#jeremygordon — Public Fediverse posts

"Right before we wrapped up our final interview, I asked him if he’d ever thought about how his career would be regarded should he retire tomorrow. 'I don’t give a shit', he said immediately. 'I’m doing it, and that’s what matters to me – the fact that I get to keep doing it. That’s the whole basis of it. I was doing it yesterday, and I’m gonna do it tomorrow, and I’m gonna carry on doing it'.”

#JeremyGordon, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side

#music #punk #SteveAlbini

"What became In Utero was, in fact, banged out in a couple of weeks in a Minnesota studio. But as he foresaw, Nirvana’s label, Geffen, interfered, insisting the record be remixed to soften Albini’s recordings. A compromise was eventually struck: the singles Heart-Shaped Box and All Apologies were smoothed out into more commercially friendly songs, while the rest of Albini’s work remained as is."

#JeremyGordon, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side

#music #grunge #punk #Nirvana #InUtero #SteveAlbini