remember reading how on tour bob mould would fall asleep to motel tv on static full blast to drown out his tinnitus. Not sure how he’s doing now.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
He probably wears hearing aids. I saw an audiologist a few months ago and she made me try a hearing aid and just put in the exact frequency that the tinnitus is (4kHz) and it was completely gone. They are very expensive though and I don't need them to hear things - just to get rid of Grant's cymbals.
― SA, Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Cymbals are the frequency I have hearing loss at. And really it's from hundreds of shows in my own bands without protection. My bands were never super loud but a cymbal is a cymbal. And I don't have hearing aids but it seemed to help my tinnitus just knowing more about it (the specific frequencies and how it affects me in every day life) and that there's an option to get rid of it if/when the time comes.
― SA, Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
Mould produced the metal band Impaler's "If We Had Brains..We'd Be Dangerous" in 86 and it's def trebly and thin, especially compared to how they sound live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApWk0iUTKns
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
In hindsight I’m glad Spot was there for the earlier years or else all those albums would sound like shit in exactly the same way
The Mould-produced Made To Be Broken by Soul Asylum sounds like Flip Your Wig or Candy Apple Grey with all the same issues. Insisting on producing themselves as part of the Warner deal seems like a practical joke somehow
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
maybe Mould's tinnitus fooled him into thinking it sounded great (shrug emoji)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
plus, speed
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
I'm in the "Husker records sound as they should" camp but if you don't like it I think there's enough evidence that it's a Mould thing way more than a Spot thing.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
In conclusion:Metal Circus to New Day Rising sounds shit, but the right kind of shitFlip Your Wig to Warehouse sounds shit, but the wrong kind of shit
― No Hackett Required (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
sounds about right altho I'd argue Flip Your Wig is OK on vinyl
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Ha otm.
― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
FWIW, going by old newspaper reviews and articles, the grievance with Hüsker Dü albums is that they didn't capture the full-body roar of their live shows, which I'm sure was probably difficult to do regardless.
One of the greatest shows I've ever seen was Bob Mould at Brooklyn Steel in 2019. Lots of Hüsker Dü including an extra long encore that paid tribute to Grant with one of his songs. Also helped that most of the solo songs were from Sunshine Rock, easily my favorite of his solo albums. I was in the middle at the very front, inches from Bob, and the ear plugs were barely enough - that big enveloping sound was glorious, and it would be amazing to hear that faithfully captured on a Hüsker Dü album.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 9 March 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
Sugar felt like Mould accomplishing a commercial rock Huskers that they tried with Warehouse
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2023 02:31 (one year ago) link
has everyone here seen this? I hope everyone has
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exf1SyjBlBg
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 10 March 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
I've been trying my hand at remastering a few more things from the SST back catalog using decent stem software and ProTools, not to try to throw shade at Spot or anything, just for fun and my own curiosity.
I recently made versions of The Punch Line and Nothing Left Inside.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/nv08coczju46ftz1qz20l/h?dl=0&rlkey=vil63tdnn47irfhbl3wy4syud
The Flag tune has mad crackling on the drum intro that I'd never noticed before, it seems to be on every version I can put my hand on, and I can't pull it out without damaging the drums.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 April 2023 00:45 (one year ago) link
do the 1982 demo version instead ;)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Saturday, 1 April 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
RIP SPOT
― fpsa, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Husker Dü Announce New Live Album Tonite LonghornThe set captures the trio across four performances in Minneapolis in 1979 and 1980
https://pitchfork.com/news/husker-du-announce-new-live-album-tonite-longhorn/
― dow, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
SST show on WFMU including an interview w/ Jim Ruland
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 21:28 (eight months ago) link
I’m still disappointed the book wasn’t interested in diving into the non “punk” directions the label took from the late ’80s. Like, I don’t remember if it even mentions Ginn’s affinity for Tim Harding of the Richmond scene; I just got a mint copy of the Office Ladies LP on New Alliance from 1989, unopened until I sliced the shrink rap to put it on my turntable 20 minutes ago, and it’s great! But it’s like, Black Flag breaks up, the partners sell to Ginn, Ray Farrell and Mugger leave, and Ruland’s immediately uninterested in the story. Like, I dunno man, stuff like Issues Records and why it existed is interesting to me, but the book doesn’t even acknowledge it existed!
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 08:47 (eight months ago) link
instead of like spending $44 billion dollars to ruin an app, i wish some billionaire with too much money would buy everything associated with SST and hand it over to the folks at Numero Group to give it the treatment it all deserves
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:32 (eight months ago) link
agreed, altho Ginn has probably ruined the masters already through poor storage etc
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
i know i know, i just want someone to save what can be saved at this point
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:36 (eight months ago) link
totally
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:41 (eight months ago) link