See Big Black and Steve Albini play an explosive final gig in 1987.
, wrote about everything from child abuse to murderous gangsters and always with a wink as if shining a dark mirror back at buttoned-up middle America. But by 1987, the group — which included guitarist Santiago Durango, bassist Dave Riley, and a drum machine called Roland — decided it had accomplished its mission. So they booked a farewell gig at a steam power plant at Boeing Field in Seattle.that circulated in the years that followed, the gig became legendary.
“ Larry Reid booked it the way you would a wedding or a bar mitzvah,” Albini recalled in a 2017interview. “He booked this industrial power plant and they were like, ‘Yeah, sure, you could do that.’ You had to drive to a certain access road at the airport, and you had to go through a checkpoint and show them your ticket, and they’d let you just drive onto the airfield. And then you’d go to this power plant and then you’d see the gig.
Although the band swore they’d never perform again, Albini and Durango reunited with the band’s first bassist, Jeff Pezzati, who played on Big Black’sEPs, for a rare gig at a festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of the record label Touch and Go in 2006. They began the four-song set by lighting firecrackers onstage.'Mrs.
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