I've seen Mould a bunch -- Husker Du at Liberty Lunch, Black Sheets of Rain tour same place, Sugar same (same show you went to), and his trio at Mohawk. He's a giant of American punk and alt rock. Such a unique identifiable sound. There's a great scene in one of the Foo docs where Grohl gets Mould into his garage to cut backing tracks on some song, Mould takes a crack at it, leans out of the vocal booth and basically says "what should I change"? Grohl's response was basically "not a damn thing, dude!". He's alsow nearly deaf. A buddy engineered a Magnapop album that Bob produced. The monitor level in the control room drove him nuts, just insanely loud.
I like Everclear quite a bit. And yes, "Santa Monica" is an earworm. I wouldn't lower them to the status of a Sugar Ray or Smashmouth, that's for sure. Maybe about even with The Killers. Correct.
I remember all the Nebraska fans at DKR the year after Ricky pushed the Cornhusker's shit in just shaking their heads at another beatdown. They knew their place. Aggies, never.
HITW was the club I most wanted to play. First time in the window on Guadalupe was transformative. I figured I had made it. I think there were maybe 50 people there, 40 of whom gave no fucks. Perfect. RIP, Doug.
I saw Counting Crows at Austin Opera House on their tour supporting that debut album. T-Bone Burnet came out before they played and recited the lyrics to "Round Here" as a poem. It worked, and then the band came on and opened the show with that song. I saw them several times over the years and they just got worse and worse. Sing the fucking melodies, Adam.
Reaper has a way to select a small section and drag one end forward or back, automatically creating the blend/fade to the other audio. I haven't tried it on grouped tracks, though.
Any recs on a DAW-agnostic tutorial (book, video series, whatever) about correcting drum kit timing errors? My dad band went into a small local studio to have my daughter track 4 songs in about 5 hours on the house drum kit, and the sounds are pretty good, but given the time constraints every tune has a hiccup or two timing-wise. (I'm OK with fixing random things like that, it doesn't violate my moral code like the "Lars actually never played one of these whole measures" shit Metallica pulls.) I don't like mixing very much and I've never auto-tuned and have only slipped a kick drum here or there a few times, but I don't think I'm doing it the best way.
Yeah, I got hired for a bunch of those sessions. "We'll try to track 8 songs by 1 PM and then you can mix them for the other half day." lulz. As I recall, at least one got a little local notoriety.