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.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQoTof ... JeffDePrey[/youtube]

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.

penningtron wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 6:53 am I think Steve said that door thing was BS in another interview. That said: Molina's almost improvisational approach is captured in the Josephine documentary, and Steve and the studio was clearly equipped for the job.

JM clearly liked to bullshit people in interviews. His explanation about the "listen...listen..." part also doesn't line up, because that's how the "Farewell Transmission" demo ends (included in the anniversary release).

penningtron wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 8:39 amBut 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!

That's amazing

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 guess he has played this and dedicated it to others in the past but who cares? This time it was for FM steve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQoTof ... JeffDePrey

Thanks, I've been waiting for FM DG to release a statement.

No direct personal connection to Mr Albini or this forum (I'm only here for the Worst Band Shirts thread) but everything I knew and am now learning about him makes it clear that he was a truly great man, to be admired and emulated, and a real punk, in the absolute best sense of that word, right to the end. Turning down royalties? That is KINGLY behavior - genuine royalty.

I trust he's already working the board for the choir invisible, giving the angels a warm and punchy sound.

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.

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".

Tell him to come on back anyway.
There were several - fucking several times I posted on the old forum a minimum of ten beers deep, sometimes a fifth of whiskey deep. I am to this day mega embarrassed over the shit I used to post.
But the beauty of this community is we let old shit slide. You didn't hurt anybody? Cool, it's forgotten. Come on back. There's still a place here for him. Why wouldn't there be?