I love all of this. Thank you for sharing it here.tallchris wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 12:16 pm Bill from Federation X wrote about them meeting and recording with Steve in the early 00s and how much he went out of his way to help out a broke ass band:
A few days later, and like the rest of you, I'm still processing all of this. Shellac was kind enough to open the dual record release show for my old band and our friends' band back in 2006. It was a noon all-ages show at the 7th St. Entry in Minneapolis. We kept it secret for months, and though I think the secret started getting out the week before the show, I believe most people were actually there to see the "headlining" bands. That said, just about everyone in our circles were big fans of the "opener", whose gear they got to see sitting up on stage as they filed in to fill up their plates with lunch out of the crock-pots each of our bands brought. I like to think most folks there were genuinely surprised that they were seeing a performance by one of their favorite groups at 12pm on a Saturday at a budget price.
Shellac headlined the First Avenue mainroom later that night; our bands played a second show in the Entry, and when we weren't playing, we'd all pop in to check out the mainroom set.
That old band would go on to record two full length albums with Steve as the engineer, an opportunity I myself will unfortunately never get to have, but I'll always remember that weekend where he, Bob, and Todd shared the stage with our little group and helped make me and others feel on top of the world.