CLM last night...was better than I anticipated. I got the whole band BESIDES thurston to sign my CLM flyer...

His only words"Yea....I'll be right back" Bullshit motherfucker.

I like how stripped down it is.

I love the jammy arty direction SY took in their later years, but it's fun hearing Thurston doing simpler stuff. I really love Alighted. . . there's this great dark vibe to it that harkens back to 80s Sonic Youth, but it's also got that great chugging heavy metal thing going on, which is kind of new territory.

Magic Stick Detroit - CLM Awesome!

Got Thurston to sit and play my Jazzmaster, and then sign it.
It was a beautiful moment in my life.

Saw him lastnight @ Lee's Palace in Toronto (or as Thurston called is "Lee Ranaldo's Palace")... I'm pretty certain Thurston's revisited the CGDGBB guitar tuning for this CLM album now, because when he played 'staring statues' and 'pretty bad' for the encore he didn't retune the B and e strings and from the get go at the beginning of the show i could hear the unison on those strings quite easily...
I good show overall not as energetic as I thought they'd be (Thurston and John were the most into it, but Keith and Samara are solid players nonetheless), but a good solid set. Not as fully attended as I anticipated probably because it was Easter Sunday, and someone in the audience gave Thurston a Lindt chocolate bunny in gold foil.
The goofiest part was a new song they played where Thurston didn't have a music stand and pulled a lyric sheet of paper out and read the lyrics (w/o playing guitar) and then biting the paper between verses so he could use his hands to play the guitar.
Said hi to John Moloney as my band(s) have opened for Six Organs and Sunburned in the past, but didn't get to talk... man folks in Toronto love to crowd and hover over that merch for-like-ever likes it sacred, kinda annoying...
got 2 cdrs (Rat Power , a John Moloney punk/hardcore band and Irish-American Prayer, which is a Thurston and Moloney improv duo interspersed with beat-poetry reading segments by Dennis O'Driscoll and Thurston himself.

I was at the show as well...Good times, kinda low-key different holiday vibe.
I also saw that hand reading situation which was kinda bizarre. I had no idea what that song was, the rest were recognizable.

They also played a song/band called hush arbors or something...I wasn't familiar....maybe a side project of the bandmates. One joke T made was about some band the Poles who had a single called CN Tower that he had growing up....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzPrX5TeaF4

He also talked about some bands that were around for the first wave of punk in the late 70s....like the diodes and mentioned a place called Crash 'n Burn which was a hangout for Toronto punks in the late 70s...

Toronto punk history is just getting its due in the last few years. It is not as interesting as NY or London but hey wtf?

NEW SONG The Ecstasy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_O2J0EJGPQ

(Sounds fucking awesome, if you ask me)

Don't remember that one...

Toronto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5qqXhpHLFM

Haha i posted this on the Chelsea Light Moving facebook page (which is Thurston?), my wife videod this on her iphone. we were sitting right behind the soundbooth.

The "Ecstasy" is that song where in Toronto Thurston put that lyric sheet between his teeth during the bridge sections and then sang the lyrics and didn't play guitar because he was holding and reading the sheet.

Saw them in Pittsburgh last night.

They played everything off the LP, No-Go, Ecstacy, and a few other new songs which I can't remember the name of.

It was weird seeing Thurston outside of Sonic Youth. The rest of the band seemed more like a backing band. It's kind of odd seeing a band where there's only one big foreground personality & the rest of the band is just background.

Alighted was awesome live BTW. So excited when they played that.


I hope they come back to Pittsburgh though, I didn't think the turnout was quite that impressive for THURSTON fucking MOORE. I felt like a little girl when he came out, I wanted to just scream THURSTON!!!!! and wet my panties.

Thurston should NEVER sacrifice his guitar playing to read his "lyrics"

couldn't agree more!

ahh you wet yr panties anyway...when the show started 81 tickets had been sold...i'd like to think more people came...but i really couldn't tell...here is the setlist

Burroughs
Sleeping Where I Fall
Alighted
Groovy + Linda
Lip
Frank O’Hara Hit
Empires of Time
The Ecstasy
Sunday Stage
No Go

Encore:
Staring Statues
Pretty Bad

somewhere within the encore he looked at the band and said something along the lines of "lets play macbeth"...and he started to play it (thats when i wet my panties)....the rest of the band looked at him lost...then i think he spoke about the sound whammy bars make...i could go on for several more paragraphs....but.............

