“…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)
Steve Albini might think that Sonic Youth “should be embarrassed” about their career choices, but something tells me Thurston Moore could care less. Soldiering on with his excellent Ecstatic Peace Library record/book label, the SY guitarist/singer/noise professor has a brand new solo release on the way: In Silver Rain with a Paper Key, “a hardcover monograph containing two seven-inch vinyl records, as well as art, photographs, lyrics, poetry and other texts from Moore’s personal notebooks and visual archives.”
Back in February, we were the first U.S. site to 
