Olympia 3/9/04

[John Schuller]

YES! Fucking great show. Missed Fitz on purpose. Caught the second half of Mudhoney which was better than the other night.

Melvins ruled. Same set as the other night in Seattle with the addition of Sacrifice with Mark Arm on vocals. Buzzo tackled Arm and gave him a big hug at the end of the show. Buzzo made an awesome statement during a very violent stage diver altercation. "Save your violence for the streets of Olympia, where I can at least get a picture".

Got the Hardcover book, T-shirt and 7". Inside the book are the signatures and a $1 bill stapled to the inside over Dales signature. A friend of mine's book was signed Kevin "Rollins" Ass. And another had 31/17 written in it...hmmmmmm........?

Anyway, here's to another 20 years.

Schuller

[dorkus]

Dude, you shoulda caught fitz!!! they tore it up!
Mud's set was great.
Nothing beat the Melvins though... best performance of the 4 shows I caught on this tour!!!

-Jim

[alnis]

What's the 7"?

[popeye]

Fitz of Depression did Tear it up, they were Great.  Mudhoney played a Power packed set.  i could just tell that both of these Band's were feeling it for the melvins.  
Let me tell you what a Beautiful Day it was.  Driving down from seattle into the Sunlight and downtown olympia.  Getting in line at 4:30, listening to sound check, meeting all the crazy beautiful people who are the Melvins Army.  And then getting in, what a cool little Theatre.  Smaller than i thought, Very intimate.  i think the people in the first 4 rows of the Balcony actually had the Best "Views" of the Evenings Events, including the almost "out of control" mosh pit.  Luckily that was small, limited by the wooden theatre seats that came down to the edge of the little orchestra "pit"  Oh well what the fuck.  It's the melvins for Christ's sake what did you expect.
Onwards -  theMelvins were absolutely Fucking Glorious - it was obvious that Buzzo brought something "Special" to that show last night.  He was on Fire for the first thirty minutes, and then after an annoying series of stage rushing fools, this one asshole decides he wants to practice his boxing skills with the security people who were trying to get him off the stage, he got off a couple lucky surprise shots before the security guys proceeded to kick his ass in a professional manner - right there on stage.
It's the melvins dood- what did you expect.  
So..., the music came to a "Grinding" halt and Buzzo Regaled us (them) and Charmed us, thanks Buzz for Being so Cool.  
This little event definitely broke Buzz's Spell, but on with the Show.

And i tell you it was Glorious!  Buzz really brought it (saved it) for this show.  i can't begin to tell you how possessed and Intense that show was for the first 30-35 minutes before numbnuts wanted to fight.  
It was all so Good.  Played some sick shit.  Lovely Butterflies Stands out in my mind, of course - Youth of America was a smoker-  
I think they played Missing on Sunday night in Seattle i'll have to check the setlists.  I'm not very good at remembering setlists.  mybrain get's a little wierd and unco-operative after a show like that.  Only because i leave it "all" there.  Cheers

[sheryl]

The whole show was awesome.  I drove up from Seattle and it was totally worth the trip!  All 3 bands had killer stage presence and sounded great.  I loved watching all the little kids getting body passed...too funny!  It seemed like everyone in the place had a camera/video camera.  Did anyone get any good shots/video/audio of the show?  I wanna check it out!  email me at write_to_sheryl@hotmail.com.
-Sheryl

[Anonymous]

Melvins
03/09/04
Capital Theatre, Olympia, WA

Source: AT4051a -> V3 -> DA-P1
DAT(M) -> WAV -> MP3

http://home.comcast.net/~jhirte/mel-olywa.mp3

SACRIFICE w/Mark Arm on lead vox.

Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

That sounds awesome, thanks for sharing.

Any chance of getting the whole show out there in lossless format?
Maybe on sharingthegroove?

[cheeseburger]

the sound quality of this is awesome. i'd love to hear the whole show. most bootlegs sound like shit...i'm pleasently surprised with this one.

[IboughtPornography]

Great show, Fitz of Depression??  more like Fitz of Menstration, but Mudhoney tore it up, then Melvins blew me away, sorry to those who weren't there, later though

[macphisto]

Fantastic Melvins performance at the Capitol Theater last night. Highlights included powerful renditions of "Youth of America," "Black Stooges," and "It's Shoved;" as well as exponentially slowed-down versions of "Fool/The Meddling Idiot" and "Manky." The last two songs were literally performed at a crawling, deathly tempo...much different from studio versions. "Night Goat" and "Hooch" sounded truly inspired.

