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  • Is this "Hyperstation"?

  • Can I have tabs for this xD

  • You gotta love the Jazzmaster!

  • did he let the crowd keep it?

  • I fucking worship the ground this guy walks on, thurston Moore is my all-time favorie guitar player. Some ppl just dnt understand the art NOBODY can make noise like thurston that band was truly beyond one of a kind SONIC FUCKING YOUTH! And please tell me (whoever uploaded this) what happend to the guitAr did he get it back? Lol

  • IS this during Mote?

  • as a guitarist, this is wonderful

  • "Play that shit, play that shit!"

  • That sounded like the last part of "Diamond Sea"

  • oh look, someone is making music fun

  • the lucky bastards... :(

  • @PGROSYE02 If you never heard to sonic youth before it is obvious that you dont get this. Listen to "Daydream Nation" and you'll see how all starts to make sense.

  • To be honest I've never heard Sonic Youth before, and I'm not going to judge them as a band, but as a guitarist, this is awful.

  • @PGROSYE02 but as a guitarist, this is awful. this proves you dont know sonic ^^ this is punk there is no good shredder or musician or technique or quality judjment ...

  • @PGROSYE02 You have to let yourself go. Let your mind go......and just feel it.

  • @PGROSYE02 That's a bit silly, would you look for clips of Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire to judge his musical ability by? This is just a bit of crowd interaction during a show, it's not like they're playing a song or something

  • @PGROSYE02 internet guitar players like you are killing punk

  • @DGENERATE07 hipster.

  • @PGROSYE02 OH YEAH IM THE HIPSTER WHEN YOURE THE ONE SAYING HE DOESNT LIVE UP TO YOUR GUITAR STANDARDS! GTFO

  • @John19Morley93 Why something must be DEAD HARD to rock? You are an asshole.

  • this prolly was the burning spear :)

  • noise...pointless... fucking ...noise..

  • In some countries that may be considered common assault, in others, it's Thurston's "crowd guitar solo".

  • hahahaha, "play that shit, plaaay that shit."

  • Aw ya, I remember "playing" his guitar with that crappy little Sony camera I was taking the video with. Used it like it was a slide down the neck. Thurston saw me recording and played up to it. You can see he comes right at me.

  • who got the guitar? man that could get nasty! Moore has cool looking guitars!

  • Thurston Moore is a big fan of black metal.

  • wow thurston moore, what a guy

  • letting the crowd play... ha i'd never thought of that idea. cool :)

  • Sonic Youth...the coolest living band on Earth.

  • @jenzeppelin Indeed they are my friend now if we can only get this dork with his voodoo metal to leave us fans in peace then all shall be well.... This Troll cat reminds me of the "bobby v.s. Satan" skit from kids in the hall lol

  • @jenzeppelin Indeed.

  • troll4moarluz' personal profile says it all man. american football loving, homophobic classic rock/metal head that thinks he is right. he probably cannot deal with the abstract ways of s.y and is scared of things that he does not understand.

    its like trying to get a nazi skinhead to appreciate ladysmith black mambazo.

  • @rjvalentine28 what is wrong with american football and classic rock.... Thurston grew up with classic rock, without it no youth. And from the Country who brought us cricket...lets not judge others sport huh?...its redneck...

  • Respond to this video...what is wrong with american football?

  • @rjvalentine28 Americans who hate American Football are generally viewes as retarded/gay. I bet Thurston follows a football team since he is American. I like NASCAR too. I bet you and your holier-than-thou ass thinks I support segregation and slavery too. You are the ignorant fuck, not me.

  • @Troll4MoarLulz wow so you still haven't found a life other than cramming your ideals down the throats of those who couldnt give two shits what you think! So what happened now you wanna pick on others come on deal with it youre a close-minded person with serious issues with those who dont agree with you come on kool thing open your mind escape the bubble its a big world outside of metal lol

  • @opmofmind I see you have nothing better to do than to reply (with poor grammar at that) to a month-old comment. Open your mind a little and escape the bubble of social ineptitude. It's a big world outside your parents' basement.

