Sonic youth and drugs
 

Hmm i think its fairly obvious that they've experemented with hallucenegenics (sp?) and other sorts of shit. Seeing that hammered pic of Lee kinda confirms it....Does the word ciccone have anythin to do with cocane or?? Lisening to master dik...i get the impression that theyre Fawkd over........right?

So i guess my question is.....have sonic youth experemented with drugs? I can kinda guess what the answer will be...

Ciccone is Madonna's last name.

if i remember correctly, it was mentioned in their biography book Confusion Is Next, that thurston tried halluciogenics only once. someone on the board mentioned it that lee really was into halluciogenics before joining sonic youth :)

surley they smoke weed and drink occasionaly but i dont think theyre abusers. on the coporate ghost dvd mike is watt talking about sonic youth, and i think he says somthing like this "the sonics were never big drug users. you never really saw them trashed" im probably misquoting mr. watt a great deal. but he said somthing along those lines..

i heard weird stories about shooting mayonnaise, but i think i believe mr. watt more. i don't think they're really drug folks, though.

theres the story about kim on LSD at disney world with her boyfriend when she was 17, thats a good one, she said that that was the first and last time she did acid.

isn't their footage of them doing coke in an EVOL tour documentary? But they never hit any stuff hard...

I remember the scene in 1991 TYPB, where Kim hands Dave Grohl that huge ass splif. That's my favorite part in the whole movie.

drugs are bad, mmmkay?

i haven't seen any pictures of them hanging out with pete doherty, so i'm guessing the drug use isn't too heavy, if at all anymore.

yeah i saw that in the Year Punk broke and heard the coke Evol story, but after that i dont think they are that much into drugs

I agree w/ fishmonkey. & I'm sure they're done w/ the coke scene by now.

i think they've dabbled... i've heard thurston still likes to smoke up now and again.. beyond that i'm sure they've mellowed out a hell of a lot... but then again, who really knows? for all we know they might by on heroin..

It was a ciggarette......sorry dude.

No way. Damn, it looked like she was holding her breathe in after she drew from that "cigarrette".

It seems like they aren't into heavy shit. I mean has anyone here ever been to a show where any of them seemed so out of it they could barely play? You can usually tell that certain bands are way too drunk or hyped up on god knows what at their shows. Maybe I haven't seen SY enough times (only twice alas) to notice.

if you don't find the answer you're looking for, i'm sure someone will answer your question next month when someone new starts this thread again.

do they like hash?

i have an audio bootleg in Lille, France 2002...
between 2 songs you can hear that someone threw hash to the stage, and thurston says: STEVE WILL SMOKE IT AFTER THE SHOW

that was funny :D

SHIT!

I got this bootleg (my uncle was at this concert :D), but it's a bad version and the passages between songs are cut :@

You know they all smoked after that show, not just Steve.

Thurston's the shiznizzle bam snip snap snip (meaning; he's funny)

sometimes i think yes and sometimes no....i mean "A" class ones.

my question is : did they quit tobacco? haven't seen any pictures or vids where they're smoking since DD era.

You know Thurston's a stoner so come on man and pass it all ready

well, they;re not heavy in drugs... but they're music is heavy for it/

on the alternate version of dirty boots, you can hear thurston say something like: "pass the doobie" or something like that, at least I think, I don't really remember........

yeah, I just listened to it, towards the end you can hear somebody in the background(thurston?) saying a whole bunch of obnoxious stuff, you can hear him say "pass me that doobie!" and then you can hear the lighter and kim says "It's hot in here" and the guy says "Open a window, it's hot in here!" it's actually pretty dumb.

Why isnt this posted in the "questions for the band" thread so you nosey assholes can get a real fucking answer and drop it?

on this topic on the previous board, Jim corrected me with a pissy PM about how he DOESN'T SMOKE WEED. so everybody, dont forget, Jim o Rourke doesn't smoke herb, "only coffee and cigarettes"

as for everybody else, it seems fairly obvious that they have ALL smoked pot at some point in time (by smoked i mean plural), but as for today, I can say that thurston was smoking with some people last year @ a whiteout show in LA.

fuck weed, it makes you feel like your detctched from your life as it happens after you smoke it, thats so lame.

[quote=greenlight]sometimes i think yes and sometimes no....i mean "A" class ones."

well technically the US classifies pot as a "class A".....which is foolish because a little weed and a little heroin should not be in the same category

in the nirvana box set thurston wrote this big essay. in which he talks about how he went to krist noveselic's house and they smoked weed and listened to "moist vagina" by nirvana. he said he loved it!

i remember reading some article that was either written by kim or by someone interviewing kim . . . she was talking about a memorable time on tour when she and thurston stayed with someone related to thurston, and they had pancakes in the morning and there were kids all over. and she said something like, "everyone thinks we take loads of drugs and have weird sex on tour, and of course we do, but i'll always remember when we stayed with so-and-so." i think this was about a tour sometime in the 80s. i also thought that i read it on saucerlike, but i can't find it anymore.

i had forgotten about jim freaking out over the marijuana thing. that's still pretty funny.

I thought for sure LailaV would ask this question.

I talked to this guy who was backstage with SY in 92 and he said that Lee and Thurston were powdering their noses. He also said Kim had a smack habit, and Steve was the only one who kept clean of hard drugs. I dont think this story has too much truth, though.

Jim didn't post on the old board.

Yes he did.

Frickin' when? I remember s.shelly and leeisfree. Are you sure it was really Jim?

I never had the chance to see Jim post on the old board.

Fairly. He went under some name I can't remember right now. And yeah, he was kind of a dick, IIRC.

the time i'm talking about is when suchfriends posted some story that involved jim and thurston (i think) smoking weed in some manner. then suchfriends posted that he had been told by jim in a private message to say that his story was bullshit and jim doesn't smoke weed . . . EVER.