Rock is Dead? Full Film: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7Ocf8mjupvKmqc.html What is Classic Rock? - Canada & USA: - KZfaq bit.ly/2Kbji5C - iTunes apple.co/2KNOCD2 - Vimeo bit.ly/2Iv1ywd - XBOX bit.ly/2K8AF6Z - Google Play bit.ly/3cwDybU What is Classic Rock? - Worldwide: - Vimeo vimeo.com/ondemand/whatisclassicrock2 Cheers, Daniel

I can’t wrap my head around the fact that he’s gone. He’s really just one of those people who, for me at least, granted a certain safety just in knowing that he walked among us and was still doing things. I haven’t followed his recent work closely, but every time his name came up in an article or wherever else I would love to hear what he had to say. What’s for sure is that the world is lesser without Steve.

A sad day for Rock n Roll. RIP Steve Albini.

Steve’s studio is the nicest studio I’ve ever been in, he has a CRAZY Italian espresso machine

Pretty coy how he doesn't address some of Roland's more problematic behavior

Santiago was indeed one of the most bad ass noise guitarists of the 80’s. That marching in place is iconic, man.

Thanks a lot for sharing big black stories, there is not much info about this legendary band , I hope to see more about big black , shellac and rapeman too.

I've been on a Big Black trip lately. The show at CBGB's in 1986 is a great vid. Dave Riley had a killer bass tone.

Rest in peace Riley... Great bassist

big black was 'formative' to my early 'punk' experience in the 80's.. nihilistic, weird, trippy, but also a true audio assault of magic in your ears

RIP - still can't believe he's gone. Just tells you how unfair life can really be.

BIG BLACK have always been one of the greatest post-punk bands, in my opinion. I've been a fan since way back (Touch And Go era). It's awesome to see this interview! Music for a limited audience? Maybe, but I for one am still a fan of them. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this interview! Love Big Black! Steve Albini is a genius in his own right!

Still sharing Big Black today! I learned about them when I worked in college radio fifteen years ago and this weekend I'm doing a drag number to Big Money and Kerosene in a show about the common worker. Thanks, Steve!

great overview / interview! thank you!!!

Thanks for posting this. RIP Steve

So good to see someone talking to Steve about his music 🎶 huge big black, shellac fan hoping there’s more 🤞🏽

I feel like I already know all there is to know about Big Black but I will never get tired of people talking about them.

Cool interview. Never seen this before

wtf :( this is for everybody. im so upset i just learned this.. you all helped me when i was sad. Songs about fucking made me feel better in my day to day

RIP Steve Thanks for posting this.

Can you get David Yow or Gibby Haynes

Gold content as always !

Okay's talkin about skinheads. He's right it really did suck on the scene, back then, when they would show up at shows.

Really fucking bummed that Steve has passed away. His work on so many records and with his many bands have had such a huge impact and influence on me. May he rest in peace.

Also see Propagandhi - Back to the Motor League. Such an amazing guy that I’m lucky to have seen live a few times, rest in power Mr Albini, the legend will live on forever.

wow, more Steve Albini

Awesome. 👍

I love that it appealed to me. Thank you Steve RIP

Making a horror movie.. does not mean you are insane and want to act it out... Great description.. Albini was brilliant.

"There was no point in entertaining any notions of popularity" might be one of the most honest, and greatest lines ever uttered

