Steve Albini Has Died

[smudgersmissingleg]

Producer of Nirvana's final album "In Utero", Pixies "Surfer Rosa" and a thousand other albums. Died of a heart attack at his studio aged only 61.

Loved reading this on his Wikipedia page:
"In 2010, he revealed that he was not an avid consumer of media. However, he watched a lot of cat videos on YouTube. "

RIP

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I was going to post this but didn't know if anyone would even know who the hell he is.
This one hurts for me.
I'm lucky to have seen Shellac in March of 2020, less than a week before everything shut down.
I chatted him up about one of our favorite bands, Silkworm.

Of course, he had a strong connection to my home- Louisville Ky- by way of bands like Slint/Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Bitch Magnet, and others.

The Breeders and all the Deal sister projects rate high with me, and they too were close with Steve.

Requiescat Albini.


- snap I took of Shellac in Louisville, 2020.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I was going to post this but didn't know if anyone would even know who the hell he is.
This one hurts for me.
I'm lucky to have seen Shellac in March of 2020, less than a week before everything shut down.
I chatted him up about one of our favorite bands, Silkworm.

Of course, he had a strong connection to my home- Louisville Ky- by way of bands like Slint/Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Bitch Magnet, and others.

The Breeders and all the Deal sister projects rate high with me, and they too were close with Steve.

Requiescat Albini.

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- snap I took of Shellac in Louisville, 2020.

As well as a great producer he seemed like a really cool guy. He produced so many iconic bands. Must've been awesome to have a chat with him.

 

[chilllucky]

As someone who came up in the Chicago punk scene after he had done most of the hard work to create it, this makes me quite wistful.

Time to pull out some of the ole waxtrax records...

 

[bluegrassbrian]

 

[Alejo R.]

 

[Kobold]

Wow I was just talking with my wife about him last night. Talking about how he produced some amazing albums and I remember reading somewhere about him making the Pixies use metal picks on surfer Rosa. I don’t know why that stuck with me but it did. RIP.

 

[Kobold]

I was going to post this but didn't know if anyone would even know who the hell he is.
This one hurts for me.
I'm lucky to have seen Shellac in March of 2020, less than a week before everything shut down.
I chatted him up about one of our favorite bands, Silkworm.

Of course, he had a strong connection to my home- Louisville Ky- by way of bands like Slint/Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Bitch Magnet, and others.

The Breeders and all the Deal sister projects rate high with me, and they too were close with Steve.

Requiescat Albini.

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- snap I took of Shellac in Louisville, 2020.

Damn I didn’t realize he worked with the Breeders. I love Pod. Such a great lp

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Damn I didn’t realize he worked with the Breeders. I love Pod. Such a great lp

Indeed. The drummer on that record, Britt, is a sweet guy. Hell of a drummer. I got to play on the snare he used on Pod.

Here's a pic of me and my fav Breeder, Kelley.

 

[Kobold]

Indeed. The drummer on that record, Britt, is a sweet guy. Hell of a drummer. I got to play on the snare he used on Pod.

Here's a pic of me and my fav Breeder, Kelley.

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That’s awesome!

 

[Auxsender]

Indeed. The drummer on that record, Britt, is a sweet guy. Hell of a drummer. I got to play on the snare he used on Pod.

Here's a pic of me and my fav Breeder, Kelley.

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Holy shit! This pic!
Been a Deal fan for literal decades.
Last Splash is an all time great for me.
This pic is great.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Holy shit! This pic!
Been a Deal fan for literal decades.
Last Splash is an all time great for me.
This pic is great.

I've met Kelley a bunch, but Kim just once. They're the best.
I'm sure they're destroyed right now
His wife, Heather- I can't fathom.
Close friends like Tim Midyett (who have dealt with musical death in their life) get hit a different way I imagine.

I used to LOVE reading his food blog - mariobatalivoice. After that went dormant he started posting dinner on Instagram - whatimadeheatherfordinner.

Still, I wish all those great blogs he wrote about cooking were still available.

 

[Auxsender]

I've met Kelley a bunch, but Kim just once. They're the best.
I'm sure they're destroyed right now
His wife, Heather- I can't fathom.
Close friends like Tim Midyett (who have dealt with musical death in their life) get hit a different way I imagine.

I used to LOVE reading his food blog - mariobatalivoice. After that went dormant he started posting dinner on Instagram - whatimadeheatherfordinner.

Still, I wish all those great blogs he wrote about cooking were still available.

I wasn’t aware of his food blogs or Instagram page, only his engineering work and most of what I’m familiar with was from the previous century. I think Slint’s Spiderland was the first Albini production I was aware of. I still listen to Helmet’s Meantime. In Utero is my favorite Nirvana record.
Anyway, he’ll be sorely missed.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Couple shots from the Shellac show in Louisville, March of 2020.

 

[chilllucky]

He took Anthony Bourdain to Ricobene's and then got really annoyed by his questions.

 

[kcghost]

Is there one in Rock that hasn't been mourned yet??

 

[DesertDan]

I was very saddened to see this in the news today.
The man one of the greats.

Rest In Peace Mr. Albini

 

[renfield]

Yep. He was always the interesting in interviews. So many great stories and so knowledgeable. R.I.P.

 

[anotherbob]

Even if you didn't know him he effected your ears in some way at sometime. My favorite song associated with the man

 

[chilllucky]

I actually like the Rapeman record the best of all his projects, but that's probably more to do with the fact that it was one of maybe a dozen cassettes I kept in the car for a long time.

But only the Shellac stuff is on 180g virgin vinyl where the rhythm section just makes me happy.

Imagine a time
Where that cigar was ironic.
You've been at it so long, now
it's chronic.