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Sonic Youth
July 2nd, 1999
Greek Theatre -- This Is Not a Festival
Berkeley, California, USA

1  intro
2  She Is Not Alone 
3  Schizophrenia 
4  Bull in the Heather 
5  Starfield Road 
6  Eric's Trip 
7  French Tickler 
8  The Ineffable Me 
9  Karen Koltrane 
10 Free City Rhymes 
11 Renegade Princess 
12 Sugar Kane 
13 Teenage Riot 
14 Shadow of a Doubt 
15 Tom Violence 
16 Brother James 

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NO DAE!

Notes:
This the band's last show w. their original gear, which was stolen in the middle of the night before the next gig. Click here for more info. 
Free City Rhymes and Renegade Princess were instrumental and known as "1" and "2". 

While on a brief west coast tour in July 1999, a Ryder truck containing all of the band's touring equipment was stolen in Orange County, California. Sonic Youth had just played a show in Berkeley on July 2nd, and were scheduled to perform in Irvine on the 4th. The theft occurred overnight between 1am and 7:15am on the morning of the 4th, outside of a Ramada Inn in Orange County (101 State College Dr). The truck was found, completely empty, a few days later, and none of the gear has ever been recovered. (UPDATE 3/27/02: One guitar has indeed been recovered!) SY did, however, borrow or purchase new equipment to fulfill the remaining dates of the tour, in Irvine, Austin, and Santa Fe.

The bulk of the gear had been in the band's collection for years, and was uniquely modified and irreplaceable. Following the theft, SY were forced to dig old guitars out of the studio and approach their songwriting from a fresh standpoint -- this exercise produced the "nyc ghosts & flowers" LP, which was being performed in its entirety by the end of August! They stocked up on new guitars for the subsequent tour and have accepted the incident as an unfortunate, disappointing event that opened some interesting new musical doors in the long run.


originally posted in alt.music.sonic-youth on july 4th, 1999.

Hello all, this is Lee from Sonic Youth here, we have had a fucked up
situation come down on us over this last night--a brand new Ryder truck
parked at a Ramada Inn in Orange County with ALL OF OUR GEAR IN IT was
STOLEN! All of our guitars, tools, amplifiers, drums, synth -- EVERYTHING.
We are fucked, both for the show tonight at the "This Ain't No Picnic"
here in Orange Co., and for shows upcoming this week in Austin and Santa
Fe. Our guitars are all mostly older and either very modified and/or
fucked up/beat up. They are unmistakably ours, as are some of the amps,
including my own 60s Fender Concert with the red/blue/yellow "Jasper
Johns-style" target on it. We are asking ANYONE with ANY INFORMATION about
this to get in touch with us as soon as possible by calling our man Aaron
Blitzstein in New York City at 212.343.2314, or via email to
"Mascaras66@aol.com". Call collect if you want to. Please no pranks, all,
this is really serious--all the gear we've used to write our last few LPs
worth of stuff, instruments used for songs old and new which if truly lost
will mean those songs will be lost forever.

Help us out if you can, there will be a reward for any info, I'm sure.
All our road cases, etc, are fully marked up with our name on them, the
gtrs are so unusual that they won't really be too hard to mistake. ANY
info at all will be appreciated.

If the thieves themselves read this, I'm sure we'd rather buy the stuff
back from you than lose it forever (you fukkerz). 
 
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Tue 08/20/2002 @ 6:25pm 
 
read 'em and weep! 
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