The Melvins: S/D

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ka-zingggg !

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Lori Black
Also known as Lorax, she was the second bassist. She joined the band when they moved to California. Interestingly enough she's Shirley Temple's daughter. She also played bass in Clown Alley with Mark Deutrom(another former melvins bassist).

According to an interview with buzz this is why she was replaced, "Well, we tended to wanna work a little harder than she was willing to do, and I was going out with her for a long time, and I basically got sick of her. Dumped her. Just rid her from my life completely, and there's no way I could see playing in a band with her. That had a lot to do with it, plus, I thought she was lazy."

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

I doubt you're going to find anyone remotely interested in The Melvins (i.e. who's going to click on this thread) who didn't know this since, oh, 1989, but thanks anyway.

Here's mine: Kurt Cobain of Nirvana used to be a Melvins roadie.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost -- she was replaced twice actually... Joe Preston was the bassist in between both Lori stints.

I still remember seeing Melvins at the UCI Student Center circa Houdini.. it was a VERY windy day. So windy that one of the PA speakers flat out FELL OFF the riser onto the stage and almost flattened Lori. She saw the speaker fall smack down on the floor centimeters away from her, and she didn't flinch at all.. she just laughed it off, just grooving along to her bass-playing in her shades.

Later that day during a radio interview, she screamed "I WANNA HEAR 'SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT AND I WANNA HEAR IT NOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!!' .. Buzzo and Dale ignored her the entire time. She was replaced a month later with Mark.

― DOQQUN (donut), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

I doubt you're going to find anyone remotely interested in The Melvins (i.e. who's going to click on this thread) who didn't know this since, oh, 1989, but thanks anyway.

no problem, faggot.

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

correction: no problem, faggot

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost -- she was replaced twice actually... Joe Preston was the bassist in between both Lori stints.

pssshh. i've known that since, oh, 1935.

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh boo hoo.

Anyway.

Finally, four years after Hostile Ambient Takeover, another Melvins release (no collaboration/compilation/reissue, that is). Unfortunately, it's no new real Melvins album: Houdini Live, May 16th.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Anyway.

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

bootlicker is really great.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Honky - the 'real' album on AmRep - is awesome!
And I don't know if this will count this as a collaboration or an official Melvins album, but Dale and Buzz will be recording and touring with Big Business - who are a bass & drums duo and sound alot like the Melvins. Um, this year, sometime.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and any info on the wherabouts and/or current activities of Kevin Rutmanis would be much appreciated.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Kevin is presumably still playing with Tomahawk, who have a new record coming out in '06.

― ng-unit, Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

anybody know what ever happened to: MIKE & THE MELVINS...mike kinka of godheadsilo and (i guess) dale and buzz...i think sub pop was suppoesed to put it out.

i wish those recordings would surface.

― ddb (ddb), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

eek..."KUNKA"

― ddb (ddb), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

I first saw the Melvins on the Eggnog tour w/ preston and they closed with a 20 minute version of charmacharmacharmacat that emptied the room.

I've seen them 8 times since and every damn time was different and amazing. One of the best being a 2001 gig at the HOB in new orleans with Lou Barlow playing guitar and wearing a cow print dress.

For newbies, start with Bullhead and the Maggot. Then Stoner Witch, Lysol (great cover of Flipper's "sacrifice") and Gluey Porch Treatments.
For die hards - make sure to grab the bootleg of their singles and the kill rock stars comp which has a killer speed core song entitled "Ever since My accident"

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

>> kill rock stars comp which has a killer speed core song entitled "Ever since My accident"

That was the first Melvins song I heard!

Gluey Porch Treatments is a great album. Ozma & Bullhead are good too. I'm not familiar with much of their later stuff.

Avoid Prick, it's terrible.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 24 April 2006 06:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

i finally heard melvins!! i watched all their clips on youtube. they were so grunge! i had no idea. i thought they were more underground or something. or too heavy to make it big. or punkier. but they could have made it big. the stuff i heard was pretty commercial with real videos and all that. i don't know where i was when they were playing melvins videos on mtv. i musta not had cable at the time. sometimes they even sound like white zombie. and dude has such a hard rock grunge voice. listening to them is like playing spot the grunge band. i hear alice in chains! i hear stone temple pilots! i hear soundgarden! even the clip from 1984 sounds exactly like an old nirvana song. well, not my kind of thing, but not bad. i actually like my grunge MORE commercial. like stp.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hehehe, bless you Scott. :-) In retrospect, I kinda thought they moved parallel to all that when the early nineties hit without actually being in it. And now they're even MORE gone, in a way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

The Melvins rule. the new live album "Houdini Live" is really really great.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

dear scott,

get ears.

thank you.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

What do you guys think of Crybaby? I don't think I saw one mention of that in this thread.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

scott can't tell if you're kidding or not, but those youtube clips are either shitty later stuff or really shitty (but funny) early stuff like those '84 clips.

fwiw heres two tracks from "bullhead" so you can at least hear a record of theirs
Boris
Zodiac

as far as "spot the grunge band", as far as i know you've got it backasswards and you're probably hearing the melvins in those other bands. they started in '84 after all and nirvana, mudhoney, et al were big fans.

i have to say i'm not as hot on this band as i used to be so i can see them not sounding all that great to a new listener in '06.

