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earthman buck
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02/23/2006 8:26 pm
Originally Posted by: Vegas WierdoSometimes what you lack in virtuosity you can make up with in creativity and weirdness. Observe:

Wikipedia: Sonic Youth

Paraphrasing something I once read about them: $150 dollar guitars just sound like cheap guitars... but if you tune it randomly and strike it with a screwdriver you can make it sound like church bells.

So true. I've given up on trying to be the greatest guitarist who ever lived. Now I want to be the guitarist who you hear and go "What the hell was THAT?!"

Sonic Youth is the roxorz.