Steve Albini
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2016
- Reflecting back on this conversation between Steve Albini, a legendary musician and audio engineer with host Woody McDonald.
The frontman of Big Black and Shellac, Albini saw the machinations of the industry up close and from multiple vantage points, working with huge international acts including PJ Harvey, Nirvana and Pixies. Despite recording with some of the biggest names in the business Albini continued, throughout his career, to collaborate with countless experimental bands. He’s estimated to have worked on more than 1500 records
On the eve of Meredith Music Festival in December 2015 - where he played with his band, Shellac - Albini joined host Woody McDonald at The Wheeler Centre to reflect on his storied career, his thoughts on the current state of music and predictions for the future.
Watch or listen to the full conversation now via the links in our bio or search for The Wheeler Centre wherever you get your podcasts.
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albini is such an intriguing character. everything he says, even when he stutters, seems so calculated and i could listen to him talk forever
Love this man. Love his music. Always caught both nights, Shellac played -San Francisco/Oakland. Always sold their own merch, after the show, talk to everyone. I'm going to miss seeing those play. Thirteen Shellac shows, since May 22nd, 1998, at Bimbo's 365. Last time, September 7th, 2022, Great American Music Hall. Fantastic shows. Fantastic band. Fantastic memories. Incredible man. Thank you, Mr. Albini. For everything.🤘
Came here to pay respects ..rip Steve xx 2024
steve is like a flower that opens veeeery sloowly but when she opens is sooo good and the perfume is one of its own (fake italian comment) :)
This is actually a pretty good interview. Not all the same cookie cutter questions Albini usually gets asked
decent interview. albini is always engaging!
love the man, love his music....Big blacks 'noise' changed the way i played guitar forever since 1985
Just brilliant!
Alex Cantu ii
That's right. Steve's from Montana. He's a good ol' boy.
The song he's talking about around 35 minutes in is "Swallowed" by Bush.
Yes it is... He gave enough clues about it on a Masterclass in Australia
That's the only Bush song I've ever liked, and actually went out of my way to get it.
Great interview. Amazing subject. Stellar host and questions.
I love Steve so much
49:31 he talks about "pop music songwriter teams" VS. "a solid rock band unit". That is pretty exciting and easy to understand. And it explains why some of us feel so passive-aggressive whenever we listen to modern hitlist pop. Static, dead music.
@@vonclohk507 i prefer "the static dead"
Sterile and disposable
I got to help put on and play support for a couple of shows with Killdozer, in England, probably 87 and 88, and it's true that we were kind of surprised by what normal, nice guys they were. Not that we expected them to be monsters necessarily, being kind of of a similar scene ourselves, but all the same we didn't really expect mild-mannered school teachers. Of course, in the end, it was only natural that they were intelligent, but all the same 'interestingly-humoured'.
29:50 love that and totally relate riparadise Steve I so wish I could’ve worked for you
Albini chose wisely between Columbia and Chicago - The only scene columbia had back then (and mostly today as well) was a sports bar scene and the few venues that tried their hand at live music quickly dropped it and went straight to sports, stand up or just a general party bar.
"it starts with a big finish"
this guy Albini is King...and Shellach is better band than many who he collaborated with!!live long Steve
What a great insite into a beautiful mind
Shellac is criminally underrated band.
Except they're highly acclaimed and legendary
i'd say they are kind of overrated. haven't put out a good record since 1996
"I believe you"
the people who are hell bent on digitizing every aspect of music are some of the most loathsome people yet to exist.
Not sure I've ever met one of these people or that they really exist
Killdozer are fantastic
Jimmy and the Turd-Heads is a good name for a band
I think he's trying to be as honest as possible about his view. Cool.
Really strong interviewer
Fireproof too
Of all the questions, it seems that he enjoyed talking about his cats most
He looks like mark Pauline of SRL
10:50 everyone’s a killer all u gotta do is push em to the limits -Jcole
Albini looks like Steve from American Dad all grown up
OMG he does
No he looks like mark Pauline
"The G-d damn Germans got nothin' to do with it!" -Buford T. Justice (Smokey & The Bandit)
Anytime someone uses the term "germane" I have to put that in the comments L0L
My favorite quote from that movie. I don't laugh at anybody like I did at Buford T. Justice of Texakana
This is the first time I've ever seen Steve without his overalls. I was under the impression that the overalls had just become his skin. Disappointed.
coveralls
"Do you smell fire?" lol wtf
Have we resolved the fire situation...
xabies Zamudio this did not age well
18:56 :'(
GET HER OUT OF THE TRUCK
"Hi Steve, my name's Taylor. I was wondering what it was like working with Nirvana...?"
FUCKING MORTO FOR YE, MATE.
I was at this event, and, Taylor was a young kid. It was obviously a sweet and innocent question. What was great was Steve answered it as if nobody had ever asked him before and gave the kid respect. That's why we love Steve.
trouble funk!
fucking hilarious
hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha
I bet he wasn't too angry about the dough he made off those Nirvana and Bush albums though!
It is my understanding that Albini doesn't take royalties
Agreed. I like Steve's talents but I'm sure he's smugly stoked to make $$ for recording the big name bands. I think he did some Led Zeppelin too in the 90s or some shit.
@@kahnzo I wonder if this was true back in the Nirvana and Bush days.That would be so badass if he didnt take any royalties at all from that.
He didn't. Think about how much money he would've made in perpetuity off of those two records. Although, I seem to remember reading at the time of In Uteros release that his flat fee was $500,000 for recording Nirvana. Not exactly peanuts but much less than he could've gotten. I think that money allowed him to start construction on his own current studio Electrical Audio, but at some point he went totally broke and had to sell gear to finish the project and keep the lights on. @@lowqualityguitarvideos
@@RiffMagnum I recently read that he received a flat fee of $100,000 to produce "In Utero" and declined to take a percentage of the royalties because he felt it was unethical and that royalties belonged to the artist. But I also think he was smart enough to know that producing/engineeering a Nirvana album would make his name and give him the long term financial benefit of a million other artists wishing to work with him.
While I respect Albini's belief that artists should be left alone to make their artistic choices without interference from producers, I also think some artists probably benefit from guidance (and an impartial opinion). e.g. it's doubtful the Beatles would've been anywhere near as great without George Martin's influence and know-how.
Another example: Slayer's magnum opus "Reign In Blood" was landmark album in the metal genre. While it benefitted greatly from Andy Wallace's fantastic mixing, it was also achieved due to Rick Rubin's hard taskmaster approach. Like an army drill sergeant or football coach, he forced the band to work harder and do take after take until they got it right. If the band was left alone, it can be safely assumed they would've been more easily satisified with their work and not pushed themselves to be better. End result: a metal album which blew everyone away in 1986 and is still held up decades later as one of the pinnacles of metal.