Rest in paradise

From a strictly Anglo/EU perspective... If they'd kept going and stayed with Blast First in the UK for the next album / follow up to 'Song's About Fcuking' and say this album was released in late 1988 early 1989 (in this alternate fantasy timeline) I think a few things 'could' have happened. They'd have been properly 'Alternative Music'.. 'huge'. Kind of Sonic Youth 'Daydream Nation' - MBV 'Isn't Anything' style late 80s - pre-1991 Grunge huge. Front cover of Sounds / Melody Maker (NME wouldn't have 'got it' - the squares) huge.. Getting offered the new groovier Reading Festival early evening slots live huge - the pre-grunge kids getting into them 'huge'. Bigger tours - appearing on Snub TV - doing longer / bigger tours across Europe etc etc. They'd have stayed a 'cult' concern in the US playing club shows whilst filling theatres here - and Europe would have become their 'main market'. Albini would have hated it all and would have quickly burnt out by the growing commodification / homogenisation of the 'underground' - and broken the band up and we'd have seen no R***man fiasco etc etc. Subsequently 1991 happens - Nirvana still get big - but Albini doesn't form Shellac, doesn't do 'outside' production work as he started doing with the Pixies etc, doesn't work on In Utero and Electrical Audio is never built. I think he'd potentially just turned his back on the whole 'scene'... but then.. this is my fantasy historical timeline and TBH this timeline isn't as great in the long run. I'm glad that BB broke up when they did as look what came after - despite never getting to see them... boo:(

A true man of principles.

Songs About Fucking - Excellent.

I can’t get over the fact that he’s dead. I first got obsessed with big black only a few months ago but I was obsessed with albums he produced for years before. It feels like punk and noise rock are now truly dead.

BIG BLÄCK hit hard ‼💥 Great band‼

I think the Latin phrase is Tempus Fugit. I guess I didn't realize they started in 81 since I saw Steve pretty much with just the drum machine at the Metro a few times that year. But I'd see him with Naked Raygun a lot, so I guess I figured it was just him doing like a side project "one man show" in between other bands. I was super duper young (14?) Last time I saw him...maybe it was my 3rd year in high school, sitting on the curb/on my skateboard with my girlfriend, around the corner from the skate shop, Tom Thumb, up in Evanston since that was the only shop where you could get parts if you lived in Chicago. I guess he knew I was a guy who came to shows--since I had a mohawk and skate clothes-so he caught my eye. I nodded at him and his (maybe) wife in their Volvo. By that time he was famous, but that moment always made me realize he was REALLY a pragmatic, humble and what-you-see-is-what-you-get person, and history proved that to be the case.

RIP Steve

So... Santiago...was the man.

This guy made a great job of DAZZLING KILLMEN's Dig Out The Switch and HELMET's Strap It On :)

RIP DAVE !!!

yeah, I wanted non nirvana Albini content Thanks for this. off topic, I miss the PRF.

A genius gone too soon. RIP.

I remember going out to buy Songs about fucking the day it came out. Only saw them once but it was great.

My eyes roll hard every time I hear Albini speak. I love BB btw

Such an awesome noise band, Songs About Fucking is one of their best...

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You should interview butch vig

KEROSENE is everybodys favorite BIG BLACK song

When you started your question about Kerosene, I thought you would ask the ultimate question...but you didn't. RIP Steve

Interview the dudes from Squirrel Bait or Bitch Magnet....

In this context I'd like to quote Phillip Boa: When you sell records to more than 10,000 people, you sell records to idiots.

I wonder if anyone *not* awesome ever recorded Nirvana 🤔

Fish fry!!!

I'm cool and I'm here for the wrong reasons.

"johnny hit&run pauline"? anybody?

Woohoo Dave Riley sounds cool. Every band needs a drunk.

Law school ?? Damn I find this shyt out now just replace Santiago keep the band going fk the audience they will change as time goes on but whatever

Who’s afraid of the big black group 🤓✌️

What is the kind of people ge didn't want to be associated with? People like Columbine school shooting? That kind?

Roland is responsible for breaking up BIG BLACK, Roland went into business for himself and this is why there is no more BIG BLACK. We could still be enjoying BIG BLACK if not for Roland, F### Roland.

These people that come out with this "I suffered for the music" BS. They made that type of music to get attention, make sales. You do not make music for your friends, they do not put food on the table or pay the electric bill.

Turned from a simple question into 8 minutes of yappery

Never realized you had to "qualify" to see any band...

He has that uber hipster mentality. Not liking people who were into his band, because they didn't really get it, and for the wrong reasons. Totally pretentious. Good thing they broke up. No one needs this narcissistic, holier-than-thou attitude. I respect his work, but that hipster bullshit is ridiculous.