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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:22:47 PM EDT
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![]() Steve Albini, an icon of indie rock as both a producer and performer, has died of a heart attack, staff at his recording studio, Electronic Audio, confirm to Pitchfork. As well as fronting underground rock lynchpins including Shellac and Big Black, Albini was a legend of the recording studio, though he preferred the term "engineer" to "producer." He recorded Nirvana's In Utero, Pixies' Surfer Rosa, PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, and countless more classic albums, and remained an outspoken critic of exploitative music industry practices until his final years. Shellac were preparing to tour their first album in a decade, To All Trains, which is scheduled for release next week. Steve Albini was 61 years old. https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/ |
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Damn, RIP. He recorded a lot of great bands over the years. One of the more interesting engineers in the business.
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In before the Sovereign Citizens of conspiracy theories.
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Everywhere we go, we are surrounded by people who stumble through life dependent upon the vigilance and/or kindness of others. - Zardoz
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I guess you have to be in the business to know who he is
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Surfer Rosa says "Gracias y vaya con Dios."
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a giant in American underground music
saw him play bass for Flour many years ago, never saw Big Black, Rapeman or Shellac |
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Poking internet kooks with pointy sticks since '81
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I am at the age now that when I see something like this I go, "Well, I beat him."
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Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore the Republic!
A right should restrict the government, not obligate it! |
He had a band called Big Black for those who don’t know:
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![]() big black - kerosene |
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The pendulum is broken
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That’s awful
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![]() Shellac: Crow - Oakland, 10/22/11 |
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RIP
Besides producing many classic albums, he was the guy who demonstrated how major labels took advantage of artists. The labels made millions, the artists, nothing. See: The trouble with music |
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Didn’t seem like he was that old. Then again in not that far behind him.
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![]() Shellac - Dude Incredible |
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Lead, follow, or get the flock out of the way
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NorCal_LEO call sign: Armour
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Be sure and read his famous Nirvana producer pitch letter from '93(?) or so. He was not a bull-shitter.
Hking |
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Sucks, seemed like a good dude. Charged a flat fee for producing a record instead of a percentage. Remember playing big black on campus radio.
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vaxxecuted more than likely
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"when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty"
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No clue who that is.
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I support LGBTQ =Let's Get Biden To Quit.
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![]() I still remember the shock of hearing Songs About Fucking when it was released in 1987. It was intense. From the liner notes: ![]() It was that kind of album. Highly recommended if you like that sort of thing. |
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Yeah he was solid, only 61 I believe. No drinking, no drugs he was all in with the music. He was about to drop an album and start a tour with a project side band. He was really a fantastic sound guy. If it was not for him, I don't think we would have gotten as good a follow up of Nevermind with the Nirvana album In Utero as we did. I was shocked to read this news this morning.
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Sa/oU Home Of The Brave
Wesley Sindelar (I-M-A-WMD) RIP Jeff Chandler (Mauser1) RIP |
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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance... riddle them with bullets...
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"Beware of old men. They may have killed braver men than you." TontoGoldstein
"America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." |
Wow. Didn’t see that coming.
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Originally Posted By mgwantob: He had a band called Big Black for those who don't know: ![]() View Quote I was just a country boy from Iowa when I started exploring this shit. It was shocking and I loved it. Big Black was Flipper with a drum machine. |
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Originally Posted By zukguy: Go be a troll someplace else. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By zukguy: Originally Posted By California_Kid: In before the Sovereign Citizens of conspiracy theories. Go be a troll someplace else. That would be funny if his posts didn't add more value than just about anyone else in GD. And if he wasn't smarter than most of us. |
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GF knew him pretty well. She is going to be very unhappy.
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God sometimes subcontracts -- A funny guy
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Who?
Just cause ya'll shit in a rap thread. |
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Literally was just thinking of Steve today. The man was an interesting character. His interviews all over YouTube got me thinking of him differently than what I thought of him back in the Big Black days.
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FUCKING KILL HIM
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Originally Posted By triburst1:
I just assumed it was an FBI or ATF surveillance op. Now I'm worried that it might be site staff. |
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Damn.
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Charter Member, Knights of Wonder
Norcal LEO callsign: Hold Fast Team Randstad |
Originally Posted By Crazyascanbe: I guess you have to be in the business to know who he is View Quote Songs About Fucking and the Rich Man's Eight Track Tape were two of the best albums of my teenage years. Found him through his music, read a lot about his recording work and his studio.. Some of the Shellac shit is awesome, a lot of it is probably more technically than musically brilliant but....I'm really fucking sad about this. I was actually talking to my nephew about trying to get his band recorded at Electrical Audio. Steve Albini was a warrior monk of independent music. His politics were crap but I bet he was shitty at a lot of things that weren't music. I miss him already. Him and his crazy band of Chicago lunatics will always be a bulwark of my playlists. ![]() The Power of Independent Trucking |
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View Quote And fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck those recordings are incredible on good media and speakers. No. Effort. Spared. ![]() Shellac - 1000 Hurts - 01 - Prayer To God (2000) RIP STEVE 5-7-24 |
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His work with Jesus Lizard was excellent
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Damn, RIP Gonna spend the rest of the night listening to Big Black…
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Dude liked good clean punk. Fuck the world.
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Damn. R.I.P.
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I'll hit you with a wrench.
If making a record takes more than a week someone fucked up. Dude had a no BS philosophy to production. He could have negotiated royalties, but he didn't want that to interrupt the process. He knew he would make it up on the back end. He was a Chicago guy. Our paths crossed when I worked venues in Chicago. It was decades before I realized he did In Utero. |
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RIP Steve.
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Originally Posted By WinstonSmith: If you have a favorite artist that recorded an album with Steve Albini, I bet you like that album. ![]() ![]() ![]() View Quote Whitehouse reinvented themselves (for the much better) with the help of Steve. I would love to know the details of those initial meetings, wouldn't surprise me if it was all his idea. |
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Besides being an amazing producer, he also was a very good poker player.
Albini was an avid poker player and ranked in 12th place at the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Seniors Championship.[96] Albini won his first WSOP gold bracelet at the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud at 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP); he beat out Jeff Lisandro to win $105,629.[97] He won his second gold bracelet at the 2022 WSOP in the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event.[98] |
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Originally Posted By AR15thur: Well.... ![]() https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/115l1d8/today_i_learned_steve_albini_is_a_pedophile/ View Quote You ever read the lyrics to a Big Black album? Listened to one?! ![]() I don't actually think he was a pedophile. Or a wife beater. Or a murderer. I don't think he huffed kerosene. Pretty sure he never drove a truck. ![]() Jordan, Minnesota Dude's followup band was called Rapeman after a particularly sick rape fantasy comic series in Japan. ![]() |
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