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fuckyeahthurstonmoore > motownjunky: Kim and Thurston.
(Source: pinknoiseprimarilyforevaluation, via fuckyeahthurstonmoore)
“…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)
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Sonic Youth - “Tunic (Song for Karen)”
I love the guitars in this song.
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon Releases Book of Paintings, Photography, & Poetry
No wonder Sonic Youth members and Ryan Adams get along so well: they all have a brilliantly unrelenting muse. Between Thurston Moore’s upcoming book, solo album, Jandek show, tributes, Lee Ranaldo’s own art exhibitions and Steve Shelley’s new band, it’s getting hard to even keep up with Sonic Youth side-projects as they come through the wire. Here’s the latest update from the Kim Gordon camp:
Rizzoli New York will publish Gordon’s new multimedia art book Performing/Guzzling, reports Art Info (via The Daily Swarm), a collection of watercolors, paintings, photographs, and poetry based on “[w]hat she sees when looking at her audience while performing.”
“Looking out into the audience,” Gordon writes, “light comes from the projector at the back of the hall… They appear as a collective mood… I wish I had a camera to record [what] it looks like.”
For more info and a few scans from Performing/Guzzling go here.
