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Here's the list I came up with. I overshot the total but was definitely at all of these gigs. Something doesn't feel right though. I SWEAR something is missing. I'll have to do a little more investigating. I used to keep track of all the dates and venues of every show I'd ever attended by anybody, but that fell by the wayside with old age. ;-)

11/23/86 Amherst, MA Hampshire College05/02/87 Providence, RI Living Room10/24/87 Naugatuck, CT The Nightshift Cafe06/18/88 Cambridge, MA t.t. the bear's10/27/88 Boston, MA Somerville Theatre07/14/89 NYC, NY The Ritz08/07/90 New Haven, CT Toad's Place 08/08/90 Northampton, MA Pearl St. Downstairs

08/09/90 Providence, RI Living Room02/19/91 Hartford, CT Civic Center07/01/92 Hartford, CT Washington Room07/02/92 Danbury, CT Tuxedo Junction10/22/92 New Haven, CT Palace Theater04/30/95 Hartford, CT Trinity College07/26/95 Hartford, CT The Meadows04/27/96 Providence, RI Lupo's06/06/98 Worcester, MA Worcester Palladium06/16/00 Providence, RI Lupo's04/23/01 Boston, MA The Roxy11/16/01 Northampton, MA Calvin Theatre11/17/01 Easthampton, MA The Flywheel03/17/02 Los Angeles, CA UCLA10/13/02 Boston, MA The Axis11/22/02 Northampton, MA Calvin Theater11/23/02 Providence, RI Lupo's11/01/03 Easthampton, MA Flywheel04/30/04 Northampton, MASmithCollege08/14/04 Boston, MA Avalon04/14/05 Northampton, MAAcademy of Music07/18/05 Easthampton, MA Flywheel09/03/06 Boston, MA Avalon02/14/07 Northampton, MA Academy Of Music Theater02/15/07 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place

How many times?? Hmmmmm...let me think

Goo Tour - Tijuana, MX with Mudhoney and Gumball
Dirty Tour (2) - Santa Monica, CA with Cell and Chicago with Royal Trux
Smell the Horse Tour - Chapel Hill, NC with Neil Young and Social D
Lollapalooza '95 - Chicago with Hole, Pavement, etc.
Thousand Leaves Tour - Cincinnati, OH with ???
NYC Ghosts & Flowers - Cincinnati with Pearl Jam
Murray Street Tour (3) - Chicago with Wolf Eyes, Columbus, OH and Cincinnati with Quixotic

I think that's it. Not a bad run so far...

Once, Lollapalooza '06.
I'm pretty lame. They've come by me 3 times since Rather Ripped came out, and i wasn't allowed to go see them. But i was allowed to go out to Chicago where i saw them. It's strange.

how old are you?

15.

well you are pretty lucky to have seen them in 1996 then. did yr parents take you?

edit: sorry i thought you wrote 1996, not 2006. my bad!

'06, as in 2006.

once in manchester on the murray street tour.

both sets at 2006 nightmare before christmas ATP.

equals three. three sonic youth gigs.

i was bored this morning and checked chris's site to see. my list:


07/29/95 Randall's Island, NY Downing Stadium04/26/96 NYC, NY Roseland11/21/97 NYC, NY Avery Fisher Music Hall06/08/98 NYC, NY Irving Plaza06/10/98 NYC, NY Irving Plaza02/27/99 NYC, NY Hammerstein Ballroom06/13/99 NYC, NY Seaport Atrium 06/17/00 NYC, NY Hammerstein Ballroom04/21/01 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero10/07/01 NYC, NY Bowery Ballroom11/16/01 Northampton, MA Calvin Theatre08/08/02 Washington, DC 9:30 Club08/10/02 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero08/11/02 NYC, NY Central Park Summerstage08/13/02 Boston, MA Roxy11/23/02 Providence, RI Lupo's11/30/02 NYC, NY Irving Plaza04/30/04 Northampton, MA Smith College08/13/04 New York, NY Webster Hall10/13/04 NYC, NY Irving Plaza04/16/05 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's [2 SHOWS]06/13/06 NYC, NY CBGB06/14/06 Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom09/03/06 Boston, MA Avalon02/16/07 NYC, NY Webster Hall

I have the same average as whorefrost, but mine's eleven times in eleven years. First two gigs were in 1996.
I have seen the sonics more often outside of sonic youth though, about 15 solo/side project gigs.

You have all severely son-ed me on the SY dedication. I've only seen them thrice in my 3 years of sonic hysteria, and from the poll results it looks like they're gonna be in my blood a long while. Will I ever hear Sunday, 'Cross the Breeze, Lee's NYC Ghosts & Flowers, Theresa's Sound World, or Sympathy for the Strawberry live? How long do they tend to wait before revisiting a recent album? 5 years? 10?

Not to gloat, but I have seen all of those songs live...except, alas, 'Cross the Breeze, which would create a boner-inducing spectacle. Some day, maybe.

this is the most shameful thing that I have to admit.

I have NEVER seen Sonic Youth play.

I've listened to them since about 1988 and they are the only band from "back then" that continue to make albums that mean something to me.

as a person with several thousand cd's, records and tapes I have no better honor to pass out than to say that they are my favorite band.

the cruel twisted fates of the universe have prevented me from ever being able to attend even a single show.

I'm going to go cry now. :(

you bastards made me leak my darkest secret!!

GLOATING!
 

GLOATING! I've seen 'cross the breeze! TWICE on the Daydream Nation tour! And all of those others listed also.

The songs I've missed and wish I could hear for godsake are as follows:

Total Trash
Dripping Dream
Sleepin' Around

I think I'm satisfied otherwise. I've even had Mildred Pierce and Death Valley 69!

I saw them once and it was amazing......
They played the 'A Thousand Leaves' release, plus some awesome improv....
It was great, when people shouted to hear Kool Thing, or Teenage Riot.....Thurston replied with, "We wanted to show you guys the new stuff..."
I was NOT DISAPPOINTED.

o......will turn to 1 when they get to china in april,i hope

Once only, unfortunately:(. I hope to see them many more times, though. Set list: