Yes, I know Steve Albini worked with Bush, but Bush was trying very, very hard to be cool at the time. All that “oh, I love Jesus Lizard” stuff Gavin said, I believe it was genuine. And yes, Albini worked with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, but come on, that was Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Scott Weiland, though? A Scott Weiland that in Velvet Revolver at the time this must have been planned? A Scott Weiland that was being too obnoxious for Slash to stomach? A Scott Weiland bringing along the drummer from No Doubt? I’m not saying “dude, Albini sold out.” I’m saying, “man, I hope they paid his mortgage and studio equipment bills forty times over in exchange for putting a mic in front of that choad.”
According to The Pulse of Radio, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS and former VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland told satellite shock jock Howard Stern on Wednesday morning (April 23) that he is currently working on his second solo album with producer Steve Albini for a November release. Weiland was joined on the call by NO DOUBT drummer Adrian Young, who is also playing on the record. A release date and title have yet to be revealed. Weiland’s first solo effort, “12 Bar Blues”, was issued in 1998.
Has it really been a decade? It seems like it was just yesterday that I wasn’t hearing “Barbarella” on the radio. Weiland announced last year that “the dream” was to record three songs at Albini’s studio, but there was no promise that Albini was going to be there. Oh, to be a greedy fly on the wall.
Throw a little of Albini’s patented The Weirdness grime on there, and bam. Rock is back.
SCOTT WEILAND Working On Second Solo Album [Blabbermouth]
Scott Weiland - Barbarella [Youtube]
some of your friends are already this douchey.
Aw, come on. “Choad”?
Jesus Christ Scott Weiland is irritating. The worst thing about him is that, if we were to be glass is half full about the six or seven good songs that STP gave us during a DECADE together, they’re all pretty much accidental successes by the De Leo’s. Maybe I’m just being reactionary about it, but until a month or so ago, I didn’t realize people actually missed the Pilots. It’s pretty mind blowing.
Perhaps he will displace Urge Overkill in the “most unpleasant” category.
This video is actually the third in a trilogy starting with “The Man Who Fell To Earth”
In part two…
“The Grandmother Who Fell To Earth”, Thomas Jerome Newton’s grandmama comes down to our water-rich planet to make sure Thomas brought a sweater with him, only to be kidnapped, eprobed and experimented uopn, then offered a 4 year run of “Damn Yankees” on Broadway.
In the underwhelming final chapter of the saga (above), Mr. Newton’s younger brother falls to earth, looking for some cred.
The above comment would have been much funnier and more savvy had I actually been able to embed the “Dope Show” video. This concludes my foiled attempt to be funny.
Is this any worse than recording Leftover Crack or Milemarker?
SONGS ABOUT FUCKING. Choads.
Weiland is awesome and so are the Pilots.
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Luna Kafé: Electrical Audio was built by punk-rockers, is it a studio for people who operate in the same musical circuit as you do? What if a band like Limp Bizkit would call you and tell you that they would like to record at EA, what would your answer be?
Steve Albini: “When do you want to start?”
He’s even said he’ll record anyone. He’ll just charge them an obscene amount of money to do so. Hence, I dub this turn of events thoroughly awesome.
Actually I am fairly certain that Albini is unique in that he is a per day producer. He doesn’t charge anything more than a day rate, and that doesn’t change regardless of who you are.
I personally wish he would just tour with Shellac and give up the whole producer thing LOL
@nh_dave: You’re right in that Albini doesn’t get royalties, but his per-day charge is anything but a static flat fee.
“Albini uses an admittedly somewhat arbitrary sliding scale based on such factors as his friendship with the musicians, his opinions of their integrity and music, and his assessment of a given record label.” ([en.wikipedia.org])
Based on the above criteria, I think it’s safe to say he’ll be getting paid.
STP is one Michael Jackson cover away from respectability in Miccio’s eyes.
@SteveHy: It would still have to be an entertaining one, otherwise I’d respect Chris Cornell. And I don’t.
@Elijah-M: I’d trust his studio’s own the Electrical Audio site before Wikipedia, regardless of how many times I’ve personally read that quote. That is to say, if I can scrape up a few grand, I’m totally hiring Steve Albini to record my next album.
I would like to say that, at least in my opinion, not having any desire to be, look or act cool - and even littler desire in actually being so - is the true epitome of cool.
The fact that Steve Albini would be willing to record Limp Bizkit or Mr. Weiland and not care who knew it - or care to explain it too much - and continue to record bands like Pillow Theory in the same breath - makes him pretty effing cool.