One of my favorite EA records is the one by Wuhling. It sounds like a poppy shellac with a women singing in german. The production reminds me of "Action Park". Great album all the way through. I did a crap/not crap on them and it got no votes. WTF? No one heard them? Fantastic lp that i have turned lots of folks on to!

Mama Clortho wrote:

MajorEverettMiller wrote:
Favorite Steve recording? Easy: The Frames' "For the Birds" (also an all-time favorite).

MajorEverettMiller!

Thank you for mentioning this record! I had not heard the Frames before! I downloaded "For the birds", and it is very pleasant! I will buy it!

How are their other records?!

-Mama!

the others are not so good, especially prior to For the Birds. "Burn the Maps" is the newest and it has some decent songs on it, but it's also a little cheesy. For the Birds is the jewel.

Michael Gregory Bridavsky wrote:

Mama Clortho wrote:

MajorEverettMiller wrote:
Favorite Steve recording? Easy: The Frames' "For the Birds" (also an all-time favorite).

MajorEverettMiller!

Thank you for mentioning this record! I had not heard the Frames before! I downloaded "For the birds", and it is very pleasant! I will buy it!

How are their other records?!

-Mama!

the others are not so good, especially prior to For the Birds. "Burn the Maps" is the newest and it has some decent songs on it, but it's also a little cheesy. For the Birds is the jewel.

I like "Burn the Maps", but I see your point.

Yeah, the stuff before "For the Birds"...not so great.

dlayphoto wrote:
My favorite Weston recording: Hurl: We Are Quiet In This Room. Was this recorded at EA?

I think that record was recorded in Pittsburgh at their practice space. It might have been mixed at EA, but Bob would know for sure.

Don Cab - American Don

Honey For petzi - Heal All Monsters

The drums (again!!!!) on those two albums are just plain amazing.

did it actually take 67 posts for someone to mention Pretest?

PRETEST!




...Nina Nastasia's albums are great too

BadComrade wrote:There was also a band from Michigan called "Morsel" who Steve recorded. I went to see them soon after hearing the album, and I thought "Wow, this new bass player is really interesting". Talking to them after the show, I said this, and they told me that Steve just didn't "do a good job capturing the bass" on their record. I always though that it was funny that they, you know... didn't mention this at all to Steve while they were mixing / tracking the record.

Hey there Bad Comrade,
Weird to find this here. I was the bass player for said group. Of course we said something to Steve. I recently pulled up the 2" reels from the session and found that we had re-recorded the bass on a few tracks to try to get the sound, but in the end, you only have so much time and money. The gained-up crunch stuff sounded just fine....Steve rocks man.

Hey hey, Morsel. I saw you guys once way back in 1998 or so. At the Green Room in Ypsilanti. It was a great show!

Glad you're still together!

Aside from the personal exchange above, this thread seems more or less dead. But since I missed it the first time around, I have to say I was very impressed with Steve's work with Will Oldham. When I first heard Arise, Therefore I thought that's pretty much how I'd like my stuff to sound if I ever get it professionally recorded - which is very unlikely, but a girl can dream, can't she? At least if that ever comes to pass, I have something to use as a reference.

I've honestly don't think I've heard many recording made at EA or by Steve, so it's hard for me to judge. I do like the Shellac, Nina Natasia and other Oldham albums as well, but it was Arise, Therefore that really impressed me. I don't think I had heard anything Steve had recorded since In Utero at the time (and that was around 1999), and I really didn't have any opinion on his work up until then. I'm not good at paying attention to those sort of things. I just know what I like when I hear it.

For me it's always going to be Tar's Jackson.