The only one I know of is that I believe Lorax got fired for being a junkie. just curious as to the reasons the rest have been fired.
http://www.angelfire.com/boybands/gaymelvins/
Thats all you need to know.
here's my opinion
Deutrom---too talented and intrusive
Kevin----see Lori
Joe----too lazy
Lukin---didn't know how to play bass
Jared (.........) i will put the reason as soon as they'll fire him
have any of these players commented on their time with the melvins/why they were fired/left?
Mark D has. There was an interview somewhere. He talked about how Buzz and Lori went to rehab together and a lot of stuff. Pretty safe to say Joe's commented on it too as well somewhere.
But yeah, reasons they got fired? I dunno, but I can guess em'.
Matt - Lack of carpentry skills/subpar bassist.
Lorax - I figured it's because they broke up.
Joe - Whiny Bitch.
Lorax (Again) - Junkie?
Deutrom - Supposedly trying to give the Melvins a mainstream sound. Never mind he was on Honky, Stag, and Prick.
Homeless Heroin Addict - Dissapeared/drug abuse.
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
They all weren't bonkers enough and didn't like Hip Hop so Buzzo & Dale gave them the boot.
mark d - bangin' around on his wife.
Quote from: Captain CoryCory on August 29, 2009, 07:23:42 AM
Homeless Heroin Addict - Dissapeared/drug abuse.
Kevin's homeless? :shock:
Homeless kick-ass bass players rule. I imagine he'd be a superb busker.
Quote from: Razor on August 29, 2009, 08:23:47 AM
Quote from: Captain CoryCory on August 29, 2009, 07:23:42 AM
Homeless Heroin Addict - Dissapeared/drug abuse.
Kevin's homeless? :shock:
Never 100% confirmed, but:
http://www.themelvins.net/forum/index.php?topic=7189.msg104393;topicseen#msg104393
http://www.themelvins.net/forum/index.php?topic=11172.msg214778;topicseen#msg214778
the melvins need another female bass player!
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But ill take:
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bonus if you guess the first pic without lookin'
Here is the definitive list of reasons:
Matt - Replaced Cliff Burton in Metallica.
Lori - Things were never the same after she and Buzz were featured on an episode of COPS, and the band decided her departure was in everyone's best interest.
Joe - Left music to focus on his career in fanzines.
Mark - Moved to Britain after marrying filmmaker Guy Ritchie.
Kevin - Didn't have the teen-idol look that drives up record sales and, moreover and in Buzz's words, "brings the bitches to the shows like flies to honey."
Trevor - ???
Jared - Kept bogarting Buzz's Bagel-Bites.
Prediction: The next melvins lineup will be this:
Coady - drums
Dale - guitar
Jared - bass
Matt wasn't fired like the others. He stupidly left the band to join Mudhoney. Fail! That's when Buzz and Dale moved to San Fran from Aberdeen and I'm assuming found Lorax there. I always assumed she and Buzz broke up and that was the reason for her departure, but don't know. I've read Buzz' comments about Joe in the past and it was something to the effect of "we did the solo albums and he wouldn't/didn't take his shit seriously and slacked off." Mark D, again I remember reading somewhere Buzz saying that after Honkey he was ready to break the band up 'cause he was so sick of what he was doing, then he realized he wasn't sick of what he was doing, just sick of doing it with Mark D. He got the boot. Kevin was a junkie and the best bass player the band ever had (if you don't count Trevor). Trevor's never been a band member, just a hired gun like DSS. Buzz commented at one point that he thinks the current lineups are the best ever and that he'd like to continue to play with the quartet as well as continuing to do one-off shows and live albums with Trevor as a trio. They did some Lysol + Eggnog shows a while back, here's hoping they do a live album of those like they did with Houdini.
I seem to recall that Joe was let go because he had poor personal hygiene.
Mark D. was let go because he was a dick.