  • @Troll4MoarLulz Ha!!! I knew you had no life I almost forgot about your silly ass lol then I thought lets see if this bully is messing with others and once again i wasn't wrong(hope that was good grammer), also if you want to say something dont use the same advice im giving you dork lol parents basement we dont even have basements here!!! You metalheads are funny when you get mad (oops more bad grammer) I highly suggest you stop making fun of yourself and take your own advice bubbleboy lol SY!!

  • @rjvalentine28 Thank you im not alone about this dork i seen his page one word comes to mind.... sad lol :)

  • This guy tries too hard

  • Troll4MoarLulz can suck my hary balls... Thurston Moore is the legend... he is good good double good

  • Dang, I got ripped off when saw SY a few months back in LA, and Thurston was being really timid and quiet on stage; like he felt uncomfortable up there. He didn't do any of the rad "Mooregasm" stuff like this, that makes Sonic Youth so much more unique than the rest of the copycats in the music industry. I might as well have seen Randy Roads or Slash.

  • @troll4moarlulz... Everybody just leave him alone, the sad truth is this child knows nothing about music, he's a baby with a bad attitude and the on;y way he can express his rage is by listening to shitty music to sustain his shitty attitude, and looks up to people who shred and use technical bullshit techniques. The only thing that makes him feel good is thinking he knows more than everyone else and dissing artists with tone and style to make him feel better

  • @songandletter Technical skill is the number one determiner of a guitarist's talent. You are saying that Randy Rhoads was a "bullshit" guitarist because he was classically trained and played more than a few distorted chords at once?

  • Technical skill is the number one determiner of a guitarist's talent ........... Is it?

  • @SugarOver Yes it is.

    Do you think Billie Joe Armstrong or Tom DeLonge are better guitarists than Slash or Randy Rhoads?

  • i think indeed tom delonge is better than randy rhoads, at least used to, last things i heard from him lacked of imagination, but still enema of the state was nice.

    anyhow, and leaving aside that it´s allways a matter of taste, i dont agree with that: you get to see everywhere thousands of soulless musicians, technically awesome, but you can almost see the chains around them!!

    Jim Hall once said "it´s not the what you play, but the intention you play it with, that makes the music".

    I agree.

  • I don´t think so, but wouldn´t it be nice? `^^

  • and what the hell does Green Day or Blink have to do with fucking Sonic Youth?

  • the number one detrerminer of talent is not technical skill... it's song writing, simply pulling something from out of your brain, making the sound that you hear in your head come out, writing something that means something to yourself, and hopefully someone else will remember it and sing along someday... Sonic Youth doesn't just use distortion, they build their own guitars, experiment with sound in all kinds of way, they can turn feedback into a symphony...

  • also Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore were classically train as well by Glen Branca, but you wouldn't know anything about Glen Branca's guitar orchestra would you... your guy over here jacking off with his guitar wouldn't know anything about that either cause everything he's doing has been done before and over and over and over

  • @Troll4MoarLulz just shut the fuck up and go listen to your pre-packaged bullshit you call music cause you obviously dont no dick about art facist nazi what next mein fuher!!!

  • @opmofmind OK, so saying that Yingwe Malmsteen and Randy Rhoads are better than this mediocre guitarist automatically makes me a fascist nazi akin to Hitler? I don't know what you've been smoking, but it sure isn't tobacco or weed.

  • @Troll4MoarLulz your so foolish its not the fact you love your guitar gods that makes you a facist its the way you behave dummy quit trying to force us into buying in to your ideals. We all have opinions and the fact that you insist on returning here with the same old spiel resembles some facist on a soapbox ranting to a crowd who doesnt care... Thurston is one of the most influential guitarist out there deal with it lol

  • @opmofmind The most influential guitarist? Haven't you ever heard of Hendrix and Page?

  • @Troll4MoarLulz ok now its getting a bit sad of course i heard of them you think i live under a rock? Hense why i put ONE of the most influential guitarist out there. Now my question to you is when are you gonna grow up and realize in a big vast world as ours there are many who wont share your same view on music,life, and well everything... so you must deal with it but i guess your a bit immature to grasp that concept you make me laugh cause you take this so serious lol

  • @Troll4MoarLulz malmsteen blows dick PERIOD... no malmsteen could not do the stuff thurston can do and yes Thurston can play all of malmsteens crap. Rhodes has some creativity but malmsteen is a studio hand, brainless goof.

