Steve Albini lecture video (1½ hrs. long)

[alphacat]

Love him or hate him, the guy knows his stuff. And while some of this may not be directly applicable to us in-the-box digital home recording people, the underlying theory is still solid...

Not to mention his dry humor when asked about the record industry, what engineers should & shouldn't try to do, and why recording technology students shouldn't hope to land a job any time soon. It's from a few years back but it's still a great lecture.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ChrisgNYC/videos/14/

[drifta rms]

This is good lecture. Like everything Steve says, you need to take it with a grain of salt. That said, I think it's important for any creative person to hear opinions with which they may not agree. That's why I always listen when Albini is talking.

[FSTZ1]

he's a legend

alot of experience on all aspects of the biz

[alphacat]

And to his credit, he's not as cranky or luddite as people think he is - his actual opinions on things are a lot less black and white than his detractors would have you believe. It took me a long time to overcome my bias against using any kind of compression because I misunderstood/misapplied what I thought he was saying. In fact, he's not anti-compression so much as anti-overcompression...

[Sharmaji]

Albini is a character, that's for sure.

[baydestrian]

This is good lecture. Like everything Steve says, you need to take it with a grain of salt. That said, I think it's important for any creative person to hear opinions with which they may not agree. That's why I always listen when Albini is talking.

[djake]

really interesting watch!

oh and his humor is great

[Littlefoot]

Will watch this. Albini is funny, although he very much does have a "sound" even though he says he doesn't!

[hurlingdervish]

this guy would probably hate dubstep

[karmacazee]

There are way too many people coughing, where was he, a hospital? Ha, good vid though.

[alphacat]

this guy would probably hate dubstep

Maybe, but you never know. He [w/ Big Black] kinda pioneered the use of drum machines in big, heavy, noisy music... I think he might appreciate some of the less cookie-cutter stuff like Kode9 and Shackleton. But then again he may be just another old rock-ist that hates everything non-rock on principle.

He does mention that he goes through a big Bill Withers listening kick every year though, and Big Black did a great cover of a James Brown song... so you know he's got soul!

[hurlingdervish]

this guy would probably hate dubstep

Maybe, but you never know. He [w/ Big Black] kinda pioneered the use of drum machines in big, heavy, noisy music... I think he might appreciate some of the less cookie-cutter stuff like Kode9 and Shackleton. But then again he may be just another old rock-ist that hates everything non-rock on principle.

He does mention that he goes through a big Bill Withers listening kick every year though, and Big Black did a great cover of a James Brown song... so you know he's got soul!

albini is cool, but also kind of purist with his music, which you kind of have to be with punk

you should read the book "our band could be your life"

theres crazy tour stories from all those D.C bands like Fugazi, minor threat, and others like butthole surfers, black flag

stories like the butthole surfers taking acid before a show where they lit a matress on fire and busted through it with a chainsaw

and tainting henry rollins with lsd in the isolation of a flatbed truck inbetween venues hours apart

lots of good stuff