Producer and musician Steve Albini is a pretty incredible dude. A few hours ago, this four-page letter to Nirvana surfaced on imgur, and there’s no many notable bullet points — suggesting Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota; the “producer as plumber” mentality — that it’d be impossible to do it justice without just copy/pasting the entire thing. Albini went on to produce In Utero, and with that record just celebrating its 20th anniversary, well, this is all sorts of timely.
(Note: we’re sure this has made the rounds before, but it’s well worth another look. It’s that fascinating.)
UPDATE September 26, 12:20 AM EST: Looks like this letter is included in the In Utero 20th anniversary super deluxe edition.
Print it out, take it to the bathroom, and dig in to brilliance.
Thanks for posting that, I was a massive Nirvana fan. I learnt a new word as well, 'vittles'.
I still think he should have demanded more money, though. He was greatly underestimating the sales, so if he'd asked for 1.5% royalties, he would have made $1 million. But he's saying $400,000 is too much. I don't see why the producer shouldn't get a decent whack considering the band and the record company get absolutely minted, and quite frequently the producer, mixer and technicians have an instrumental part in how the album turns out (see 'Definitely Maybe', for example).
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. The true measure of a man is this: how quickly he can respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give - Philip K. Dick.
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Read producer Steve Albini’s incredible four-page letter to Nirvana
30 Sep 2013 17:27 #3
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