Original Daydream Tour vs. Now
 

Just curious to know what people think of the tour now vs. the original tour. I was born in '88 so I clearly can't offer much of an opinion besides what I've heard from the bootlegs. Did any of you guys see SY on the original tour?

i wish...

yeah, i was too young, too (9 years old). however, while at the brooklyn show, i did hear these two older gents (35-40, maybe?) say that the show really brought them back and they seemed to be diggin it.

I was 16 then, but hadn't discovered SY yet. Based on the bootlegs, I think they sound better now.

I saw them play these songs for pretty much the first time live I think at the old Knitting Factory in 88...a crew of us went and our friend just bullied his way right up front in a classic jerk trick and we followed right behind him...so I had an amazing view for the night but my recording was fried by the high levels of being right in front of the PA. BUt I skipped the the revival tour...mostly cuz I don't like big crowds and dickweed security.

My tape has failed at least 3 times trying to record SY - in Providence in 86 and at Maxwells last year.

Me too! We're Daydream Nation babies...

whre is florya when you need him!

i was about 12 months away from discovering the youth at that time. but kim had black hair, or dark red hair during that tour, man i love that look!

haha, yes!

wow! how many times have you seen them? have you seen them during every tour?

daydream nation babies!!!!

kidz... im a chinatown baby

My sentiments EXACTLY Tesla! I didn't go out of my way for the revival of this for the same reasons. No crowds or corporate BS for me!

I was at the Steve Shelley Experience gig in Boston which is mentioned in the Daydream Deluxe booklet. Then I saw them two more times on the official Daydream Nation tour. At The Ritz in NYC with Mudhoney and Old Skull and in Cambridge, MA at a venue I can't remember the name of now.

From the bootleg I listened to of the revival, it seems like there's no comparison. Then was then and now is now. Just listen to the LIVE Daydream 2nd CD in the deluxe edition. Those shows are precisely why I kept going back and have never missed a tour since EVOL.

hahah! Old Skull!?!? wasn't that the punk band that was made up of really young kids?

I didn't get into SY until about a year or two after daydream was released (i was about 14-15 at the time and into "modern rock"... pil, the smiths, the cure, joy division etc and sy didn't pass my projectory until hearing dinosaur jr)... a friend/bandmate of mine from nyc saw SY in '88-'89 i think it was the ritz show, which he said was one of the most memorable shows in his life and one of the most intense and loudest.