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Thurston J. Moore
b. 07/25/1958, FL.
One brother,
Gene Moore
.
Lives
Northampton, Mass
.
Married to
Kim A. Gordon
, b. 04/28/1953, Los Angeles, CA.
One daughter,
Coco Hayley Gordon Moore
b. 07/01/1994
Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon are founders and members of the New York-based art/
punk
/rock/pop band
Sonic Youth
, formed
NYC
1981. Since then, they've transformed from willfully abrasive art-punkers to godparents of the
alternative
scene (without getting mired in post-"alternative" backlash) to pop- and high-culture icons.
As a teen high on
Television
and
Patti Smith
in the late 1970s, Moore fled his mother's home in
Connecticut
for
Manhattan
, where he formed a band with a handful of other, slightly older guys called
The Coachmen
. (The band released one posthumous
EP
years later, "
Failure To Thrive
.") Prior to Sonic Youth, he also collaborated with
Lydia Lunch
. Moore and Lee Ranaldo also toured with
Glenn Branca
in the early 1980s; both men were featured on recordings of Branca's first three symphonies. Eventually, Moore bumped into Gordon, a
jazz
aficionado and visual artist fresh from
Los Angeles
, who was playing guitar in the trio
CKM
at the time.
Over the past 20 years, Moore has colloborated with countless others of an avant-garde bent, including
Nels Cline
,
William Winant
,
Tom Surgal
,
Loren Mazzacane Connors
and
William Hooker
.
Possibly the wildest and most experimental of his side projects is
foot
, formed circa 1998 with Don Fleming and Jim Dunbar. (Details have been moved to full
foot
write-up.)
Moore released a solo album in 1995, "
Psychic Hearts
", on Geffen. SY bandmate
Steve Shelley
played drums, with
Two Dollar Guitar
frontman Tim Foljahn playing guitar also. The album spawned one MTV-aired video, for "
Ono Soul
," shot in, around and on top of
Jim Dunbar
's
Canal Street
pad. Chillingly, one shot features a jetliner streaking toward the
World Trade Center
towers in the background.
Moore still oversees
Ecstatic Peace!
, the record label he founded in the early 1980s which focuses on unheard musics he feels are deserving of a wider audience. The output is released through Shelley's
Smells Like Records
.
Moore founded, wrote for and edited his own
Killer!
fanzine in the 1980s, and he has written for countless other publications since then. His first book, "
Alabama Wildman
", a collection of prose and poems, was published in 2000. A handful of copies were sold in a limited-edition slipcovered format, complete with a unique poem by Moore scrawled in the endpapers.
Moore and the other Sonic Youth guitarists play a dizzying array of instruments, sometimes "hot-rodded" to facilitate their sound-sculpture and noisemaking. Moore's favorite guitar is the
Fender Jazzmaster
, though he also uses a few other Fenders, too:
Jaguar
s,
Mustang
s,
Stratocaster
s and
Telecaster
s. His first recorded debut with an acoustic guitar, 1993's "
Winner's Blues
," saw him use a 1930s-era
Gibson
Carson J. Robinson
acoustic. For amplifiers, Moore favors a
Peavey
160-watt
Roadmaster
head with
Marshall 4x12
cabinets. Favorite effects include the
Pro-Co Turbo Rat
,
Sovtek Big Muff
, and
MXR Blue Box
and
phase shifter
. In July 1994, the band suffered a massive gear theft when a truck full of all their equipment was heisted at a festival in Orange County, CA. Insurance paid for the band to get new stuff, and Moore restocked his quiver with several new Jazzmasters.
Resources: Moore on
free jazz
, from the
Beastie Boys
' now-defunct
Grand Royal
'zine:
http://saucerlike.com/sy/articles/thurston_grandroyal.html
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
foot
Expressway To Yr Skull
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture
Beck
Borbetomagus
Lee Ranaldo
Soundgarden
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
no means no
EVOL
The Flying Lizards
Mike Watt
Lydia Lunch
Nels Cline
heavy
A Thousand Leaves
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