Generation X Offender

Have you ever imagined yourself winning a Grammy Award. Or an Oscar? An Emmy? Or Tony? IMAGINE if you'd won ALL FOUR?!? THEN you'd be an EGOT!! Gimme an "E" for EMMY AWARD: for television (established 1949) Gimme a "G" for GRAMMY AWARD: for music (established 1959) Gimme an "O" for OSCAR (Academy Award): for movies (established 1929) Gimme a "T" for Tony Award: for theatre (established 1947 WHATS...

WARNING!: Mature Subject Matter - Due to certain references to sexual activity in this podcast, Listener Discretion Is Strongly Advised In this episode we take you on an unexpected journey through the life and legacy of iconic poet turned singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Growing up in a household that dismissed Cohen's music as taboo, we reflect on the surprising allure Cohen held for women, parti...

The latest installment of the continuing story of master carver, writer, scholar, humorist, lyricist, composer, multi instrumentalist, recording artist, record producer, recording engineer, singer, songwriter, guitarist extraordinaire, son, brother, cousin, husband, soul mate, father, grandfather, bandmate... Robert Bruce James Ironside (1961-2024)  THE Bob Ironside, the guy who played live onstag...

In the grand tradition of a proper Bob & Kathy visit, it is obligatory to proceed at once to the stove and put the kettle on to boil. Brew the tea properly careful not to bruise it and ease yourself in to this week's episode of The GXO Podcast focusing on everything Robert Ironside & Family... Robert Ironside: The Big Reveal Now this story may have begun in 1983, when, on one fateful Hallo...

Greetings! And welcome! Your Official Summer Listening Guide to 2026 has just arrived! Join us as we dance you through the garden of earthly delights with music in this, our first installment:   FAB FREEDOM PRIDE '26!   We've scoured a globe of time, distance and destiny to bring you nothing but the finest from...   Phoenix, Arizona's Scorpion vs Tarantula featuring the inexhaustible talents of th...

(Before proceeding, please take note that there are a few F-bombs and assorted bad words kicked around casually throughout this week's podcast. Listener Discretion is advised)   Yup, your eyes have not deceived you. We're taking a wee break from the Fabulous 50s this week celebrating 70 years of Rock N Roll (1956-2026) And have landed right smack into the splat of CONTROVERSY! Comedy In The 21st C...

In our continuing quest to Celebrate Rock N Roll's first 70 Years (1956-2026) we drop a few facts and spin a few yarns... And oh what tales we weave! Barely One Act in, the infant Rock N Roll gets the first ever appearance of one 16 year old John Lennon playing his first Rock N Roll gig ever... And his soon to be bandmate, Paul McCartney, just 14 years young himself, who witnessed it. 1957 is choc...

...and just like the GPS lady says, "You Have Arrived At Your Destination!"   DESTINATION 1956!    Decades in the making, from Mamie Smith's Crazy Blues record of 1920, the first ever vocal blues recording, through the transition from acoustic blues to the electric blues in the 1930's, to Jump Blues, Shout and Rhythm & Blues of the 1940s, Fats Domino's 1949 The Fat Man, Ike Turner's 1951 Rocke...

We've cooked up something real special for you this week in The GXO Music Podcast celebrating 70 Years of Rock N Roll (1956-2026)   In today's episode, painstaking, exhaustive research has enabled us to EXPOSE the underbelly of the very first Rock N Roll album to go #1   The time:1956  The place: The Methodist Television Radio & Film Commission Building 1525 McGavock Street in the heart of Mus...

On August 25, 1955, the El Paso Times reported the death of painter Alvin Krolik under the headline "Story Of Person Who Walked Lonely Street". Krolik himself had penned the line in his unpublished autobiography prior to being shot and killed by local police during an attempted robbery in El Paso, Texas. And so a legend was born... Join us this week in the GXO Podcast as The Generation X Offender...

The Continuing Story of Rock N Roll: The First 70 Years 1956-2026   Elvis: The Sun Years (53-54)   Join us as we retrace the footsteps of a boy who would be King: The Developmental Years   From obscurity to regional recognition and everything in between. Missed opportunities, rejection, misdirection, augmentation, trial, error and crispy bacon, peanut butter and mashed banana sandwiches!  .    All...

Welcome Listeners! We have FINALLY arrived! Our Desired Destination! Nineteen Hundred And Fifty Six...the Dawning of the Age of Rock N Roll Join us as we SPLASH DOWN DEEP into 1956, a year so chalk full of instant classics we had to break it down into multiple parts. 1956: PART ONE  All the hits fit to print that DIDN'T make it to Billboard's Top 50 Songs of 1956 Chart *THE MUSIC 1951 Drown In My...

