"Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback."
- Lee RanaldoOne of the founding members of Sonic Youth, a significant American rock group that rose to prominence in the late 1970s and became a major force in the New York no wave movement, is Lee Ranaldo. Ranaldo provides a detailed account of Sonic Youth's unadulterated beginnings in his reflection on the ba…