Sonic Youth, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, October 31, 1986

Sonic Youth, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, October 31, 1986The Pixies on Halloween in 1986 yesterday … how about Sonic Youth on Halloween in 1986 today? I wrote about this incomplete-but-oh-so-neat soundboard recording for this year’s phantasmagoric All Hallows Aquarium Drunkard roundup. Here’s a snippet: Forty Halloweens ago in 1986, Sonic Youth was upstate in Annandale-on-Hudson at Bard College; not exactly Headless Horseman territory, but close enough. Given the occasion, the band had to open with the psychosexual nightmares of “Halloween,” Kim Gordon playing a final girl who may be more attracted to the slithering Lovecraftian beast than scared of it. “It’s the devil in me,” she sings over those eerie guitars … Sure, whatever. At Bard, SY was kicking off a fall jaunt with fIREHOSE — the Flaming Telepaths tour, bringing EVOL to the USA! Some technical difficulties; the band seems be getting accustomed to new amps. And the tape is pretty bass-heavy at times. But that…