  • @songandletter Yeah he just finished crying like you said like a sad little child its just so funny when people who are so closeminded try to trash something theyll never understand he must still be in junior high lol :)

  • did he give it away to to crowd?

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  • sick man. thurston is a stud guitar master.

  • God,I wanna marry him.

  • lol he scratched the guitar on your camera?

  • Thurston is the man

  • aww someone dont like what we said boo hoo... well it was fun while it lasted keep tha hope alive Sonic Youth!!!! I'll always love ya:)

  • can someone else please deal with this guy i just wanna listen to music not talk guitar tech ive been playin for twelve years now and thats the last thing on my mind whos better than who.... who cares!!!!!

  • Dude get a life seriously what are you 8yrs old come on you still wanna argue over whos the best guitarist who gives a rats ass its music grow up whether you like it or not Sonic Youth has stood the test of time i know i met thurston and hes no retard! Dude i seen your lil site and to tell you the truth i expect that from a close-minded fuck like you bombing abortion clinics dude youre nuts think before you type. Its hateful people like you that gives America a bad name open ur mind youd like it

  • so why you listenin to this then huh? let us enjoy this "pac-man" noise (as you put it) in peace! i stick to what i said before you hear noise i hear art,energy, passion in those alternate tuned guitars, the same can be said about the musicians you mentioned before by others who never heard of malmsteen (great guitarist by the way) some like it some dont, but its only my opinion dont get bent out of shape now remember its just youtube we all supposed to play nice now kool thing:)

  • technical skill =/= good musician.

  • it aint even about technical skill with thurston its art man either you like it or not deal with it

  • @Troll4MoarLulz

    @Troll4MoarLulz

    Let's face it, the average Thurston fan has no idea who Yingwe and Chris are.

  • Troll4MoarLulz - You fuckin Chimpanzee. What painter would you compare me to if i smash an alt tuned Jazzmaster across the back of your neck?

  • @seadonkeyridesagain about the painter: I would compare you to the potheads who draw male genitalia and swastikas on bathroom stalls. If the guitar doesn't break, I will pick it up and play some Helloween and Gamma Ray solos to teach you what real music is all about.

  • Troll4MoarLulz - an Outsider artist... I like it. If the, Jazzmaster fails to break first time I will repeat the smashing action until your vertebrae does. This way you'll never give the 'devil horn' salute again you hoary old metal grease stain

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  • @urheadonastick I bet he could spell better than you.

  • Sorry my mistake,Yngwie,s a fat spandex wearing pretentious twat.

  • Now who cant spell? its Thurston not Thustom. After listening to 2 minutes of Yngwei's pompous riffing the harmonic minor I was so bored I smashed the shitty Rising Force record into a million pieces and swept it into the litter box for the cat the crap on.

  • @urheadonastick I bet Thurstom Noore would be a better guitarist than Thurston Moore.

  • All anyone has to do is check your save page to see your probably a 12 year old with your mega death and Iron Maiden posters-perhaps when you grow some pubes you'll appreciate better music you silly asswipe.

  • >Helloween

    >Better than Sonic Youth

    oh you metalfags will never learn. one of them is noise for people who think widdly wah guitar is epic and metal. the other is noise for people who want noise.

    nb4 butthurt

  • Metal isn't the best genre, that's way too broad. Death and doom are indeed top tier, with thrash and prog somewhere behind them. Black, trad and power are lol get out of the basement tier.

    Can Helloween's guitarists play a lead? Yeah. Does it artistically contribute anything to the song? No.

  • @WayToTheGrave You apparently never heard Kai Hansen playing then. And Michael Kiske is a much better singer than Thurston as well.

  • why does it not artistically contribute anything to the song? output noise, and a overtoned delay function does otherwise?

