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What Gen X Inherited
Every generation likes to believe it invented volume. Gen X did not. We inherited a working set of tools from the 70s and then spent twenty years arguing about which tools were still legal. Black Sabbath gave us the riff as law. Judas Priest gave us the silhouette and the twin guitar engine. Zeppelin, Purple, Humble Pie, UFO, Thin Lizzy, and AC/DC gave us the rest of the vocabulary. Song length. Groove. Showmanship. The idea that a guitar could be both a rhythm instrument and a lead character. By the time we were old enough to buy our own records, the language was already there. We just changed the accent.
By Overdrive Recordsabout a month ago in Journal
Soundgarden Was Never Just Grunge
The word grunge did Soundgarden a favor and a disservice at the same time. It put them on magazine covers. It also filed them next to bands that did not share their engine. Nirvana wrote like a wrecking ball with a melody. Pearl Jam wrote like a stadium that had just learned to feel. Alice in Chains wrote like a minor key family secret. Soundgarden wrote like Black Sabbath had gone to art school and then joined a punk band that still practiced scales. That is not a side note. That is the whole plot. While Seattle became a brand, they kept the heavy riff in working condition.
By Overdrive Recordsabout a month ago in Journal
Alice in Chains
Seattle gets remembered as a uniform. Flannel. Quiet verse, loud chorus. A generation suddenly famous for being tired of being famous. That story is too small for Alice in Chains. They came from the same city and the same moment, but they brought a heavier bloodline. Sabbath in the riffs. Hair metal residue in the twin vocals. Something colder in the lyrics. Facelift in 1990 and Dirt in 1992 are the two records that made that difference impossible to miss. Together they are one of the most complete statements Gen X ever got about sickness, loyalty, and the cost of staying alive long enough to hear the chorus.
By Overdrive Recordsabout a month ago in Journal
The Post Grunge Bands We Actually Grew Up With
There is a polite version of the late 90s and early 2000s rock story. In that version the serious people finished with Nirvana and Soundgarden, smirked at everything that came after, and moved on to whatever indie record made them feel selective. That story leaves out the music that actually lived in the truck, the shop radio, the night shift, and the first apartment with a cheap stereo. Staind and Puddle of Mudd belong to that second story. So do a handful of their neighbors. Call it post grunge if you need a filing cabinet. Just do not pretend the filing cabinet was empty.
By Overdrive Recordsabout a month ago in Journal
Metallica Black Album
If you grew up with a tape deck in the dash and a boom box that could rattle the windows, you already know what happened in August 1991. Metallica did not just drop an album. They changed the address of heavy music. They took a sound that lived in clubs, tape trading circles, and late night college radio and parked it in the driveway of every kid who had never set foot in a pit. That record is Metallica , the self titled one everyone still calls the Black Album. Thirty five years later it is still the record Gen X reaches for when they want to prove a point about what metal can be when it is written like a hit and mixed like a weapon.
By Overdrive Recordsabout a month ago in Journal
The Side Hustle I Thought Would Change My Life and Why I Quit
Here We Go Again Several of you seemed to like the first installment talking about this topic, so I figured why not go for part two? Like I said in the first one, the hardest part of writing that one was choosing which instance to write about… yes, there are a whole lot of them.
By Timothy A Rowland4 months ago in Journal
