Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thurston Moore’s 12-String Guitar
Even though I’ve only had my 12-string for two years, this is my favorite guitar.
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...moreMy parents told me, “This is a special one for the queen.”
...moreWe share our thirty most-read pieces of 2019!
...moreI still had the dress and decided to wear it.
...moreIt’s good to know I’ll always be prepared for what’s out there.
...moreIt was like a nationwide Yellow Pages of radio.
...moreIt’s beyond comfort food. And when I’m out on the road it’s a signifier of home.
...moreWherever I go out on tour, I always have a book with me, and another for when I’m finished.
...moreIn a lot of ways, I kind of gave up on my body.
...moreIt really was art imitating life imitating art imitating life.
...more[B]eing a weirdo is what creativity is all about.
...moreIt’s such a powerful symbol of who she was.
...moreI’ve never been a hair person, but I’ve always been a hat person.
...moreI was entranced, wondering who made it and why.
...moreI wasn’t into girl stuff, but I loved James Bond!
...moreEven though it’s all backed up, I worry about losing it all.
...moreWhen I was growing up, I was surrounded by art and music.
...moreI’ve always had a voyeuristic relationship with social media.
...moreIt felt like someone had taken my memories from me.
...moreI’ve worked through the pain, and made something useful and creative out of it.
...moreTo pull into a rest area and get a bag of KFC or McDonald’s or whatever is kind of soul crushing, or at least it is for us.
...more[I]t’s taken me back to those memories of recording at my dad’s, and the stuff that took him back into his past, and ultimately into my future.
...moreAside from his endless capacity for self-invention, Bowie changed the way we experience our own sense of identity.
...moreI’m not a trained musician, but my grandma helped me to become fearless…
...more[T]he one thing I wake up next to, that I couldn’t imagine living without, isn’t an object at all. It’s a dog.
...morePhotos carry our memories, and in their own unique way our cameras do, too.
...moreMusic freed me up in a lot of ways, including helping me to develop a sense of style.
...moreI kept listening over and over again, and eventually I realized this album was challenging my idea of what punk is.
...moreAbout a year ago, I ended up returning to the land where I grew up and building a house here.
...moreI have to work to get the sounds, but then the magic kicks in.
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