okay, some of what's left of my brain still works

10 years ago today, I recieved a PM from FMsteve saying that the band was held up in Seattle and wouldn't be able to stop by our house the night before my surgery.

Steve, Bob, Todd, the invite is still open to come by for a cuppa and sign my Deep Purple Records

There was a sad but interesting story on a thread called something like "How a label A&R guy ruined our record". Label guy insisted on some crazy stereoisation effect during mixing that a bunch of people warned him would cause phase alignment issues. Low and behold the record gets done and the label's mastering person tells A&R guy same thing. A&R guy asks for it to be remixed and mixing engineer tells him to fuck off.

I could have some of the details wrong but that was the gist of it. I would love to read it again if anyone has a link to the blog? If memory serves the story was hosted externally

FM runjoerun’s gloriously angry responses to FM Dave’s mild comments on Godard’s ‘week-end’ escalated to “sister-fucker” level, or something close, before ending in a very English transatlantic shaking of hands:
“I am sorry I called you a sister-fucker.”

Nerbly Bear’s unlocking of ‘Hamlet’ is a nice clown companion to Big_Dave’s very informative spiel on Shakespeare in defence of poetry.

Fiery Jack’s mocking riposte to Nerbly’s ‘horrific violence’ thread was HoF. ‘Hamlet’-revelation aside, Nerbly was a poor sub for Waltermalling.

Waltermalling, his spree, his confession, and his Easter Island Head icon, ultimately ruled.

There was a ton of brilliant music and film talk from earlier FM’s that I really miss - BER, biznono, Tim M, CJH, Angus Jung, sunlore and Cranius immediately jump to mind.

While many, maybe most, hated it, I enjoyed arguing teeth-bared on the political threads, grimness of the subject matter notwithstanding, back around 2005/2006 before I realised it had degraded into a game of speed-typing and pasting. Being angry and having sharp, often better-informed interlocutors helped. Warmowski’s writing is brilliantly scathing - his evocation of a time-travelling cruise missile still hovers around my consciousness whenever I read of another radio-controlled atrocity.

Itchy McGoo’s writing generally, and specifically that on sharts, ruled. Kerble too, and Kerbling, and ice-cream eating motherfuckers.

And all the fucking of mothers, and the detail that went with it.

seby wrote: There was a sad but interesting story on a thread called something like "How a label A&R guy ruined our record". Label guy insisted on some crazy stereoisation effect during mixing that a bunch of people warned him would cause phase alignment issues. Low and behold the record gets done and the label's mastering person tells A&R guy same thing. A&R guy asks for it to be remixed and mixing engineer tells him to fuck off.

I could have some of the details wrong but that was the gist of it. I would love to read it again if anyone has a link to the blog? If memory serves the story was hosted externally

wasn't this written by one of the guys from Sugar? not Bob Mould, but one of the other dudes.

As far as producer-y stories, I really liked the one about the rumor of Tina Weymouth being replaced by a ringer on the first Talking Heads album: a rumor started by the 'producer' of that record. Ed Stasium, the engineer on that and many records, came along for 1 post only to say that producer guy was a piece of shit and did almost nothing on that session, and of course Tina played her own bass parts.

akosinski wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 8:35 am

seby wrote: There was a sad but interesting story on a thread called something like "How a label A&R guy ruined our record". Label guy insisted on some crazy stereoisation effect during mixing that a bunch of people warned him would cause phase alignment issues. Low and behold the record gets done and the label's mastering person tells A&R guy same thing. A&R guy asks for it to be remixed and mixing engineer tells him to fuck off.

I could have some of the details wrong but that was the gist of it. I would love to read it again if anyone has a link to the blog? If memory serves the story was hosted externally

wasn't this written by one of the guys from Sugar? not Bob Mould, but one of the other dudes.

Hello, boys.

akosinski wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 8:35 am

seby wrote: There was a sad but interesting story on a thread called something like "How a label A&R guy ruined our record". Label guy insisted on some crazy stereoisation effect during mixing that a bunch of people warned him would cause phase alignment issues. Low and behold the record gets done and the label's mastering person tells A&R guy same thing. A&R guy asks for it to be remixed and mixing engineer tells him to fuck off.

I could have some of the details wrong but that was the gist of it. I would love to read it again if anyone has a link to the blog? If memory serves the story was hosted externally

wasn't this written by one of the guys from Sugar? not Bob Mould, but one of the other dudes.

Maybe?

seby wrote:

wasn't this written by one of the guys from Sugar? not Bob Mould, but one of the other dudes.

Maybe?

It's all covered in DFTR's video. And yeah Dave Barbe was in Sugar in addition to being a recording engineer.

penningtron wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:32 pm

seby wrote:

wasn't this written by one of the guys from Sugar? not Bob Mould, but one of the other dudes.

Maybe?

It's all covered in DFTR's video. And yeah Dave Barbe was in Sugar in addition to being a recording engineer.

Ah thanks! Might you have a link or the name of said vid? EDIT - I SCROLLED UP