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As much as the reason sucks I'm loving seeing the old faces pop in.

Please stick around, for as long as this is still a thing anyway.

Yeah it's nice to see the old faces and I'm glad to hear Marsup is doing well, some of his posts were amongst the funniest shit I've ever read.

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.

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Damn, that is great. Probably the only Foo Fighters song that I know, and I really like that song. Wonderfully sombre rendition of it.

Stumbled back on this video, some of the only footage I've seen of the Francisco St studio he had in his basement and attic before EA. Also David Sims bass rig, Nash Kato's Orange full stack, and based on the comments the drum kit is Britt Walford's:

Thanks for posting - all those memories from recording with Dolomite at that house back around '93 just came back to me. I remember being pretty nervous and starstruck. Wild to see footage of the recording spaces all these years later.

Also, thanks to everyone posting all the great memories here. I've been back to checking the forum every day again and will definitely try to make it up to Chicago for the July PRF.

tallchris wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 10:54 am Stumbled back on this video, some of the only footage I've seen of the Francisco St studio he had in his basement and attic before EA. Also David Sims bass rig, Nash Kato's Orange full stack, and based on the comments the drum kit is Britt Walford's:

Rey - RM drummer - is posting away in the comments…

Edit: Now Robert Poss is posting memories in the Page Hamilton interview I linked on the FB group.

JSP wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 6:06 pm
Steve, I miss you, and I’m grateful for so many ways to be able to remember you.

Your friend,
Jon
JSP-WTF

That entire post was lovely JSP

A week has passed and I still don’t know what to say. FM Steve was so deeply woven into the fabric of our subculture that his absence feels like we are collectively missing a lung. Those of us who never even met Steve are hit hard because of how the strength of his words and his work reached beyond whoever was in the room with him. My only interaction was via DM on the old forum, after the fall of ‘18 Shellac tour had wrapped up. It had been almost 20 years since I first saw the band in ‘99 and I wanted to let him know how thankful I was to see them play again. A few years earlier, when he was really into wolf t-shirts, I found the most over-the-top wolf t-shirt online and sent it to the studio with some dumb note, thanks for all the awesome music, here is a wolf t-shirt you might like. I never made it to a BBQ or met any other forum members in person aside from Tim Midyett, yet the community that flourished here is a testament to FM Steve’s character and generosity and I was glad to be a part of it, even if on the periphery. We mourn his loss but we have gained so much.

Thank you Steve Albini.

Patrick

One week later and this still stings. Still doesn't feel real. I don't know if I'll ever get over the feeling that he was supremely robbed, and so were we.

Will Oldham summed it up well in his The Guardian piece:

We’re experiencing an increasing momentum of things that run counter to seemingly anything that drove human civilisation forward. It seems like it’s kind of coming apart right now at a mind-boggling rate. It feels like Steve’s reward is not having to witness it, and our reward is getting to do our best to fill in the vacuum that his death leaves. He took on a lot of responsibility for everybody, so we didn’t have to think and do, because he was thinking and doing on our behalf. And I feel charged and prepared to move forward alongside Steve’s personal and professional legacy as much as possible. It’s hard for those of us for whom thoughtfulness is a principal virtue. There are few examples to look to, in the way Albini is.

Maybe I missed it, but have any arrangements been made for in-memory-of donations in Steve's name to a charitable cause?