'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me. Lee Ranaldo More Quotes by Lee Ranaldo More Quotes From 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 youth singing proud time In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback, and if I leaned forward, and the guitar hung off my body, it would resonate differently. Lee Ranaldo end youth guitar body My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens. Lee Ranaldo canadian canada citizens wife 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 career being late way Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity. Lee Ranaldo something activity youth music 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 always youth guitar play 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 end youth matter ideas I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.' Lee Ranaldo liked really movie film 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 beginning who singing band We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either. Lee Ranaldo anymore either underground band The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat. Lee Ranaldo dead down always grateful There is still nothing under the sun quite like a Grateful Dead concert. Lee Ranaldo dead nothing grateful sun
