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
er, I thought Albini was a jerk. CONFUSING
― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i met him once when shellac played my friend's wedding and he was super nice and polite, even talked with their parents and everything.
― IT WASN'T NOT FUNNY! (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Line-up for next week's Letters to Santa benefit in Chicago. Second City has about 200 seats, so it's a nice, intimate place to see bands. I saw Shellac there at 3 a.m. a few years ago, for an audience of about 50; saw Tweedy, Robbie Fulks, and Jason Molina as well. The Blisters is Tweedy's kid's band--maybe 12 years old, now.
Again. Again. Again.24 hours of improvisation and music. Second City ETC 1608 N Wells St Chicago, ILAll-ages$15 for entire 24 hoursTickets available at the door only.Tuesday December 15 6pm through Wednesday December 16 6pmhttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146133034046&ref=tsAuction items, raffle prizes, music and funny
Confirmed Special Guests7pm Jeff Tweedy10pm Robbie FulksMidnight Asssscat with Horatio Sanz & Matt Walsh with Chicago Guests3am Flash Mob Marching Band6am Bonnie Prince BillyNoon Nina Nastasia2pm The Mountain Goats4:30pm The Blisters
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, Shellac plays weddings? wow. but yeah, it seems like Albini likes (or liked) being provocative, but most people who work with him seem to love the guy.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah basically my friends are super fans and his wife to be just emailed bob weston i think and ended up chatting with them about it...they basically had to pay enough to cover the opening touring band's room & board (had a band from NZ on the shellac tour) but anyway it worked out with their schedule and it was really fun, my old band got to open...
they played most of "la grange" and about 30 second of "shout at the devil" wish i recorded that set
― IT WASN'T NOT FUNNY! (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9109/stevealbini02dx3.jpg
― too shart (am0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Steve Albini's cookery blog..
http://mariobatalivoice.blogspot.com/
― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 10 June 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
"I have also successfully cooked for our cats."
classic!
― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 10 June 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
I like how if you go back to the first few entries it reads like the blandest most uninspired cooking blog ever - think there might have been rather a lot of feet-finding here
his 'great mate' Luke Haines just started one as well, can't quite figure out how much his recipes are trolling (unless you're Paul Weller)
― Beth Gibbons & Foreskin Man (DJ Mencap), Friday, 10 June 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
Now that is worth bookmarking!
― Mark G, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
lol yeah I subscribed to that one
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 10 June 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
he sure does make a lot of pasta
― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
Love how all of Albini's hobbies - online poker! cooking blog! - reveal him to be the nice, normal guy his reputation doesn't always convey. Though I think he's mellowed a lot as he creeps toward 50.
Now, an Ian MacKaye cooking blog, that would be a surprise.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
I remember when Fugazi did a recipe column for Maximum Rock'n'Roll and it was for fucking oatmeal, no joke.
― NickB, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
The Haines food blog is fucking great.
― oppet, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
Luke Haines?
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
Ian M.'s been a vegetarian for awhile and a parent for a few years so maybe he could do some interesting blog posts
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
in some recent henry rollins interview (on wtf i think) he was talking about how he basically hates the whole 'eating' thing and mostly eats oatmeal.
― adult music person (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
The only time I have ever followed a musician's recipe was when I made spicy bean burgers from Richard Youngs' vegan cookbook. They were horrible btw and my family hated them.
― NickB, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Please tell me that somewhere in the comments on the Albini blog, Michael Gerard has complained about the quality of his hamburgers.
― NickB, Friday, 10 June 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Man, I get this all part of Albini's cranky old man persona, but I call bullshit on this (from his Gothamist interview):
I’m an exceptionally lucky man in that I’ve never heard a note of Lady Gaga’s music and you could sit her on my lap and I wouldn’t recognize her. I know that she’s a cultural force at the moment but I’m quite satisfied in having dodged that one. It’s like a truck drove by spraying shit from a nozzle over the entire neighborhood and I happened to be under an awning. You know?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
I bet he has a Lady Gaga poster above his bed.
― StanM, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
Did you know he was a poker ace?
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah; he can get dangerously close to "the guy at parties who loudly tells people 'I don't even OWN a TV'" at times.
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
His whole "You know what I can authoritatively declare sucks? This thing I've never heard/experienced!" schtick is getting old(er).
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Someone needs to tell him that shouting this kind of thing hasn't earned anyone "cred" since at least 1995.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
love this guy--he's prolly not worried about his cred either at this point. he's having a laugh you know?
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Bourdain, that is. I doubt Albini would have ever been anywhere near Mancow
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:11 (five days ago) link
Had no idea he lived in my neighborhood. Was reading his Grub Street Diet and he mentioned buying pork shoulder at the grocery store I go to every week.
― jaymc, Friday, 10 May 2024 16:21 (five days ago) link
Here 'tis -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lZoLBU1egw
― Maresn3st, Friday, 10 May 2024 16:24 (five days ago) link
Ahhh, it's Parts Unknown. Completely forgot that it wasn't always No Reservations.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:35 (five days ago) link
Saw Orchid last night in Brooklyn and their intro was having everyone listen to "Prayer to God" in the dark. It was kind of amazing but also made me sad.
― gman59, Friday, 10 May 2024 19:14 (five days ago) link