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hey, is it true that Steve Albini was responsible for the Beat Parlor going down?


THX,
Jason D

i have a few steve albini stories myself...
here is one of my favorites

steve and i have been together for 12 years, about 5 years into it i was working at reckless records-
a young woman came up to the counter and started to talk about what she "knew" to be a fact about about steve albini-
i can not remember why she felt obliged, but i do remember feeling very uncomfortable as i carefully placed price stickers on record jackets-
everyone else was enjoying the moment at my expense as she told story after story about how steve was a known child molester, hated women and what an overall asshole he was-

mind you, on my first day at reckless an employee (now a record store owner himself) asked me if it was true that steve had recorded the sounds of peter sotos raping women-

anyway, after some extended child molester story, someone else finally said "you know, that's his girlfriend"-

she stared at me and said "yeah, right, like you'd have a job"-

one more reason why steve should have taken points from that nirvana record-

heather wrote:i have a few steve albini stories myself...

You should have thrown your beer at her.

people are mean and cruel.


however, I do suspect that Steve enjoys the phallic representation of the microphone.

and I also believe that Steve's hat explodes on contact, much like the '72 Pinto

I was in San Francisco once, and heard some old guy say "I don't know why everybody gets so excited about Steve Albini- I really don't think he's that good". So I followed him home, killed him and his wife and burned their house down. Then I tracked down his kids and killed them. The next day, I saw a flyer for this guy-

http://albinimusic.com/

and realized the old dude must have been talking about him, not Chicago Steve Albini. Boy, did I get a chuckle out of that.

Lobsterman wrote:I was in San Francisco once, and heard some old guy say "I don't know why everybody gets so excited about Steve Albini- I really don't think he's that good". So I followed him home, killed him and his wife and burned their house down. Then I tracked down his kids and killed them. The next day, I saw a flyer for this guy-

http://albinimusic.com/

and realized the old dude must have been talking about him, not Chicago Steve Albini. Boy, did I get a chuckle out of that.

Steve Albini's wife is, like, so totally gorgeous:

Lobsterman wrote:http://albinimusic.com/

Now that I know Steve was a former vice president of the Bay Area Accordian Club, I feel I would have to thrown down with any trash talkers. Same as I do with naysayers of Emerson.

itchy mcgoo wrote:Same as I do with naysayers of Emerson.

Ralph or Keith

I don't know, she looks kind of ... Sandraish.


Hey!

Steve Albini's Website wrote:Some events Steve has performed at:
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Alexander Haig Campaign Fundraiser, San Francisco, CA
...

Hey!

itchy mcgoo wrote:

Lobsterman wrote:http://albinimusic.com/

Now that I know Steve was a former vice president of the Bay Area Accordian Club, I feel I would have to thrown down with any trash talkers. Same as I do with naysayers of Emerson.

Emerson, eh?

In his favour:

- "became the first artist to ever use a modular Moog synthesizer live on stage."

- scored Dario Argento's "Inferno", "Murderock", and "The Church"; scored a Japanese full length animated film called "Harmagedon."

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To every mother's great shame:

- Emerson "has consistently won the Overall Best Keyboardist award in the annual Keyboard Magazine readers' poll since the magazine debuted in 1975, and holds a seat of honor on their advisory board."

- Emerson's arrangement of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" has achieved "notoriety as a heroic theme for many sports broadcasts."

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. . . Damn you fast-fingered Dragon!