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Originally Posted by Chris Lawrence
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with mote lee plays the chord progression-ie the meat of the tune while thurston plays the noise accompaniment.
beauty lies in the eye-lee plays all of the guitar while thurston plays bass
lee #2 - cant remember what thurston plays but pretty sure lees playing the main chord progression
im sure there are more but thats all i can think of right now. oh yeah wish fulfilment-lee plays the main harmony of the song while thurston is more in the accompaniment role-especially in the begining -they both mirror each other for the rest.
so think about it in these terms - if you were to take lees parts out of these songs would the identity of the song still be as intact as it would be if thurstons parts were taken out. think about female mechaninc on duty(mainly the A section). the "meat" of the song is kim's guitar part while thurston and lee augment it. thurston with his noisy stuff and lee with his mirroring of kims part. hers is the more dominant part in the A section
as of late it seems alot of the songs have come from thurston and then the band fleshes them out. you can hear how his parts are the nucleus of the song in these instances while what kim and lee do are the flesh. in this way the lee songs i mentioned above are more his than thurston or kims tho of course they are still sonic youth songs of course.
the last song on murray st is a wonderful example of all of their parts coexisting equally. and that was one of the only songs on that album that was culled from a jam.
matt