MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 5:04 pm The best was one William Wittman, whose resume includes such PRF staples as Cindi Lauper and the Hooters. He really didn't like Steve and never missed a chance to say something negative. Once Steve got on the forum he only ever referred to William as "Hooters guy".

haha I remember Hooters guy. Even 20 years ago his biggest credits (listed in his signature, of course) seemed embarrassingly dated.

Good piece in The Reader featuring a lot of familiar forum and studio faces.

strontiumtom wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 4:47 am Alright everyone.

Another old face popping by to say hello.
Not much I feel I can add right now.

What an absolute cunt of a thing to happen.

Love to you all xx

Tommy!

dontfeartheringo wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 4:10 pm
It's been, fuck I dunno, ten years or more? Every day I wake my daughter up for school and make her breakfast and reach out to the poster than FM Jay Ryan made for the fundraiser and tap it once for luck as I head out the door.

I have that poster hanging in my daughter's room. Every time I look at it I get the warm and fuzzies, and explaining the background of it still chokes me up. Doing so recently confused my daughter a bit when her main questions were just what kind of animals are all of these things supposed to be in the 10,000 Bird Machine prints we have adorning our walls, and when I mentioned that I know Jay, what does he look like (she was surprised he was tall.)

But it ended up being a pretty deep conversation with my 7 year old daughter about adoption, community, making a big difference by doing something small (buying a cool poster). All because 30 years ago, teenage me read about this guy that recorded my favorite album and I became a fan. Wild.

1993 fairly-technical interview with Michael Fremer:
https://trackingangle.com/features/the- ... eve-albini

JSP wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 6:06 pmI had to go to the hardware store later in the day for a part, so I wrote "TOILET HOSE" on a post-it, and tended to some other thing. Steve didn't have his own desk until a few months ago, so he used to just go to an open desk, didn't matter whose, and set up shop for a few hours to do emails or whatever. I came back hours later, no clue he'd dropped by, found my list, and turned it into a riff on bands that might share a bill with newly imagined band TOILET HOSE. The only one I can think of right now that he added was "BONG SUITCASE" but there were a good half-dozen new band names he'd written down on the post-it for me to find. I loved that shit.

Take your time to grieve and heal, but when you feel up to it, consider adding some of them to the "Take my band name" thread.

JSP wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 6:06 pmI want to tell every story I can remember about him. I want to make sure I don’t forget any given exchange we had on any given Tuesday. Many will just fall off over time, and that’s some of the sadness for me. You don’t want any one small part of a loved one’s spirit to disappear, to not be available or enjoyed or appreciated for as long as possible.

By giving us this forum he's created a place where part of that spirit remains, in its literally electrical form.

As much as the reason sucks I'm loving seeing the old faces pop in.

Please stick around, for as long as this is still a thing anyway.

Yeah it's nice to see the old faces and I'm glad to hear Marsup is doing well, some of his posts were amongst the funniest shit I've ever read.

El Protoolio wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 10:32 am FM Dave Grohl dedicated "My Hero" to FM steve the other night. This might seem cheesy and corny and who knows what FM steve would have thought but I think it's sweet and classy and sincere. I guess he has played this and dedicated it to others in the past but who cares? This time it was for FM steve.

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Damn, that is great. Probably the only Foo Fighters song that I know, and I really like that song. Wonderfully sombre rendition of it.

Stumbled back on this video, some of the only footage I've seen of the Francisco St studio he had in his basement and attic before EA. Also David Sims bass rig, Nash Kato's Orange full stack, and based on the comments the drum kit is Britt Walford's:

Thanks for posting - all those memories from recording with Dolomite at that house back around '93 just came back to me. I remember being pretty nervous and starstruck. Wild to see footage of the recording spaces all these years later.

Also, thanks to everyone posting all the great memories here. I've been back to checking the forum every day again and will definitely try to make it up to Chicago for the July PRF.