Kim's "lalalala" and "lets go lets go lets go".