Show Us Your Junk! Ep. 18 - Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) | EarthQuaker Devices

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We’ve had a running bet around the office about who might be the first artist to drop trou in an episode of Show Us Your Junk! Today’s your lucky day, Sonic Youth fans, because Lee Ranaldo is not that artist.
But he came close. And he did expose us to a custom sixteen-string guitar built by Steve Albini with only high E strings and a penis inlay. It says, “Sonic Sixteen.”
“That’s one of the bossest headstocks you’ll ever see in your life,” says Ranaldo.
“So that’s that.”
In thirty short years, Sonic Youth produced one of the largest and most stimulating bodies of work of any American rock band. Their catalog spans 16 studio albums, 4 “best-of” compilations, 6 feature-length videos, 46 music videos, 8 Eps, 21 singles, 8 improvised SYR recordings, 8 authorized bootlegs, 16 soundtrack and compilation appearances; and hundreds - actual hundreds - of guitars. They married hardcore punk with fine art, free-improvisation, beatnik poetry, musiqué concrete, contemporary classical composition, pop-rock, and selfless democratic collaboration to produce a polyamorous cacophony of tension and release that’s often imitated, but never replicated.
During the latter third of their career, Sonic Youth set up camp in their Echo Canyon East recording studio on Manhattan’s Murray St. where they recorded their 2002 album with the same name. In 2006, they decamped to the opposite shore of the Hudson River to Hoboken, NJ to set up shop at Echo Canyon West, where their junk currently resides.
The control room in Echo Canyon West is built around a 2” 16-track Studer A800 tape machine and a modified Neve 5106 mixing console. Since the 5106 was built for broadcast applications, it has no mic preamps. Audio signals are routed to preamps, outboard gear, and tape - bypassing the console entirely. Likewise, they shun plugins and prefer to commit sounds to tape as early as possible. Edits are performed manually using a grease pencil and razorblade to slice and dice entire takes captured on tape.
The studio’s live room is lined with amplifiers - combos mostly - including an early ‘60s Fender Super Reverb (Lee’s amp of choice), a brownface Princeton modded by NYC amp tech Harry Kolbe, and the exact ‘50s Tweed Deluxe model like those used onstage by Neil Young during the Goo tour back in 1991. “It’s not really roadworthy,” says Ranaldo, “but it’s got that classic old Fender sound.”
Guitar-wise, Lee mainly plays his signature Jazzmaster modified with Fender Wide Range humbuckers like those in his early ‘70s Telecaster Deluxe ¬- his first “serious” guitar. When Sonic Youth’s gear was stolen in 1999, Lee’s first Telecaster was among the guitars taken and was one of the few pieces recovered, albeit with a new powder blue finish courtesy of the thieves.
Perhaps the most interesting lost-and-found item is Lee’s Travis Bean Artist (no. 375) played on the song “Kool Thing” (Goo, 1991) which “looked like someone had stuck it in a campfire for an hour or two” and “looked kind of cool,” but has been restored to its original condition at the request of Sonic Youth’s crew who “couldn’t stand the way it looked,” says Lee.
Upstairs is the master tape archive where the entirety of Sonic Youth’s recorded output is painstakingly cataloged. If you’ve made it this far, then we probably don’t need to say too much about the mixdown reels for Evol, Daydream Nation, Sister, and so on. But we’ll keep a lookout for the possibility of an SYR record with Nels Cline.
Video: Vice Cooler
Music: Lee Ranaldo
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  • @EarthQuakerDevices
    @EarthQuakerDevices4 жыл бұрын

    Subscribe for more content like this! We have a bunch to watch already and more on the way!

  • @samueld92

    @samueld92

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please interview Kevin Shields ❤️

  • @wado1942
    @wado19424 жыл бұрын

    I met this guy last year and had no clue who he was! He just came up to me and started talking about my band and wanted to check out some other local groups. He mentioned he was a musician too but didn't say much aside from that. What a nice, cool dude!

  • @Spitson7771

    @Spitson7771

    4 жыл бұрын

    wado1942 you met one of Alternative music’s greatest guitarist

  • @deborahchesser7375

    @deborahchesser7375

    4 жыл бұрын

    Humility sure makes a great person

  • @tianbarretosebas8380

    @tianbarretosebas8380

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same guy who bullied nardwuar tho

  • @__________e5437

    @__________e5437

    4 жыл бұрын

    like when dave grohl met paul mac cartney and he got annoyed

  • @alexanderclaylavin

    @alexanderclaylavin

    3 жыл бұрын

    SY are pretty much the nicest, most unassuming people you could meet

  • @simonreverb619
    @simonreverb6194 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the old rub the headstock against the door technique.

  • @ejspookyify

    @ejspookyify

    2 жыл бұрын

    I learned that one in my first lesson. Might've been my second lesson after "how to tune."

