02/24/01 - Fukuoka, Japan @ Logos

QUOTES

T: "Good evening. How are you? Nice to be back. Everybody alright? You having a good winter? Nice year, new year, 2001, all that. It's good. Lee Ranaldo! Jim O'Rourke! Pete Shelley! From the Buzzcocks! Aw yeah, Kim G yo! Asses will be kicked. Alright? I said asses will be kicked! [laughs]"
L: "That's right! Elton John will be out later to join us."
T: "This song is called 'Slim Shady is an Idiot'."
- Bull in the Heather
K: "Uh, thanks a lot. Thanks a lot for coming to see us."
- Teenage Riot [final chord held for 3'10", segue into "Free City Rhymes"]
- Free City Rhymes
T: "In a way all songs should end that way. If it was up to us, all songs would end. That way. Um, this is our last concert in Japan this tour, and so it's always nice to come here in, uh, Fukuoka at the end because, um...well no reason, it's just nice! What's next? Oh. Hey who turned the lights out? This is called 'Tom Violence'."
- Tom Violence
T: "Thank you. Thanks very much. Let me tune up a sec. (singing) 'In comes the weekend...' This is called 'Drunken Butterfly'."
- Drunken Butterfly
T: "Domo. Yeah. Ha. This is um, a song about zen. It's called 'Nevermind'."
- Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) [long extended segue into "side2side"]
- side2side
K: "Thank you."
T: "Hey!"
L: [over intro of "Mote"] "This is 'Mote'."
- Mote
L: "Hello!"
- Small Flowers Crack Concrete
T: "Ore-Ida!"
L: "Ore-Ida."
T: "It's a potato commercial slogan. It is, it's like Oregon potatoes and Idaho potatoes and this company's called Ore-Ida because it's like, they get potatoes from both regions. And they're called Ore-Ida Potatoes and so they go 'Ore-Ida!'. It's, really, it's a wasted culture [?] Next time we come here we'll have Sonic Youth t-shirts that say 'Ore-Ida!'."
- 100%
T: "STOOOOOP! The song is over."
L: "You lose a contact?"
T: "Yeah man I lost my contact!"
[indistinct off mic chatter]
T: "I need a wireless life."
L: "Nokia makes a wireless life, I think."
T: "Or at least a cellular life. Airport life."
L: "Yeah [laughs]"
T: "Would you want your life to be Mac or PC? Tough question, I know..."
L: "It's a tough question, think it over."
T: "Fuck all that computer shit."
L: "Hey everybody, we'd like to thank OOIOO for playing with us all week here in Japan. It's been a lot of fun playing with them. Yeah, really fun!"
T: "Let's hear it, come on! O O I O O I O O I O O [etc leading crowd] Alright, cool it!"
L: "This is called 'New York City Ghosts and Flowers', and this is dedicated to American guitar visionary John Fahey."
- NYC Ghosts & Flowers
L: "Thanks a lot, goodnight."
T: "Seeya next time, bye!"
[encore break]
- Lightnin' [11'40"] [w/ Yoshimi]
- Kool Thing
Kim's "Kool Thing" spiel: "Hey Kool Thing, c'mere. There's something I gotta ask you. Don't be shy, sit down beside me. I just wanna know, what are you gonna do for me? Are you gonna liberate us girls from male white corporate oppression? Fear of a female planet. Yeah that's right baby. That's right Eminem. Puff Daddy. I happen to know, your revolution is a dollar sign. While my revolution is free. But we can still be friends."
K: "Yeah that's right baby. Thanks for coming to see us."
L: "See you next year!"
J?: "Domo!"

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