Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth25 July 1958
CityCoral Gables, FL
CountryUnited States of America
We've never had a gold record. We make more money from being active, working, publishing, we have a great catalog. We never really had any hits.
With these reissues, listening to these tapes, it seemed very crude to me. There's no way I'd ever want to play like that again.
Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.