  • @kylfyre
    @kylfyre4 жыл бұрын

    Refreshing to see instruments being treated as noise making tools instead of being seen as some 'holy grail' type object by some collector/ investor.

  • @marilynjean9689

    @marilynjean9689

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!! 🙌🏼

  • @Quattro79

    @Quattro79

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jonny greenwood also believes in this philosophy. He was once asked by fender if he wanted a replica of his brown sunburst tele made and he replied “I’ve already got a guitar, why would I want another?”

  • @torontotonto6189

    @torontotonto6189

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Quattro79 they probably asked him 10-20k too thought for it

  • @ejspookyify

    @ejspookyify

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed! I never treat my guitars with special care. If they get a dent or scratch? Character. I noticed how nonchalant he was about picking up and putting down small amps. Loved it. Musical gear is made to make music, not money. And worn out/trashed guitar gear has a much cooler and authentic look and feel. I treat even my most valuable guitars like everyday instruments. Except unlike everyday instruments I have to insure them. Hahaha.

  • @thc_freebaser

    @thc_freebaser

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ejspookyify I don't think its necessarily about purposefully treating your instruments so preciously, but just not being so uptight as to not recognize these are mass produced noisemaking tools at the end of the day that happen to border into art. On top of that, its Lee fucking Ronaldo, the man can probably afford to and should be allowed to handle a guitar any way he goddamned pleases.

  • @f.g.6019
    @f.g.60194 жыл бұрын

    Love how Lee handles all that gear as...gear, and not as porcelain vases or museum pieces.

  • @Thee_Attic

    @Thee_Attic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, I love seeing worn out guitars !

  • @fueu2617

    @fueu2617

    2 жыл бұрын

    yep I was thinkig that, how he just drops everything with a thud!

  • @lucianopoveretti

    @lucianopoveretti

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah but don't blame people taking care of objects that cost 2k on average

  • @therapist6328

    @therapist6328

    2 жыл бұрын

    My kids are not allowed to play my guitars with drums sticks, same as they cant play the drums with my guitar necks. This man obviously had less rules.

  • @davidhaab5558

    @davidhaab5558

    Жыл бұрын

    @@therapist6328 😂

  • @Eliguitar1
    @Eliguitar15 жыл бұрын

    "16 high E strings" classic sonic youth.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    haha yep

  • @Eliguitar1

    @Eliguitar1

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices The world said "12 string guitar" and SY said "nah 16 string high E is more like it".

  • @allaboutdatGDA

    @allaboutdatGDA

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eli Friedmann well, Steve Albini took it to that next level for them. And I thought Steve’s guitar shrieked. Imagine what that one sounds like. I wonder if it’s ever been on any of their tracks.

  • @stulora3172

    @stulora3172

    5 жыл бұрын

    yeah, 12 just don't cut it!

  • @mt_vu_rx_jukeboxhero

    @mt_vu_rx_jukeboxhero

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@allaboutdatGDA I been in the SoniC Youth Groove befoRe seems like abouT a College Course to geT on the AgeNDA. 👃👂🎶🎸🎤🎧📢📱 U NaMe iT.💤😁

  • @jasonelambeth
    @jasonelambeth5 жыл бұрын

    Any video that begins with Lee Ronaldo and some sort of buzzing noise gets all of my attention.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    same. thanks for watching!

  • @jasonelambeth

    @jasonelambeth

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices omg. thanks for posting it. It's a glorious history lesson!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    it's our pleasure! i've probably watched it 8 times by now and i learn something new every time.

  • @jasonelambeth

    @jasonelambeth

    5 жыл бұрын

    EarthQuakerDevices haha! I don’t doubt it!

  • @grandudetonesnob7107

    @grandudetonesnob7107

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ditto that, brother!

  • @stuartphelps3293
    @stuartphelps32935 жыл бұрын

    One of those videos you wish would never end.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    i could spend months, years, even, in that studio. thanks for watching!

  • @RastaSaiyaman

    @RastaSaiyaman

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices So I can imagine, it's such a shame they don't rent it out, I'd love to record there and have Lee as producer.

  • @troyholio4997

    @troyholio4997

    5 жыл бұрын

    agree

  • @Skumbomb

    @Skumbomb

    5 жыл бұрын

    so true, want to see & hear more

  • @davidharbilas4185

    @davidharbilas4185

    5 жыл бұрын

    Couldn't agree more. So sad that this band is no longer with us.

  • @Spencergundersenmusic
    @Spencergundersenmusic5 жыл бұрын

    Whoever stole sonic youths gear is hella cursed

  • @4everfree

    @4everfree

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope they got bleeding ulcers with perpetual pink eye along with whooping cough.

  • @marilynjean9689

    @marilynjean9689

    3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine a couple of crack heads with no idea of the true value of what was stolen??? Breaks my heart more than the robbery.

  • @undergroundnation6423

    @undergroundnation6423

    3 жыл бұрын

    I did it, sorry guys.

