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Post by joseph on Jan 8, 2018 20:05:29 GMT -6
You sir, have excellent taste! I saw the Breeders on their current tour and they put on a great show, not reunion-y at all, just a great artist rocking with a great band (Last Splash line up, but I am partial to Pod too). Hell yeah. I saw them play Last Splash front to back (plus other songs afterwords as well) on New Year's eve a few years ago. Still one of the best shows I've seen in a while. I also really like Mountain Battles, though I know some people on a certain forum dogged on it because they said it needed more treble. I liked the lofi-ish sound of it. If you like lo-fi, you should listen to The Amps' Pacer, if you haven't yet That is an often overlooked gem.
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Post by Quint on Jan 8, 2018 20:23:23 GMT -6
Hell yeah. I saw them play Last Splash front to back (plus other songs afterwords as well) on New Year's eve a few years ago. Still one of the best shows I've seen in a while. I also really like Mountain Battles, though I know some people on a certain forum dogged on it because they said it needed more treble. I liked the lofi-ish sound of it. If you like lo-fi, you should listen to The Amps' Pacer, if you haven't yet That is an often overlooked gem. Oh, I most certainly have.
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Post by donr on Jan 8, 2018 23:53:33 GMT -6
You sir, have excellent taste! I saw the Breeders on their current tour and they put on a great show, not reunion-y at all, just a great artist rocking with a great band (Last Splash line up, but I am partial to Pod too). Hell yeah. I saw them play Last Splash front to back (plus other songs afterwords as well) on New Year's eve a few years ago. Still one of the best shows I've seen in a while. I also really like Mountain Battles, though I know some people on a certain forum dogged on it because they said it needed more treble. I liked the lofi-ish sound of it. It's been said, that it's all about the bass.
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Post by c0rtland on Jan 9, 2018 9:17:35 GMT -6
Hell yeah. I saw them play Last Splash front to back (plus other songs afterwords as well) on New Year's eve a few years ago. Still one of the best shows I've seen in a while. I also really like Mountain Battles, though I know some people on a certain forum dogged on it because they said it needed more treble. I liked the lofi-ish sound of it. If you like lo-fi, you should listen to The Amps' Pacer, if you haven't yet That is an often overlooked gem. This song is one of my all time favorite drum sounds. The kick is perfect for what it is. I come back to this song a lot. Side note, I also much prefer Kim deal to frank black/pixies.
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Post by notneeson on Jan 9, 2018 9:45:51 GMT -6
I think she’s a rare, and great talent.
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Post by joseph on Jan 9, 2018 14:41:44 GMT -6
Deal is like Lennon and Black is like McCartney.
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Post by jazznoise on Jan 9, 2018 16:26:38 GMT -6
Meh. That snare sound is trash.. Sounds like someone put the head on and got it to pitch, but didn't make the lugs equal. Yeah, I mean, I couldn't ever hear the Steven Slate Black Beauty snare sample and where are the Nuke'd room mics? What a hack. For real, I've seen this vid before and it's great. He's extremely transparent in his approach and it serves him. In terms of critiquing individual instrument sounds - meh. He's done enough good drum sounds for me to assume the snare tuning was what the guy playing drums wanted.
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Post by Quint on Jan 9, 2018 20:25:30 GMT -6
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Post by gouge on Jan 9, 2018 20:50:51 GMT -6
that's awesome!!!
wonder where it was recorded. breeders are one of my all time favourites. was so happy when wait in the car was released and it sounds as good as anything they've done.
don't know if you guys have seen shellac. seen them a couple of times and got to chat with steve at one of the shows which is their thing. after the gig they get involved with the audience. it's very humbling stuff.
live they rock!
it's kinda disappointing to see the negative stuff written online about steve albini. the dudes level of commitment and influence on the American music scene is next level. I'd go as far as to say he is the Frank Lloyd Wright of alternative music.
he's crafted, recorded and participated in seminal events.
