NAMES: Steve Albini, Todd Trainer, Bob Weston.

AGE: Timeless.

FROM: Chicago.

OCCUPATION: Making the best of the best sound their best, cleaning clocks at the poker table, being a role model to thousands despite themselves.

HOBBIES: Driving everyone crazy by insisting on calling the Mel Brooks movie/musical The Engineers.

LAST BOOK YOU READ: Wake Me Up When I’m A Size 5: A Cathy Collection, Scar Tissue.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Outliving at least half of Steely Dan.

QUOTE: “One will prepare, revise and rehearse carefully, with intent, honing an idea to a keen edge, ready to cut the cloth of execution.

The other makes other people responsible by saying, ‘do it again,’ until by chance they are satisfied, then take credit.” —Albini on the two types of perfectionists