Why Sonic Youth legend Thurston Moore initially quit guitar lessons
nypost.comRaw Power to the hairstylist as a template. “An hour later I walked out with an embarrassing feathered shag, like the kind John Travolta had in Saturday Night Fever a few years later,” he writes.
From the New York Dolls to David Bowie, Moore was attracted to the “otherness, if not the otherworldliness” of left-field artists. “My father became concerned why his son had so many images of these prettified men — their pouty lips, shirts off, emblazoned about his bedroom walls.” After studying journalism at Western Connecticut State, Moore moved to New York, hitting clubs like CBGB and catching acts like the Ramones.His own bands came and went.
There was the punky Even Worse, and The Coachmen, where, at their final gig, he met his future wife and Sonic Youth cofounder, Kim Gordon.
They formed their band in 1981 and the duo married three years later. Over the decades, Sonic Youth released 15 studio albums and influenced countless bands, from Nirvana to The Strokes.Moore and Gordon split, both personally and artistically in 2011, shocking fans.
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