R.I.P. Seymour Stein

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A portrait of Seymour Stein leaning against a stone building while wearing a short-sleeve white button-up shirt with a blue pattern


Who Signed Madonna, Dies at 80

With an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, he championed acts including the Ramones, Talking Heads and the Pretenders on his label Sire, and helped found the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

I very much hope Mr Stein is recognized on these forums for the huge impact he had on music (and not meaning that as a shame).  If it were not for Seymour Stein and a few others like him, there may not have been a Pearl Jam or a lot of other bands that road the wave Stein and the bands he worked with set into motion.

Seymour Stein was one of the major figures who helped move rock and music in general beyond my generation's music and as much as I love the music of the 50 and 60's I grew up on, I have long been grateful for Mr. Stein and some others like him to give the music a much need and, to me, greatly appreciated boost.   A huge thank you, Mr. Seymour Stein, may you rest in peace.




"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

"Try to not spook the horse."
-Neil Young













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  • EraserheadEraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,942
    He signed Ministry to Sire Records too. RIP
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,769
    Ok. I rarely think of the people behind the scenes. Thanks for scrambling my brain with ministry :)
    RIP
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,908
    I guess I guess you could say he was a pioneer putting some really great artists on the map! 
    RIP 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,769
    I know ministry was really odd discoish pop back then. Prior to Twitch. Twich got pretty experimental then the heaviness settled in. Read about their later release. 'Jesus Built My Hotrod' was made with a $75,000 advance from the lable [not sure if it was sire]. AJ said they smoked and shot up all that money and put something noisy together. Label thought they were done and it was a hit! Still never heard that one. 
    Kind of surprised how some drug abusers lived through all that. Lucky I guess. Also believe that if drugs were not partly there to inspire mental short circuts...most of this music never would have been created.

    Maybe I'll but out my Madonna lp in his honor. 

    F..k Ministry...let's kill

    Anyway. RIP 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,297
    edited April 2023
    Loujoe said:
    Ok. I rarely think of the people behind the scenes. Thanks for scrambling my brain with ministry :)
    RIP

    Yeah, it's easy to overlook some of the people behind the scenes who are/were involved in the evolution of music.  Amongst those, there are both the famous and the infamous and some who where maybe both.  Would the Beatles have gone as far as they did without "the fifth Beatle", George Martin?  Would Jimi Hendrix have survived longer without the pressure imposed by Mike Jeffries? Would Buffalo Springfield have been as big as The Beatles and The Stones if they had been managed by Ahmet Ertegun instead of Charles Greene and Brian Stone? What would ambient and electronic musics be like without Brian Eno or Aphex Twin?  Would punk have thrived as well as it did without Danny Fields?
    Producers, managers, engineers, promoters, and other record company executives have had a huge impact on the music we know and love.  I would rank Seymour Stein as one of the greats, for sure.
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,769
    I like what he did for the clothing industry.

    Wait that was Seymore....

    Bad dad joke. .blah blah blah

    Sorry not sorry. Hope people chuckle when I pass on. 

     Busted out some Madonna now while cleaning. good laundry folding music. La Isla Bonita 45 maxi single

    Thank you Seymour.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,297
    Loujoe said:
    I like what he did for the clothing industry.

    Wait that was Seymore....

    Bad dad joke. .blah blah blah

    Sorry not sorry. Hope people chuckle when I pass on. 

     Busted out some Madonna now while cleaning. good laundry folding music. La Isla Bonita 45 maxi single

    Thank you Seymour.

    And then there's always Ken More.
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    And more bad jokes.  And more and more and more... :lol:

    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,769
    Never heard that one. Touche :)
     Like a Virgin on now.
    This whole soundtrack maaaakkkeees me feeeeel....a little less like a grumpy son of a gun.
    That's not easy to do.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,297
    Loujoe said:
    Never heard that one. Touche :)
     Like a Virgin on now.
    This whole soundtrack maaaakkkeees me feeeeel....a little less like a grumpy son of a gun.
    That's not easy to do.

    Music makes a whole lot of things in life better, Loujoe.   I always thought it cool that Henry Rollins once said, "I medicate with music.".  Still in a dither about losing my wallet, I told my wife last night, I'm going to go put on some musical Prozac.  It was good (Dream Syndicate, How We Found Ourselves... Everywhere!)
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,580
    edited April 2023
    A sad loss.  He helped define my musical taste in the early 80s.

    Being on Sire records added credibility to all of their artists.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,297
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    A sad loss.  He helped define my musical taste in the early 80s.

    Being on Sire records added credibility to all of their artists.

    Well said, Joe. 
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













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