Mudhoney was entertaining if not phenomenal. Fitz of Depression played energetically during their entire set, alas, their utter lack of ingenuity and inarticulate stage banter rendered their performance insipid within the first 30 seconds. Ack. Never again.

All in all, a wonderful evening.

[SteveNaive]

One of three bands I've seen more than once. Up in the balcony was great. Glad to hear some Stoner Witch stuff. Saw them last time a few years back when they did Revolve and Smells Like...Forgot how good the drums were. Got a ticket at the door after despairing about selling out at Rainy Day. Wore my Melvins shirt I got at the show at college and all day today. That dog doody starts making sense, philosophically after a while if you let it. Hopefully this ain't my last concert before jail for smoking on a defferred...That chick next to me was bummed when her favorite song was interrupted, they should've had me watchin' the stage for them. Time to play with my new Roland GP-16 I bought today. Bull, you squirrel.

[GrimReaper]

That's the first Melins show I have seen where the band just stops playing. I thought for a moment Buzz might just leave the stage, but not for the 20th Anniversary gig. I will post what he said after I listen to the concert again. It was something like come on, we don't want any one to get hurt. What I also found amazing was that the band all quit together, like they could read each others minds. What was that dude fighting for? One female riot Grrrl outfoxed the bouncers and got back into the crowd. Everyone else went down.

I had a spot dead center in front of the stage. I actually worried about my internal organs getting damaged. What a blood bath. There were a bunch of young kids on stage, to the left behind Buzz, most likely relatives. Good to see they all had hearing protection. My ears are still ringing.

Mark Arm came out with the lyrics to Sacrifice in his hand, he had to refer to the lyrics a few times. A great version of Sacrifice. After the song Buzz attempted to knock Mark Arm on his ass, but he couldn't pull it off. I wouldn't call it a hug, it was a football move and Mark Arm didn't go down and they sort of wrestled off stage. Dale kept drumming a while and some feedback started and he left the stage. I thought they would come back, but they didn't.
When a roady started to unplug the foot pedels I realized that another Melvins show was over.  

Someone announced an after hours party, my ride had to work in 3 1/2 hours so I couldn't make it. Free with a live band. Did anyone go?

What is all the hatred for Fitz of Depression? They put on a good set. I bought a $3 cassett of Fitz and I think it's good. That's the price of one beer.

No alcohol in the theater, I went out to the car after FOD and sucked down few more and got back just as Mudhoney started, they also did a tight set.

See ya next year.

[popeye]

I'm still Tripping off this show.  It was basically incredible and Totally Amazing.  the more i think about it - the more i realize what a brilliant Evening this was.
But!  nobody has even put up a set-list yet- maybe on that 'other' page? I'll have to check.
i just wanted to recall a few more of the songs;
When Buzz came out he was possessed - that way he is at the start of every show,  This time it was Real.  I shit you not - the first 30 minutes it was like watching a downed power line, just whipping back and forth spewing Sparks - Fire - and Smoke.
Let it all Be - that was the first song, very very...,
the whole intro and beginning to lovely Butterflies was just insane!
Buzz? where the fuck do you come up with that sick shit?
gotta go - let's put a setlist together if there isn't one already?

[GrimReaper]

Set list was identical to Seattle with the addition of Sacrifice at the end. I posted the set list on the Seattle thread. With Teeth was the song cut short by the stage diver.

[popeye]

Thanks a lot Reaper.  i kinda thought so.  Admit it, that olympia show was amazing wasn't it.  The more i think about it the more i realize it was a real Celebration for most of the people there.  including Buzzo, dale and
Kevin prob'ly.  i think i saw Dale smiling back there a few times,  and that Kevin - he is so "nasty", at the seasttle show i kinda thought he was angry and ready to quit the band ( because Buzzo was making him "learn"  all these old songs and kevin is the impatient one who wants to get on with the new stuff ala HAT and make some Noise.) just a wild theory that i just made up.  But he's just nasty that's all.  of course i love it. i love it all.
thanks again reaper.  i guess i didn't hear "Missing" in Seattle, duhh...,
How about lovely Butterflies - man - Buzzo really Blew me away with that one - talk about hostile Ambient takeover (I know - i know - it's not on there)
I thought the shows on the hat tour were actually - Really! - the peak of Perfection for the melvins- such incredible material- just to get up there and grind it out - they were much better rehearsed for the hat tour is what i'm trying to say - i guess?  as amatter of fact the very first sound out of Buzzo's mouth on Let it all be was a complete and total Bullfrog Croak- the first syllable absolutely a croak - and then just like that Buzzo found his voice ..., It was great.  seeya