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Will Oldham on Steve Albini: ‘He elevated the quality of the human experience’
Will Oldhamtheguardian.com
New technologies may be disruptive to the existing population of working musicians, but even more irresistible to the general public than new technology are new forms of music, which may introduce new classes of musicians who don’t fit neatly into the existing professional categories. Take the rise of rock and roll.
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“The recording part is the part that matters to me – that I’m making a document that records a piece of our culture, the life’s work of the musicians that are hiring me,” he said. “I take that part very seriously. I want the music to outlive all of us.”
theguardian.com • The Evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the Dumbest Person Is on Your Side, You’re on the Wrong Side’
I managed to see R.E.M. play a Rutgers University food court right as their first album, Murmur, had been released. I was equal parts hypnotized and terrified; back then Michael Stipe sported long stringy hair that completely obscured his face, and when he mumbled, “Welcome to hell,” before the band launched into “Radio Free Europe” my thirteen-yea
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And without helping himself to a slice of the songwriting credits, which would have been standard practice. The failure of George Martin to rip them off remains one of the most bizarre elements of their story.