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don't know why but i feel a QOTSA vibe, not too far from Foo Fighters territory too. 

I'm gonna let this one sit for a bit. Upon first listen it did not really do it for me.

Do what I accidentally did the first time I played it....play it at 33rpm

I would say fiend club but I can't wear white shirts in my old age.  My original one got shredded up when the singer of my old band wore it during a show we played at a tiny bar

There was a reissue of the gullible moron one back in 2019 or so.  Was happy to get another because my original has a hole in it

Definitely 45 and it's pretty fucking good!  You can tell that Buzz's tone is in there but it's not something he wrote.  Bunch of Steven bass slides on the second song.  Wish it was one of those 70s albums liner notes that told you exactly who did what on each song.  I still can't tell if drums have switched between Dale and Matt yet.  Matt's vocals are great so far into the third song.  Another Steven short noodle toward the end of that one. First song on side 2 starts acoustic with some distorted interjections and then the middle to end is a nice mellow classic rock outro.  Last song is fun and bouncy. Thumbs way up!  I need to do it again in the morning when I'm awake.

Just put it on but this is one of those new things that you don't know if it's 33.3 or 45.  At 33 it sounds awesome but the second song really doesn't sound right.  I have one of those stupid Pro-Ject turntables that you have to manually adjust the band to change the speed.  Just confirmed online it is 45.  Will report back soon

Do a search for record stores around the country. This morning a friend of mine in California found one that a record store in New Jersey put up online for $23.99 and snagged it

Trucker hat is back up for preorder

The shithole area I live in has one halfway decent record store that's not really even a record store, just a small room in the back of a book and game store.  That said, I got the Cameron vinyl as well as Jesus Lizard - SHOT on orange/black vinyl and Corrosion Of Conformity - NO CROSS NO CROWN on beer colored vinyl.

The vinyl guide podcast is pretty great! Everyone should listen to it. Thanks for sharing PepsiMike

I've been listening to it for a few years.  I don't catch every episode but the ones I do are always a good listen, and this one has been fun (I'm only half way thru so far)

Have Trevor and Buzz gone out on any tours in the last couple years?

A pretty extensive tour was all set in spring/summer of 2020 but the world took a timeout.  I was actually planning to follow it for a few cities

I've got it saved. I'll email when I get home.

I was in Portland today for a memorial gathering for an old friend.  Just got multiple texts that Big Biz played the parking lot at Lardo.  Wish I could have made it work to go see them...

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Completely agree!  It was an amazing end to the set.

Ian, I won't put value judgment on your decision not to see them live.  It's completely up to you, it's your decision, and no one can make it for you. But until you do, you will never get the full experience, the full feeling, the full impact of being there in person from a YouTube, or any other digital source video.  There are many aspects of watching and listening to videos that just don't translate to what the actual experience is and this was definitely one of them. I do hope that you get to see them live someday without the hassle of having to get digital tickets on a cell phone.

I have a similar feeling about Schnab's question of why anyone would want to see them multiple times on the same tour. Why not get as much as you can of a really good thing?

Ok, I finally sat down with the tour history and figured it out.  Some of the details are a little hazy, which I call myself out for on a few of them.  Last night was #35 which was actually a few more than I had guesstimated. 

November 9, 1994 – Seattle, WA - DV8 w/ L7, Wool.  Got there late and missed Wool.  The people I was with were too cool for L7, so I didn't get to see them either.

June 22, 1995 – Spokane, WA – Convention Center w/ White Zombie, Babes In Toyland.  Crowd were total dicks to Babes and not much better for Melvins who played a handful of songs and then just made total noise for almost 10 minutes at the end with Buzz crawling off the stage.  I saw more than a few shoes get thrown at the stage.

July 30, 1996 – George, WA – Lollapalooza @ the Gorge Amphitheater.  They played one of the two side stages set up right next to each other.  At the end of their set they said "stick around for our friends the Cows" who played next.  A buddy of mine was a photographer and had shot them when they played that White Zombie show I was at.  He gave me an 11x17 black and white picture of Buzz that he developed and I was dumb enough to bring it with me but somehow, I bumped into him walking around in the crowd and he signed it for me.

October 10, 1996 – Seattle, WA – RockCandy.  Evening With The Melvins - 3 sets.  I got a Melvins Army shirt and I saw Pat Smear in the crowd.

August 16, 1998 – Nampa, ID – Amphitheater (can't remember what its name was back then) w/ Tool.  Made the long drive down from Spokane with three girls.  We ate some mushrooms and the whole show blew me away.

June 30, 1999 – Spokane, WA – Ichabod's North Tavern w/ Enemymine.  My first band played this club all the time and even practiced upstairs for a while.  The promoter called me weeks before when he got the show booked.  He said he tried to get my band on the bill but they specifically said no local openers.  He ended up having some medical issues so I "designed" the flyer for the show and I had to help him shop for their rider the day of the show.

April 5, 2000 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater.  The 2x4 tour.  The first set was mostly (all?) covers and Leif Garrett came out and did Smells Like Teen Spirit with them (he barely got the words right).

May 11, 2001 – Portland, OR – Pine Street Theater w/ Hank III.  Dale played drums for some (all?) of Hank's set.

May 19, 2002 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom w/ Dead Low Tide.  I don't remember a lot about this show because I was hanging out with a girl I liked, and I think we had been drinking for a few hours before the show.   

March 6, 2004 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom w/ Mudhoney, Fitz of Depression.  Pretty sure it was this show....I was standing in line for a beer and noticed Krist Novoselic standing next to me.  I had previously heard that he was running or thinking about running for Lieutenant Governor of Washington.  I told him I would vote for him if he ran (even though I was no longer a Washington resident) and he ended up shaking my hand and gave me some of his campaign materials, which I still have.

