Steve Albini on artist management and the music industry.

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Steve Albini talks about bad advice from the music business, and artist management. This is extra footage filmed for the music documentary, 'Underground Inc'. STREAMING NOW.
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@AngloSaks666 2 жыл бұрын

1:47 "If someone who's not in a band starts telling the band how they should behave as a band, and how they should perform their music, that person is talking bullshit."

@petarticinovic2710 2 ай бұрын

Unless they happen to be right.😅

@ajwpowertothepeople3766 Жыл бұрын

Im an artist painter and all the advice I had from galleries have been wrong and bad, trust yourself and your flow and gut!

@ko9655 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Steve. I'm working on my 3rd record right now, and I needed to hear this.

@davidleary5639 Жыл бұрын

This is worth listening to.

@woody6791 Жыл бұрын

What do you guys think is Albini’s perspective on Rick Rubin ? 😂

@volumecorps8086 10 ай бұрын

Just so we’re clear, Steve’s advice for dealing with outside advice is essentially, “Don’t take anyone else’s advice.” My advice is to take Steve’s advice.

@authordanplouff 2 жыл бұрын

good job :):):):):):):)

@jpgrdnr Жыл бұрын

"We need a hit!"

@AndyA1234 2 ай бұрын

There's always been music fads or crazes through time. Waltzes, polkas, big band, Charleston, rock 'n roll, punk, dance, Merseybeat, funk, disco, grunge, Britpop to name but a few. It's all about cashing in while the fad lasts.

@mantislake4141 Ай бұрын

The audience can tell? Then how do you explain the popularity of acts like Creed or Bush? No way grown men play that crap 'cause that's what they want to hear.

@NikoFrederiko. Жыл бұрын

That drumbeat he's talking about is pretty weak too.

@AndyA1234 2 ай бұрын

Lots of Punk and especially Metal is so contrived. The angst, the anger, the hair, the clothes, the attitude, the poses, the guitars at knee height. Quite pathetic really.

@nickdigger Ай бұрын

pedo.

@andrestamayo6509 2 жыл бұрын

I completely disagree. Look, there are plenty of people, with experiences with working for and with bands, that have some great advice...based on practical experience. Not all bands...are going about things, the right way. Also, there's a HUGE problem with a band/artist, only being surrounded with "yes" men. A band/Artists, can become too insulated from good advice, and in many cases, it leads to their downfall. now, I do get what Steve is getting at. You never want an outside entity, influence your work as an artists, but...you had better heed that advice, if you REALLY should be hearing it. There's a balance that has to be struck. An unchecked ego...leads to bands dissolving, and artists ending up dead in a bathtub...

@JohnDoe-tm9wz 2 жыл бұрын

You're talking bullshit, just like Steve said.

@stevenhenry5267 Жыл бұрын

Your mistake is in thinking these bands should be strictly commercial endeavors.

@timhall3575 Жыл бұрын

Steve is right - but i think he's also wrong. Therein lies my problem with his advice here. It's the Albini paradox.

@Mraquanetchris 2 ай бұрын

It's pretty weird to parse out. He's from an era where you could get by or make a decent living doing what you wanted do. By that meaning you had an apartment or maybe a small house. The way economics of living changed since the 90's you have to be making big money out the gate or have intergenerational wealth.

@timhall3575 2 ай бұрын

@@Mraquanetchris i'm not sure i agree with you either:) ha! sorry - that's certainly not my experience of being a struggling musician in the 80s/90s. In fact listening back to Albini again - i think he's more right than wrong tbh.

@Mraquanetchris 2 ай бұрын

@@timhall3575 I agree. I'm thinking about friends who got advances from record companies who were able to afford down payments then that wouldn't fly today - how much housing and space costs have changed since.