Our tale begins in the mid to late 40s... The 1940s Post War America The Great Cities of the East are full of electricity and light And music... Swing beat is DEAD daddio Bebop and Blues rule! Jump Swing Shout Blues   ...but this new thing, as yet, remains undefined   Founded in 1894 (solely sheet music back then kids!) Billboard Magazine didn't know what to do with it or what to call it either......

...the road goes on forever and the party never ENDS! Rock N Roll - Celebrating 70 YEARS of Maximun Rock N Roll (1956-2026)   ...in this episode the party CONTINUES with the JUMP BLUES and R&B SWING and SHOUT BLUES of the mid 1940s through to 1953 MAKE NO MISTAKE - this sh*ts ROCK N ROLL!  Louis Jordan T-Bone Walker (first ROCK N ROLL lead guitarist) BIG Joe Williams The Flamboyantly outrageou...

In this Episode we continue to CELEBRATE 70 Years of Rock N Roll! 1956 - 2026 ...from the very first HIT BLUES song ever in 1920 on the deep down low through the murky waters of the Mississippi Delta onto Robert Johnson, FOUNDING MEMBER of the 27 Club, through his TWO HISTORIC Texas Recording Sessions (1936 & 1937), Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, T...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROCK N ROLL! 1956 - 2026 70 Years of Maximum Rock N Roll!   Years in the making, Rock N Roll officially became part of the cultural zeitgeist in 1956, the first year this perpetually evolving NEW MUSIC produced the most popular song of the year, Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley. Fellow Rock N Rollers Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Frankie Lymon And The Tee...

...and so we conclude at the Conclusion of our multi episodic Three Part Dissemination exploring the Three Main Ingredients of what 20th Century British Psychedelic Poet Laureate Robyn Hitchcock once famously described as, "the great Civilizing Force of the 20th Century, Rock N Roll"   DRUGS SEX (parts 1 & 2) ROCK N ROLL   SEX, humanity's ORIGINAL DRUG, gets a Subsection B, of course. It is wh...

In the immortal words of 70's disco singer and pornographic actress Andrea True, "More, more, more. How do you like it? How do you like it?" Why? Because more is, MORE! Right? Why choose when you can have more? Why chose when you can have both?   "This is what you want, this is what you get" - John Lydon   MORE SEX please! (no, we're not British)   Back by popular demand, we've extended the Sex se...

WARNING! Proceed With Caution Today's Podcast contains EXPLICIT CONTENT   NSFW   Listener Discretion is STRONGLY advised due to the ADULT nature of today's show. Contains explicit language and sexually suggestive content    In this week's episode of The GXO we continue with our three part series exploring the three primary ingredients of what British psychedelic poet laureate Robyn Hitchcock once...

In this week's episode of The GXO we begin a three part series exploring the three primary ingredients of what British psychedelic poet laureate Robyn Hitchcock once described  as, "the great civilizing force of the 20th Century". Rock N Roll Part One: DRUGS "Religion is the opium of the masses" - Karl Marx "Tune in. Turn on. Drop out" - Dr. Timothy Leary "I can't be held accountable for all the d...

Yup. You read that right. FU*K Valentines Day! Right where the sun don't shine. Angry? Bitter? Spiteful? Nah!!!!!! We're just not buying into the corporate driven cash orgy of spending that tells us all our love isn't valid unless we SPEND! SPEND! SPEND! on February the 14th of  every year. VALENTINES DAY! Yuck! The biggest crock since... As always, this one is inclusive and, for EVERYONE (that in...

Ok, so all the Grammy hype has quieted down. But does anyone really care anymore? Really? Does anyone really care about the darlings and celebrities of Billboard's Top 200? Do you care? We don't. And the majority of the artists in music today who we care about don't care about it either. What we do care about is Rock N Roll, which is all but completely unrepresented in popular media today, ESPECIA...

Tanner Burns Is Bringing Crooning Back! But what, might you ask, is Crooning? Crooning is a smooth, intimate style of singing that originated in the 1920s. The crooning style was made possible by widespread access to electricity and improvements made to microphones that picked up quieter sounds and a wider range of frequencies than ever before. This dominant popular vocal style coincided with the...

Remembering DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. on his Official Celebration Day  Monday, January 19, 2026   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   "I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead but it really doesn't matter with me now Because I have been to the mountaintop.  I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a lo...

This week you're in for a special treat kids! Join us as The GXO goes Parking at an undisclosed location, our very first CAR INTERVIEW! (steamed up windows and all!) with non other than our very own IN HOUSE rap dude The One The Only! J-DDDog!! (triple D my friends! triple Ds!) In this episode, our first in an ongoing segment exploring Hip Hop and it's cultural currency and predominance over most...