  • what if i say, trash before death and doom. The disussion of personal taste can last forever. Its a personal victory, but a lost battle towards others. We can all set out our personal taste, but not settle whats right and wrong in peoples views when it comes to art. Waste of time. The sad part of the underground music scene, is that many of the fans flame other genres. It really should not be that way. Why even care about what you dont like? or state what you like above other stuff?

  • @Troll4MoarLulz and eveyrone...Shut the fuck up and stop comparing everything, it doesnt matter whos better or who has more talent, its fucking music..its art..you listen to it and respect it for what it is.

  • you, my boy, is an idiot and just received your 6:th thumb down :D

  • @AlmigthyIsDead How does Kool Thing or Teenage Riot take more talent than Keeper of the Seven Keys?

  • Oh, I take it you have tried playing them?

    I have not, however heard Keeper of the seven keys, but i think the idea itself with music like that is rather stupid. Great metal lyrics could describe a raid in WoW while S Y lyrics are poethic. Metal guitarists sound all thesame while Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo have a unique sound.

    What is talent to you anyway? Shredding really fast?

  • @AlmigthyIsDead Listen to Keepers. It is an amazing song, and yes, it does have a real message. Sonic Youth, on the other hand, doesn't do any real guitar solos. About the fast shredding, that is talent, but other things are too. Guitars are kinda like NFL defensive backs. Fast means talented all the time, but you don't have to be fast to be really good. Keepers has only one 1-minute long "superfast shred" and it's an 11 minute song.

  • Im not even gonna try,

    No offense intended my friend, but we are from different worlds and we obviously have different values. I could argue with you for hours without changing any of our minds. Let's just call it a draw, shall we?

    Peace.

  • also @trollmoarlulz... no REAL guitar solos... get the fuck out of here, you're fucking retarded and have never listened to sonic youth, period

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  • @Troll4MoarLulz

    you are incredibly close minded

    and insulting people who disagree with your opinion only supports that : /

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  • OH MY GOD!

    HES AWESOME!

  • what song?

  • <3 thurston. <3 jazzmasters.

    End of.

  • Wow, this comment page is a fucking pain to look at.

  • I seen this same thing happen when I saw Stinking Lizavetta. So cool.

  • Hmm. Was that a relative minor solo?

  • this is too dirty and unorganized to be metal,besides this ROCKS! and metal sucks, nuff said

  • @acepple95 nuff

  • @acepple95

    This rocks? Oooohhh yeah, it's DEAD hard to pile a lot of effects together and create feedback... You FAIL if you find this anyway appealing.

  • wow, did he actually give the guitar to the audience?

  • RocK n roll!!

  • hah! that's brilliant. What a fun moment that must have been.

  • too bad i don't play world of battlecraft mega basement-fest 5000 and too bad I don't live in a giant bucket made out of mithril

  • FUCK POWER METAL, AND FUCK THEORY. I am fucking sick of hearing the same 12 notes.

    why don't you listen to some good metal, like immortal or dissection.fuck this power metal crap. it has no fucking soul, it has no fucking edge, and it sounds like fucking disney cartoon garbage.

    fuck dragonforce, fuck hammerfall, and fuck opeth!

    I like fucking boredoms, hantarash, lightning bolt, sonic youth, emperor, etc.

    so uh

    fuck power metal.

    in the face.

  • "I am sick of hearing the same 12 notes." There only are 12 notes you fucking retard.

  • not if you put all the tones of every culture on earth together. even then, sound is infinite

  • microtonality asshole

  • yeah microtones you are retarded

  • Not to offensive, butSonic Youth is far from being 'METAL', as is Lightning Bolt :)

  • As I've said before, they're not hard, they're just VERY FUCKING LOUD.

  • hahah Sonic Youth? Metal? seriously??!

  • guys, guys, guys, Dream Theater + Skid Row tards criticizing SY need not be acknowledged. let them have their lifeless music and unimaginative opinions.

  • Lmfao...you actually associate DT and Skid Row, those bands couldn't be more different. it shows how much you know.

  • i suppose you're right. they each produce their own unique brands of suck. but for some reason i have a special place in my heart for Sebastian Bach.

  • I like both bands too lol but I mean their not really similar.

