Okay, I know I said we’d talk about publishing deals this time out, but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about what I call “Fallout from the alternative revolution” and I want to talk to you about it. Hark back to the Eighties with me (yeah, I know it hurts): remember staying in your room playing your guitar for hours? Remember turning on MTV and having your choice of either M.C. Hammer or Paula Abdul? Remember wondering why everybody looked so stupid and why everything sucked so much? Ah, but do you remember Metallica, that huge but somehow underground band who brought hard rock back? Remember Jane’s Addiction, the deranged genre-busting art-metal band who sparked off Lollapalooza? Do you remember the first time you heard Nirvana on the radio? It was pretty exciting in the late eighties/early nineties when things started to change and real bands started to get exposure. The utterly fantastic concept of making music that you wanted to make, being who you really were, and actually getting signed because of it became a reality. Now, at the end of ’96, a lot of people who “got with the program” during that time (Let’s record with […]