i'm pretty sure i read that he had help from glenn branca when starting out
i think pretty much the way thurston learned was mostly just fucking around and then practicing the parts that sound good, you can play an instrument without knowing any theory by remembering things like "if i do this, it makes this sound"
i think purely on his own is a huge overstatement, he's played with a shit tonne of other people and i'm sure he's picked stuff up from them, i'd be shocked if he hasn't learned anything from lee after constantly playing together for decades
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