Kallmekris (Host)
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And he openly criticized the mainstream music industry, and he worked exclusively on analog equipment.
And he had no interest in making records that sounded polished or commercial.
He once called royalty arrangements
immoral and an insult to the artist.
And Kurt understood exactly the message that hiring him would send to the suits, to the industry, to every bandwagon fan who jumped on after Teen Spirit.
And he'd been obsessed with the sound Albini got on the Pixies' Surfer Rosa.
It was just stripped down and brutal with no polish.
That was what he wanted for the next Nirvana record.
Albini laid out his terms in a letter to the band saying, quote, I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence.
If you will commit yourselves to that as a tenant of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you, unquote.
So they committed.
Albini didn't want the label anywhere near the studio, so the band paid for it themselves.
$24,000 for studio time, and Albini's fee was a flat $100,000.
And he walked away from roughly half a million in royalties on principle.
So, yeah, at least the guy's got principle.
And for two weeks in February of 1993, at Pachyderm Studios, deep in rural Minnesota, the band locked the doors and no one from DGC got in and no one from management did either.
Nobody heard a note until the sessions were finished.
And then the rumors started.
and word spread that DGC might refuse to release the album.
And Albedi, of course, pushed back publicly saying, quote, I wasn't there when the band was having their discussions with the record label.
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