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Old 05.04.2007, 10:13 PM   #1
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Old 05.04.2007, 10:21 PM   #2
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Old 05.04.2007, 10:26 PM   #3
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I don't see any problem in trying to make a living.
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Old 05.04.2007, 10:30 PM   #4
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I don't see any problem in trying to make a living.

I wholeheartedly agree on this, I don't get why most indie people punish artist who try to go mainstream.
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Old 05.04.2007, 10:43 PM   #5
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Generally, I don't care so much about why artists do what they do as much as I'm interest in what it is they did/are doing. Sure, "selling out" may be a reason for why a band's latest album might suck but I don't see how it guarantees sucking. Same with this tour.

Like every other previous SY tour never maybe any dough what so ever, let's also not forget that their shit doesn't stink and they don't live in the same dimension as use mere mortals.
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Old 05.04.2007, 10:57 PM   #6
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Fair enough. If SY had split up in the nineties and reformed now (like Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Gang Of Four) they'd be making a lot more instead of being taken for granted..
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Old 05.04.2007, 11:05 PM   #7
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I wholeheartedly agree on this, I don't get why most indie people punish artist who try to go mainstream.
"Trying to go mainstream" by changing yr values and morals is absolutely fucking stupid, and punishable by saying fuck that band. However, this is not "trying to go mainstream," it's more like "Our fans will come see it, and they want it."
Plus, the fact that Sonic Youth are not fucking billionaires doesn't make sense. They've done so much for music (not to mention me personally...)
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Old 05.04.2007, 11:45 PM   #8
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Only one of their records has sold over a million copies I think, if that...
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Old 05.05.2007, 12:04 AM   #9
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I do actually feel a lot better about these shows now.
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Old 05.05.2007, 12:07 AM   #10
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I love that she is honest. It really shows how down to earth the band is, when they can be completely honest when being interviewed.
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Old 05.05.2007, 12:12 AM   #11
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But how do you know she is being honest? It could be that one of the ATP guys knows some dark secret that the band doesn't want exposed and has blackmailed them into doing the shows, and "we're doing it for the money" is just a cover-up.




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Old 05.05.2007, 04:28 AM   #12
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Old 05.05.2007, 04:51 AM   #13
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Old 05.05.2007, 07:43 AM   #14
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i am not really that bothered if they are doing it for the money or not. i dont really see them doing this as some kind of artistic venture.
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i personally believe she wouldn't have agreed if Mark wasn't there to do the bulk of the bass duties, I love Kim, but sometimes she isn't up for certain things

it's odd how people tend to appretiate things when they are gone and then come back, rare do things get credence for just being, it's cliche, but if they broke up say after Dirty or so, how many albums would have been lost
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Old 05.05.2007, 08:08 AM   #16
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Only one of their records has sold over a million copies I think, if that...

Actually, I don't think that any of their albums have even gone gold. Except for Dirty, perhaps. Anyone?
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Actually, I don't think that any of their albums have even gone gold. Except for Dirty, perhaps. Anyone?

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=10528

check the last post for the sales info, which is likely a few years out of date
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Legendary New York noise-rockers Sonic Youth – 26 years and counting – visited China for the first time ever earlier this year, playing a pair of shows in April, in Beijing and Shanghai. DiS got on the phone to the band’s Kim Gordon to talk about their trip.

Hi Kim. How was China?
Well, we really had a great time. The promoter was great – he took us out for great meals – and we were happily surprised with the audiences, as they were mostly Chinese. There’s a big ex-pat presence there, but the audiences were great, some of the best ever ones we’ve played to.

And you played just two shows, in Beijing and Shanghai? How did playing before totally new audiences affect you?
They knew most of the songs, and they seemed to know the news songs more than the old songs. I guess that’s because it’s more recently available, and there’s access to the internet, too. Although I don’t know what kind of restrictions there are on the internet in China, if there are any. I think there is some moderating, and I remember seeing something about Google about how they’re in cahoots with the Chinese government, because when you search for Tiananmen Square you only get all these beautiful tourist sites, and no information about what went on there. So there definitely is some censorship going on, but Thurston [Moore] found some Chinese nose musicians through their sites, so there is information out there for sure.

Did you do much research before going to China? Did you have to leap through any hoops to get there?
I don’t know, because we didn’t really have to take care of that. I know it wasn’t as difficult as one might think. When Lee [Ranaldo] was in Japan – he went to Japan before we did – he had to get his visa there, and that took only a couple of days. It’s opening up more for western artists, but I’m sure it’s very bureaucratic from the promoter’s point of view. I don’t think it’s as difficult as getting a visa to Russia though, bureaucracy wise.

Did you have any concerns at all about how full the shows would be? Did you go into the shows quite blindly?
Ha, yeah, I guess we did. But I figured that if the promoter thought he’d get a good turn-out… well, we wouldn’t have been brought out there if they thought we’d be playing to an empty cave. I also think there’s a big enough ex-pat community there – one of the biggest in the world – so I think we’d have been okay. We didn’t know that, but they knew that.

I read that there were problems with tickets in Shanghai, and that the venue was taking a very high percentage from their sale…?
I don’t really know. I think the venue – which was a state-run place, a really beautiful theatre – could decide whatever percentage they took. They wanted twenty per cent of ticket sales, and then another twenty per cent if they sold them on the day of the show. We didn’t sell any personally – we had nothing to do with it – but the promoter sold some out of a van.

So what were you doing while the business side of things was being sorted? Did you get to see the sights?
In Beijing there was this great artists complex, built out of these industrial factories. This French woman we met took us there – the promoter introduced us to her, and the artist who started the complex, and they showed us around. We had so little time that we basically hit all the tourist spots – the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and Tiananmen Square. They had a tour guide for us, and we weren’t used to that! We wanted to go look at the old parts and wander around, but no… But I lived in Hong Kong when I was twelve, so I was pretty familiar with Chinese culture. I think one thing you don’t get, in the cities there, is the impression that outside the cities ninety per cent of the population lives in poverty. You see people living in crowded circumstances in the older areas, where they’re on low incomes, but you don’t really get the sense that it’s worse elsewhere.

So it was as much of a vacation as a business trip?
It was, but it was also very moving to play there, I think. China is one of those countries that has been so inaccessible for so long, and it’s so mythic. More western artists will go out there. We did feel as if we were breaking some ground – I’m surprised that bigger bands on our management haven’t been there. We’re the first, but Beck’s not been there yet, and nor have Foo Fighters, but they will go in time. It’s interesting that there’s no network of commercial western influence there, so for a band like us it’s interesting that we have such a high standing – people there haven’t been brainwashed by MTV, and made to like certain things. There aren’t labels out there, working all these records. Most of our audience seemed to really be fans, which was nice.

So did playing China make you think about shows elsewhere any differently?
No, but it did make Coachella seem like something of a let down. It was like, “Oh, we have to go do this…” But festivals are always kind of touch and go. It wasn’t a brilliant Coachella this year.

So would you go back, to China that is?
Oh definitely. It’s such a huge, vast… it’s our future master, China. The manufacturing machine that it is…
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