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Not liking Steely Dan.
Hmm, they were musician's musicians, not for everyone perhaps. I could write a comment crapping on anyone from Louis Armstrong to... Dua Lipa? Not clear on why it would increase one's stature or be worthy of note. (Thought it may have something to do with a midwest dislike of late 70s west-coast AOR fusion.)
In 2009 my band traveled from Nashville to Chicago for the honor of recording with Steve at Electrical Audio. We loved his drum tones and his use of analog tape in a live band setting. He was quirky, brilliant, quiet, and kind of hilarious to work with. He wore disheveled blue coveralls with a lowercase "e" on the back for 5 straight days. They fed us as many lattes we could stomach for all hours of the day, and he d…
Besides working with analog tape, what else in his process was either surprising or a revelation? In the interview with Conan and Dave and Kris that someone linked to earlier ( https://www.earwolf.com/episode/dave-grohl-krist-novoselic-a... ), he really tries to disabuse Conan of the notion that he is wielding "magic" ... he basically says it's Dave setting up a regular set of drums in a room that has good acoustics,…
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Hmm, they were musician's musicians, not for everyone perhaps. I could write a comment crapping on anyone from Louis Armstrong to... Dua Lipa? Not clear on why it would increase one's stature or be worthy of note. (Thought it may have something to do with a midwest dislike of late 70s west-coast AOR fusion.)
Sounds like you have the context for the thread!
Guy was as Chicago as a polish sausage. Contributions to the remembrance thread: Albini on Steely Dan ("the Dan"): https://twitter.com/electricalWSOP/status/162260720209465753... His old cooking blog, where I learned that cutting the casing off a hot italian and smooshing it flat is called a "torpedo" (at least at Paulina Market): https://web.archive.org/web/20180125095923/http://whatimadeh... Later Another: his inte…
What's the context around the Steely Dan comment?
Me? I love Dan, and I love Smashing Pumpkins... And I think Steve Albini was one of the greatest engineers of my generation.
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Sounds like you have the context for the thread!
Just watched the masterclass link and gathered he preferred an "organic" sound rather than polished studio production.
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Just watched the masterclass link and gathered he preferred an "organic" sound rather than polished studio production.
I think we're spending more time analyzing the thread than was intended by its author, but the thread is pretty explicit about its reasoning.
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What's the context around the Steely Dan comment?
He hated fiddling in the studio. Similarly he was really vocal how he hated Smashing Pumpkins, I guess for similar reasons. Me? I love Dan, and I love Smashing Pumpkins... And I think Steve Albini was one of the greatest engineers of my generation.
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Besides working with analog tape, what else in his process was either surprising or a revelation? In the interview with Conan and Dave and Kris that someone linked to earlier ( https://www.earwolf.com/episode/dave-grohl-krist-novoselic-a... ), he really tries to disabuse Conan of the notion that he is wielding "magic" ... he basically says it's Dave setting up a regular set of drums in a room that has good acoustics,…
My favorite takeaway was when I said "Man, this sounds great! You really can hear the warmth from the analog tape." His response: "I have no idea what you're talking about." He just stared, waiting for me to respond. As a young man of 29 years I had never felt so stupid in my life. He timed it well though, and followed up with an explanation of the mics he was using and his disdain for ProTools.
"Tape warmth" seems like one of those memes. Seems that people that use tape like it and its tooling for the purposes of workflow.
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Take this entire article with a grain of salt. It was written by an internet troll named Joshua Goldberg, recently released from prison just last month, who after constructing a number of fake personas across various internet forums and social media communities, was convicted on charges of attempting to carry out a bombing on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
> was convicted on charges of attempting to carry out a bombing on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
That escalated quickly...
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No, he is not! Jimmy Savile personally molested hundreds of children. Steve Albini did nothing remotely comparable. He may have looked at some CSAM and wrote some (intentionally) gross notes about it. There are other quotes that suggest he was legitimately horrified by the idea of child abuse, see for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40308528
EDIT: I don't want to downplay his vile comments, I just think that the comparison is not justified at all.