RIP Steve Albini

[Strat]

Albini was a member of the band himself, but beyond the sonic barbed wire he wrung out of his Travis Bean TB500...

Bob Weston, Shellac's bassist, also plays a Travis Bean. I had never heard of them before. The headstocks remind me of vintage Kramers or Electrical Guitar Company's aluminium stuff. Pretty damn cool.

There’s a guy in FL who makes these guitars now, all modeled on Travis Bean. The owner Kevin, and really the whole staff, are huge Albini nerds:

https://www.electricalguitarcompany.com/

Edit: sorry, I see you were already familiar with them. Yeah, part of their deal was that the Travis Beans had become expensive collectors items so they wanted to start a new manufacturing line of a similar product.

ooooh baby. Some beautiful guitars there.

[tragabigzanda]

[Strat]

Gorgeous, but an acquired taste. The guitars have poor sustain and the necks are always cold when you first pick them up.

Sounds like a guitar you gotta work at to get it to play nice with you. I like it.

[Jammer XCI]

Scrolling all the various RIP Steve threads introduced me to this banger yesterday. I'm loving it. Note that the band had it remixed about six years ago, but it seems like the original mix is readily available on streaming services (or at least Amazon).

I saw Failure play their entire Fantastic Planet record and then close the show with this song in 2016. I went to Chicago for that show so maybe Steve was even there, who knows. I do find their debut to be very underrated compared to the later stuff, it's also the only album they ever made that wasn't produced by the band members themselves.

Another pair of underrated bangers from Albini are High On Fire's Blessed Black Wings and Neurosis' Times of Grace. Albini producing metal usually yielded some pretty amazing results.

[tragabigzanda]

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]

Listening to Rid Of Me right now. First time in a long time.

Wish PJ still make this kind of violent, dark music. I listened to Is This Desire? this week and while its more soft, there is still a darkness around the music.

Anyway, cheers Steve!!

Breeders next

[Strat]

from the official Steely Dan newsletter:

RIP, Steve Albini.

He once called Steely Dan “music made for the sole purpose of letting the wedding band stretch out.”

Now SD boosterism will flourish unchecked on this app. Which doesn’t feel quite right.

Everyone needs a quality nemesis. And today Dan fans lost theirs.​

[Jammer XCI]

LV72 would've definitely backed me up on High on Fire and Neurosis being some of the best bands he produced for.

Also gonna throw some love for The Jesus Lizard and Meantime by Helmet out there too, shit just gets me hype.

He produced the debut album of Chevelle and his final produced album (afaik) was Code Orange's The Above, so he even did some nu-metal.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Jammer XCI]

As far as I know Albini produced "In the Meantime" but most of the actual production was done by Page Hamilton. Albini did the engineering/mixing along with Wharton. I'm not going to pretend like I really know the differences between engineering, producing, mixing, mastering, etc.

[96583UP]

Blasting this today because it rules. Cheers Trag.

hot fire

i once lived about two thousand meters from that very spot

[96583UP]

Scrolling all the various RIP Steve threads introduced me to this banger yesterday. I'm loving it. Note that the band had it remixed about six years ago, but it seems like the original mix is readily available on streaming services (or at least Amazon).

I saw Failure play their entire Fantastic Planet record and then close the show with this song in 2016. I went to Chicago for that show so maybe Steve was even there, who knows. I do find their debut to be very underrated compared to the later stuff, it's also the only album they ever made that wasn't produced by the band members themselves.

Another pair of underrated bangers from Albini are High On Fire's Blessed Black Wings and Neurosis' Times of Grace. Albini producing metal usually yielded some pretty amazing results.

Damn, that's awesome jammer. I'd heard of Failure before but never heard a lick. Instantly transporting to a different time and place -- puts me right back in the early 90s. Love this record, and that track in particular is my favorite so far.

yeah i never heard either ... diggin' it ...

[dad]

Last night on John Mulaney’s Netflix show Everybody’s in LA, he thanked all the guests, and then thanked Steve Albini.

[Ello Sailor]

Failure rules, dummies. Better late than never I guess.

Did you know that Greg? Charles Edwards from Failure convinced Tool's Justin Chancellor to pick up a Wal bass? What a great fucking call that was.

[Ello Sailor]

Greg??

Lmao. Gets me every time.

[dad]

Greg???

Lmao. Gets me every time.

Might be the best thing this board ever gave us.

[VinylGuy]

Last night on John Mulaney’s Netflix show Everybody’s in LA, he thanked all the guests, and then thanked Steve Albini.

wow tasteless joke from him, maybe he is still a drunk?

[dad]

Last night on John Mulaney’s Netflix show Everybody’s in LA, he thanked all the guests, and then thanked Steve Albini.

wow tasteless joke from him, maybe he is still a drunk?

No, I think it was genuine.

[zeb]

Last night on John Mulaney’s Netflix show Everybody’s in LA, he thanked all the guests, and then thanked Steve Albini.

wow tasteless joke from him, maybe he is still a drunk?

No, I think it was genuine.

It absolutely was.