YELLOW RAIN - Generation Dead (LP)

It’s 1982. A group of teens in Bloomington, Indiana, spend their free time riding around listening to music, engaging in high risk behaviors, and having adventures typical of their demographic. The music they listen to is not typical: a cocktail of punk, proto-punk, hardcore, psychedelia, garage, and anything else far from the mainstream. It grafts onto their brains, informs their world view, and makes them restless to add their voices to the din. Ross and Greg play in an established local garage surf rock band, Moto-X, with a couple older dudes, including incendiary guitarist Frankie Camaro. David doesn’t play an instrument, and so he will have to be the singer for their new hardcore band, which would be called Yellow Rain, named after a purported chemical agent used in southeast Asia. After securing a drummer, they manage to come up with a handful of original songs and a few covers, and they play a couple parties, a couple shows at the local all-ages venue, and by early 1984, as has