The anxious moment to me was when Steve got really close to the second-guessing, mix gloss that the band got talked into on both albums. Which is really about Vig and Albini vs Andy Wallace.

Soul-destroying stuff.

I remember Conan backing up a pre-anti-vax Rob Schneider with his band for a rockabilly song way back.

I'll check out the podcast.

Conan always seemed to have a guitar tucked behind his desk.

I remember seeing Monorail when it first aired and it was obvious that TV history had been made. It's one of the defining episodes of the Simpsons, which means it is one of the defining episodes of television. No surprise it follows him around.

Here he is performing the song:



He does seem to have a bit of a thing for The Music Man...

Anthony Flack wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:17 am I remember seeing Monorail when it first aired and it was obvious that TV history had been made. It's one of the defining episodes of the Simpsons, which means it is one of the defining episodes of television.

100%

losthighway wrote: The anxious moment to me was when Steve got really close to the second-guessing, mix gloss that the band got talked into on both albums. Which is really about Vig and Albini vs Andy Wallace.

I appreciate that he sticks up for Vig, deflecting notions that BV overproduced the band (and from the bits I've heard the Vig mix is definitely ballsier). That said, it's pretty clear from the Smart Studios documentary that Vig did have producer-y ambitions all along, and he talked Kurt into double tracking a lot of stuff, made them play to a click, etc.

I listened to this yesterday. It could’ve easily been five times as long, and it would’ve lost nothing. Really great.

I'm halfway through and expected Conan to be sillier because I would have loved seeing fm steve (no comedic slouch) work off that. I think Conan was in very much fan/music auto-biography reader mode, which for many people here might be a rehash of known information, but for the rest of the reasonable world is a great run through of that period. fm Dave Grohl wasn't as the Foos as can sometimes come across, it was nice.

One more *video* segment posted on YouTube. I really hope the whole thing gets posted as a video (not just audio) at some point.

Just watched them and enjoyed myself no end.

I remember listening to a prank call of Kurt's decades ago (but not really Kurt apparently), where someone rings up a pizza delivery place and orders a ridiculously fucked up pizza - just a ball of raw dough and olives. It was how they got there that was the funny part. Slowly removing one ingredient at a time.

Does anyone know if this was from the In Utero sessions' shenanigans?

The whole thing was great, but I loved the prank calls segment.