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oh yeah thats what i meant, and i thought I made it up... :(

I'm lucky...

1. Thurston playing a whistle I gave him during Silver Rocket in Chicago during the Murray Street tour.

2. Playing Thurston's guitar with my teeth at the Double Door show this year.

3. Thurston playing his guitar with my beercan at the same show.

4. Kim commenting on my Magik Markers shirt during the Nurse tour.

5. Seeing Total Trash live.

6. In Louisville during Pattern Recognition when Thurston knocked over his entire rig... much to the chagrin of his tecKKKies, then crawled offstage for about five minutes, to return (crawling) with a drunmstick in his hand to lead into New Hampshire.

7. Seeing Rain on Tin live about ten times.

8. Not exactly Sonic Youth, but at the end of a Hair Police show, a shit load of people came out making noise, one guy took bottles and smashed them with a drumstick into the auidience. Thurston got all tangled with some guy's plaid shirt.

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Originally Posted by Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski

too right you're bloody lucky!!

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Originally Posted by Wallis

So many moments: I've been listenning to them for so long that shows have become part of memories of certain times of my life. I guess various shows in Cetral Park stand out the most: Independence Day, 1992: with good friends, hanging out all day, digging the soundcheck, seeing Sun Ra get wheeled out to the piano in a wheelchair, having Thurston dedicate Teenage Riot to the "Central Park hardcore scene", thinking of friends from that summer, when I discovered Slanted & Enchanted, Unrest, Crazy Horse Malt Liquor, etc...
Fast-forward to the next decade. Digging on another free concert, sitting out in the grass on a beautiful summer day w/my (now) wife, reading the paper, eating fruit. Then, on the Sonic Nurse tour, back in the park, a picnic dinner, my wife pregnant with our son. Sun setting as we walked south, cutting thru the playground... You may think it's dumb, but it puts things in perspective for me.

I don't think it's dumb at all, I totally relate.

I saw them first when I was 18 and they were still a relatively young band, as I've gone through life, they've always been there. In 1995, when my first wife left me, they somehow managed to put out an album called Washing Machine about creating a clean psychological slate! I met Thurston at Rodeo Records in Ellensburgh Wa that tour and had him sign a copy of Easter by Patti Smith for my soon to be ex-wife. He was totally cool, and the set that he and Steve and the other guitarist did at 11 a.m. in that tiny store had been phenomenal - basically an extended version of "Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars" while he was quite visibly waking up at his guitar! Then I got to see the band that night at the Columbia Gorge.

When I was djing in Olympia on Sunday nights at the club everyone went to, I saw them play up in Seattle and Thurston dedicated the song "Sunday" to Olympia. That was freaking weird. Actually the first time I heard the song too, though it became a staple of my closing time set after that.

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Originally Posted by drrrtyboots

First time i saw them this past summer although i forget which song it was on, thurston shoved his guitar into the ceiling fan above him during the noisy section.

yeah that would be mine as well, wonder if it was at the same show.

At the filter mag party in L.A., Lee forgets the ending to Catholic Block and switches guitars to get ready for the next song only to have Thurston walk over to Lee and remind him that the song wasn't over. Lee then laughed it up, switch back his geetar and continued to finish the song.

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Originally Posted by lovesonicevol

When I saw them this past summer, Thurston had some Nike shoes on. After opening with Schiz, he took them off and said something along the lines of "Nike is politically bogus." Also, before Rats, Thurston touched my friends fro and laughed. Kim did the same during What A Waste.

Ahh yes, you are my pink-blazer buddy.

live moments i really like are from punk broke. just about every performance on there is amazing in one way or another. brother james, shizo and i lover her all the time are remarkable.

when i saw them live the first time they played shizo first and it still gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

lots of moments
but mainly, i'll allways remember 2000, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
It was NYCG&F tour, and they started with a crazy version of the Burning Spear, against the wind at the place, with their long hair (all of them) flying, while Jim O'rourke turned crazy with his computer, as Lee & Thurston knocking their guitars with the drumsticks.

Really great, i promise.

I wanted to get to that show in boston early but we got fucking lost and thus I came in during "Mote". It fucking sucked to learn about the set list later.

Of the two times I've seen them, having that noise outro in Teenage Riot to the harmonics in "Do You Believe In Rapture?" had me floored.