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Good Charlotte's Benji Madden and Billy Martin Dive Deep Into Their New Album, 'Generation Rx'

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That way we could pan them to make it sound more like we sound live on stage. When it came to guitars for about 75% of the album, I used my trusty Paul Reed Smith Billy Martin model. During the recording of Chronicles I bought a John 5 Telecaster, which is a cool guitar that has humbuckers and kind of has a Tele sound but barely if you know what I mean. I brought that back into the studio again and used it for the remaining 25%. Amps, I used mainly Mesa Boogie heads through Marshall cabs and I love the Dual Rectifier heads in particular.

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You’re pushing out on your boundaries, stylistically. MADDEN All of this subject matter is stuff we’ve dealt with in our childhoods, our youth or our adult life. And we felt a lot of these conversations needed to be normalized, so that someone could turn to their friend and go, “Yeah, I struggle with depression,” and not have that be an uncomfortable conversation.

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Of course, it’s probably difficult to stray too far off course with a tenured musician like Martin in the producer’s seat. The dark hip-hop inclinations, aptly described on Torchfvce’s Instagram as “Southern goth phonk,” are a sharp contrast to Martin’s predominantly pop-punk foundations—and that’s exactly what makes this track such a marvel. It’s a lot darker and heavier, it’s much more of a straight-up rock record. A lot of bands maybe get softer when they got older but we thought it’d be fun to go hard.

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Despite his success in the world of comics, for now, Billy’s focus is back on his day job — and the band’s long-awaited album seventh album. “The box was for this series called Champions which was sort of like Marvel’s young Avengers group. Robert Ramos draws that book and he’s hands down on my favorite comic book artist so it was cool but daunting to get offered the chance to do a variant for one his books! It was a connecting cover between Champions and Dr. Strange.

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's Last Christmas, a full-band version of their previously unreleased song, Christmas by the Phone, and an alternate version of Let the World Be Still, originally by their side project, The Madden Brothers. MADDEN The music definitely was important, in terms of pulling out the lyrics. And it was just a natural expression of where we were at. But I do think this is more of a straightforward rock record.

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Bursting onto the scene with their anthem “Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous,” the pop-punk quintet have spent almost two decades churning out enough hits to worry even bald assassin Agent 47. The guitarist then plays a bit of Silverchair's "Pure Massacre," still able to recall it all these years later despite not having played it since his youth. Substream Magazine is a forward thinking lifestyle and media outlet that focuses on discovering and sharing the best in new music, film, pop culture, and entertainment. Since 2007, Substream has helped break artists and launch cutting edge content Our writers and staff are located all over the world and are passionate about music and pop culture. Molly Hudelson is a music journalist and photographer who won't shut up about the bands she loves.

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On the Bad Cat, I have it set at about half gain a lot less distorted and with a little more treble. Everything is sort of back a couple of levels from the settings on the Mesa/Boogie. I lose a lot of the clarity on the Mesa when its really bassy and heavy, but I like that. So the Bad Cat is sort of my less gainy distortion sound to make up for clarity.

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I think really we just owe it to having good fans. The talents of Martin and Curtains collide once again on Elijah Heaps’ “1st Is 1st! ” Listen to the song back to back with BEXEY’s “GARGOYLE” and the pervading dynamic is clear.

Good Charlotte will be on tour with Sleeping With Sirens, Knuckle Puck, and The Dose this fall; head to their website to see all dates. The goal, Madden explains, is just to make people feel something. “To me, Generation Rx is this distracted generation,” he says. “There’s always a distraction to get you away from thinking about your feelings. There’s always something you can take to numb them. There’s always something you can do to forget about them or run from them.

When Dean came in, he took all the stress off us. Having someone we knew come in and do it without questioning us, was a godsend. We've had drummers before where we've gone into the studio and they've started wining about the drums or whatever and that is the last thing you really want to hear. Maryland natives Good Charlotte return to the spotlight with their soon to be released fourth studio outing titled Good Morning Revival.

One time we had to do a Spanish project in middle school. Everybody did some kind of poster, but one kid asked if he could write a song for it. The teacher said he could, so he came in and played his guitar in the class and started yelling stuff like tacos and burritos over the top of the guitar chords. Then the teacher said that as long as he brought the guitar in, he might as well play for a little bit. So we were asking him to play Nirvana, and the kid would play Nirvana. I thought it was so cool that this kid could play these other bands songs.

There probably won’t be a full-on US tour til next year. Joel has two kids now, I have a have a son, our bass player just had his first kid just about a week ago and our drummer has a son, too. Benji’s really the only one who doesn’t have a family, so it’s easy for him to be 100 percent Good Charlotte, all the time. Out of those 100 of songs, I’d say Benji wrote about 80 of them by himself. The bulk of the record was written by Benji and a good handful came from Joel.

After all, the revelation of his My Chemical Romance fan status came just weeks after he released a track called “Emotions.” What’s better is that the song was co-produced by an icon of the 2000s emo era. Watch the full chat with Good Charlotte's Billy Martin below and if you want to pick up a guitar and start playing just like Billy, head over to Sweetwater.com for all your gear needs. We came across Dean because we're friends with John Feldmann from Goldfinger who knew him. John kept saying if we ever needed a drummer to give him a call. As everybody knows, we had a lot of drummer problems so it hasn't been easy for us.

MADDEN One thing I would say, if I can give any young artist any advice, is you’ve got to learn to follow your instincts, because that’s the only thing that’s going to guide you. There’s not an A&R guy that’s going to do it, or a producer or a label person or whoever. As an artist you have to learn to shut out the noise and follow your instincts.

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