  • @dakistle

    @dakistle

    3 жыл бұрын

    For sure. What would you even do with the best pieces? It's like stealing the Mona Lisa! The only way it has any worth is if you can prove you own it legitimately.

  • @nataroonytrontime3976

    @nataroonytrontime3976

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@undergroundnation6423 lel

  • @furlag2
    @furlag25 жыл бұрын

    Imagine: you are a teenager who is into guitars and Lee is your the best grandpa ever 👍👍👍

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    for real

  • @jblondon1327

    @jblondon1327

    Жыл бұрын

    When your grandad is cooler than you

  • @dougthealligator
    @dougthealligator5 жыл бұрын

    Can we just get weekly installments of Lee making noises and talking SY stuff?

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    i wish

  • @grandudetonesnob7107

    @grandudetonesnob7107

    5 жыл бұрын

    That would be schweet!

  • @JohnDoe-zq1ho

    @JohnDoe-zq1ho

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices If you have any B-roll footage of him messing around with any of the stuff from this video, you'd have to be a damn fool not to compile ALL of it, unedited, into a single video, and post it on your channel. I'm not joking, if you want SERIOUS views, do this. Do you have any idea how badly people *actually want* more long form content like that? Despite what trends may tell you, people really respond to that kind of stuff. And jesus christ, it's LEE from the Sonic Youth we're talking about here! And seeing him make noises with all of these incredibly unique devices is a one in a million chance. You're sitting on youtube gold man. You've got to talk to your video guys and get them to do it. I will personally share it EVERYWHERE, it would blow up on ALL music websites. Please please please do it, there's literally not a single reason not to. If I could come there and do all the editing myself, I would. PLEASE

  • @allisonwatling9565
    @allisonwatling95655 жыл бұрын

    you guys should get Kevin Shields on this lol

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    we'd love to. you got his number?

  • @fkorekore265

    @fkorekore265

    5 жыл бұрын

    Fender just have done a long video in his studio too, in Ireland, similiar to this. Supercool.

  • @larskappeler

    @larskappeler

    5 жыл бұрын

    I rehearsed in the same studio in London as MBV before they went on tour. Every day they got plenty of new FX pedals and their roadies build them into a rack. But when they wanted to move it, it doesn't fit through the door anymore. :-D

  • @hdouglasotto

    @hdouglasotto

    5 жыл бұрын

    "And over here is my Dyson DC33 Bagless..."

  • @allaboutdatGDA

    @allaboutdatGDA

    5 жыл бұрын

    haha how to use a wammy bar and delay pedal.

  • @alexanderclaylavin
    @alexanderclaylavin3 жыл бұрын

    The moral of the story is... Have fun, embrace creativity, savor the good times, and you will stay young forever

  • @richevans609

    @richevans609

    4 ай бұрын

    Jjj

  • @sprthhfk
    @sprthhfk5 жыл бұрын

    16:40 honestly thought Lee was going to climb up the ladder and elbow drop his guitar

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    that'd be more badass than the time the Undertaker tossed Mankind off the top of the cage

  • @5882300rickroll

    @5882300rickroll

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking along the same lines. First he's running the headstock along the wall then going up the ladder. What is gonna happen??

  • @stulora3172

    @stulora3172

    5 жыл бұрын

    so did I

  • @jhonnycagexrage7458

    @jhonnycagexrage7458

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices What the hell i just watched a video about that and now i see your comment

  • @redielg

    @redielg

    4 жыл бұрын

    I read this two second before he got on the ladder lmfao

  • @1m2a3t4t5
    @1m2a3t4t55 жыл бұрын

    "the thieves had painted it blue...and we left it that way because we thought it was kind of funny"

  • @longacre4932
    @longacre49325 жыл бұрын

    What a warm, unassuming guy.

  • @keithklassen5320

    @keithklassen5320

    4 жыл бұрын

    His eyes are so open and kind!

  • @juliogurrola3645

    @juliogurrola3645

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just watch the Nardwuar interview lol

  • @gianttreeproductions3947
    @gianttreeproductions39475 жыл бұрын

    That blue tele he showed was also played by Kurt Cobain at a show he played with sonic youth and mudhoney in ‘92 Edit 1 Year Later: HOLY SHIT this blew up lol, still a great video :)

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    OMG

  • @revolutionday1

    @revolutionday1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pin this comment!

  • @noesunyoutuber7680

    @noesunyoutuber7680

    5 жыл бұрын

    Clearly somebody at Earthquaker is a big Nirvana fan.

  • @northernblue8921

    @northernblue8921

    5 жыл бұрын

    Did he play it upside down?

