Is Marsupialized on the new forum?

Gramsci wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 8:34 am Is Marsupialized on the new forum?

No. I think he's a bit embarrassed about those years, claiming he was "hopped up on pills".

But in appreciation for all the work Marsup had done in those years, Steve presented him with an electrified Xylophone (featuring his old Travis Bean pickups) signed by CocoRosie!


This interview from the Shure site in 2018 is quite good. Deep cut stuff. I saw it on Linkedin of all fuckin' places.

penningtron wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 8:39 am

Gramsci wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 8:34 am Is Marsupialized on the new forum?

No. I think he's a bit embarrassed about those years, claiming he was "hopped up on pills".

But in appreciation for all the work Marsup had done in those years, Steve presented him with an electrified Xylophone (featuring his old Travis Bean pickups) signed by CocoRosie!


This interview from the Shure site in 2018 is quite good. Deep cut stuff. I saw it on Linkedin of all fuckin' places.

I can relate. My early posts are at times awful. I’ll check out the article.

Has anyone thought to check in on FM Vincent Gallo to see how he's handling all of this?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/posts ... eve-albini

. . . but no other engineer was quite as attuned, in an almost metaphysical way, to the humanity of recorded music, its senselessness and magic, the truths it could crystallize or reflect back at us. The creation of music serves no plain biological purpose—how utterly reasonless and inexplicable that we do this at all! How beautiful!

. . .

The evening after I learned of Albini’s death, I took to Instagram—as one does—to post a photo of “The Magnolia Electric Co.,” an Albini-produced album by Songs: Ohia, released in 2003. Songs: Ohia was then the alias of the musician Jason Molina, who died young, in 2013, at age thirty-nine, from complications due to alcoholism. It’s a formative record in my life, heavy and deep and flawlessly recorded, which is to say that when I put it on, there’s nothing in the way. No distance between me—between any listener, anywhere—and Molina. Because of that, it feels like a portal to another sphere, a lifeline, and hand to hold in the night. It sounds like air and starlight. Molina’s voice is plaintive, desperate, close. Art like this is inherently benevolent. It is there to help us. Albini could be caustic, often combative, but perhaps he was simply saving all his love and care for this one gesture.

FM Dave Grohl dedicated "My Hero" to FM steve the other night. This might seem cheesy and corny and who knows what FM steve would have thought but I think it's sweet and classy and sincere. I guess he has played this and dedicated it to others in the past but who cares? This time it was for FM steve.

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Jimmy Page posted a sweet remembrance on instagram

penningtron wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 6:53 am I'll go ahead and tell the Lido Shuffle story for those not around at that time.

Holy shit. Thanks for sharing the story. I also have a somewhat unexpected love for that song. What I would give to have been there...

Damn, this week has sucked.

El Protoolio wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 10:32 am FM Dave Grohl dedicated "My Hero" to FM steve the other night. This might seem cheesy and corny and who knows what FM steve would have thought but I think it's sweet and classy and sincere.

I honestly choked up a little, yet again. They rekindled their friendship in recent years. And I think the more mature Steve valued sincerity and being true to one's self (and FMDG is, fan or not) over being in a "cool" band. He was also friendly with the Eve 6 dude.

penningtron wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 11:26 am

El Protoolio wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 10:32 am FM Dave Grohl dedicated "My Hero" to FM steve the other night. This might seem cheesy and corny and who knows what FM steve would have thought but I think it's sweet and classy and sincere.

I honestly choked up a little, yet again. They rekindled their friendship in recent years. And I think the more mature Steve valued sincerity and being true to one's self (and FMDG is, fan or not) over being in a "cool" band. He was also friendly with the Eve 6 dude.

Slightly related story:

My now-wife and I were driving on Belmont several years back past EA and noticed several huge equipment trucks outside the studio. We both assumed it must be some huge band, but my guess was some Jack White project. My wife was like "no way, that's obviously Foo Fighters, I'm gonna text Sowley and confirm". She texts Sowley and gets a response back in moments along the lines of "who told you?" and she was pretty proud to say that she figured it out on her own and I got it wrong. Sowley only asked that we not tell anyone as they didn't want people hanging around outside as happened when Dave, Krist, and Pat were at the studio for the In Utero remix and folks found out.

She still rubs it in my face that she figured out it was the Foo Fighters (for that Sonic Highways thing) and I thought it was Jack freakin' White.