It Is Friday And Therefore We Must Listen To Glenn Branca Because This Is A Music Blog And It Is Friday.

As you know because you read that book by Alex Foege called Confusion Is Next and by the way if you want to hear a masterpiece of terror that's the album for you, but in any event, you can't do Sonic Youth without Glenn Branca and this clip from a Grand Street loft in 1978, just a few months shy of his 30th birthday, will show you why. YM would see Branca at the Barbican 20 years later, where he performed his Symphony No. 12, but all we would could find was a clip from his next one, Hallucination City, to give a sense of it all went down. Wharton Tiers was there that night, too, and he wrote a piece on it which you can read here, and Phil Kline was doing his thing with the boomboxes, and I've since realized that there's nothing new under the sun except to the kids who think that Reggie Watts is an original.