Thurston Joseph Moore was born on July 25,1958 and is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth.
38 Facts About Thurston Moore
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In 2012, Thurston Moore started a new band Chelsea Light Moving, whose eponymous debut was released on March 5,2013.
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Thurston Moore enrolled at Western Connecticut State University in fall 1976, but left after one quarter and moved to East 13th Street between Aves A and B in New York City to join the burgeoning post-punk and no wave music scenes.
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Once in the city, Thurston Moore was briefly a member of the hardcore punk band Even Worse, featuring future The Big Takeover editor Jack Rabid.
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Thurston Moore has spoken about influences on his music tastes at this time, including British bands Wire, the Pop Group, the Raincoats, the Slits, and Public Image Ltd.
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Thurston Moore met Kim Gordon in 1980 at the final gig of The Coachmen, the band he was in with JD King, Daniel Walworth, and Bob Pullin.
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Thurston Moore invited Ranaldo, who he had known when The Coachmen shared a CBGB stage with Ranaldo's 1970s band The Flux, to join the band.
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Thurston Moore has explained the band's decision to sign with DGC Records at a time when many were fiercely dedicated to independent record labels like SST, Dischord and Sub Pop:.
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Thurston Moore defended the band's decision to sign with DGC Records explaining that they knew what they were getting into and viewed it more as "buying in" than "selling out".
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Thurston Moore established Protest Records as an online gesture of activism but the project has since lapsed.
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Thurston Moore performed solo on the side stage of the 1993 Lollapalooza tour.
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Thurston Moore played Fred Cracklin in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode dedicated to Sonny Sharrock.
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Thurston Moore recorded with the band at Sonic Youth's former studio in Manhattan, and later performed with them at the George W Bush "anti-inaugural" Noise Against Fascism concert in Washington, DC, which Moore curated, named in reference to Sonic Youth's 1992 song "Youth Against Fascism".
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Thurston Moore curated the "Nightmare Before Christmas" weekend of the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in December 2006.
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On September 24,2008, Thurston Moore was working on a song with former Be Your Own Pet vocalist Jemina Pearl, a cover of the Ramones song "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker".
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Since 2008, Thurston Moore has provided narration for a variety of documentaries on the National Geographic Channel.
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Thurston Moore's work includes Inside: Straight Edge and the Hard Time series about life in prison.
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In 2012 Thurston Moore started a new band called Chelsea Light Moving.
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In July 2012 Thurston Moore had joined the black metal super group Twilight.
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In September 2014, Thurston Moore released The Best Day, a solo album featuring Steve Shelley and My Bloody Valentine's Debbie Googe as rhythm section, and James Sedwards on guitar.
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In 2019, Thurston Moore released Spirit Counsel, an avant-garde rock three-disc box set.
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In late 2020, Thurston Moore released a solo album entitled By the Fire which featured guitarist James Sedwards and bassist Debbie Googe as on the earlier The Best Days album.
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In February 2021, Thurston Moore surprise-released an instrumental album entitled Screen Time.
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Thurston Moore composed original music for such films as Heavy, Bully, and Manic.
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Thurston Moore reviewed new music in Arthur in a column entitled "Bull Tongue" written jointly with Byron Coley.
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Thurston Moore created, with Chris Habib, the website Protest Records, named for its protest against United States' invasions in the Middle East.
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Thurston Moore published a highly influential list of collectible free jazz records in Grand Royal magazine.
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Thurston Moore publishes mainly poetry, but a collection of books about the early Norwegian black metal scene, experimental jazz from the 70s and other niche subjects.
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In 2015 Thurston Moore was appointed honorary professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he periodically conducts workshops and master classes.
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Since 2004, Thurston Moore has participated in a cultural boycott of Israel, likening the country to an apartheid state and criticizing bands like Dinosaur Jr.
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In June 2016, Thurston Moore endorsed the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, releasing a track featuring excerpts from Sanders' speeches to coincide along his endorsement.
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In November 2019, along with other public figures, Thurston Moore signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election.
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In October 2022, Thurston Moore expressed support for former president Lula in the 2022 Brazilian general election.
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On October 14,2011, the couple announced that they were separating due to an extramarital affair Thurston Moore engaged in with art book editor Eva Prinz, who was married at the time.
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Thurston Moore uses a large selection of Fender guitars during Sonic Youth gigs, most frequently a Jazzmaster.
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Thurston Moore has used the ProCo Rat, Big Muff, and MXR Blue Box pedals in various combinations to achieve his unique distorted and feedback-laden guitar sound.
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Thurston Moore is a key figure in the popularization and resurrection of the Fender Jazzmaster.
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In 2009, Fender introduced a Lee Ranaldo signature edition of a Sapphire Blue Transparent version featuring two Fender Wide Range humbucking pickups and a Forest Green transparent finish for Thurston Moore, equipped with a pair of Seymour Duncan Antiquity II Jazzmaster single-coil pickups.