Re: R.I.P.
Posted: Thu January 19, 2017 11:24 pm
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Fucktragabigzanda wrote:darth_vedder wrote:Butch Trucks founding member of The Allman Brothers.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
yeah this sucks...we used to see them every march in NYC at the Beacontragabigzanda wrote:Jealous. The Allman Bros did a lot of touring when I was in highschool, and all my friends would go, and I skipped it because I foolishly thought of them as "dad rock." Years later I love that band and wish I had caught some of those 90s shows.wease wrote:Fucktragabigzanda wrote:darth_vedder wrote:Butch Trucks founding member of The Allman Brothers.
I figured Gregg would be the first to go of the remaining founders. Glad I got to see them the last few years they were together. Fuck. This one hits hard, team.
I got to go the last 2 years of the March Beacon Run. I didn't get to go to any of those last shows in Oct 2014, tho.doug rr wrote:yeah this sucks...we used to see them every march in NYC at the Beacontragabigzanda wrote:Jealous. The Allman Bros did a lot of touring when I was in highschool, and all my friends would go, and I skipped it because I foolishly thought of them as "dad rock." Years later I love that band and wish I had caught some of those 90s shows.wease wrote:Fucktragabigzanda wrote:darth_vedder wrote:Butch Trucks founding member of The Allman Brothers.
I figured Gregg would be the first to go of the remaining founders. Glad I got to see them the last few years they were together. Fuck. This one hits hard, team.
I was the same way. Then something just clicked for me and I got it. Saw them 6 times from 2009-2014 and they are, for all intents and purposes, my all-time favorite band.tragabigzanda wrote:Jealous. The Allman Bros did a lot of touring when I was in highschool, and all my friends would go, and I skipped it because I foolishly thought of them as "dad rock." Years later I love that band and wish I had caught some of those 90s shows.wease wrote:Fucktragabigzanda wrote:darth_vedder wrote:Butch Trucks founding member of The Allman Brothers.
I figured Gregg would be the first to go of the remaining founders. Glad I got to see them the last few years they were together. Fuck. This one hits hard, team.

That isn't true at all.Biff Pocoroba wrote:... all but I thought her namesake show was a bit overrated; or at least has not held up as well as some other '70s iconic ones.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.