Big Black’s Santiago Durango: “Steve Albini was a much better friend than I deserved”
nme.comSteve Albini – see what Durango had to say below.Earlier this week, the music world was shaken by the news of iconic rock engineer, producer and musician Steve Albini dying from a heart attack at the age of 61.
Besides recording and producing some of rock’s biggest albums including Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero’ and Pixies‘ ‘Surfer Rosa’, Albini was also in several bands – one of which was Big Black.Now, Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango has shared a statement with Rolling Stone about his former bandmate, in which he called Albini a “caring and giving person”.
Describing Albini’s death as a “total gut punch”, Durango said to the publication: “I always believed Steve would outlive me.
It makes me happy to know Steve lived a full life doing what he wanted to do.”Durango continued: “What gets overlooked about Steve is that, when everything else is stripped away, he was simply a decent man.
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