― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 25 November 2002 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
''Maybe GYBE should try writing songs. I mean, if Mogwai can do it...''
they are not v good at it callum.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
um, he's not just a recording engineer sundar. shellac, rapeman and big black were/are good rock bands.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 25 November 2002 22:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
oh... don't forget the record buttons! and those level knobs! oh shit... and the pan knob!
(really tho... all respect due...)m.
― msp, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― E-to-the-Izzo, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm just wondering, I mean, I like some of Albini's stuff as a guitarist, and I certainly own no shortage of Albini-produced/recorded/engineered alb's, but I buy those to hear the band, not the Bean.
I mean, I wouldn't eat burnt fries just because they were made with PEI spuds.
― E-to-the-Izzo, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― E-to-the-Izzo, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Skronk!
― E-to-the-Izzo, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
sundar you are needed on those threads about Pop processes and performers.....It looks like you'd be on the 'Pop Personalities! They're GrrrrrrrrATE!' side of things, since there's an implication from the above that the engineering/musician thing should be just be a backroom work-like function? Or have I just misinterpreted a joke?(I'm not having a go here - I'm genuinely curious....)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― albert, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
you're kidding, right? his are the dryest drums i can think of.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 22:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
oh no it's INDIE!
― gygax!, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
been reading the luke haines book where he speaks fondly about steve albini (and NO ONE ELSE at all ever), which got me thinking about that 2+2 thread where albini answered a bunch of questions about his career. i read all through it a few years back and im sure he spoke about luke haines/auteurs but i can't find it on there, any ilxors remember?
― NI, Monday, 18 May 2009 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Albini and gf do a lot of work for charity, talk about it, are hampered by US postal service
― Dark, promiscuous five-year-old (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
that is so fucking inspiring
not the post office security crap, albini's secret santa thing
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
TO THE ONE TRUE SANTA ABOVE, THIS IS MY etc.
that is an awesome thing to do. Silly postal service.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
The couple contacted U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who told them he would look into the post office's policy change. But after talking to postal officials, Davis decided he agreed with the policy change.
"Better to be safe than sorry, that what my momma used to tell us," Davis said. "You can't be too protective."
Well... Yes, you can.
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
That distinctive metallic chingety-ching guitar sound that Albini gets on 'Kerosene' etc... from now on I will only ever hear that as the sound of badly-mic'ed sleigh bells.
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
aw that's a real nice thing steve.
― IT WASN'T NOT FUNNY! (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"trying to find out more about what people think about this music"
Doesn't sound like Albini to me.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 23 February 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
Albini--known for seeking out feedback on his productions from randos
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:01 (one month ago) link
to what end would a person have lied about that. the '90s!I for one have never heard of an adult lying to a younger person on the internet about who they are and attempting to build rapport by asking them questions about their interests, in the ‘90s
― bae (sic), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:23 (one month ago) link
this happened to me in 1995 but with Phil Rudd of AC/DC
― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2024 16:31 (one month ago) link
When I was working in a record store in London during the 90s a chatty customer said that he was Jonathan Richman, and that he was shortly going to be doing a gig with Hawkwind.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 23 February 2024 16:47 (one month ago) link
That's interesting b/c someone was impersonating Richman more recently, even booking shows in his name I think (here in the US)... it made the news
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:02 (one month ago) link
Let Me Google That For Me: https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article253810488.html
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:03 (one month ago) link
I just imagined Hawkwind opening for Richman and made me think of the notion of mega acts supporting JR. Missy Elliot, U2, Pink Floyd...
Pink Floyd opening for Jonathan Richman: stunning light show/psychedelic opener ends and house lights come on, JR walks onto stage with his acoustinc and explains to the manager why the air conditioner has to be turned off ("it's too noisy"). Launches into "I'm a Little Dinosaur." Lighters fill the air.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 23 February 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link
Maybe the closest JR and Hawkwind came to sharing a stage:
Sex Pistols played to one of the biggest crowds of the weekend at the second day of the Barcelona leg of the Summercase Festival last night (July 19).
