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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
I'll have to revist this thread a few times. I've seen them close to 30 times. Of course the best memory is still the fist time.
It was the Bad Moon Rising tour and they played the Gorilla Gardens, an all ages club that mostly mixed metal and punk shows (and consequently heavily influenced the birth of "grunge") in Seattle. The "post-punk" crowd in Seattle at that time was primarily "death rockers" the people who would later be called "goths" into Bauhaus, Cristian Death, and wearing loads of white pancake makeup. This made up 2/3s of the crowd with a few hardcorish kids.
Green River (who would later split into Mudhoney and Pearl Jam of course) were the first opener, and had the crowd with them for a set of Stooges influence metal. Then German hardcore band Upright Citizens played and the crowd was into them too.
When Sonic Youth started, it looked like they were soundchecking and they went straight from tuning into quietly building feedback and then doing the Intro from Bad Moon followed by pretty much the entire record (minus "Justice is Might") plus one unnamed song Lee read that he said he wrote in a hotel room the night before. They ended with "Expressway to Your Skull". I was upfront burying my head into the monitor in ecstacy. When they completely finished and I turned around the room was essentially empty. There were like 5 or 6 people still there all with their jaws hanging open. They'd cleared the fucking house!
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Thats a great story. I wish I'd seen them back in the day