Met Thurston when he came to Bard College back in the early 00s. He did a small poetry thing and had brought his electric guitar and an amp and at the end of hi

Met Thurston when he came to Bard College back in the early 00s. He did a small poetry thing and had brought his electric guitar and an amp and at the end of his reading he shredded for us for a bit. Then he hung out afterwards for a while. Super chill dude. Sonic Youth is such an interesting group because they're hugely influential, like the Pixies, among musicians — and yet for as famous as they became, Nirvana really took the genre mainstream. Not that Nirvana was necessarily super happy about that.