We did a lot more pre-session demos, not just with Albini, but also using an 8-track reel-to-reel that we had bought to record our practices.

The Breeders were without a drummer, so Albini suggested Britt Walford of Slint join for the recording sessions.

Albini later observed the use of studio banter on Surfer Rosa: " It's on their record forever so I think now they are obliged to say that they're ok with it, but I honestly don't know that that idea would've ever come up if I hadn't done it.

Albini also emphasized that the songs ' lyrics were not the focal point of Big Black, and that the vocals were only there out of necessity: " It seemed like, as instrumental music, it didn't have enough emotional intensity at times, so there would be vocals.

Both the band and Albini were unsatisfied with the sound of Comfort, so when the band went back into the studio in 1993, Andrews and Edwards took on the role of producers themselves.

Albini also accused Riley of a number of other shortcomings including lateness to rehearsals, always needing rides, and " flashes of brilliance offset by flashes of belligerence.

" However, though he made a number of threats, Albini never fired Riley.

Another problem facing the band was that Riley was now in college and both Albini and Durango had to keep day jobs, which limited Big Black's ability to tour.

" Both Albini and Riley described Big Black as a punk rock band.

Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun.

On September 9, 2006, Albini and Durango reunited with original bassist Jeff Pezzati for a Big Black reunion performance at Touch and Go's 25th Anniversary festival.

Raygun fan Steve Albini was forming a band called Big Black and asked both Durango and Raygun lead singer Jeff Pezzati to join.

" Albini and Washam became " sort of obsessed " with the comic, and named their new group after the titular antihero.

Moving to Evanston, Illinois the following year to pursue a journalism degree and fine art minor at Northwestern, Albini immersed himself in the fledgling Chicago punk scene and became a devoted fan of the post-punk band Naked Raygun.

As the story goes, Queen Adélaide of France became enamoured of a young knight, William d ' Albini, at a joust.

The album was recorded by Steve Albini ( who was hired by Watts-Russell on the advice of a 4AD colleague ), completed in two weeks, and released in early 1988.

It consisted of Steve Albini ( formerly of Big Black ) on guitar and vocals, David Wm.

Albini launched an extensive and successful career as a recording engineer and played bass with Flour before going on to form Shellac.

4AD gave the band an $ 11, 000 budget and recruited Steve Albini, who had worked with Deal on the Pixies ' 1988 album Surfer Rosa, to record in Edinburgh, Scotland for two weeks in December 1989.

Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's " Highway 61 Revisited ," and two new songs " Me Jane " and " Ecstasy.

They then released the 7 inch vinyl single Baby Talk / Brontosaurus on Seattle-based indie label Sub Pop Records, which was produced by Albini.

Nielsen and Carlos were on hand to receive the award, which was presented to them by Steve Albini.

In 2004, Lightning Bolt played on the doorstep of radio DJ John Peel's chalet at noon during the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, about which neighbor Steve Albini of Shellac and Big Black commented " Best alarm clock I've ever had.

Fugazi recorded its third album In on the Kill Taker in the fall of 1992 with Steve Albini in Chicago ; however, the results were deemed unsatisfactory and the band re-recorded the album with Ted Nicely & Don Zientara.

Steve Albini is an influential musician and audio engineer whose many recording projects have exerted an important influence on independent music.

Albini has fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac on guitar and vocals.

* Pigface – Gub ( 1990 ) ( Albini also plays guitar, bass, and oscillator on some tracks )

Many alternative rock artists, including Billy Corgan and PJ Harvey, have cited the album as inspirational ; Nirvana's Kurt Cobain frequently acknowledged that Surfer Rosa was a strong influence on Nevermind, and in 1993 hired the album's producer Steve Albini to produce his band's album In Utero.

" and her lead vocals on " Gigantic ", Albini moved the studio equipment and recorded in a studio bathroom to achieve real, rather than studio, echo ; according to John Murphy, Deal's husband at the time, " Albini didn't like the studio sound.

The track begins at this point, with Francis explaining the conversation to Albini, whose voice is not heard on the track.

Lupfer later admitted that Albini knew " perfectly well what was going on.

Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989.

A version of the song Vamos would appear on Pixies ' next two releases: re-recorded with Steve Albini for their first full-length album, Surfer Rosa, and as a live B-side on their first single, Gigantic.

Albini passed Lungs on to John Babbin of the small local label Ruthless Records, who released 1, 500 copies of the EP in December 1982 with random objects such as dollar bills, used condoms, photographs of Bruce Lee, and bloody pieces of paper thrown into the insert.

Albini " sorta conned " small local label Fever Records into financing the next Big Black EP, bringing in drummer Pat Byrne of Urge Overkill to play on the sessions as accompaniment to the drum machine, which they dubbed " Roland " for album credits.

Gerard Cosloy, who had befriended Albini through writing for Matter and gone on to work at Homestead, negotiated an unorthodox deal for the band: Big Black merely licensed their recordings to Homestead for specific lengths of time, rather than the label retaining the rights to the recordings as was typical.

Harvey describes herself as " an extremely quiet person, who doesn't go out much, doesn't talk to people " and has also acquired a reputation for eccentricity to match her music ; for example, Steve Albini claimed she ate nothing but potatoes while making Rid of Me.

Albini had become a fan of punk rock during his high school years in Missoula, Montana, and taught himself to play bass guitar in the fall of 1979, his senior year, while recuperating from a badly broken leg resulting from being struck by a car while riding his motorcycle.

Riley's funk background brought a slightly greater sense of melody and danceability to the band, while Albini and Durango's guitar work was more violent than ever before.

Michael Azerrad comments that " by this time Big Black had both refined the ideas first suggested on Lungs and exploded them into something much huger than anyone but Albini had ever imagined ", while Mark Deming of Allmusic states that the album " upped the ante on the musical and lyrical ferocity of Big Black's previous body of work, an unrelenting assault of guitar sounds and imagined violence of all sorts.

During performances of " Jordan, Minnesota ", the band would reach a point where they would prolong a discordant, creepy noise while Albini would perform an intense pantomime as though he were one of the children from the song's lyrics being raped.

Other well-known alums include Neil Tesser and Steve Albini, while " This American Life " host Ira Glass got his start at the station.

Stations on the new line were designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg architecture studio, while Bob Noorda designed the famous signaling.

Andrews argued that more can be done ( with greater ease ) with digital while Steve Albini argued that he can accomplish just as much with analog.