Sonic Youth to Play UPenn Spring Fling + Student Reactions

Also. $70,000? Jesus fucking Christ, that's inflated!

and just so you know, people don't make fun of Penn kids for their pseudo-intellectualism. they make fun of them because they think ivy-leaguers are rich, spoiled brats. which this interesting sentiment, "We deserve better" seems to reflect nicely. maybe Mommy and Daddy can get Jimmy Eat World to play your birthday party, hon. then you won't have to be such a sad little raincloud.

t-bone

with only 30K remaining in their budget, they still need to construct a full stage & rent a sound system, set up fencing and all security related issues. the cost of the stage is probably going to eat up the remaining part of that money, so in order to pay for everything else, they need to use ticket sales. and i wouldnt be surprised if the bands receive a percentage of ticket sales in addition to their guarantees.

i am going to guess that the entire thing will cost in the realm of 100-125K to put on. let's hope about 2,800 students decide to attend this thing in order for them to break even.

maria and djdee completely OTM:
cat power in front of thousands of fraternity douches is pretty much worth the cost of admission alone.
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This situation seems perfectly set up for me to hate anyone who has a position to argue.

"SPEC Concerts could learn a lot from SPEC Connaissance -- which recently announced Martin Sheen will be speaking at Penn -- about what appeals to students "

so what they could learn is that students like old people, except when they're musicians?

"Go see the show. In 1990, we had Jerry Seinfeld who no one heard of and he was amazing. That year we also had Meatloaf right before his comeback."

or

"I compare them [SY] to Ace-of-Base, an afterthought, almost a novelty act.....and now I hear Dartmouth gets Robert Randolph AND Talib Kwali? I thought we had more pride than that."

penn kids ARE spoiled, but then again most ivy league folks are. i mean, you dont pay all that money for an education, its for the privilege.

Spoon played at Rice my senior year, way back when in '97. I enjoyed the show and the copy of the Soft Effects EP that I picked up afterwards, but the band kinda dropped off my radar for a few years after that.

you're a funny one.

WHUS-sponsored shows during my brief stint @ UConn (12 years ago): Fugazi & Shudder to Think; Velocity Girl & Magic Hour; Archers of Loaf; Dambuilders

Bless you, WHUS. (Even if I didn't go to the Fugazi show.)

x^xpost poortheatre: Are you on NYU PB?

In 96/97, my university choose Sass Jordan & Trooper over Sloan. I have no right to complain.

(two uses of "on" in the past tense x-post!)

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My rant in it's entirety:

these performers are hardly esoteric...pretty standard fare for anyone who gives two shits about popular music. anyway, it doesn't take an idiot to figure out that large scale collegiate concerts are a mistake to begin with. pop-music philistines will always resent decent line-ups while failing to realize that the bands they'd like to hear are too busy selling out stadiums and amphitheaters to bother with putting on a private concert for Penn students.

as the author of the editorial can't figure out that a crowd-pleasing concert of the sort he craves is untenable at Penn (even though there was a DP article covering exactly why it is impossible published several months ago), i suspect he is even more worthless than an idiot: the sort of person that will move from his fraternity house right out to the suburbs upon graduation where he can live out the remainder of his proudly unexamined life.
(just imagine listening to Linkin Park on your humvee's kickin' bose stereo...i bet it will sound soooo awesome. it's out there... just waiting for you... dumb-ass.)

vocab review
philistine: A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values. (does this describe you?)

This song features the lyric: "When you're rappin' for the white man/it's jigaboo time/it's jiggaboo time."

At least Sonic Youth and Cat Power vs. Penn keeps it all in the family...the hipsters vs. squares in whiteyville.

(which is not to say that there aren't non-caucasian students at Penn, but their numbers are egregiously small.)

no, richard-san. i think it's a fascinating sociology capstone project to subject sonic youth to penn undergraduates. i for one am thrilled. throw open the laboratory doors!

i wish they published actual numbers of tickets sold. i'd like to see sonic youth with like 40 other people.

The STA Side stage bands include Felix Sarco, Idiosympathy and Kairos; In addition to the top three winners of the Battle of the Bands which include A.I. Inc, Dragon Slayer, and Tokyo Vertigo.

also from the site: And David is not your average songwriter. He sings with the passion of Howie Day one minute, then the calm ease of Jack Johnson another and is lyrically as capable as either of the two.

* Cocteau Twins/Galaxie 500
* Sonic Youth (not that STP)
* Bauhaus reunion show (the last one before Coachella)
* Melvins
* Rodan/The Grifters
* Royal Trux/Trumans Water/Nothing Painted Blue/Shoe Face
* Unrest/Stereolab/Idaho
* Scrawl
* Poster Children
* Fastbacks
* Tsunami
* Drive Like Jehu/NAPO
* Hazel
* Mike Watt/fIREHOSE (way too many times to mention)
* Bikini Kill/Red Aunts
* Rocket From The Crypt/Red Aunts/Sandy Duncan's Eye
* Foo Fighters/Ween/Jawbreaker

Shows that were cancelled because of potential riots and/or conflicts with finals

* Green Day
* Unwound/Crain

and that's just a part of the top of my head there.

-- donut debonair (do...), April 12th, 2005.

haha I know exactly what you're referring to! on the intro to "The Bedroom"! that's awesome!

Our program board = fucking lazy.

What happened to you guys? Last year we had Liars and Broken Social Scene and this year we had Wolf Eyes and...? [i'm still going]

-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...), April 12th, 2005.

which dude? Ness? Chopper?

"wow, man. my school got shit like Maestro Fresh Wes (if you have any idea of who that is, holla)"

*Hollering*

my school too.

Canadian schools just ain't got the cash. i'm shocked at some of what i've seen upthread. the reactions from the Penn State kids is just one more reason to hate the Ivy League. I guess in their defence, the freshmen would have only been 3 years old when SY signed to Geffen, but that's still no excuse!