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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Artists Surrender Their Favorite Power-Pop Songs |
| Date | Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:31:35 -0500 |
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> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:03:46 -0400
> From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: Artists Surrender Their Favorite Power-Pop Songs
> Message-ID: <000b01c59132$70bfaf90$1d02a8c0@Sparky>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
> > And it's nice to see via this *Magnet* survey that middle age has
> > not changed Steve Albini's charming and winsome personality one
> > iota.
>
> I know people who have recorded with Albini, and believe it or not,
> word is that he's actually a perfectly nice guy in real life, when
> he's not working his persona.
Albini and I used to cross paths a lot back in '84 at the two-flat here on Chicago's North Side where Breaking Circus lived while they were recording their EP *The Very Long Fuse*. (Albini's mentioned in the liner notes of the EP via his nickname at the time, "the Little Weed". He weighed about 90 pounds soaking wet.) We were both friends with the guys in the band, and the band's apartment was something of a hangout. I also used to see Albini at a lot of Naked Raygun and Effigies shows, as they were part of that same scene. Believe me, that scabrous persona he cultivates in the press was the genuine article. Of course, that was over twenty years ago. Since then he may have actually figured out how to play nice when someone isn't pointing a microphone in his face.
Gregory Sager
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