  • @PepisMusicmx

    @PepisMusicmx

    5 жыл бұрын

    Here it is being used by Cobain in "the money will roll right in" : bit.ly/2RdHC9r

  • @jopestv1063
    @jopestv10635 жыл бұрын

    18:16 - made me cry...my mum who passed away in 2007 had one of these cassette players. She was a voracious reader but suffered with macular degeneration in her twilight years. She got tapes from Readers Digest & Newsweek. Every 3-4 months I would clean & demagnetize the heads. Of course she would listen to the news on radio and TV, and even tho she was so proper she wouldn't say 'shit' even if she had a mouthful, she called Sean Hannity 'a prick'. I miss her & her judgement of character. Sure do miss you, Mom.

  • @stankcooter

    @stankcooter

    5 жыл бұрын

    JopesTV sorry for your loss may she rest in peace

  • @chadhiggins9944

    @chadhiggins9944

    2 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciated this.. your mom reminds me of my late mother.

  • @MarceloRomero360

    @MarceloRomero360

    2 жыл бұрын

    That is a very sweet tribute to your mom❤

  • @i.t9390

    @i.t9390

    Жыл бұрын

    This is beautiful

  • @ohlookseeker

    @ohlookseeker

    4 ай бұрын

    sorry for your lose, seems like your mom was the coolest around

  • @Aldebaran135
    @Aldebaran1355 жыл бұрын

    6:19 I thought Lee was coming up with a new SY song but he was literally just looking through cymbals

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol!

  • @FFGG22E

    @FFGG22E

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cymbals. Symbols. Cymbals.

  • @janteekens4678

    @janteekens4678

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cymbals ;)

  • @rileywebb9
    @rileywebb95 жыл бұрын

    I could watch 5 hours of this.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    me too.

  • @rickg8015
    @rickg80155 жыл бұрын

    J Mascis next.. Same length please. Sloth-like J needs all the time to stretch out..

  • @markbrooks4471
    @markbrooks44715 жыл бұрын

    Totally fascinating but I wished there was more time to explore some of what is touched on here. Lee is the most mysterious member of Sonic Youth, sort of the George Harrison of the group I guess, so it is great to hear him elaborate on some of the iconistic pieces of gear that set them apart from the mainstream. Thank you Earthquaker for making this happen.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Our pleasure, Mark. Thanks for watching!

  • @sergiosavini4817
    @sergiosavini48174 жыл бұрын

    "The composer Steve Reich my neighbor in Manhattan"

  • @auburnkit

    @auburnkit

    4 жыл бұрын

    When in new york

  • @richardlucascronley5128

    @richardlucascronley5128

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bit of a flex there lol

  • @s1ayd
    @s1ayd5 жыл бұрын

    Lee's the kind of guy who manages to get strings slipping off of a mastery bridge

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    he makes his guitars do work, that's for sure

  • @cocobongo1867
    @cocobongo18673 жыл бұрын

    I basically "learned" to play listening to him and Thurston. That was 30 years ago. I'm still trying to learn to play like them.

  • @noesunyoutuber7680

    @noesunyoutuber7680

    3 жыл бұрын

    True elder statesmen of noise-based rock guitar. I too have longed to play like them.

  • @markferguson3745

    @markferguson3745

    Жыл бұрын

    I grew up in the era in NYC playing in similarly then despised " Noise" bands; still playing now. Key is to remove variables and then selectively reintroduce them; use alt tunings, but use the same tunings on guitars that can hold them.Much of the staleness of traditional Rock is the familiarity of the structures and standard tuning; interupt the expectations of the ear, and compositions will go to fresh places. More so now than then, effect pedals are your friend; they now make effects to do absolutely everything to a signal.Not so back then; they were hard to find, and they were not reliable. Don't be guitar dependent. Keyboards, bass, and varied percussion often do the job better. Listen to and watch how The Fall and Mark E. did it; planned improv., 50/50.Good drummers are vital. Live, it's not always going to gel; accept that the cost of inspired music is failing a decent amount of the time.Magic isn't consistent.

  • @74vibrolux
    @74vibrolux5 жыл бұрын

    Holy hell they need to release those recordings with Nels!!! Thank you for this Earthquaker. From the bottom of my gear-loving heart I thank you.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    You know what to do: www.change.org/

  • @TheSamfromalabam

    @TheSamfromalabam

    5 жыл бұрын

    I just went to the "30 Years of Daydream Nation" screening tonight and mentioned the recordings of Nels to Steve Shelley. I mentioned this comment and all the likes and he said he saw your comment. haha So...if anyone catches the show then keep on asking and maybe well get to hear them someday.

  • @premierguitar
    @premierguitar5 жыл бұрын

    Looks like we're gonna take our lunch break now! Thanks EQD!!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    what's for lunch?

  • @nataroonytrontime3976

    @nataroonytrontime3976

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices And they never knew.

  • @bioof4

    @bioof4

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nataroonytrontime3976 the unsolved mystery will live on

  • @rosegateave.

    @rosegateave.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nataroonytrontime3976 never.

