1995
1995
by thurston moore
sonic youth is playing
a tiny club in new orleans
with unwound and polvo and
the place is a pressure cooker ready to blow. a girl in
the audience scales the club wall
and stands
precariously
on a lighting rig
beam. we have to
stop playing and try to coax
her down. kim asks her why she is up there.
she explains she can’t see and for $30
she wants to see. we tell her
that tickets
are only $15 and she confesses
she had to buy one
for her boyfriend. kim sez,
“that was yr first mistake.”
It didn’t even cost half that much to get in to see the Lollapalooza fest in Phoenix that year. I guess it’s because it was Phoenix- that was hot!
Hey, i used to have sonic youth album back in 90’s…wild stuff! Here’s more info on poet who is guitar player in Sonic Youth:
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running a small record label.
Moore was born in Coral Gables, Florida, but was raised in[1] Bethel, Connecticut. Although he enrolled at Western Connecticut State University, he opted to move to New York City instead to join the burgeoning post-punk/no wave music scenes.[2]
Once there, Moore was briefly in the hardcore punk band Even Worse, featuring future The Big Takeover editor (and future Springhouse drummer) Jack Rabid. After exiting the band, Moore and Lee Ranaldo learned experimental guitar techniques in Glenn Branca’s “guitar orchestras.”[3] He also spent much time at the University of Massachusetts and in the Amherst/Northampton area
Moore and Ranaldo soon formed Sonic Youth, serving as the band’s guitarists, with Moore on lead vocals. The band signed to Neutral Records, then to Homestead Records, and then to SST Records.
Live in the Netherlands (with Sonic Youth), 1991In 1984, Moore married Sonic Youth bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon; the pair have a daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore. They currently reside in Northampton, Massachusetts.
He and Ranaldo make extensive use of unusual guitar tunings, often heavily modifying their instruments to provide unusual timbres and drones, They are known for bringing upwards of fifty guitars to every live gig, using some guitars for one song only.[4] In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him and Ranaldo the 33rd and 34th best guitarists in music history.
That’s him, Quasi. We thank him for sending us some of his work.