does anyone have the beck/t. moore stuff?

~sina sugarsick

i will hunt for it......i have a friend that might have it....let me know if you find it sooner.

word

thanks b.Rock

Do you remember what the title of the work is called? I'm trying to remember if I've heard it or not...

Kill Any/All Spin Personnel

it was released on cassettee and is no longer available.

i'd be very suprised if you've heard it. you don't seem like the noise rock type.

and speaking of thurston and going towards sonic youth. i put two and two together months ago and realised you were the one at the sy show in memphis. i being with my husband and a little chloe monkey. and i owe you a video and stuff.

Oh yeah....I forgot about that.


I'm not the noise rock type much anymore, but I have a long history with it.

Wasn't that whole thing kind of a joke? Like Thurston Moore creating some alter-ego then playing this stuff and labeling it Thurston Moore and Beck, then denying that he knew it existed?

I vaguely remember it. A think a friend of mine ordered it and then never got the tape... Does it even exist?

the label that released it refers to it as "power electronics at their worst."

the tape does exist and i've only heard a small bit of it on the label's website. apparently alot of people ordered it and didn't recieve it because the label wanted customers to buy other shit other than the beck/t.moore shit. which shouldn't have been too hard considering that hair police, reynols, and no doctors are also available thru this label. i'm sure most people that got the tape were disappointed that it wasn't 100% of my love i'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me.

straight up

~sina sugarsick

I did some checking on the net, and there is some doubt whether Beck had anything to do with it... this guy, Matthew St. Germaine keeps popping up in my searches, and there's this weird thing with Thurston denying that this guy exists but then being cheeky about maybe its him...

This stuff is all kinda coming back to me. I think Kim and Thurston used to record and put out all kinds of noise art under pseudonyms and this Beck thing might be some weird joke. I've seen this St. Germaine called by Thurston the "Andy Kauffman of noise art"

I smell a rat... and I'd love to hear this thing anyway... Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands from the late 80's early 90's... I even paid to see Pearl Jam so I could see Sonic Youth. I was a bit dissapointed in them because they didn't get all art weird on the crowd... they just played Teenage Riot and Bull in the Heather and their other more common stuff. I was half expecting them to come out and just play feedback for their set.

On a side note about a year ago SY got all their equipment stolen, including a shit ton of guitars that were all modfied to get specific sounds.. Thurston said the loss was devastating to the band because some of those sounds can never be replicated again.

st germain runs the label.

the cassette was released recently, i believe. and thurston did play the label's music festival last year so his connection with this label is pretty legit.

i'll discuss this more in a minute. gotta go smoke.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

It was 1999 when a Rider truck was stolen from a hotel parking lot. It was full of all thier classic gear, which was highly modified. It happened to Blues Traveller and a couple of other bands during that same year. As I understand it, most of the Washing Machine album was done using a particular vintage effects machine that was incredibly hard to find. As a result, songs like the Diamond Sea were lost as a result.

As Einstein proved... time is relative. Was it that long ago? Its true... time increases as you get older... Holy Crap

It was the year after they released A Thousand Leaves. I have a bootleg of the festival they were heading toward, and Mike Watt, introducing a Sonic Youth cover, says, "This is a song that Sonic Youth can't play anymore." I also remember when Lee Ranaldo circulated a letter asking for help in the recovery.

i have heard of this cassette in question. i myself have never seen an actual copy of it. thurston and beck have worked together in the past some of which has never seen the light of day. there are a few people i could ask, they might be able to point me in the direction towards finding this elusive cassette.

i have alot of bootlegs and rare stuff if anyone wants to trade.

i could talk about sonic youth for hours...but i have food burning in the kitchen.....

No Fun Fest

March 19,20,21 in Brooklyn, NY

FRIDAY : 8 pm

Pita
Thurston Moore + Chris Corsano + Jim Orourke + Paul Flaherty Dream Aktion Unit
TBA duo
Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Rubber O Cemment
Burning Star Core



SATURDAY : 6:30 pm

Kim Gordon And The Sweet Ride( featuring Ikue Mori, Dj Olive, and Jim Orourke)
To Live and Shave in L.A.
Gert-Jan Prins
Hair Police
Nmperign - Due Process collaboration
Laundry Room Squelchers
Alan Licht

SUNDAY : 6:30 pm

Wolf Eyes
Lee Ranaldo + Roger Miller + William Hooker Trio
Massimo
Monotract
Sightings
Nautical Almanac
Double Leopards





And Downstairs :

Miscarriage
Magick Markers
Life Partners
Three Legged Race

Aaron Dilloway
Dead Machines
Air Conditioning
Go To Sleep
+ Guests

Pengo
Tan As Fuck + Newton
Knifestorm + Unicorn Hard On
Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment

man, why can't nashville have a no fun fest?!?!?!??!!?!?

That's two more entrants for the best band name ever.

Because we're too busy having festivals based around music.

See, this is the type of thing I was hoping I could see when I was in New York.


And you'd think they would just make a Sonic Youth show out of it since they'll all be there.

that have stuff like that in new york all the time, just not as big.

sonic youth playing this fest would be too easy, therefore they wouldn't do it.

