Steve Albini. Fond memories of the many times #Shellac was in town. When there was time in the tour schedule, they would invite everyone back for pancakes on Sunday, and a morning show. It’s nice to see the letters, kranky takes, and tales of Bob Weston saving the day by salvaging a power supply to continue recording as scheduled. Guy was punk, and like many aging punks, needs more rest than they know. Fuck heart attacks. #SteveAlbini
“At times, this could make it difficult to write about Shellac, as Pothast discovered when she almost persuaded bassist Bob Weston to play her some of To All Trains down the Zoom call, ahead of its imminent release. In the end, Weston couldn't be persuaded. "It just sounds like another Shellac record, he offered. "It's the same three guys in the same studio."”
@bentomn I appreciated this part “Albini hated being called a producer, despite having worked on multiple touchstone recordings. His detractors dragged him for being pedantic, but were rarely curious about why he preferred ‘engineer.’ … As Albini saw it, his job was to document a band at a specific point in their career, making the drums, especially, sound excellent. He wasn’t there to fix a song’s structure, or boldly suggest phase shifting everything during the song’s bridge.”
@docpop Absolutely. Albini had this tendency to tell stories, and be extemporaneous during shows. One of the pieces for pitchfork mentioned he trained as a journalist before finding this outlet as a chronicler of live sound. It was also nice to catch a glimpse of Electric Audio, his recording studio, in some of the videos that are making the rounds. In those he talks about all the things he and his team came up with to record drums, that contributed to so many recordings over the years.
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