  • No comeback and resorting to giving thumbs downs=PWNED

  • I do feel it necessary to comment on your grammatical errors, given that you spouted off the wonderful advice that we should "learn basic english". Do you know what the sentences "That's very clear. And thanks, that is a good point." are? SENTENCE FRAGMENTS. Do you know what "alot" is? Neither do I, because IT IS NOT A FUCKING WORD. Fusion sucks, too.

  • Actually, "That's very clear" is a complete sentence. If you remember 3rd grade, which shouldn't be that hard for you, you should recall that a sentence has a subject, verb, and an object. In this case, "that" is the subject, "is" is the verb, "clear" is the object, and you're a fucking idiot. And, obviously there are going to be some grammatical issues, as I am writing as I would speak since this a forum of discussion. Go take a lot of dicks up your ass.

  • This is pathetic! What the hell does it matter if Thurston Moore is considered a "good" guitarist or not? Why should we waste time debating if Sonic Youth is underground or not? Who cares what is mainstream and what is not? If you think this sounds like shit, fine. But stop trying to prove that your opinion is the right one! Have some respect! I like noise, I am not an elitist and I don't listen to what I listen to for any other reason than I LIKE HOW IT SOUNDS.

  • Wow what a great point you bring there. Thanks for sharing that with me. Except maybe one part: if you have the habit of ejaculating when you listen to music you like, that's fine with me, but please don't think it's a universal practice.

    My mental balance doesn't have anything to do with the music I listen to. So no, I won't "understand".

  • Hmmm, OK, so you have nothing to say except insulting me for no reason.

  • Just because you don't like metal, doesn't make it "mainstream" music...hell, if anything, shit like Sonic Youth is more "mainstream" than most metal right now, and it has been ever since the 90's, yet you continue to insist that your are the "true underground elite" or whatever the hell. I am not criticizing you for liking Sonic Youth, even though I personally don't see how someone conciously could, I am criticizing your ridiculous bias against other types of music, elitism, and ignorance.

  • You say "I am not criticizing you for liking Sonic Youth". Alright then, why do you say "shit like Sonic Youth"?

  • There is a HUGE difference between criticizing MUSIC and criticizing A PERSON for liking music, I was referring to Sonic Youth's MUSIC alone when I called it shit. I have friends who love music I think is absolute trash, but I don't look down on them for it. Then again, seeing as your entire subculutre is based of being assholes to fans of music you consider "inferior", it is not suprising you interperated my comments this way.

  • There you go again. And you do criticize me for liking Sonic Youth(by the way, I'm not even a real fan of them). You assume I'm part of some evil subculture who hastes you and whatever music you like, even though, in my comment, I didn't mention anything about that. On the contrary, in my previous comment I was saying people should respect each others taste in music. If you would have read that comment, you would know that I do not consider any music superior or inferior.

  • After reading your posts a little more careful, I now understad you were attempting to take a more nuetral position, and I apologize for being rash. However, many of Sonic Youth's fans (NOT all of, but many on this video) seem to feel this sense of elitism and superiority for liking "underground" music (which is actually not underground at all) and look down on other music for not sharing the same principles. I was referring more to these people than you personally.

  • I also laughed my ass off at the person who called prog metal, "mainstream", are you on fucking acid (well seeing as you like this you must be, but thats besides the point), when was the last time Dream Theater was in Rolling Stone? Symphony X? Opeth? Meshuggah? Nevermore? You've probably never even heard of those bands, and by metal standards they are considered "mainstream." Last time I picked up Rolling Stone I saw this no talent hack ranked as one of the "Top 100 Guitarists Of All Time".

  • I'd hate to rain on all of you Sonic Youth groupies parades here, but this is absolute garbage. This is literally guitar feedback, "enhanced" via the player doing stupid things with his guitar. Literally ANYONE could do this, and it'd still sound the same. I'd go to reccommend a list of bands/guitarists to listen to otherwise, but seeing previous comments generally going along the lines of "metal is kids music" and "shred is guitar masturbation", I won't bother...

  • at least he's pushing the boundries of whats sonically possible with a guitar. theory's been dead for years. sure its nice to know but where's creativity in staying within the parameters of theory?

