Aerosmith
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The Man Who Mixed Slayer Also Mixed Nevermind
Nirvana wanted the engineer behind Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss*. He gave them the biggest-sounding record of 1991, and by 1993 the band’s singer was telling interviewers he was embarrassed by it.*
Nevermind came out on 24 September 1991 on DGC. That makes September 24 the 35th anniversary, and the anniversary pieces will do what anniversary pieces do: the cover, the baby, the pool, the year everything changed. Fine. I want to talk about a name in the credits that almost nobody reads out loud.
The Story of "Janie's Got a Gun": How Aerosmith's Darkest Hit Became a $4.1 Million Lifeline
In 1989, Steven Tyler spent nine months writing a pop-metal hit about a girl who shoots her abusive father. Thirty-seven years later, that song is funding houses for girls like her.
Start with the bass
Pull up “Janie’s Got a Gun” and just sit with the intro for a second. That queasy, circling bass figure under Steven Tyler’s wordless vocal: before a single lyric lands, the song already sounds like something is wrong in this house. Most of Pump swaggers. This track creeps.