“…Steve thinks for a long time.

‘The Stones maybe.’

‘The Stones! Oh man!’ Everyone cracks up. ‘But I’d still like Charlie to be in the band.’

‘The Stones could use you, they could use you real bad.’

What about you Thurston?

‘I would leave if ..’

‘If the Flag reunited,’ says Steve, trying to get his own back.

‘Yeah, the Flag. If Black Flag got back together and asked me to sing, I’d be gone. I’d be out of here on the next plane home.’

Kim? ‘The GTOs. Or the Jesus and Mary Chain.’

Lee Renaldo, what group would you join, if you could? ‘I don’t think I would join any.’

‘Lee would join the Dead. If Jerry called you up and said, Lee, I’ve been listening to those old Sonic Youth records, how about going on our tour of India with us?’

‘India maybe. India would be the key word.’”

— Sonic Youth in 1987, listing for NME the bands that they each would leave Sonic Youth to join, as found in this Airstrip*6 article.

(from backstreetsbackalright)