  • all hes doing is scratching his guitar and letting the crowd pull the strings.

    how on earth is tht creativity?

    i know yall think this is totally amazing and innovative.

    thats your opinion.

    and mine is that this is just noise..

  • because no other guitar player does that. thats why

  • So if no other guitar player played a guitar that was intentionally out of tune at all times, and hit random notes on the fretboard while rubbing the strings against his dick, would it be "creative" and by your standards, "good"?

  • its sonic youth.

    its not green day or arctic monkeys.

    what should they do on stage? they own the audience because of that.there is really nothing beyond great riffs and good songs. but would u prefer to be there watching thurston let the audience participate, actually playing with the band, or to clap your hands to...green day, or artic monkeys hits?

    dont know...i rather win one lee or thurston picker than a guitar from alex turner. that says all.

  • i think there are many kinds of creativity, and one of them emerges from chaos, it´s a possible kind of trance, and i agree luck and randomness have much to do with it. but it´s still creativity

  • well in that case, anyone who owns a guitar can be creative and make noise.

  • 4 sure, anyone can be creative, no doubt about it. what u wanna do with it, depends on you, but has nothing to do.

    tarkovsky wrote "poetry aint an artistic discipline, it´s a way of living".

    couldn´t be more on his side

  • The fact that you just said "theory is dead" demonstrates how ignorant and disrepectful you are to the origins of music as we know it...

  • you know what man. Fuck You. just Fuck You.

  • Yet another officially "pwned"...no matter what pretentious psuedo-intellectual crap you throw at me, true musical knowledge will always triumph.

  • pwned? PWNED?

    YOU VIRGIN.

    GO BACK TO YOUR WARCRAFT, YOU UGLY AMERICAN.

  • Lmfao someone who calls himself "spamtron" isnt even worth pwning

  • your a shitty human being. Fuck your music i hope you and all the bands you like die of aids.

  • Theory simply explains why musics works the way it does, the knowledge of it may or may not make you a better player,There are thousands of music professors out the that know it backwards and forwards yet they have added little or nothing to music conversely there are stellar musicians such as Hendrix Charlie Parker John Coltrain etc. who knew little or no theory at all but there immortalized greats-The theorist then dissect there music and say Ah Ha thats genius!!- Such as it is.Peace

  • Originality is rewarded far more than technique in our age.

    But the better your technique, and the more you know about your instrument, the better you know what your possibilities are when creating music.

    If you can play flamenco, rock, plain chords etc. You have more chance of making an original "riff" than when you only know A,D,E or something.

    Especially nowadays that's important, since almost every "plain" riff already exists.

    Sonic Youth,bitches! :)

    peace out

  • or buy effects pedals, tune your guitar different, and play too fucking loud in a bedroom somewhere with your friends and some booze. In other words I think approach is just as crucial as technique or knowledge in music creation. Oh and dont forget to dress accordingly.

  • Yeah, except Charlie Parker and John Coltrane knew plenty about theory.

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  • Your right lecale Parker and Coltrane did know a lot- they were a bad example to use however I do know Hendrix had little musical knowledge and in fact could not read music-Gil Evans was a some point going to help him this area.The point is originality and being gifted in music can not be learned only facilitated by theoretical knowledge.

  • Shredding is actually closer to guitar masturbation, in my opinion.

  • respect is onanism! pleasure is everywhere...

    loquillo: "it´s better a good jack-off than one of those one night stand where u wake up next morning wondering "what did I fuck?" (might make no sense, i´m drunk)

  • ehm that last comment was a reply to saneasylum679

  • do people start fighting for that guitar?

  • Oh ya, but security wrestles it away so nobody gets hurt. Ha ha those guys thought they were gonna keep it. I mean, Thurston was giving it away and all.

  • J Mascis is God.

  • I think discussions that concern musical taste can never be resolved because there's no absolute truth to be found here. What means musical quality to one person might mean the opposite to another. To try to decide whether this can be called "music" or "good music" is irrelevant since there can be as many answers as there are people. For some it is, for some it's not. What musical quality is can never be singled out and put up as an indesputable fact .

  • I agree