Ask a music scene micro celebrity

[electrical]

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Do you ever have people recognize you and run up to you in public and start gushing about how they loved your work with _______?

If I recognized you at the grocery store, and I had a broken arm and wanted you to sign my cast, would you?

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Happens once in a great while. Once my girlfriend got asked for her autograph, so it probably happens to everybody once in a while by accident.

[MikeyPatriot]

KURT COBAIN: Hey Steve, I was wondering if you could turn up the gui...

STEVE ALBINI: Jesus Kurt, hold on. Grimstarr just tilted off $500k and I can't stop dreaming of Patrik Antonius.

(Insert incredibly offensive suicide by shotgun joke here.)

[electrical]

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Thank you for McClusky Do Dallas!

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Super great funny band.
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What do you think of the chopping and screwing mixes of hip hop music?

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I have heard the DJ Skrew version of Big Moe's City of Syrup, and that record is extraordinary and f'd up. Almost everything else I've heard like that has been lame and typical, so I think that's the one good one right there.

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Does this type of remix have any future in rock?

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Oddly enough, some bands ask for specific Skrew-isms (super-low speed vocal takes, brutal disruptive edits) and they seldom work very well. Similar to when the 808 bass drum sample was all the rage, and usually just sounded stupid and tacked-on.

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Also, should I ever fold KK preflop?

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Folded Queens to a big four-bet when 200+BB deep (but covered by a guy who could squeeze) full ring the other day and got into a beef with Pavaveda about it. He was all "how do you magically put him on KK+" and I was all "dude shut up you play limit HE shorthanded" and he was all "you have 34 percent equity against their ranges" and I was all "dude shut up I have two outs that aren't the nuts and I'm not playing for my stack with two outs and you're wrong about those ranges" and he was all "I disagree" and I was all "dude shut up."

[whale_hunter]

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So, basically I wore you all out. Okay.

I'll check in from time to time.

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I think most people are just trying not to bombard you. I have a que of about 500 questions waiting...

Let's say I live just north of Chicago (which I do) and am a fellow poker player (which I am) and want to sit in the studio with you one day.

Chances?

If you tell me one in a million, i'll take that as a positive.
So be careful.

P.S. You going to The Taste?

[PITTM]

Can you tell us what your home audio system consists of? Be specific plz <3

[PITTM]

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Also, thanks for the only good "Ask Me" thread in BBV. You know, OOT is recruiting...

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WPOTY.

[skunkworks]

PITTM (Penis In The Mouth), you should totally lodge a complaint about me in ATF.

[O Fen�meno]

Have you heard any Wolfmother? If so what do you think of them?

[NT!]

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Ah, you're from Providence. Okay. That explains everything. Forget what I said about the lesbian thing. You were probably just experimenting in college. But short hair looks good on skinny girls.


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this thread is so [censored] fantastic, thank you sir

can you comment on recording '24 hour revenge therapy'? that album sounds really different to me from the other jawbreaker albums, which probably has a lot to do with blake's surgery, different songs, etc. but also just the atmosphere of the album is great. anything you can say about the experience, or what those guys were like would be awesome.

what did you think when you heard 'dear you'? there are some great songs on that record but i thought it was brutally overproduced.

oh one other thing, i noticed you didn't mention damon che among the great drummers you've worked with? what was it like recording him?

sorry if this is a lot of questions

[manpower]

Hey Steve,

Do you do any mastering work and how valuable is it to a recording? Do you have a take on the so called 'loudness war'?