  • @Kaz377
    @Kaz3775 жыл бұрын

    Does anybody else noticed when he talked about his first guitar being stolen and getting it back, he showed his true passion about music such a nice human being, so inspiring !!!!

  • @MitchellMaichak-ze7mr

    @MitchellMaichak-ze7mr

    7 ай бұрын

    It's NO FUN having ANY of your tools and toys stolen !!!

  • @iainking671
    @iainking6715 жыл бұрын

    The guitar he couldn’t remember the name of is called a Harmony Bobkat.

  • @revolutionday1

    @revolutionday1

    5 жыл бұрын

    My first "serious" guitar was also a Harmony. It was a Strat' copy, in a metal flake silver, with a black pickguard, and....gold hardware. Long gone now (traded it to a local shop for a Danelectro "Black Coffee" Metal Distortion mini pedal), but I started collecting Harmonys afterwards, before they became "the thing to have".

  • @evanmcdoniels
    @evanmcdoniels5 жыл бұрын

    Amazing stories and tones! It kind of feels like meeting a wizard in a forest and he has all these different mushrooms and herbs that have a story to them and then he plays them into music with crazy effect. Please come back to Milwaukee sometime Sonic Youth!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for watching Evan!

  • @mfdebian
    @mfdebian5 жыл бұрын

    I'm so ready to lose 25 minutes from my work day.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me too.

  • @andrasborzsonyi2739

    @andrasborzsonyi2739

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah...and me too!

  • @mufki

    @mufki

    5 жыл бұрын

    i watched this in my workplace lol

  • @randomdudethatexists3409

    @randomdudethatexists3409

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices u getting in trobule bruh

  • @dlawlis
    @dlawlis5 жыл бұрын

    When I was in college 30 years ago Daydream Nation literally changed the way I listen to music. Nevertheless when Lee started playing the guitar with the drum stick it reminded me of Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap playing his guitar with his violin.

  • @surrealchemist
    @surrealchemist5 жыл бұрын

    KZread's algorithm must suck because it took this long before I saw this awesome vid.

  • @avillazamora3660
    @avillazamora36605 жыл бұрын

    It's so educational seeing how he makes noise, making good noise is surprisingly hard...

  • @FabianSalomonsson
    @FabianSalomonsson5 жыл бұрын

    If i got to listen to Sonic Youth + Nels jamming my life would be complete

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    you could try watching this video and our Nels Cline Board to Death at the same time and see what happens

  • @allenschmitz9644

    @allenschmitz9644

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices Is Nels from Cincinnatti?

  • @fkorekore265

    @fkorekore265

    5 жыл бұрын

    And there's a video here of Thurston and Nels doing a 2 gtr improv show, in a store, in fact I think it was called "In Store as it eventually was released as a record, around ten years ago. Check it out too.

  • @movimentodoscacos

    @movimentodoscacos

    4 жыл бұрын

    RELEASE THE RECORDINGS FFS lmao

  • @Cesiumswimsuit
    @Cesiumswimsuit5 жыл бұрын

    I’m pretty concerned for the 4 people who disliked this glimpse into SY history. Thanks for this Earthquaker!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    there's no accounting for taste, I suppose. thanks for watching!

  • @revolutionday1

    @revolutionday1

    5 жыл бұрын

    .....right?! The only Sonic Youth song I really know is "100%", but....I mean...c'mon!!

  • @HolographicSweater
    @HolographicSweater2 жыл бұрын

    I met him once at a garage sale and bought a hair dryer from him, super great and humble guy. He reminds me of Austin Powers

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    2 жыл бұрын

    like conair or what are we talkin here

  • @plunkadelicdaydream
    @plunkadelicdaydream4 жыл бұрын

    I saw Lee on the street one time 100 years ago. I was like "What am I going to say?" I just left him alone, but after watching this clip, I realized that we actually have a few things in common besides the Continental electric twelve-string (which he didn't show in this video, and may have been stolen for all I know). Happy memories.

  • @electromuff7870

    @electromuff7870

    Жыл бұрын

    The Kapa Continental got smashed in an Irvine gig in November 1990

  • @weareripley
    @weareripley5 жыл бұрын

    Lee, as played by Robert De Niro.

  • @luispereztasso
    @luispereztasso5 жыл бұрын

    Guys, you MUST design a pedal with him.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    ooh that'd be fun

  • @luispereztasso

    @luispereztasso

    5 жыл бұрын

    Just to clarify, whatever it could be, I'll buy it. No doubts.

  • @GarySheedyMusic

    @GarySheedyMusic

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices your own take on Slicie??

  • @myownparasite8284

    @myownparasite8284

    5 жыл бұрын

    YES PLS

  • @ebeep

    @ebeep

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm ready to preorder.

