Old Lady Drivers

OLD (originally an acronym for Old Lady Drivers) was an American heavy metal band from Bergenfield, New Jersey, formed in 1986 and signed to Earache Records. It featured Alan Dubin on vocals, and James Plotkin on guitars and programming, both of whom would later form the experimental doom metal band Khanate. 
OLD formed from the remains of Plotkin's previous band, the short-lived grindcore act "Regurgitation". OLD's first album, entitled "Old Lady Drivers", continued in the humorous, parodic style of grindcore which characterized Regurgitation's material. After releasing a split EP with Assück in 1990, Plotkin recruited former Nirvana guitarist Jason Everman for their second album, Lo Flux Tube (1991). This album featured more avant-garde and industrial metal influences in addition to their basic tongue-in-cheek grindcore, giving them a sound which was compared by some reviewers to a more uptempo Godflesh. Lo Flux Tube also featured saxophone work by guest musician John Zorn.
OLD continued their avant-garde direction with their third album, The Musical Dimensions Of Sleastak (1993). Several tracks from that album, "A Beginning", "Two of Me (Parts One and Two)", "Freak Now", and "Peri Cynthion", appeared in the 1994 film Brainscan. Also in 1993, the band released Hold On To Your Face, an album of remixes. At the time, the practice of remixing was virtually unheard of in heavy metal music. The band's final album, Formula (1995), delved into further experimentation with techno and industrial music. OLD broke up shortly after releasing this album. Plotkin went on to pursue a successful career not just as a musician, but also as a record producer and remix artist, working with many notable musicians across a number of different genres, particularly drone, noise, and sludge metal.
==Links to Peel==
Peel had a copy of the band's debut album, the self titled, 'Old Lady Drivers', and would play some tracks from it on his shows in the autumn of 1988. He would continue play their material when the band experimented with industrial metal and techno music in the 90's. However, after 1994, it seems he lost interest in them and never played any material from their 1995 release, 'Formula'. After his death in 2004, it was later found out that Peel had a copy of their first three albums in his Record Collection: O.
==Shows Played==
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*12 October 1988: Die In Your Beauty Sleep (LP – Old Lady Drivers) Earache
*18 October 1988 (Radio Bremen): Die In Your Beauty Sleep (album - Old Lady Drivers) Earache
*19 October 1988: Corpse Full Of Gunk (LP – Old Lady Drivers) Earache
*25 October 1988: Tracheotomy Peashooter (LP - Old Lady Drivers) Earache
*28 October 1988 (BFBS): 'Die In Your Beauty Sleep (LP-Old Lady Drivers)' (Earache)
*01 November 1988 (Radio Bremen): Tracheotomy Peashooter (album - Old Lady Drivers) Earache
*04 November 1988 (BFBS): 'Die In Your Beauty Sleep (LP-Old Lady Drivers)' (Earache)
;1991
*17 November 1991: Outlive (album - Lo Flux Tube) Earache
*15 December 1991: 'Disconnect Self (LP-Lo Flux Tube)' (Earache)
;1993
*03 December 1993: Scrape (Remix 2) (12" - Hold On To Your Face) Earache
;1994
*01 January 1994: 'Scrape (Remix 1) (12"-Hod On To Your Face)' (Earache)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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