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Post by Quint on Jan 9, 2018 21:13:15 GMT -6
that's awesome!!!
wonder where it was recorded. breeders are one of my all time favourites. was so happy when wait in the car was released and it sounds as good as anything they've done.
don't know if you guys have seen shellac. seen them a couple of times and got to chat with steve at one of the shows which is their thing. after the gig they get involved with the audience. it's very humbling stuff.
live they rock!
it's kinda disappointing to see the negative stuff written online about steve albini. the dudes level of commitment and influence on the American music scene is next level. I'd go as far as to say he is the Frank Lloyd Wright of alternative music.
he's crafted, recorded and participated in seminal events.
Damn right. I think he just irks a certain subset of engineers, producers and music industry folks who are maybe just a little more self important than they should be and have also not had the same degree of success. It all comes down to his punk rock attitude, musically and as a recordist, and also down to the fact that he is a musician first. I applaud it.
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Post by jampa on Jan 10, 2018 1:26:30 GMT -6
that's awesome!!!
wonder where it was recorded. breeders are one of my all time favourites. was so happy when wait in the car was released and it sounds as good as anything they've done.
don't know if you guys have seen shellac. seen them a couple of times and got to chat with steve at one of the shows which is their thing. after the gig they get involved with the audience. it's very humbling stuff.
live they rock!
it's kinda disappointing to see the negative stuff written online about steve albini. the dudes level of commitment and influence on the American music scene is next level. I'd go as far as to say he is the Frank Lloyd Wright of alternative music.
he's crafted, recorded and participated in seminal events.
Damn right. I think he just irks a certain subset of engineers, producers and music industry folks who are maybe just a little more self important than they should be and have also not had the same degree of success. It all comes down to his punk rock attitude, musically and as a recordist, and also down to the fact that he is a musician first. I applaud it. It's funny isn't it. He seems to just go about his job. Many years back he toured with a band from my town and then let them use his studio for free. That album definitely impacted my youth and I am very grateful.
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Post by jazznoise on Jan 10, 2018 6:01:34 GMT -6
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Post by marten on Jan 10, 2018 8:52:43 GMT -6
Those are quad VCAs design. They were in every high end touring rigs in the 90s. These are overlooked by studio guys as they think they are comparable to DBX166 which they are certainly not. Who said "put these in a 2 rack space case with big knobs, VUs annd a big price tag and they would sell like hot cakes"? They were 2K$ back in the 90s. Nice PSU, good quality parts and easy to maintain. Let's see if any of the new offerings by Stam, Warm and so on will work in 20 years... I got 8 channels of them.
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Post by donr on Jan 10, 2018 10:43:26 GMT -6
I don't know either Albini nor Visconti, but I doubt Visconti would have mentioned Albini at all had writer Eamon Sweeney not asked Visconti to respond to Albini's alleged disparagement of pony tailed industry loser producers telling bands what to do. Much less make his response a paragraph head and a big deal in the article. When I think of dictatorial producers, I think of Mutt Lange, Roy Thomas Baker, Bob Ezrin, Max Martin, hardly losers, but talents known for doing a lot more than putting up mics and turning on the machines in the studio. I'd blame Sweeney in this instance, for stirring that pot of poop. Certainly Albini and Visconti have both earned some egoism out of their accomplishments. I also know first hand journalists can make a subject look like anything he/she wants to.
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Post by gouge on Jan 11, 2018 5:56:28 GMT -6
i guess the journalist guessed visconti's ego was a weakness and played on it.
well played.....
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Post by swurveman on Jan 11, 2018 10:28:06 GMT -6
i guess the journalist guessed visconti's ego was a weakness and played on it. well played..... Well that's one spin on it. The other would be that saying, "When I think of a producer, I think of one of those industry losers with a beard and a ponytail sitting in a chair telling the band what to do" was not a very well thought out statement.
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Post by notneeson on Jan 11, 2018 10:54:56 GMT -6
I think Albini is a provocateur, and we need people like that.
That said, the two "name producers" (and I'm using that term very liberally) who I have had the chance to interact with both care very deeply about making great music with great sound, commercial trends be damned. Course, I'm talking about people who came out of the 60s music industry, not the 80s.
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Post by pope on Jan 11, 2018 11:21:35 GMT -6
Nice video.
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Post by joseph on Jan 12, 2018 9:43:19 GMT -6
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