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Lee Ranaldo

American Musician

Born: Feb 3, 1956

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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

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We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either. Lee Ranaldo

Band Mainstream Underground Anymore Either Really

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

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I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years - aside from covers - there are maybe two or three songs we wrote using traditional tuning. Lee Ranaldo

Every band runs its course. Lee Ranaldo

Band Every Runs Course

Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I'd have to say I don't really have a single favourite one that I could pick out. Lee Ranaldo

Single Guess Say Ways Out Gigs Memorable Finding Favourite Someone Could Pick Being Different Really Who Many Different Ways Plays

I'm married to a Canadianm so I have a lot of fond thoughts about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba, where my wife is from, and I have a lot of friends and relatives on both coasts and have spent a lot time in Canada from Nova Scotia to B.C. In some ways, it's a much more sane country than the U.S. Lee Ranaldo

Time Thoughts Wife Relatives Country Think Spent Ways Married Some About Fond More Both Prairie Lot Friends Than Canada Where Much Sane Nova Nova Scotia

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band. Lee Ranaldo

Art Noise Band Extreme Rock Proud Rock Band

Obviously, for Geffen, if it wasn't for us, it's quite possible that bands like Nirvana or Beck would not be on the label. Lee Ranaldo

Nirvana Possible Would Like Obviously Beck Label Bands Quite Us

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is. Lee Ranaldo

Youth Sonic Sonic Youth Know Sound Vintage

I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case. Lee Ranaldo

Old Old Songs Would Case Songs Boy Always Still Were Die Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Whipping Use Play Set

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage. Lee Ranaldo

Stage Our Our Lives Most Up Getting Fun Fun Thing Lives Thing

I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day. Lee Ranaldo

Day Rather Than Any Download Code Vinyl

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form. Lee Ranaldo

Together Youth People Collective Band Whatever Else Exactly Exactly What Classic Composition About Perceptions Songwriting Sonic Sonic Youth Putting Singer-Songwriter Always Were Form Electric

I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really. Lee Ranaldo

Change People Whatever Nothing Those Evolution City New Because Years Years Ago York New York Wants Against Really Who

I don't mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique. Lee Ranaldo

Old More Dirty Although Square Times Times Square Mourn Romantic Unique

I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and voices are there when you need them, when you're ready to find them, whether in their time or after. Lee Ranaldo

Music Time You Beauty Late Find Voices Songs Know Ready Came Convention After Whether Them Sandy Why Need

I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we'd ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity. Lee Ranaldo

Band Vital Some Strongest Entity Touring Stuff Like Felt Very Did Done Behind Eternal Much Ever Thing Last

I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is, in itself, kind of a radical move. Lee Ranaldo

Me Guitar Radical Think Out Kind Someone Idea Always Itself Move Being Experimentation Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Electric Electric Guitar Who Playing

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