“I by no means actually thought I used to be going to be a guitar participant,” says Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore. “I simply preferred that it was a noise machine of types.”

Undoubtedly one of many nice electrical guitar innovators of his technology, Thurston Moore has pushed the six-string in new and unexplored instructions for many years, so when the chance arose to ask the person himself to seem on Guitar.com’s authentic collection My Guitars & Me, nicely, we jumped on the likelihood.

My Guitars & Me sees guitarists take us on a deep dive into their six-string collections, highlighting a few of their favourites and telling us their tales.

And one of many standouts from Moore’s assortment isn’t a six-string in any respect, however reasonably a 12-string Fender Electrical XII, gifted to him six years in the past by his spouse Eva as a birthday present.

Now, historically, 12-string electrical guitars will likely be saved largely clear, as a way so as to add a jangly sonic mattress to a observe. However as Thurston Moore demonstrates as he cranks up the achieve, they’ll take issues into far gnarlier territory if wanted.

Watch the above video from 6:30 to see the second the noise-rock legend examined our eardrums mid-shoot with some actually unbridled high-gain 12-string enjoying.

“I feel the Fender Electrical XII is the good and greatest electrical 12-string. And why it went out of manufacturing, I don’t know,” he says. “Discovering them for an affordable amount of cash is a bit little bit of a problem, however they’re value each cent.”

Watch the fourth episode of My Guitars & Me season two above.