  • @danalog76
    @danalog765 жыл бұрын

    When he says this was their setlist from the night which became our last show it brings a tear to my eye. I was lucky enough to see every tour from the Dirty tour all the way to some of the final shows in the U..S. including the Matador 21 show and the Hollywood Bowl with Pavement. Thank you Sonic Youth for those amazing years and inspiring the World forever.

  • @GenteelCretin
    @GenteelCretin5 жыл бұрын

    I don't know what's weirder, the fact that Jim O'Rourke talked them out of a classic Neve mixing desk, or the fact that the albums of theirs he worked on sound more like they were recorded and mixed down on high-quality vintage gear than the ones that actually were done with the Neve.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    ...and that's why you want Jim O'Rourke in your band.

  • @frankfionn

    @frankfionn

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jim O'Rourke is so great. I love his solo work.

  • @enkiea8322

    @enkiea8322

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tortoise though? KILLER. J.O'R is a boss.

  • @dapperduckquack

    @dapperduckquack

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its all about the ear, not the gear!

  • @TomCasey

    @TomCasey

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's a funny thought. I guess it just proves how subjective these things can be.

  • @grodot5317
    @grodot53175 жыл бұрын

    Lee Ranaldo is such a great guy. He came out to meet the fans after a solo gig in my hometown and was so nice to everyone. Thanks Lee!

  • @killyourtvnotme
    @killyourtvnotme5 жыл бұрын

    I was at that show when all their gear got swiped. Heartbreaking, but also heartening to see all the bands lend their guitars and cheer them on.

  • @rickg8015

    @rickg8015

    5 жыл бұрын

    killyourtvnotme GbV and Sleater-Kinney!

  • @amortiferaaj

    @amortiferaaj

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was there too! I saw a guy that looked like Lou Barlow and of course I yelled "Lou!" I could tell it was him because he flinched but didn't turn around (classic). Later they thanked him for helping tune those guitars. Side note: how amazing was At The Drive-In?!

  • @H_Oscarsson
    @H_Oscarsson5 жыл бұрын

    Now do Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore!

  • @NESman-dm3wd

    @NESman-dm3wd

    5 жыл бұрын

    There's a video of Thurston showing shit in his apartment in 1988.

  • @grandudetonesnob7107
    @grandudetonesnob71075 жыл бұрын

    GENIUS!!!!!! I am so thankful for the show us your junk series. All of the music that matters revealed, yet still mysterious pieces of time. SYw/ Nels would be an opiate for these ears!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for the kind words! I'm determined to hear that SY / Nels tape if it kills me.

  • @PJownsyoursoul
    @PJownsyoursoul5 жыл бұрын

    When all of those symbols were clashing together, I thought that was a Sonic Youth song.

  • @OMNIFICPICTURES
    @OMNIFICPICTURES4 жыл бұрын

    Better get all those tapes archived in digital and backed up. It’s art worthy of cathedral type safety. The work is godlike.

  • @CobblesteinSwobblepop

    @CobblesteinSwobblepop

    Жыл бұрын

    Tape will outlive digital backups

  • @kutteistheking
    @kutteistheking3 жыл бұрын

    im coming back to this video every like 3 - 5 weeks

  • @ANDYWOUNDSABRXS
    @ANDYWOUNDSABRXS4 жыл бұрын

    I love this episode of Portlandia! but why is it on this channel?

  • @lars-fenin
    @lars-fenin5 жыл бұрын

    thanx for the tour , and the music... lee !

  • @nathanwilliams3049
    @nathanwilliams30494 жыл бұрын

    these are sooooooo good! I love this series!! ..although I wish this episode with Lee was 6 hours long!!!..seriously I LOVE you for making these! thank you!!

  • @dec0mposing
    @dec0mposing5 жыл бұрын

    The older I get the more appreciation I hold for Lee, amazing artist, his solo and work with Sonic absolutely opened doors for me musically when I first discovered them, a child who had been shunned for making noise in the music class we had in year 8, Sonic Youth and especially Lee made young me realise what I had been creating wasn't that odd, I just hadn't discovered the subculture yet at that young age. Every time I watch a video of Lee it relights the huge spark and passion I had 10 years ago as a 14/15 year old for noise and the fascinating ways of creating it. Awesome seeing the equipment that has made some of my favourite songs, would be an amazing place to dig through!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks so much for watching the video Brittany!

  • @arturoacosta6583

    @arturoacosta6583

    5 жыл бұрын

    His work on 100% is his trademark track!

  • @YGroadcapitain
    @YGroadcapitain5 жыл бұрын

    best episode this far, period! 8)

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for watching!

  • @Skumbomb
    @Skumbomb4 жыл бұрын

    25min of pure magic !! thank you sooo much for this !!!

  • @deborahchesser7375
    @deborahchesser73754 жыл бұрын

    I’ve loved their music since 83’, so cool to see all the memories

  • @larkstonguesinaspic4814
    @larkstonguesinaspic48145 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed my coffee and watching this so much. what a great way to spend your evening.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna curl up by the fireplace and watch this again after work tonight. thanks for watching!

