Sonic Quotes

All hardware items must be admired for their sonic properties: pitchforks, egg beaters, crowbars, fireplace grates, shovels, anvils, rebars (the structural reinforcement rods used in poured concrete), trash cans - the list goes on and on and they`re all waiting to be played.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

How`s it going, Super Sonic?

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

It blew a lot of tin off. It sounded like a sonic boom. The ball of fire and flames were on the east end. All I remember was seeing a huge ball of flames and black smoke. It`s one of those things that happened, but you just can`t process it at the time.

It`s about a white family and a black family living in modern day North Mississippi but the white family`s mind set is that of 1869 and no matter what you do it won`t change, they still think and talk the way they would in 1869, so it`s really pushing it, ... My character is a member of black rock band who works at Sonic, but he is moving upward and is in direct conflict with the white family. I think that it`s really going to push the envelope and address the issue of race relations in America, even if we don`t want to.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There`s three people writing now, and we`ve all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

First, I`m trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.