well, satyr is famous for beeing a car nut....
By the way, the BMW is long since gone, he has been driving a porsche 911 Carrera which he bought new for the past year or so... (Cars is part of our common interest, I have owned both a BMW, two Alfas and a Maserati, but never really thought of it as something people should look up to me for, more as something I could talk to other people with an interest in cars about....)
before I go on, I can post part of the private message i sent to noGearslut after he asked who I was...
....I am just an Oslo based sound engineer who has worked as a live engineer since 1990 and who built a little home studio in 2003... Living in Oslo and being a former metalhead (I actually hardly ever listen to "real" metal anymore, and havent´t done so since.... 1990-ish) I have worked with a lot of the norwegian metal bands, among them a bit of monitor work at festivals for Satyricon.
I have also recorded 3 albums for Satyrs label Moonfog (2 x Darkthrone and Khold´s "Morke gravers kammer") 2 of them in my home studio, so in a way you could say that Satyr has helped finance me moving to a bigger studio in in rented facilities....
OK, back to THIS message again....
I have also heard stories of Satyr being a dickhead, full of himself etc etc etc, but until he proves the storytellers right by being an asshole to me, I chose not to join the people shoutintg about how lame he is etc. And having worked with him on lots of occations and screwed up on some, I honestly have to say that I have met more rock stars who would beat Satyr in the "be an asshole" competition than I can count. I screwed up BIG TIME during the first song Satyricon / Nocturno of Darkthrone played at Wacken, and he had about a 1000 reasons for being pissed of at me since this was the most important cue of the whole show, and since we went throught it thorougly before the show. He was clearly not satisfied, but he did have the chance of blaming it on me on national norwegian television who made a 30 minute documentary on the event. All he said was that "one of the guys working for us could probably have done a better job, but whats done is done...." (or something like that)
Before any of you think I am a friend of his defending him, I do not concider him a friend since I hardly ever see him in non work related situations.
However, I have to say that I have met about a hundred rock stars who were bigger assholes than Satyr. Actually, I have never thought of him as an asshole at all, despite rumours saying what has been said here in this post. My feeling is that some peolple get very jealous when they meet a rock star with credibility and a godlike status for some, especially when they are not fans themselves. Some of these people seem to have a hard time understanding that the rock stars are also humans who will treat you like you treat them....
During the years I have been warned about rock stars who are supposed to be assholes more times than I can count. Most of them turned out to be perfectly nice.... I have met very few real assholes, the ones I have met are often "up and coming" stars that are later remembered for never getting past the "up and coming" stage....
OK, a big rant about something not even related to the threads original theme, but.... Well, I think I had to say this....
Regards,
larsK