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Lee Ranaldo Quotes

American - Musician | February 3, 1956 -

I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands previously, I guess I mainly deferred to them a lot in terms of who was singing the bulk of the songs.

Beginning Singing Band Dominant Who

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

Band Either Underground Really

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

Grateful Down Dead Always Pat Had

There is still nothing under the sun quite like a Grateful Dead concert.

Grateful Sun Nothing Dead Concert

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

Seeing Matter Two Solo Much How

We're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we're creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.

Song Guitar Creating Go Kind Will

Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes it happens to be something like a band like Nirvana or Mudhoney, and other times, its just weird noise crews that we dig up.

Weird Sometimes Kind Mean Opening

When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - Japanese knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later, we'd shove drumsticks or screwdrivers under strings to scheme new noises, sure. But initially, open tuning was a technique used to make our cheap guitars sound better. It wasn't academic or conceptual.

Better Early New Cheap Sound First

My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.

Space Solo Shows Require Indoor

I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years - aside from covers - there are maybe two or three songs we wrote using traditional tuning.

Youth Think Weird Three Band Sound

Every band runs its course.

Band Course Every Runs

I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.

Art New York City Career Late New

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