{"id":379,"date":"2024-05-11T22:17:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T22:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2024-05-11T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T22:17:17","slug":"steve-albini-and-some-random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/steve-albini-and-some-random-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Albini and some random thoughts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve Albini, renowned producer and musician, passed away suddenly at the age of 61. He&#8217;s probably most known for producing Nirvana&#8217;s &#8220;In Utero&#8221; but he did so much more. He engineered every Neurosis album since 1999 which are, in my opinion, some of the best albums ever. He also produced Page\/Plant&#8217;s &#8220;Walking into Clarksdale&#8221;. He was an intelligent man with principles rooted in the DIY\/Punk Rock ethos. I admire that. He shall be missed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Random thought #1: I&#8217;ve spent over a month in Green Bay. Not a bad place to be. But when I asked someone what a cheese curd was, she looked at me like I had just grown a 3rd eye. I&#8217;ve yet to try one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Random thought #2: Its been two years since we got rid of satellite TV and, thus, any access to CNN, MSNBC, Fox, or any other &#8220;mainstream&#8221; (HA!) news outlets. Having spent several weeks in a hotel, I watched a little of the news&#8230;.enough to turn it off in haste and in gratitude that I don&#8217;t subject myself to that crap any longer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Albini, renowned producer and musician, passed away suddenly at the age of 61. He&#8217;s probably most known for producing Nirvana&#8217;s &#8220;In Utero&#8221; but he did so much more. He engineered every Neurosis album since 1999 which are, in my opinion, some of the best albums ever. He also produced Page\/Plant&#8217;s &#8220;Walking into Clarksdale&#8221;. He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/steve-albini-and-some-random-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steve Albini and some random thoughts.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34],"tags":[68,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}