NEWS OF YOUTH

Sonic Youth Plan New Album, 2xCD Goo Reissue, Two Video Retrospectives in 2004
Several Pitchfork staffers sporting Raymond Pettibon-ers
[Updated Monday, January 26th, 2004 01:50:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Catherine Lewis reports:
Remember that list of New Year's resolutions you hastily jotted down on the back of a bar napkin when you woke up in a hungover stupor on January 1st? Let's take a look at Sonic Youth's to-do list for 2004: New album! Expanded releases of old albums! DVD's! Solo projects! Festivals! Yeah, your list isn't looking so great now, is it?

Well, first off, Sonic Youth are in the process of writing/rehearsing/recording a new album, which is as yet untitled and should see release at Geffen's hands this summer. Hopefully this album will include recordings of some of the new songs that have been bounced around at recent shows, like the politically-themed "Peace Attack," which was a staple on their summer 2003 tour with Wilco. They are planning the release of some more SYR EP's, one of which will include the live performance of "J'Accuse Ted Hughes" from the April 2001 UK All Tomorrow's Parties, which guitarist Thurston Moore describes as "a twenty-minute dronefuck piece that pissed off every Guinness-swilling journalist awake at the time." Down with journalists! Down with journalists! Oh shit, I guess that includes us. Moving on...

Speaking of All Tomorrow's Parties, the Youth are curating one day at the ATP weekend festival in the UK this April. "Since the USA has presented such relentless bozo-scum (talking politics and reality TV here) to the rest of the world we decided to just have American bands that we think are radical/ creative play as a pronouncement of what we think is good here," Moore told Pitchfork. And while bands like Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards, and Lightning bolt are sure to please, c'mon, Thurston, reality TV ain't so bad-- just think how ATP could be enhanced by a surprise visit from honeymooners Ryan and Trista!

At some point in 2004, you can also look forward to the deluxe reissue of 1990's Goo, which will be very similar to last year's reissue of Dirty: a two-CD / four-LP release, with extensive liner notes by rock guru Byron Coley. The release will be stocked full of b-sides, oddities, and the 8-track Goo demos (which had been previously released in bootleg form, but will be presented here in much better quality, remixed "into hot sonic slash" by Jim O'Rourke). There is no release date for this yet, so it may not hit stores until later in the year.

In addition, there is a ridiculous amount of DVD action planned for this year. Look for a full-scale Geffen-era video retrospective, which will include the "Goo" video and all subsequent videos (up to and including "Empty Page" from Murray Street, plus the never-seen "Nevermind" from NYC Ghosts & Flowers). This will include commentary by Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna and filmmaker Richard Kern, among others.

Lee Ranaldo tells Pitchfork there may be other archival treasures which may see a DVD release this year, including a "still-never-released 1986 USA Evol Tour Movie which I shot and which is 95 percent finished-- there were some screenings of the ruff cut last year. Also the [Screaming Fields of Sonic Love] video, which documents our videos during the 'indie years'," which was released on VHS back in 1995. Ranaldo also hinted at the possibility of some live Sonic Youth DVD's and told us that Dave Markey, director of 1991: The Year Punk Broke, is preparing an amazing two-DVD set of that film, with loads of previously-unseen footage of the Youth, Nirvana, and others, complete with commentary from Moore and Markey. At present, there are legal difficulties with releasing the film, but hopefully those can be ironed out in time for a deluxe package later this year.

The Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon recently completed an art / record collaboration with artist Dan Graham for Germany's Bottrop Boy label. Moore has had a few poetry pieces published, in addition to editing the sixth volume of his Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal for Glass Eye Books. At the end of last year, Gordon and Jutta Koether curated a month-long exhibit, "Club in the Shadow," at the Kenny Schachter Contemporary gallery, which turned the gallery into a club for a month with performances every weekend.

Ranaldo has a few things on his plate: Atavistic just released Monsoon, the first in its Out Trios series (specifically for instrumental trio recordings)-- a live set of Ranaldo, Burma's Roger Miller, and free jazz legend William Hooker that was recorded at NYC's Knitting Factory. Ranaldo also released New Life After Fire (for Tom Thomson) on Toronto's Art Metropole Gallery's label and is working on a book of poems titled Lengths & Breaths, which will be published in April on WaterRow Press.

Ranaldo is also part of collaborative ensemble Text of Light, named after Stan Brakhage's 1974 film of that title. The group performs improvised soundtrack to silent films and features a revolving lineup including William Hooker, DJ Olive, Tim Barnes, Alan Licht, Christian Marclay, and Ulrich Kreiger. Text of Light's first releases will be a one-sided twelve-inch from Table of the Elements (part of the 10th anniversary releases for that label) and an art /record collaboration on Bottrop Boy which will includes a vinyl LP and a print by the phenomenal artist Tacita Dean.

In addition, almost all members of Sonic Youth will be playing at the No Fun Festival in Brooklyn this March (Moore and O'Rourke with the "Dream Aktion Unit," featuring Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty; Ranaldo with Miller and Hooker; and Kim Gordon solo).

who's taking me to the no fun fest?

if i could afford the trip...i'd take you.

you're a good man, ghostflower

Sounds like, ummm, no fun.

now this is a reason for going.

definite ear shattering fun.

Sina the tape is on the way of these two .....my friend ordered it when i asked him about it.....i will turn it into mp3s when it gets here for all to share

WORDDDD

thanks b.Rock