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Old 02.23.2009, 03:23 AM   #1
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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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Old 02.23.2009, 08:07 AM   #2
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it's a good album. Get it you guys.
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Old 02.23.2009, 01:18 PM   #3
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It does sound pretty good.

And I like that story.
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Old 02.23.2009, 01:19 PM   #4
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Old 02.23.2009, 01:24 PM   #5
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this song can be heard on his myspace
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Old 02.24.2009, 06:04 PM   #6
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Awww, Nels is sweet. Nice story for the song, thanks Moshe.

I wanted to move to Thurston County just so I could say I lived there.
 
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Old 02.25.2009, 04:54 PM   #7
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i would move to that county just to live in olympia.
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Old 02.25.2009, 11:06 PM   #8
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I used to live there. Is the name of the song "Thurston County" or "Thurston Country" though? Moshe changes it into the post...

Initially, I thought maybe Thurston was going to go country!
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