Thurston Joseph Moore born July 25, [ 7 ] is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth.
He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace!
In , Moore started a new band Chelsea Light Moving , [ 9 ] whose eponymous debut was released on March 5, In , Chelsea Light Moving disbanded after one studio album release. Moore, a professor of music, and Eleanor Nann Moore. In , he and his family including brother Frederick Eugene Moore, born , and sister Susan Dorothy Moore, born moved to Bethel, Connecticut. In the Summer of he experienced his first exposure to rock music through his brother bringing home the record " Louie Louie " and bought him his first electric guitar.
And they were supplanted by [ It was a completely new world, a new identity of music that was an option for youth culture. After exiting the band, Moore and Lee Ranaldo learned experimental guitar techniques in Glenn Branca 's "guitar orchestras". Moore met Kim Gordon in at the final gig of the Coachmen , the band he was in with J.
The new trio played three songs at the festival later in the week without a drummer. Moore and Ranaldo make extensive use of unusual guitar tunings, often heavily modifying their instruments to provide unusual timbres and drones. They are known for bringing upwards of fifty guitars to every gig, using some guitars for one song only.
