Thurston Moore to publish memoir, Sonic Life

brianlux
brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
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Gift article from NY Times.  Sonic Youth fans will love this. 
I can't wait to get my hand on a copy of this book!


"It's a sad and beautiful world"
-Roberto Benigni

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Picked up my copy and diving right in.  Just 30 pages in and I can already tell this will be a favorite music memoir for me.  Moore's stories are great!  I just read about him and a friend going to see the Cramps and Suicide.  Crazy!   
    A great read.
    Sonic Life A Memoir

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,802
    Cool, I got a copy for my birthday last week. I was about to start Steve Turner’s ‘Mud Ride’ but I think Thurston will jump the queue!
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    goldrush said:
    Cool, I got a copy for my birthday last week. I was about to start Steve Turner’s ‘Mud Ride’ but I think Thurston will jump the queue!

    Fantastic!  I think you will get right into it.  Thurston does a quick job of covering his early life (as opposed to so many biographies that spend what I often find to be too much time going on about family history) and then quickly transitions into killer stories about the music he was inspired by, and bands he went to see in his younger years.
    And the man has the reputation of being a walking dictionary of all this interesting and amazing in music.  I'm stoked that this book is almost 500 pages long-- edited down from the 1500 pages he originally submitted!  Heck, I'd be just fine with reading the whole thing!

    I'll be interested to hear what you think.  Enjoy!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    First I'm hearing of this! Will definitely check it out - thanks for the heads up.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    mfc2006 said:
    First I'm hearing of this! Will definitely check it out - thanks for the heads up.

    Sure thing!  
    I missed out on reading the last couple days (COVID vacc knocked me down hard) but am back into to Thurston's book and loving it!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Guy Dudebro
    Guy Dudebro Posts: 1,480
    mfc2006 said:
    First I'm hearing of this! Will definitely check it out - thanks for the heads up.
    Signed copies at Premier Collectibles for $35 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Guy Dudebro said:
    mfc2006 said:
    First I'm hearing of this! Will definitely check it out - thanks for the heads up.
    Signed copies at Premier Collectibles for $35 

    Great deal if it's a flat signed trade hardcover.  I paid just under $30, unsigned.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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