SY drug hx
 

I've been thinking about drugs and the influence on music in general which got me thinking about SY. Does anyone know what their drug history is and what substances, if any, may have been used during the making of their albums? I always wonder if a band's evolution has anything to do with their (altered) state of mind at the time.

Here is their complete drug history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drugs

who the fuck cares?

thurston did acid at some point, lee used to be into smoking weed and blablablablabla
not that it matters or what.

duH I THINK THEY SMOKED WEED ON DAYDREAM NATION CUZ PROVIDENCE SAS SO THURT0N U STONED

"hey any of you freaks out there ever remember lenny?" I think Lenny was Lee's junk dealer... Kim definitely smoked meth. She's actually a 20 year old woman but she looks much older. I got all this information from reliable sources.

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Okay, okay. Who cares.

I luld

I think it does matter when looking at how music came to be. Not that's it good music, but would the bands out of the Manchester scene in the 90s even exist if it wasn't for boatloads of acid.

No Wai Sonic Yooth Would Neva Do Drugs Or Have Sex

Everyone Knows Kim Is A Virgin!!!1

Well, that confirms what I always thought - SY are a straightedge band. Everything makes sense now. Thank you.

Sure, drugs enhance a person's creativity and drive often. But in the long run, a person's creative because they're creative, not because drugs made them creative. I dunno if that's the point you're trying to make, but tracing SY's drug history isn't going to really any secret truth behind their recordings. I'm guessing a riff or a lyric came to mind during a late night acid session, sure, but does it really matter?

It's an interesting thing to talk about but it's really not that important and I dunno how any of us would have this information, and I doubt that SY themselves could tell you what drugs they've done. I'm sure they've done everything.

Your replies to our replies have been pretty funny by the way, haha..

Yeah good to see a new poster who isn't driven away by our extreme sarchasm. That deserves a rep.

Yes, I know it's not really that important, but it's just something that popped into my mind when I was digging through my iTunes yesterday. I agree that a creative person is going to be creative no matter what is in their system at the time. It just can sometimes be interesting to look at what was happening, who was doing what, who was doing who, etc when a certain album was made. Idk. Things I post about early in the morning whilst sipping coffee at work...

Thuston stated in many interviews that they don't do drugs when they are recording or performing live...

who cares about your posts :rolleyes: ?

I have to agree. While the music is most important, it's always interesting to get the full story behind the albums I love. And drugs certainly do play a role in a LOT of the albums that I love. Pretty interesting topic, actually.

Well, thank you!
Apathy is another interesting topic. =P

you're terrible at being a cunt.

thanks catanky! *kiss* you can always cunt on me.

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?