^ whhhahaaaaaa

Oh shit I just youtubed that video....

check out this device for holding pages except its for an ipad


www.airturn.com

Uncut's review + brief Q&A with T:
http://www.uncut.co.uk/chelsea-light...-moving-review

Chelsea Light Moving 2013-04-02 Mr. Small's Funhouse Millvale, PA (Direct from Master)

It sounds like this happens between "The Ecstasy" and "Sunday Stage". Weird, but is that actually the CY "MacBeth" riff?

The whammy bar story is in the encore. I need to hear "Skrewer Boy" again now!

They were very good in Detroit with help from Wolf Eyes. The material isn't T's most ripe but, fuck, if you're a lifetime fan like me the context of a new (one-off?) band and smaller crowd made it special and groovy.

Best compliment I can give: I didn't spend the whole time wishing Lee was on guitar or Steve on drums. That's saying something.

a better compliment would be "I SHIT MYSELF it was so good."

They played a couple of one minute interludes in Toronto. One was before or after LIP. They were pretty tight for those pieces.

the word is shat, Rob

They should say that after Bible readings at church, "...and he headed to Galilee. The word is shat."

They may come Finland next summer...GREAT!

Can someone up this for non dime users? this band sounds great live, that is if the recording is good quality too...

short review of the Boston (er, Cambridge) show:
http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/chel...o-pra/#photo-1

Just got ticket to Kuudes Aisti-festival, where is Chelsea...I´m glad!

Me too! There's also Mission of Burma and Lydia Lunch.

Chelsea Light Moving - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgmjsTo7esQ

Is Chelsea Light Moving the same sort of deal as Thurston Moore's solo songwriter records?

i think it's way better than the folky shit he does on his solo records. this is more punk rock to my ears.

His solo records always sounded to me like the soul of what made SY a great band was sucked out of them and replaced by the basic elements of his contributions to the band with his playing without the kick up the arse in terms of songwriting which he benefited by making music with Steve, Lee and Kim. Not terrible records but so insipid you forget when and where you've heard them almost immediately after you press stop. This one is like all his solo records but with musicians who sound just a little less anonymous than his solo efforts' contributors but not much.

I agree with this.

I can't say I've heard this new band and I have little interest in doing so, to be honest.

Kind of what I imagined. I don't know if you guys have seen the adverts in magazines for his new band but he sounds like he's lost the plot to his ego.

I also agree. But I've seen Chelsea Light Moving four times and the material just doesn't really do it for me. I like the songs but... okay, for example, the Bowery Ballroom show. They played all of CLM songs but the show didn't even really begin for me until the encore when he played Staring Statues, Ono Soul, and Pretty Bad. Not his best solo material (I prefer Trees and Demolished) but in comparison to the CLM, the Psychic Hearts songs are just... to put it simply... better.

maybe the Psychic Hearts songs have the benefit of time...These ones are fresh. There are three or four memorable tracks...

Yes, the Psychic Hearts songs have the benefit of time in that they are nearly twenty years old. But moreso the benefit of time in the time in which they were recorded. 1995 was a much better year for music than 2012/2013.

An indication of how uncool the man has become is some bands sending packages containing their records to the Bull and Tongue column on Arthur Magazine but addressing them to Byron Coley only. John Sharkey once called him the new Bono on FB.

What a shame, he used to be one of my favourite members in the band at one point.

from the little that i have listened to this band, i heard a specific, very distinguished thurston guitar riff (?), that personally i m fed off, quite some time now.

i guess he questions himself, like any other creator, but i also like to believe that he is still having fun, even though he isnt 'offering' smth very interesting to me or some of us.

this is a very nice way to put it.
i remember i was thinking, when psychic hearts came out and i liked the record at the time- that he did it for more selfish reasons. selfish, doesnt exactly mean smth bad here. that he liked so much his poppy ways and he had the need to play more of it, so he did it outside the band.

I admit right now that i like clm more than psychic hearts because clm is newer and psychic hearts in some ways, perhaps lyrically doesn't relate to me as much as time goes by. But its cyclical with what i listen too, just like most things.

I do wish that keith wood had some more contrasting guitar parts, most of it is just guitar riff doubling to thurston's, though it works for that heavy laden stoner effect. I think i'm liking the newest songs more which lie more in the short concise no-wave esque tones.