Sonic Youth Gossip - Boycott The White Stripes

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I started a thread in their forum but it took 'til today for me to get in there. I started this one last night right after the show. This is all the access I had to vent with and I KNEW somebody on here would get it. But that didn't happen until Baby Bulldog just posted.

I'm not kissing Jack's ass anymore. Let the corporations do it, for now.

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Originally Posted by SynthethicalY

It sucks, but why don't you complain in their forum. But anyways, the more you rant about them makes me want to see them, just to spite you. But I won't do that cause I heard they suck live, so I rather just listen to the albums.

i was at the msg gig the night before, and yeah it sucks for you, but you sound completely out of line on this. i could never get pissed off because SY cut a gig short, for whatever reason. id be more concerned why the band was pissed off or what happened. and this shoe, did it actually hit him?

The majority of nirvana shows were quite short.

i am not sure i can keep my concentration for two hours bo matter who i see. there are exceptins to the rule for sure but generally i dont like shows to go on and on.

when I saw sonic youth the first time the show was like three hours. Pretty bad ass.

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Originally Posted by Concrete Abutments

well i for one expressed sympathy for you, and ive been to gigs that have been a dissapointment for one reason or another too, but what does this one night mean in the grand scheme of your life? I mean for crying out loud, in 5-6 years time are you still going to be fuming?

only thing im gonna be fuming about in 6 years is the goddamn rsvp line to 77 drummers.

Big festivals; corporate venues always a disappointment, but to have the band blow you off in that environment sucks major ass. There's no two ways about it! Even if the show itself was GREAT, which it was.

And this was CLEARLY a blow off at the end. I don't know how else to prove to those that weren't there that it was obviously going to go a bit longer until poor Jack couldn't take it anymore.

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Originally Posted by Georgekrz

only thing im gonna be fuming about in 6 years is the goddamn rsvp line to 77 drummers.

After reading all of Concrete's posts, I just realized something... This thread is a joke, right? It has to be...

If you're joking, I totally support this, because your whining is hilarious. But if you're serious... goddamn dude ...

hell, if I were Jack White and I was on stage, and Im doing my thing, and some idiot throws a shoe at me, I'd be all "Im Jack White and I don't have to take this shit" too...how does he know the next thing isnt a beer bottle that hits him in the face? I'd blame security or hell, you guys shouldve kicked that dudes ass...he's the one who ruined it. at the SY show last summer, some drunk idiot got up on stage and jumped off intending to surf, well he nearly hit me and this older dude I was standing next to, instead of holding him up, the older dude throws the idiot's scrawny ass to the ground...dude smacks against the concrete, and just runs off...i looked at the older dude and smiled...

To be honest, if a performer cant take hostility that doesnt result in fatal injury i have no sympathy, but then im not a performer

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Originally Posted by gmku

I don't have any White Stripes. If I were to get something, what would you recommend?

white blood cells

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Originally Posted by Concrete Abutments

I went to my first White Stripes show ever tonight in Connecticut. They've NEVER played in this state before so this was going to be an event! I had never seen them until now because I just never felt like driving out of state to catch it. They KICKED ASS! Totally hot.

Problem: The show was 70 minutes long! Every other show on this tour has been 2 hours or more! I'm out 50 bucks for this excursion and to think Jack himself exclaimed at the beginning of the show that this was their first gig in CT but they STILL cut it short. There were so many missing songs from this show it was a goddamn crime! WHY? I"ll tell you.

On my way out of the venue one of the ushers overheard my complaining and stepped in to tell me that some asshole threw a shoe at Jack and Meg at the very end (which didn't hit them BTW) and that's why they didn't come back for the final set. OK, so ONE asshole throws a shoe and you piss off 16,000 people?

If you haven't bought tickets for them on this tour but were thinking about it, think again! I thought they had a coolness about them but it's pretty obvious now that they're on a major they think their shit don't stink and they can throw a hissy fit like a 4 year old whenever they please. Good going Jack and/or Meg! Screw the people that pay your salary!

It's a goddamn good thing I only ever bought two of their discs. The other four were burns and I'm not giving them one RED dime anymore. You ROCK but FUCK YOU!

There is one white stripes release worth hearing. It's a limited edition vinyl that came out forever ago and it has a bunch of Beefheart covers.

Otherwise, they're shit.

also, "you ROCK but FUCK YOU" might be one of the best and most ironic song titles ever.

wait...

who pays money to go see mars volta just so they can throw piss at them?

that's awesome.

Not sure how to hyperlink here because I've only done it a few times. But here's the local review and some postings from locals that were there at the bottom.

http://blogs.courant.com/eric_danton....html#comments

nothin like stripped down rock n roll!

The longest I've ever seen a band play was Ween, at nearly 3 hours. By then, I was pretty happy they were done.