Wanna be just like Thurston and Lee?

Sonic Youth fans are known for their obsessive devotion to the band, and can now prove just how fervent they are by purchasing a Thurston Moore or Lee Ranaldo signature guitar. The Fender Jazzmasters are available from this week in the US, and will hopefully make it to Australia in the coming months.

Both delectable guitars retail in the US for $1880 ($A2360). The Fender website states: "Jazzmaster guitars slung across seminal shoulders. In the hands of both men, the sound of Sonic Youth is the sound of that guitar used as part paintbrush and part cluster bomb. Introducing the new Thurston Moore Jazzmaster and the Lee Ranaldo Jazzmaster guitars from Fender."

If that little description hasn't got your tongue wagging, you also get a 24-page Sonic Youth zine featuring photos, set lists, illustrations, interviews and, for all the tech-head sound-freaks out there, tech info and tuning charts. Do you need a towel?

3 Jul 2009