[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by jon boy

i would like to see thurston work on more electric jazz collaborations and noise than acoustic stuff because the folk stuff he is doing is so dull it hurts. i saw him a month or so ago and it was just painful. i left.

I dont care much for his straight noise thingies. But I really really love his improv stuff with free jazz dudes. Hurricane Floyd is amazing. And I like stuff like Piece for Jetsun Dolma, The Promise, 3 Incredible Ideas, Fuck Shit Up, and so on...

[radarmaker]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

VU's last gig wasn't in NYC either.

Only if you consider the post-Lou Velvets to be the Velvets.

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by radarmaker

Only if you consider the post-Lou Velvets to be the Velvets.

I don't.

[canabero]

i hate to read a lot of idiots that think that it was their last show that's really a NON-SENSE!!! THE BAND NEVER ANNOUNCE IT AS THEIR LAST SHOW.
if they ( maybe) split it's obvious that they're going to be a special show ( NYC ?) and finally i watched them in Chile and i have to say that the whole band enjoyed the show, Thurston and Kim played like if they never had thought in finish the band. IT WAS NOT A FORCED SHOW

[Aaaadrpk]

Originally Posted by canabero

i hate to read a lot of idiots that think that it was their last show that's really a NON-SENSE!!! THE BAND NEVER ANNOUNCE IT AS THEIR LAST SHOW.
if they ( maybe) split it's obvious that they're going to be a special show ( NYC ?) and finally i watched them in Chile and i have to say that the whole band enjoyed the show, Thurston and Kim played like if they never had thought in finish the band. IT WAS NOT A FORCED SHOW

I agree.

[radarmaker]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

I don't.

Indeed. Lou's last gig was at Max's. /pedantic derail

[ann ashtray]

Originally Posted by canabero

i hate to read a lot of idiots that think that it was their last show that's really a NON-SENSE!!! THE BAND NEVER ANNOUNCE IT AS THEIR LAST SHOW.
if they ( maybe) split it's obvious that they're going to be a special show ( NYC ?) and finally i watched them in Chile and i have to say that the whole band enjoyed the show, Thurston and Kim played like if they never had thought in finish the band. IT WAS NOT A FORCED SHOW

Well, the band did state that the future of the band is uncertain beyond the South American shows. I don't think it exactly makes one an idiot to assume this may have been their last show. Either way, I doubt there will be many more.

[stu666]

from Lee (incase anyone missed it)

DD: You’ve been friends for over thirty years, and even your non-Sonic Youth projects tend to feature collaborations with each other. Could you ever imagine a time when you didn’t play together?

LR: Well, we’ll have to see what the future holds right now. Steve and I are certainly working together right now on this band project of mine, and I’d be surprised if we all didn’t work on things, whether all together or in smaller groupings, at some point in the future. At this time, the fate of the band is not determined. I expect a prolonged hibernation, at very least, after the upcoming dates we have in South America next month. Plus, we have so much history, so much work together that, no matter what. there will be so many things to tie us together in the future for quite some time…historical, archival releases and other projects of that sort. My motto tends to be “change is good” and I'm hopeful that applies in this case. Anyway, I’m happy to leave it at that for the moment.

full interview here: http://www.magentamagazine.com/8/features/lee-ranaldo

[_slavo_]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Kim Gordon could do with learning about painting and stop producing work similar to fucking Sylvester Stallone in his conceptual phase too.

I laughed.

[EVOLghost]

Originally Posted by stu666

from Lee (incase anyone missed it)

DD: You’ve been friends for over thirty years, and even your non-Sonic Youth projects tend to feature collaborations with each other. Could you ever imagine a time when you didn’t play together?

LR: Well, we’ll have to see what the future holds right now. Steve and I are certainly working together right now on this band project of mine, and I’d be surprised if we all didn’t work on things, whether all together or in smaller groupings, at some point in the future. At this time, the fate of the band is not determined. I expect a prolonged hibernation, at very least, after the upcoming dates we have in South America next month. Plus, we have so much history, so much work together that, no matter what. there will be so many things to tie us together in the future for quite some time…historical, archival releases and other projects of that sort. My motto tends to be “change is good” and I'm hopeful that applies in this case. Anyway, I’m happy to leave it at that for the moment.

full interview here: http://www.magentamagazine.com/8/features/lee-ranaldo

Dang, even though a hiatus is probably the best thing, I dread a year without SY.