The UK punk veterans played an extended, cover-packed set that climaxed with unique takes on Hawkwind‘s ‘Silver Machine’ and Jonathan Richman‘s ‘Roadrunner’.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link
lol
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:31 (one month ago) link
reading the SST records biography and had a quick chuckle at Albini's fairly OTM description on the Hüsker Dü crew:
Greg looks like he stepped out of GQ, with cropped hair, trimmed mustache and muscular build; Grant could replace anybody in Motorhead (maybe two people in Motorhead); and Bob looks like a St. Paul gas station attendant after a hard day's work.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 23 February 2024 19:58 (one month ago) link
In case anyone missed it back-when, here is a great story of a writer coming across an email address that turns out belongs to Eddie Van Halen, which sets in motion a long mostly epistolary friendship:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eddie-van-halen-secret-friendship-emails-1367678/
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 20:03 (one month ago) link
Why was that guy emailing addresses he found on LexisNexis? Kinda weird…Relatedly, I saw this on Threads today… don’t know who the guy is, but I guess it’s plausible enough.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:17 (one month ago) link
wait eddie van halen is dead?!
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:29 (one month ago) link
Quick, nobody mention Prince or Bowie either.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:31 (one month ago) link
Bowie was another early internet user who quite happily chatted to people on obscure boards about music, art etc
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:34 (one month ago) link
Why was that guy emailing addresses he found on LexisNexis? Kinda weird…
Sending emails like this has become something of a pastime, an exercise in nostalgia when the drudgery of my workday becomes too much to handle.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link
Good thing he didn’t discover posting on ILM I guess… never would’ve gotten the story!
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:44 (one month ago) link
Electrical Audio had a forum where Albini was a regular poster, would not be remotely surprising if he was frequenting music chat rooms or Usenet back in the day.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:46 (one month ago) link
Advice from the font on mic'ing guitarshttps://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/steve-albini-always-in-session
― ringworm, Sunday, 10 March 2024 17:48 (one month ago) link
Interesting, thanks
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:14 (one month ago) link
Strings and Picks-Ice picks with the points cut off-D’Addario XLs (.012–.016–.020w–.028–.038–.048)
-Ice picks with the points cut off-D’Addario XLs (.012–.016–.020w–.028–.038–.048)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 March 2024 19:34 (one month ago) link
Electrical Audio had a forum where Albini was a regular poster
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 10 March 2024 19:36 (one month ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/electricalwsop.bsky.social/post/3kprvpyaqoh24
Finalizing Fall US tour dates and my frustration with with exorbitant ticket fees is at peak. It's like pulling teeth to have tickets available at face value, which we insist on. Being fair, some venues are fine and cooperative, but this whole practice should be illegal.For the unfamiliar, venues typically contract a ticket agency to sell their tickets for them online, and sometimes these deals require all ticket sales to go through the agency. The agencies add ticket fees on top of the face value, and kick back a percentage of the fee to the venue.In the best case, the fees are modest, a couple of bucks, and charging a premium for the convenience of online buying seems reasonable. In bigger markets the fees can amount to an extra 30% over face value, with the venue getting on the order of 1/3 of the fee kicked back.This is preposterous on its face, tantamount to fraud and should not be tolerated by anybody. It persists because the fiction of "face value" allows negotiation of deals with bands that *look* fair, but contain a massive hidden payout to the venue or promoter. Booking agents are complicit in this...Because the money doesn't come out of their end. Bands are often completely in the dark about these fees so as not to rile them up, and the "face value" of tickets is at an all-time high to begin with. It's a cozy one-hand-washes-the-other arrangement between them, a very close analog to merch fees.In both cases, if you look at the deal on paper, the band may be receiving a reasonable percentage of the gig income and the agent gets their fee from that part, but there is a hidden cost born by the audience, unaccounted and ignored that is a naked money grab by the venue.And in the most egregious cases, tickets bought at the box office are still padded with ticket surcharges and fees. They've taken to charging you for the privilege of buying a ticket. Exactly like charging you five bucks to unlock the pump before you buy gas.Most bands are insulated from this situation by having booking agents as intermediaries. It's only bands that get into the granular detail of their shows that even know that there are ticket fees attached, much less that their "$25" ticket actually costs a fan $34.Hey I know it's rough out there earning a living in the arts. I'm aware. I know venues are squeezed by agents for absurd guarantees and they're looking for a way to get over, trying to find an edge. I'm aware and that's bullshit too. But it's fraudulent and reprehensible and everybody should say so.