Quote from: Like Stee on August 29, 2009, 02:18:44 PM
Matt wasn't fired like the others. He stupidly left the band to join Mudhoney. Fail! That's when Buzz and Dale moved to San Fran from Aberdeen and I'm assuming found Lorax there. I always assumed she and Buzz broke up and that was the reason for her departure, but don't know. I've read Buzz' comments about Joe in the past and it was something to the effect of "we did the solo albums and he wouldn't/didn't take his shit seriously and slacked off." Mark D, again I remember reading somewhere Buzz saying that after Honkey he was ready to break the band up 'cause he was so sick of what he was doing, then he realized he wasn't sick of what he was doing, just sick of doing it with Mark D. He got the boot. Kevin was a junkie and the best bass player the band ever had (if you don't count Trevor). Trevor's never been a band member, just a hired gun like DSS. Buzz commented at one point that he thinks the current lineups are the best ever and that he'd like to continue to play with the quartet as well as continuing to do one-off shows and live albums with Trevor as a trio. They did some Lysol + Eggnog shows a while back, here's hoping they do a live album of those like they did with Houdini.
I like both of those ideas concerning the band. More albums as a quartet would be great, but I would like to see them go the "experimental/noise" route a little more. And yes, a live Lysol or Eggnog would make me shit my pants
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
that sick son of a bitch.
whats a plectrum?
Quote from: glen on August 29, 2009, 02:50:42 PM
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
that sick son of a bitch.
whats a plectrum?
Guitar pick.
All you skin flautists are so out of touch.
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
they do seem to only hire bass players that play with a pick
must add Kevin hitting on MACKIE as "the last straw" [-X
Quote from: PrickHonky on August 29, 2009, 03:00:08 PM
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
they do seem to only hire bass players that play with a pick
pick = more clarity/ bite / up front sound
Fingers = Jazz ( :P)
Quote from: pinkyslim on August 29, 2009, 03:04:09 PM
must add Kevin hitting on MACKIE as "the last straw" [-X
wow. didn't know he was macking on Mackie. that is totally not cool. #-o #-o
Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 03:06:27 PM
Quote from: PrickHonky on August 29, 2009, 03:00:08 PM
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
they do seem to only hire bass players that play with a pick
pick = more clarity/ bite / up front sound
Fingers = Jazz ( :P)
Trevor played without a pick a bit at the 25th Anniversary show. He can play ridiculously well either way. But yes, it's difficult to get the attack of the plectrum with the fleshy bits.
i always thought rutmanis got kicked out for being a drunk.
Quote from: Like Stee on August 29, 2009, 03:44:47 PM
Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 03:06:27 PM
Quote from: PrickHonky on August 29, 2009, 03:00:08 PM
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
they do seem to only hire bass players that play with a pick
pick = more clarity/ bite / up front sound
Fingers = Jazz ( :P)
Trevor played without a pick a bit at the 25th Anniversary show. He can play ridiculously well either way. But yes, it's difficult to get the attack of the plectrum with the fleshy bits.
THOOP-BAP
Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 04:41:59 PM
Quote from: Like Stee on August 29, 2009, 03:44:47 PM
Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 03:06:27 PM
Quote from: PrickHonky on August 29, 2009, 03:00:08 PM
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
they do seem to only hire bass players that play with a pick
pick = more clarity/ bite / up front sound
Fingers = Jazz ( :P)
Trevor played without a pick a bit at the 25th Anniversary show. He can play ridiculously well either way. But yes, it's difficult to get the attack of the plectrum with the fleshy bits.
THOOP-BAP
I think Buzz said he would fire a bass player for not using a pick.
Well, when I saw them in London 2005 I noticed Kevin finger-picking part of a song. Next thing you know...
This is the best topic ever. :lol:
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 05:32:07 PM
Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 04:41:59 PM
Quote from: Like Stee on August 29, 2009, 03:44:47 PM
Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 03:06:27 PM
Quote from: PrickHonky on August 29, 2009, 03:00:08 PM
Quote from: Green Honey on August 29, 2009, 07:51:46 AM
Kevin Rutmanis - Played bass without a plectrum once.
they do seem to only hire bass players that play with a pick
pick = more clarity/ bite / up front sound
Fingers = Jazz ( :P)
Trevor played without a pick a bit at the 25th Anniversary show. He can play ridiculously well either way. But yes, it's difficult to get the attack of the plectrum with the fleshy bits.
