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Lee Ranaldo

American Musician

Born: Feb 3, 1956

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Change is always good. It brings you to a new place. Lee Ranaldo

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New York always has a lot of creativity going on. Lee Ranaldo

Creativity New Always Lot York Going New York

After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings. Lee Ranaldo

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To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature. Lee Ranaldo

Myself Relationship Strong Degree Consider Some Writer Literature

One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started and that I played pretty much throughout Sonic Youth. Lee Ranaldo

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Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback. Lee Ranaldo

Me Youth Feedback Before Down Kim Minutes Slowly Had Sonic Sonic Youth Lights Drummer Just Show Even Played Set

I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and very improvisational, abstract stuff on the other. I don't see any reason music should exclude one or the other, and I think the pairing of them together makes for very interesting music in a lot of ways. Lee Ranaldo

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I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room. Lee Ranaldo

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We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate. Lee Ranaldo

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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

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Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories. Lee Ranaldo

Music Memories Beatles Listening Pretty Childhood Childhood Memories Much Figures

Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.' Lee Ranaldo

'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind of capped off everything we set out to do when we started as a band, in terms of, like, wow, wouldn't it be great to make a record that a lot of people liked and listened to? Lee Ranaldo

Great People Band Market Our Peers Everything Top Recognition Out Kind Wow Record Brought Daydream Like Liked Terms Make Heap Lot Off Listened Us Started Set

Signing to a major, there weren't many bands from our sphere that were doing it. I mean, obviously R.E.M. had done it, and Husker Du and the Replacements had done it, and maybe Soul Asylum, but that was probably about it. Those four bands were pretty much the only ones from that milieu that had signed to a major. Lee Ranaldo

By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead. Lee Ranaldo

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My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens. Lee Ranaldo

Wife Citizens Canada Canadian

Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was inspired in particular by how the Beatles were innovating when they were making those records late in their career while using the studio in a maximal way. Lee Ranaldo

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I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar. Lee Ranaldo

Youth Guitar Guitar Player Pretty Throughout Sonic Sonic Youth Periods Always Material Continue Been Often Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Much Play Player Started

I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.' Lee Ranaldo

Liked Movie Really Film

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