  • @rudyf8333
    @rudyf83334 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe how much I love Lee.

  • @workaccount1478
    @workaccount14784 жыл бұрын

    Wow! That was so much better than I expected. What a great tour. Thanks so much. Lee is awesome.

  • @elpupogriton
    @elpupogriton5 жыл бұрын

    Easily, one of the best videos in the series so far. Love all your stuff EQD & Lee. SY fan since 1990.

  • @danielmcanulty1562
    @danielmcanulty15625 жыл бұрын

    Thanks earthquaker, I had a ton of fun watching this video. This is the side of creativity and growing older that it warms an artist's heart to be able to see. And a reminder that the accumulation of junk is not only a farmer's delight, peril, and legacy, but also ours as well. Rust belt memories and fond wishes.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching Daniel! Glad you enjoyed it

  • @awonderingoneil206
    @awonderingoneil206 Жыл бұрын

    Wish this would never end!

  • @jeffreybiscoe6
    @jeffreybiscoe64 жыл бұрын

    I'm impressed with the knowledge and history of every piece of equipment shown.

  • @FrankZappaFurter
    @FrankZappaFurter4 жыл бұрын

    That’s exactly how I imagined SY’s studio and storage closet would look like...beautifully messy!

  • @mr.p6840
    @mr.p68405 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful ! Thanx a lot.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for watching!

  • @bigmaz4002
    @bigmaz40025 жыл бұрын

    Hey by the way the lack of a Steve albini episode is criminal

  • @watashiwanachodes
    @watashiwanachodes5 жыл бұрын

    This is a god that came from heaven letting us know where ultimate frontiers for guitar sound are really like. Thanks Lee, I love every aspect of your sound and experimentation!

  • @mikoaj2223
    @mikoaj222320 күн бұрын

    Jazz blaster

  • @Brieeeeeel
    @Brieeeeeel5 жыл бұрын

    what a man, my favourite sonicyouther

  • @dittodong
    @dittodong5 жыл бұрын

    it's a museum

  • @Justin-sr2wq
    @Justin-sr2wq Жыл бұрын

    So fucking cool. I wish ever town had a rec center for kids filled with band gear like this.

  • @maxwelljohn9964
    @maxwelljohn99644 жыл бұрын

    This is an amazing web doc. I'm a longtime Sonic Youth Fan I can barely type I'm in awe I love this. Thank you

  • @themanwhostolethetone
    @themanwhostolethetone3 жыл бұрын

    16:00 great paint technique

  • @robotsongs
    @robotsongs4 жыл бұрын

    Lee, you are truly an artist. Keep doing you.

  • @thewintereaglefly
    @thewintereaglefly2 жыл бұрын

    Lee passing the guitar around a door with the very tip of it is poetic to say the least

  • @draculamountain
    @draculamountain5 жыл бұрын

    Lee is the best! I saw him around Hoboken all the time when I lived there and he was always so nice to chat with. Lovely human.

  • @njlwag
    @njlwag5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making my day.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's our pleasure. Thanks for watching, Lance!

  • @enkiea8322

    @enkiea8322

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@EarthQuakerDevices A multi drive (boost/drive/fuzz) with a toggle selectable envelope (kinda like the Fuck OD) controlled by a threshold/sensitivity knob. Oh, and a filter, a GNARLY one. Add switches to choose what the envelope blends in/blends from (gain/tone/filter sweeps, boost into drive, drive into fuzz etc) depending on how hard you dig in/ level of the threshold knob. Of coarse, an exp out to control it all manually. An octave circuit (tentacle would do) and a mod circuit (choppy square wave trem?). It's Sonic Youth so the drives should be like, preamp vibe kinda thing. Sputtery JFET fuzz, pushed mixing desk preamp overdrive. Sorry, I'm a windbag and I'm just spit balling, lol.

  • @JobimSynthMusic
    @JobimSynthMusic4 жыл бұрын

    Lee's a really nice guy. Saw him performing in Rio twice. and with SY in the (I guess) penultimate show with Iggy Pop in Rio. hope he comes back soon. it's cool that he's maintaining SY's archive and history. this video only gets better and better each minute. thanks to Lee and the people who made this possible.

  • @CashMattock
    @CashMattock5 жыл бұрын

    This is seriously one of the best things I’ve ever seen... and the tape!!!

  • @AB-lx8cf
    @AB-lx8cf3 жыл бұрын

    ok... first off, how the heck did I not know you guys had a space in the same placed i had my artist studio in for nearly 2.5 years ?!?! i literally parked in the parking lot to the right of the door! i worked in the gallery in the same building. you guys were such a huge influence to me! my mind is blown!!! granted i was on the 5th floor on the other side facing the parking lot. i was there from 2012 to 2014 . i remember when sandy hit and no one could get in cause that street was flooded. so crazy. i miss you guys, my band would go to your shows all the time in the early 2000's. some of the best shows i've ever been to.

