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Originally Posted by SYRFox
Well here's the extract from the interview, it's not exactly that. It's in Versus Magazine (now Noise Magazine) #8:
Thurston, in the Daydream Nation era you said you needed to play tracks live before you record them, but that's not something you always do anymore?
Thurston: Well, it's true that it's ideal but that's not always possible unfortunately
Steve: Our songs are constantly evolving, it's sure, before or after the recording. Live, there's in effect more things going on.
Lee: Often, when you record a track, it's not really complete, so in a way it's true that it's better to test it and finish it in gigs, playing it in tour before you get in the studio. But on the other hand it's also as interesting to check the shift between the finished track and it's "sketch" recorded before you model it live. Often, when we listen to our past albums, we feel this impression of "unfinished", we listen certain tracks and some things appear not really defined to us, but these versions keep a testimony value, they are manifests of the primitive form of the tracks
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Yeah, that's not what is being said at all, except by the interviewer in the question. Thurston says he prefers to try songs live first, but that they can't
always do so. I'm sure what that means is that by the time their next record comes out, they'll have tried
some of the songs live, but maybe not all, because they'll need to get the record done.
So at a juncture like this where they've had a record out for a couple years and been touring on a record that's two decades old, I'd be shocked if they weren't ready to try some new stuff live.