this reminded me of the spacemen 3 book.

I think they were smoking a lot of weed during the Bad Moon Rising era. They looked like hippies...

mostly just weed i guess. goodbye 20th century only mentioned weed. and they were interested in trying out coke as well. and they did shrooms.

some woman who was at a house party told me that she met sonic youth backstage during the BMR tour, she told me they were all doing ketermine. I don't know if she's a reliable source but I hadn't mentioned that i like sonic youth at all. she was obviously a lot older than me as i'm 22 and wasn't even born.

Doesn't anyone have that pic of Thurston doing crack?

its a female too, more rep

damn Iam not allowed to cause I have to:
SPREAD

To actually answer teh question, drugs were never a large part of Sonic Youth's story or musical career.

besides meth of course.

Sonic Youth have always done everything they can as a band to downplay their use of drugs in the media eye. That said, of course they have dabbled in them. Lee used to follow the fucking Grateful Dead!

Lee's also the one who is most open about admitting what he's done overall. I've heard him joke about acid in a radio interview (albeit in the '80s) and "Eric's Trip" is obviously based upon a first person perspective. "Karenology" also seems to imply he hung with a tripper crowd. In Journal's '80 he has a really amusing part where he talks about being winded on stage at a show with Big Black, and thinks to himself, "Maybe it was the coke..." It doesn't read like he was kidding since the journals weren't likely to be published back then.

Thurston has only ever admitted to smoking weed that I know of, which he did a lot in his '90s tour diaries (and of course there's always "Providence"). I'd find it hard to imagine that the guy who wrote "Death Valley '69" with Lydia Lunch hadn't done his share of acid, but I can't think of any time I've seen him say so. He's also the one who's written songs about heroin ("Silver Rocket", "Junkie's Promise") but they don't even sound particularly first person narrative so much as talking about somebody he knows. Plus as such a huge Velvet Underground fan, how could he not write a couple songs about heroin?

When I saw them in Seattle at the first Endfest in like '92, Thurston was drunk enough on stage that Kim was giving him shit about it. He'd probably been partying with Mudhoney, who were on right before them.

and since it hasn't been brought up, Steve is straight-edge, one story came out abouit his first, last and only alcoholic beverage, a shot of whiskey i think, and that didn't end well

funny one! :D

thurston moore is a heroin addict

in the confusion is next (is that its name?) SY bio thurston talks about tripping in
ny in like 78 before some gig and freaking out a bit. at least thats what i remember

For the record, the Lenny referred to in that line is indeed Lenny Bruce.

for the record, i can't begin to stress how much i love it when people can't discriminate between sarcasm and reality.

worse I think doesn't he smoke cigs?