  • @mrtyreus0
    @mrtyreus05 жыл бұрын

    The editing on this video is brilliant in a Sonic Youth sense.

  • @macabre2007
    @macabre20075 жыл бұрын

    Wow I have found home, thank you so much this is truly the best birthday present, to see Lee Ranaldo a guitar hero of mine to provide an insight to the magical place where Sonic Youth create. To see the gear, we gear addict love so to see, to hear gear and road stories from the mouth of a person I respect so much for his guitar work. Again thank you - truly wonderful

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for the kind words!

  • @Wesley.Deuren
    @Wesley.Deuren5 жыл бұрын

    I could listen to these amazing stories all day long. Thank you guys for this show, I love it so much!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thats awesome, we are very happy that you enjoyed it!! Thank you!

  • @music.ericskinner
    @music.ericskinner5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for making this video! Please make more

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    you're welcome! here's a whole playlist of Show Us Your Junk: kzread.info/head/PLLqZD2_F1XvVkfeZTshQ2xO0SB1Te4DR2

  • @paultorbert6929
    @paultorbert69295 жыл бұрын

    oh yeh, the cassette player through pedals !!!!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    I love that it's the Library of Congress model, too.

  • @paultorbert6929

    @paultorbert6929

    5 жыл бұрын

    the secret is out..... i know i will be looking for one !!!!

  • @wolfqueenjubilee
    @wolfqueenjubilee5 жыл бұрын

    I like the way he just knocks stuff around, and I have to add my voice to the call to publish the Nels/SY jams!!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    +1 on the SY / Nels jams

  • @tyler4girlz
    @tyler4girlz5 жыл бұрын

    I have a warm, fuzzy feeling while watching this ❤️

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good! Thats what we were going for

  • @user-mm4yt9qz6x
    @user-mm4yt9qz6x6 ай бұрын

    Brilliant, thanks so much. An inspiration

  • @douglasarthur2673
    @douglasarthur26735 жыл бұрын

    God do I miss Sonic Youth. They played Scotland a number of times and you never knew if you were in for that lo-fi invention or the 'wall of sound'. Always original and unique. Plus he can name-drop Steve Reich...........how cool is that ?

  • @FrankOlsonTwins
    @FrankOlsonTwins5 жыл бұрын

    Amazing tape library. I really wanna hear one of those cassettes!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Just one?

  • @brientnallbarnhart6841
    @brientnallbarnhart68412 жыл бұрын

    That was frigging awesome !!!! Thank you!!!

  • @jonathandufern7421
    @jonathandufern74212 жыл бұрын

    As a huge fan and played guitar for 3 decades Lee Renaldo is amazing. He not only plays out side the box but is one of the two keeping and recording SY’s legacy alive. Love you Lee and keep rocking! \oo/

  • @mindbodylightsound10
    @mindbodylightsound105 жыл бұрын

    Coolest one so far. Didn't know he was friends with Steve Reich!

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for watching!

  • @johnkontos
    @johnkontos5 жыл бұрын

    Ok, you have just released, The Benchmark. Insane video. Thank you.

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for the kind words, John!

  • @Caniballe
    @Caniballe5 жыл бұрын

    Boy, how i love you guys from SY... Thanks for loving São Paulo too!

  • @pschase722
    @pschase7225 жыл бұрын

    I had physical fun watching this...will never forget finding their music as kid and loving that soundworld so much

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for watching!

  • @briansmith9455

    @briansmith9455

    5 жыл бұрын

    just so fucking...DIFFERENT!

  • @ryanheard
    @ryanheard5 жыл бұрын

    I'll be that guy: TR-808 was released 5 years before (1980) the TR-707 (1985).

  • @EarthQuakerDevices

    @EarthQuakerDevices

    5 жыл бұрын

    Heroes take many forms🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @Jeff_____

    @Jeff_____

    5 жыл бұрын

    LOL just posted a few mins ago.

  • @StankoAx
    @StankoAx5 жыл бұрын

    15:05 'door scratch noise' Me: Omg, what pedal sounds like that!?

  • @joshjuanfifarek7382
    @joshjuanfifarek73822 ай бұрын

    I love this soo much. Real musicians always geek out on gear that isn’t theirs yet. Lee is a crazy genius of sound. He’s literally the best summation of the whole Steve Reich, Glenn Branca seed. I met him when I was 12 and was intimidated by the whole scene/band. He was the one who made the effort and put me more at ease. I wish I could see him again to tell him how much I’ve always admired him and how much he exposed me to such eclectic musical ideas/works. He’s a one off.

  • @marceltiel7919
    @marceltiel79192 жыл бұрын

    What a treasure trove this is....wonderful gear....great to see him using the guitar all pedaled up and just waving it for the body to pick up noise

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