Influential musician and recording engineer Steve Albini is dead – music

Last year he sat for the 30th anniversary of the Nirvana album In Utero with the two surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic and happily reminisced. That’s when Steve Albini recounted pranks he played on Kiss bassist Gene Simmons over the phone while pretending to be Kurt Cobain. And he talked about the letter he sent to Nirvana, in which he dictated to the then hottest band on the planet the terms under which he would record their new album. Any other producer in the world would have accepted the job without thinking twice, not Albini. One of his conditions was that he was not allowed to receive any royalties.