Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:24 pm**

Honestly I thought he was 90 like 20 years ago. And dead for 15

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 3:40 am**

RIP Paul Auster at 77. ****

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2024 11:38 am**

Duane Eddy, “King of Twang”

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2024 3:23 pm**

Badass groove

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2024 5:31 pm**

John Williams played the piano part on the original Peter Gunn Theme recording. So there.

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 10:15 am**

Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn.

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 10:37 am**

DEATH

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 10:51 am**

is the greatest death metal band of all time.

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 11:17 am**

Forth Eorlingas!

RIP

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 11:57 am**

Perfect casting for that role. RIP.

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 6:50 pm**

Like a wind in the meadow....

RIP

Posted: **Mon May 06, 2024 5:01 am**

RIP César Luis Menotti

Posted: **Wed May 08, 2024 12:43 pm**

Producer/musician Steve Albini, 61. Heart attack in his studio while working.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/legendar ... 61-3754583

Posted: **Wed May 08, 2024 12:45 pm**

Posted: **Wed May 08, 2024 1:39 pm**

Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn.

Scrolled by fast and was like, damn, Willie died!

Posted: **Wed May 08, 2024 2:05 pm**

Producer/musician Steve Albini, 61. Heart attack in his studio while working.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/legendar ... 61-3754583

The Problem with Music

The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month.

This is a 30-year old essay, but it's still the go-to imo. I've always said the old model of the music industry was not dependent on mega-successful superstars. It thrived off of churning acts to find the small handful who were sort of successful. They were the lifeblood, bands that got to that third record of their deal and were dropped before their option was exercised. They generated a good bit of income but not enough that they themselves earned any money to speak of, the music equivalent of an insurance company refusing to pay your claim after collecting eight years of premiums.

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2024 11:22 am**

The one thing I know about Steve Albini is that he absolutely loathed Steely Dan

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2024 3:54 pm**

I almost forgot about his Twitter rant about "the Dan".

I mean I remembered the rant, but didn't remember that it was him.

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2024 4:21 pm**

Oh s**t, I also forgot that was Albini. haha

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2024 4:29 pm**

Sounds like a great guy.

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2024 4:47 pm**

I did think his proposal to produce "In Utero" was a decent read: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/steve-albi ... o-nirvana/

Of course, the singles did end up getting remixed anyway...

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2024 5:33 pm**

The three of them (Dave, "Chris", and Albini did an interview with Conan O'Brien a year or so ago and they talked at some length about the 'remixes'. (They just re-aired it in it's entirety yesterday on the Lithium SXM channel) That studio is in the geographic center of bumf**k nowhere.

Like 40 total combined studio days to record Nevermind and In Utero. That's pretty good.

Posted: **Sat May 11, 2024 12:52 am**

Sam Rubin, legendary KTLA entertainment anchor, dies at 64
Guy was an indelible part of the local news landscape. RIP