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

(fuck, scratch out "as far as.." wherever applicable in that post)

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

no, i know that they were the ones who influenced the grungers. and not the other way around. but the stuff i listened to was way grungy, no matter how you slice it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

people i trust (like eyehategod) swear by gluey porch treatments, and if i ever see a copy cheap, i will definitely buy it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah thats the only one you need if any. if i had that cd i would have put tracks from that up instead.

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

btw i might have a "hardcore" tape (from years ago) to send you!

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

that would be nice and much appreciated. and i would do my darndest to send you something in return.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

you guys should head on over to www.themelvins.net (theres even a forum) instead of banging your heads against the wall.

― klump, Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is the Gluey Porch Treatments Ipecac reissue worth getting if you already have Ozma/GPT on Boner? How are the bonus tracks? Is it remastered? etc.

― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

The new album (out October 10th), (A) Senile Animal, is really, really great. It's a pretty straight forward rock record and the guitars are not as heavy as a few recent releases (i.e. pigs, maggot), but it really rocks. They've teamed up with Big Business, so there are two drummers and really cool double/triple vocals. Four members total. So far, the reviews for their current US tour are extremely positive. I've already got my ticket for the final date in Dallas.

― Harpal (harpal), Sunday, 10 September 2006 23:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have, like 10 Melvins albums and they're all insanely good.
But on the later albums it helps if you like weird electronic noise experiments thrown in with your grunge-metal, which kind of ISN'T a given, is it?

The Melvins/Biafra collab is tops too. Very anthemic, kind of reminds me of the first Black Sabbath album on speed.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Minus the bluesiness, of course.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

new album's pretty fuckin tight!
can't wait to see the Big Belvins...
another solid one

― edde (edde), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Any more thoughts on Senile Animal? I'm listening now and it's pretty rad so far. I like that all the songs are either under three minutes or over six.

― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

thoughts on above?

― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

excellent album

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

hey, wow, stoner witch is way better than i remember it being. like houdini but more cohesive or something. cohesive, that's a good word.

― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 08:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Hostile Ambient Takeover: SO underrated. so much interesting stuff going on throughout. kicks ass also.

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Is the remixes album worth checking out? I generally hate remixes

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Not heard it yet. i hear each remixer is actually using elements from a whole album rather than just a song, so could be interesting

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

The remix album is best avoided.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

my annoying co-worker keeps talking about how heavy metal is his favorite music to make powerpoint presentations to. I found out he was talking about the Melvins.

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

the remix album has its moments of brilliance and its moments of bleh, but none of it is better than unadulterated melvins.

― m the g, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

As noted by Andy K elsewhere:

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 October 2010 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

buzz like the giants

― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Cuet panda hat girl too.

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

that's thalia zedek

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

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if you listen to pig house and don't die awesome

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Whiney's feature on _Lysol_ is a must-read:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-06-01/music/the-melvin-s-power-disinfectant/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/World-Famous-MELVAN-MELVINS-Tour-Van-Artwork-Kurt-Cobain-NIRVANA-/150771070206

― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 5 March 2012 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

free EP download at Scion A/V

(info http://www.facebook.com/melvinsarmy )

― StanM, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

new album Freak Puke out on Ipecac this summer!

― ilxor, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

hah! good title.

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

this part of Buzzo's Village Voice interview had me laughing--

What was the thinking behind doing an album with stand-up bass? Trevor has played electric bass for you guys.
Well, I saw Trevor play stand up bass with Nels Cline and I thought it was something we could do and the wheels started rolling in my head. We reinvented the band but it's just an extension; it's not going to take over. We're gonna do both things—Melvins Lite and regular Melvins.
So Melvins Lite is not just a one-off thing. It will continue?
I certainly hope so.
And the two-drummer lineup will go on, as well?
You bet. Or we'll totally go insane and overdose in the toilet like Elvis.

― ilxor, Sunday, 29 April 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

I have been on a Melvins kick. I really love "The Bootlicker". That record is pretty much the Melvins make a their Pink Floyd album (or close as they ever gonna get) and kinda a bit of both Syd and later Floyd at that too.

― earlnash, Thursday, 7 February 2013 03:57 (4 months ago) Permalink

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