Sonic Youth Gossip - Thurston Country

Nels Cline wrote a song inspired by Thurston:

Shifting back to your new album, I imagine that the song “Thurston Country” is named after your friend Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth fame)? Yeah, “Thurston County,” which is actually a real county, is named after him. Every time I drive through Thurston County and see the signs, how could I not think of Thurston? That piece was written after I thought I had finished the record, and I had listened to everything I recorded and I just thought the album needed something different, so I told Mark, my engineer friend, which I had been saying to him for five days, “Take a break, I'll call you when I'm ready.” We recorded and mixed that that song in one evening. There's not much to it, just a lot of guitars, the thing that sounds kind of like a drum is me just tapping on the back of the bridge of a guitar. That was fun to do it's a tribute to Thurston, it's got a Thurstonian riff, the so called verse riff which is blatant Thurston, it's in seven. I don't think Sonic Youth plays in seven anymore, no they don't because I listen to them constantly. Sonic Youth is a band that I think keep an interesting balance between spontaneity and fixed compositional elements. They're a huge favorite of mine. I have like four CD's with Thurston, I think. I've played with everyone in Sonic Youth except Kim. Some were completely improvised—the first one is called Pillow Wand, and there is some structure on that one, but it's mostly improvised.

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