Watch Thurston Moore do things you’ve never seen before with a 12-string guitar
“I never really thought I was going to be a guitar player,” says Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore. “I just liked that it was a noise machine of sorts.”
Undoubtedly one of the great electric guitar innovators of his generation, Thurston Moore has pushed the six-string in new and unexplored directions for decades, so when the opportunity arose to invite the man himself to appear on Guitar.com’s original series My Guitars & Me, well, we jumped at the chance.
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My Guitars & Me sees guitarists take us on a deep dive into their six-string collections, highlighting some of their favourites and telling us their stories.
And one of the standouts from Moore’s collection is not a six-string at all, but rather a 12-string Fender Electric XII, gifted to him six years ago by his wife Eva as a birthday gift.
Now, traditionally, 12-string electric guitars will be kept mostly clean, as a means to add a jangly sonic bed to a track. But as Thurston Moore demonstrates as he cranks up the gain, they can take things into far gnarlier territory if needed.
Watch the above video from 6:30 to see the moment the noise-rock legend tested our eardrums mid-shoot with some truly unbridled high-gain 12-string playing.
“I think the Fender Electric XII is the coolest and best electric 12-string. And why it went out of production, I don’t know,” he says. “Finding them for a reasonable amount of money is a little bit of a challenge, but they’re worth every cent.”
Watch the fourth episode of My Guitars & Me season two above.
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