02/18/07 -- Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground

QUOTES

T: "Oh hi! Hey, we're called The Sonic Youth, and uh...it's a pleasure to be here in [?] tonight. Um, my name is...I'm just kidding. Actually I love down there, Kim and I live in western Massachusetts and we eat Indian food in [?} and we always sort of dreamed of coming up to Burlington. And we finally got here so this is kinda cool, I don't think we've ever been here, in fact I know for a fact we've never been here. But uh, we're here now, we're not going anywhere. We just got here this afternoon, actually Kim and I didn't get to see anything but I think Lee and Mark and Steve kinda were walking around town today, they kind of uh, they kinda made the scene. What did you guys do?"
L: "We ate some good food, went to the guitar shop, and some other..."
T: "What did you eat?"
L: "Oh um..."
T: "What did you eat?"
L: "Aahh this little French bistro in town."
T: "What was it called?"
L: "Luenig's? Is that what it's called? Luenig's?"
T: "Was it good? You liked it?"
L: "It wasn't really very..."
T: "C'est bon? What should we do tomorrow, man, we got a little time? House parties? Bear claw? Beer claw? Beer pot? That's easy for you to say. Uh, this uh, my name's Thurston, this is Kim, that's Mark and Lee, that's Steve on the skins. We're gonna play a few songs, we'd like to thank Wooden Wand for hanging out with us the last week, they're good friends of ours from Knoxville, Tennessee. Um, what's the name of the beer here that's on draft that somebody said you have to have this but but it's only on draft? Saki Sue? Circus Point? Surgeon's Glove?"
K: "Circus Boy."
T: "Circus Boys? Well maybe if somebody has it within them to bring like a tray of those up here, maybe like somebody who works here? Like you know, like at a halfway point or something. Okay we'll get started here, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take up all your time. It's Sunday night and uh, Sunday night in Burlington, we're all here. We skipped church to be here today. Uh this is a song that's on a record that we did a long time ago that's called Daydream Nation, it's called 'Candle'."
[starts playing intro, it's super out of tune, stops to tune]
L: "This is the intro actually, enjoy!"
K: "This is the first humid, humid place we've been in a week so all our guitars are going out of tune from the heat."
- Candle
T: "You ready?"
- Reena
T: "Alright alright, let's cool it down, cool it down, cool it down, cool it down...'Incinerate'!"
- Incinerate
L: "Alright, thanks a lot you guys. This one goes back to a record called Washing Machine, this is called 'Skip Tracer'."
- Skip Tracer
K: "This song's called 'What a Waste'."
- What a Waste
- 100%
[radio plays, switching stations and lingering on various songs while band warms up "Rapture"]
- Do You Believe in Rapture? [w. noise intro]
T: "Alright, what now? What do you guys wanna hear? Thanks brother. So uh, what books have you guys been reading lately? Any recommendations? The History of Bruce? Oh. Oh these are photos that you took from uh, somewhere down the line? That's really nice of you man, that's really sweet, but let me put these back here and I'll look at em later, when I have a little private time. This is a song off a record we did called Sister, this is called 'Schizophrenia'."
- Schizophrenia
T: "This song is called 'Turquoise Boy'."
- Turquoise Boy
K: "Hey can you keep that spot off? That bright spot.. [?] Thanks."
L: "Can we have more of those spinning planets out there? We were trying to take a vote beforehand about whether the planets were a thumbs up or thumbs down. This is called 'Rats'."
- Rats
T: "Hey man, thanks for sticking around. Well...what's going on afterwards? Where's it at? Where's the OP? Is that your pad? You got like, noise shows in the basement? Ah yeah? Are you guys like the local noise group? What's the name of it? The OPs? You mean like Opie Howard?"
K: "The Other Place."
T: "Or the drummer from the Negative Approach, Opie. I'm grabbing at straws..."
K: "This song is called 'Jams Run Free'."
T: "Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you."
L: "You just couldn't help it, could you?"
T: "Alright man I'm sorry, this song is called 'Jams Run Free'."
- Jams Run Free
- Pink Steam
- Teen Age Riot [last chord held for 9 minutes]
[encore break]
L: "Thanks a lot you guys."
- The Neutral
K: "Thanks."
- Silver Rocket
T: "See you guys, thanks a lot!"
L: "Thanks a lot, goodnight!."
T: "You guys are awesome."

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