November 4, 2005 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom w/ Altamont, The Hunches.  Must have got there late because I don't remember The Hunches.  Altamont played and then without a break they just went into a noise interlude that morphed into the Melvins set and then Jello came out and they did a Jelvins set including a number of DK songs.

September 9, 2006 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater w/ Big Business.  First Big Melvins tour and I was blown away watching Dale and Coady together.

December 30, 2006 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater w/ Big Business, PORN, Red Fang.  Another one with just fuzzy memories due to being in full holiday party mode.

September 9, 2007 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom.  The Melvins.net tour history doesn't list an opener.  Did Big Biz open every tour when it was Big Melvins?

July 25, 2008 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom w/ Big Business.  Was this the tour where there was a film to open the whole show?

May 24, 2009 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater.  25th Anniversary Tour.  Melvins 1983 opened and for the main set they had Trevor Dunn on bass and did Houdini throughout the set.  I flew home a day early from Maryland Death Fest for this show.

August 12, 2009 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater w/ Down.  Melvins were great.  Down never really did much for me.  I decided to stick around for them but left after 3 songs.

September 24, 2010 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater w/ Totimoshi.  I think this is one tour that I took some friends with me who had never heard them and they fell in love.

July 18, 2012 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater.  Melvins Lite warm up tour for the 51 in 51 tour.  I skipped the actual Portland 51 in 51 date a few weeks later because it was part of MusicFest NW and I figured the crowd was going to be stupid.

August 20, 2013 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom w/ Honky.  30th Anniversary tour and I just remember this one being one of my favorite shows up to that point.

June 18, 2014 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater.  King Buzzo solo acoustic w/ Steve Turner.  I was standing in the crowd at one point and out of the corner of my eye I noticed the person standing next to me seemed way taller than me.  I turned to look and it was Krist Novoselic. 

October 19, 2014 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater w/ Le Butcherettes.  Another one where I took some friends who had never seen them and they loved both bands.

July 11, 2015 – Minneapolis, MN – Grumpy's Bash 15.  Not knowing how Bash worked, I had told myself that I'm not going to have any beers until the Melvins start playing.  Was a pleasant surprise when I found out they were going on at 2pm.

September 7, 2015 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom w/Big Business.  Another show that I took someone who had never seen them.  He was actually a drum teacher and his mouth was wide open while he watched Dale and Coady together.

May 1, 2016 – Seattle, WA – Showbox w/ Napalm Death, Melt Banana.  I was scheduled to be out of town for work on the Portland date, so I bused it up to Seattle because I was not going to miss this tour.  I had purchased my bus tickets and booked my hotel room and then found out the show was sold out.  A good friend knows the Napalm guys so he got me on their guestlist but he said I had to do him a favor.  He had just opened a pizza joint in Seattle and wanted me to take pizzas to the bands.  Luckily Grim met up with me and helped me deliver the 6 giant pies.

August 11, 2016 – Minneapolis, MN – Grumpy's.  The Prick re-release party.  I was standing in the crowd not too far back from the stage waiting for them to start when someone poked me on the shoulder.  It was Buzz smiling, asking if he could get through to the stage.

July 12, 2017 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater w/Spotlights.  Another slightly fuzzy one due to some pre-show fun with friends but I remember it being a great show.

July 22, 2017 – Minneapolis, MN – Grumpy's Bash 17.  I was prepared to spend stupid amounts of money on merch for me and at least 4 other people that weren't going who gave me money.  Right away I started having ATM issues because my bank saw that I spent money in Portland and Minneapolis in the same day.  Even after talking to customer service twice, it kept happening so I ended up having to Uber over the bridge to St. Paul to the only branch of my bank that was open and make a giant withdrawal.  Luckily Idle, DC and I got an Airbnb a block away from Grumpy's so we got there early to get merch, haul it back to the room to keep it safe and then go rock out.  I noticed Mark Arm standing behind the stage watching them for quite a while.  Mudhoney's set later that night was awesome.

July 20, 2018 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom w/ Modpods.  Ran into some friends from Spokane earlier in the day.  Later while getting some dinner at a place down the street from the venue, I went to pay and the server said someone had already taken care of it, which ended up being those friends.  To pay it forward, I covered Steven's dinner who was sitting a couple seats away from me.

May 3, 2019 – Tacoma, WA – Elk's Temple w/Helms Alee, Holy Grove.  Took the train up from Portland.  Helms Alee covered At The Stake to close their set.  Had second row balcony seats so it was one of the best views I've had of Dale.

September 10, 2019 – Eugene, OR – WOW Hall w/ Redd Kross, Toshi.  Was my second time seeing Redd Kross.  Dale is like a whole different drummer when he plays with them but in a good way.  We saw a funnel cloud on the drive down.

April 16, 2022 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield w/Ministry, Corrosion of Conformity.  This was my first concert after the world opened back up and I couldn't have asked for a better first show back.  I hadn't seen live music since November 2019 when I saw Slayer's last tour with Primus and Ministry.  Kind of cool that Ministry bookended my Covid break from live music.

July 15, 2022 – Spokane, WA – The Knitting Factory w/ Helms Alee, Harsh Mellow.  Met up with some old friends who brought a few of their kids, one of which was a 14 year old girl who had recently started playing bass.  She was mesmerized by Steven.

May 21, 2023 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom w/ Mr Bungle, Spotlights.  I've said it a number of times over the years but this may have been in their top 3 sets that I've seen.  Yet another where I had a friend with me who'd never even heard them and he couldn't quit talking about it afterward.

September 2, 2023 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory w/ Boris, Mr Phylzzz.  Most of Bullhead and a handful of other classics.  Coady filling in on drums for a sidelined Dale.  It was so great seeing him play Melvins songs again.