Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes it happens to be something like a band like Nirvana or Mudhoney, and other times, its just weird noise crews that we dig up. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
We’re not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We’re pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we’re creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
I didn’t intend to make one solo record, much less two. It’s really a matter of seeing how it goes. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
We’re not really an underground band anymore, and we’re not a mainstream band, either. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands previously, I guess I mainly deferred to them a lot in terms of who was singing the bulk of the songs. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn’t matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone’s ideas get contributed to it. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
It’s not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We’re just presenting our music; it’s really much more innocent. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
I have great memories of the old Times Square – wouldn’t have missed being here to see that place for the world – but I can also deal with the new Times Square in the overall scheme of N.Y. City 2010. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
