Jack Endino
As part of my ongoing (some would say “misguided”) effort to blog daily until things start to really heat up like the epic Stan-Gina arc in 2003, sometimes I will have so little to write about that I’ll just post random links. For the fun and uselessness!
So I listened to a bunch of old Alice in Chains CDs in a fleeting attempt to recapture my misspent youth by…sitting in my room listening to CDs. It didn’t work so well. There wasn’t enough weed or flaming bags of dog shit, but it did get me thinking about semi-legendary Seattle grunge producer Jack Endino. Not that he produced any Alice in Chains stuff. His name just popped into my head, because he did produce music for a lot of bands that broke through after Nirvana (and including Nirvana’s Bleach).
Not that I run around committing the names of music producers, big or small, to memory. The name sticks out doubly because in the liner notes for Bleach, they write that Jack Endino recorded it for $600. When I was in junior high, thinking I’d be some big rock star, I remember thinking, “Yeah man, if I could just save up $600*, we could cut a record and be huge!” Based on such high-quality songs as “Petrified Leafblower” and “Cyclone Fence,” perhaps I was in over my head.
Nonetheless, the name stuck in my head and Facelift stuck in my CD player, I proceeded to look up Jack Endino to see what he’s been doing (answer: not much). He does have a website, though, and in particular I stumbled across two music articles that are pretty funny if you know a little bit about music production and/or have ever experienced the joy of tuning a guitar in a studio setting. If you don’t know anything about either of these, the humor may work about as well as your average aviation joke.
How to Overproduce a Rock Record! (somewhat reminiscent of the Mixerman saga, but focused more on the technical stuff than personnel problems)
Guitar Tuning Nightmares Explained (be sure to scroll down for the bizarre surprise ending!)
Yup, that’s all I got tonight. Deal with it. At least I’m blogging instead of going to a party I was invited to but didn’t attend because I don’t like anybody I’m friends with.
*Two hundred weeks of allowance.
Posted by Stan on April 27, 2007 10:49 PM | Permalink | Random Musings | Digg It
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