(TV) Re: (TV) Lee Ranaldo’s (Sonic Youth) all-time favourite guitarists

[Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca>]

Thanks for that link. No, not surprising news. No doubt 
Thurston too, li
ke Lee, started playing a Jazzmaster 
after seeing/hearing Tom play one. 
Thurston's said he 
was a big Television fan. In some interview he tells 
an
 amusing anecdote about how Tom used to read music
 mags a
t street magazine vendors. He wouldn't buy,
 he'd just stand there &
 read. Thurston said he'd spy 
on Tom to see what articles/bands Tom was 
reading
 about, so Thurston could use them as topics of
 conv
ersation to try to bring up with Tom later. 
Thurston's also said "Televi
sion is elemental" to 
SY's sound, by which I guess he means there's an 

element of Television in SY. I can hear it. I hear 
echoes of the song
 "Marquee Moon", especially, 
on a bunch of SY songs, "Rain on Tin", bein
g just
 one. I saw Lee Ranaldo & the Dust live last month,
 a
 good show. He seems to use reverb-like effect
 on his guitar a lot 
when playing live, something 
I don't think SY used so much. Maybe Lee's 
wanting
 to differentiate his solo sound from SY partly by 
adding
 more reverb.





On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:03:47 PM, D
ave Marin <dwmarin@gmail.com> wrote:
 
Guess who makes his list?

T
om Verlaine
“I grew up playing guitar but at a certain point arou
nd the mid-1970
s, music got pretty fat and bloated. All the arena rock s
tuff was something I
didn’t relate to and I tuned out of music fo
r a while. But the firs
t Television record was one that knocked me out a
nd made me want to go back t
o playing and being in a band again. I felt 
like he synthesised so many diff
erent styles, like the San Francisco psy
chedelic scene to jazz influences li
ke John Coltrane. Sometime, it was l
ike he was trying to play sax solos on t
he guitar.”


http
://www.redbull.com/en/music/stories/1331629075408/lee-ranaldo%E2%80%99s-

all-time-favourite-guitarists


Dave

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