Our friend and co-conspirator for many excellent records of Rifle Sport, Cows and others passed on yesterday.

Pancreatic cancer. Not sure of his age, but way too young. A hilarious and wonderful man and engineer. Very sad.

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Iain and Monty in the Entry basement, we hauled a 24-track machine and console down there for our Live In The Entry album.

Ugh...I heard a lot of good things about him....

Sorry, Zom - my condolences.

R.I.P.
He recorded many bands that inspired me.

RIP :(

Oh wow, terrible news.

Random amusing Iain memory: At the AmRep studio, recording Cows' Sexy Pee Story, and Kevin was ragging him for something or other. Iain looks up momentarily from the board, and in his great snide Brit accent, says "This from a man who is currerntly wearing a baby's bib around his neck", before returning to what he was doing.

very sorry zom

RIP.

No! Really? That's a shame.

Yeah.. check out his incredibly awesome studio.. I didn't get to record there but did visit it.

A 200+ year-old farm in France.. at least he was able to live out his last years in Engineer Heaven.

Iain Burgess

Wow, so sad. Sorry Zom and any others on here who personally knew him.

Boo to this, I love his recordings, everything done at Black Box in France sounds awesome

also that story is very awesome orbit :)

Yeah Orbit, well played. It's also awesome cuz at that moment he's recording an album called "Sexy Pee Story."

Man the list of albums he did there, so many of my favorites

Nastasia's Run to Ruin, Shellac At Action Park, Cows Orphan's Tradgey, Uzeda 4, 18th Dye Done & c

Sad to hear he's passed away. He definitely left behind some great records. Stalwart of the underground.

Very sad news. My God, that studio and spread in France looks absolutely amazing!

RIP. very sad.
didn't 18th Dye record 'tribute to a bus' at Black Box in france?

bummer. never did get to formally meet him, but 'cunning stunts' was definitely on heavy rotation there for a while..
rip sir.

my bad, Burgess did 'done' at Black Box.

Iain and I were roommates in Chicago before I moved to Mpls in 1991. He turned me on to Marmite and was a huge Cubs fan. Two things which make him aces in my book. He recorded several of my bands and was always a blast to work with.

Burgess from (I think) a Breaking Circus recording session;

"Albini, you are a TERRIBLE tea boy! When I was a tea boy (Limey slang for studio gofer) I did what I was told immediately! Now get on that button and stay on that button until I say otherwise."

After a grueling session with a very young metal band who were trying to play very complex thrash metal. The band who claimed that Metallica stole their kick drum sound;

"That kid needs to make up some parts he's able to PLAY!. Thirty takes and he still didn't nail it."

Iain was a joy to be around and seemed to cloak his affection for people in a spiky balloon of good natured ribbing and jabs. Something which made Burgess recording sessions a complete riot.

If there's a bright side, it's that he did exactly what he loved doing, exactly where he wanted to do it for the last years of his life.

very few people get to fully realize their dreams; looking at the black box studio website, it certainly looks as if iain was able to. gorgeous, pastoral rural france, converted 200-year old stone house, studio w/ guest quarters...man, sounds like engineer paradise to me!

no doubt, trehus.
those pictures had me daydreamin'.

i am so sorry, zom-zom and dum dum boy.

This is sad news.

Um, did anybody see this??? WE ARE BEING WATCHED.

yeah i think someone from there posts here? on the clipd beaks thread

gimme noise has been basically retweeting mrmb for like 2 years now

Sucks. I know this dude has done many records that I loved. Shocked there is no Wikipedia page.

so sorry he's gone...he's made a huge difference in so many lives, and those records will live forever.
the pics of his spread are gorgeous!!

Steve's rememberance of Iain