For the unfamiliar, venues typically contract a ticket agency to sell their tickets for them online, and sometimes these deals require all ticket sales to go through the agency. The agencies add ticket fees on top of the face value, and kick back a percentage of the fee to the venue.
In the best case, the fees are modest, a couple of bucks, and charging a premium for the convenience of online buying seems reasonable. In bigger markets the fees can amount to an extra 30% over face value, with the venue getting on the order of 1/3 of the fee kicked back.
This is preposterous on its face, tantamount to fraud and should not be tolerated by anybody. It persists because the fiction of "face value" allows negotiation of deals with bands that *look* fair, but contain a massive hidden payout to the venue or promoter. Booking agents are complicit in this...
Because the money doesn't come out of their end. Bands are often completely in the dark about these fees so as not to rile them up, and the "face value" of tickets is at an all-time high to begin with. It's a cozy one-hand-washes-the-other arrangement between them, a very close analog to merch fees.
In both cases, if you look at the deal on paper, the band may be receiving a reasonable percentage of the gig income and the agent gets their fee from that part, but there is a hidden cost born by the audience, unaccounted and ignored that is a naked money grab by the venue.
And in the most egregious cases, tickets bought at the box office are still padded with ticket surcharges and fees. They've taken to charging you for the privilege of buying a ticket. Exactly like charging you five bucks to unlock the pump before you buy gas.
Most bands are insulated from this situation by having booking agents as intermediaries. It's only bands that get into the granular detail of their shows that even know that there are ticket fees attached, much less that their "$25" ticket actually costs a fan $34.
Hey I know it's rough out there earning a living in the arts. I'm aware. I know venues are squeezed by agents for absurd guarantees and they're looking for a way to get over, trying to find an edge. I'm aware and that's bullshit too. But it's fraudulent and reprehensible and everybody should say so.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:18 (one week ago) link
good post
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:22 (one week ago) link
John Fogerty and Bonnie Raitt tickets are currently over $200 for shows here that won't even happen for six months
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:23 (one week ago) link
Thread is currently pretty Albini-active. Someone asks:
what do you make of what the cure accomplished with ticketmaster? (www.vulture.com/2023/04/the-...) is this kind of pressure campaign even possible for indie acts that play midsize venues? does the fact that more big acts don't do what robert smith did just reflect negligence on their part?
Albini responds:
Like I said, it's an issue largely (intentionally) kept in the dark for the bands. Robert Smith took an interest and had influence because of his stature, but most bands don't know about the street price of their tickets, and by the time they find out it's too late to do anything.It's plainly true that every line of every deal for every show is negotiable, but weeding through it all and getting venues to agree is a huge drag on time, energy and patience, and I totally get why most bands just abdicate/delegate it to their booking agencies. It sucks having to do it.The major problem with booking agencies is they have no incentive to make deals efficient or transparent. They get a percentage of what the band gets paid, and cannot care about anything else on the page. If inefficient shadiness gets the band an extra grand, they get an extra $150 and that's great.
It's plainly true that every line of every deal for every show is negotiable, but weeding through it all and getting venues to agree is a huge drag on time, energy and patience, and I totally get why most bands just abdicate/delegate it to their booking agencies. It sucks having to do it.
The major problem with booking agencies is they have no incentive to make deals efficient or transparent. They get a percentage of what the band gets paid, and cannot care about anything else on the page. If inefficient shadiness gets the band an extra grand, they get an extra $150 and that's great.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:27 (one week ago) link
I’ve definitely ran into “the $25 ticket is really $34” this year at semi-indie venues (local promoters who book at multiple venues). After getting burned a few times, I just add it in now when considering going (which sucks).
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:28 (one week ago) link
The fees are one thing but something that really gets me is when venues are directly partnered with third party ticket brokers through the app I am forced to download to access venues, I have def been looking for tickets to "sold out" shows where the venue app has helpfully linked me to these brokers for "somewhat" greater than face value tickets, where is the oversight that keeps the venues honest?
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:17 (one week ago) link
enjoying Steve's gear nerd Youtube career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxZwaqVBo-k
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:36 (two days ago) link
I love it that he calls them 'amplifiers' instead of 'amps'.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 18:11 (two days ago) link
Nice to see this from Steve.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 18:13 (two days ago) link
I am shocked by how excited I am for a new Shellac album.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:17 (two days ago) link