THOOP-BAP
I think Buzz said he would fire a bass player for not using a pick.
Well, when I saw them in London 2005 I noticed Kevin finger-picking part of a song. Next thing you know...
I seem to recall him saying something to that effect as well. I know that he said in an interview [between the releases of "Stoner Witch" and "Stag"] that the reason Mark worked out so well at bass was because Mark was a guitarist, not a bassist, first and foremost. And he used a pick.
Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 01:36:14 PM
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=P~
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Quote from: Dc on August 29, 2009, 01:36:14 PM
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=P~
I have no idea who that is, but she is all kinds of hot
(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3389346/Mindless+Self+Indulgence+lynz3kz2.jpg)
Joe got canned because Buzz and Dale didn't want to give him any of the Atlantic Records signing money.
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Careful, Farty. She's got the 10 and a half.
I was born in the wrong decade.
Didn't Fart meet her once? I saw her a year or so ago, looks just as good.
Quote from: bUTTHOLEmAN on August 30, 2009, 05:48:52 PM
Didn't Fart meet her once? I saw her a year or so ago, looks just as good.
Who is she playing with these days? Still Watt?
Yep, I assume she's got other projects going as well.
Quote from: bUTTHOLEmAN on August 30, 2009, 06:07:42 PM
Yep, I assume she's got other projects going as well.
Maybe, maybe not. Last I heard she got like some fancy economics degree and was doing Hollywood sound editing to pay the bills. She may not have a lot of time for multiple musical projects.
From Watt's Twitter page:
me and k just finished the last song for our next dos album!
3:38 AM Jun 4th from web
Quote from: Uncle Fester on August 29, 2009, 01:21:33 PM
the melvins need another female bass player!
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female/flexible bass player 8)
Why stop there?
Buzz, Dale, Bassist out.
Hot chicks in.
Hey they wouldn't be the only band still going with no original members in it:
(http://www.getreadytorock.com/reviews2007/trivium_2006.jpg)
kira could give me the 10 and 1/2 any day! and yeah, she's still really hot!
one day she'll be dead cold...
Quote from: Razor on August 31, 2009, 04:37:21 AM
Why stop there?
Buzz, Dale, Bassist out.
Hot chicks in.
Hey they wouldn't be the only band still going with no original members in it:
(http://www.getreadytorock.com/reviews2007/trivium_2006.jpg)
Is that Trivium? Zao and Napalm death also apply in that. :lol:
I've never understood why the Melvins don't record a studio album with Trevor Dunn. He is obviously an amazing bass player and would bring a lot to the band musically.
It's my dream to one day be fired from the Melvins.
Quote from: jlamour on August 31, 2009, 09:39:16 PM
It's my dream to one day be fired from the Melvins.
yeah, it makes me want to learn how to play bass so I can try out for them and hopefully get fired
Quote from: GrimReaper on August 30, 2009, 01:29:22 AM
(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3389346/Mindless+Self+Indulgence+lynz3kz2.jpg).
this image deserves to be on more than one page of this thread. im mesmerized.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/3003320839_5fab261355.jpg)
cute girl. nice pose... but maybe it would be better if she was just wearing the bass guitar?
Quote from: Uncle Fester on September 01, 2009, 03:08:15 PM
cute girl. nice pose... but maybe it would be better if she was just wearing the bass guitar?
no kidding.
i wonder if if she doesnt know how to stand up straight at all. like a
disfigurement of sorts. (for lack of a better word by all means.)
Quote from: the ether bunny on September 01, 2009, 04:57:40 PM
Quote from: Uncle Fester on September 01, 2009, 03:08:15 PM
cute girl. nice pose... but maybe it would be better if she was just wearing the bass guitar?
no kidding.
i wonder if if she doesnt know how to stand up straight at all. like a disfigurement of sorts. (for lack of a better word by all means.)
It's too bad her music is no good.
Quote from: bUTTHOLEmAN on September 01, 2009, 05:04:42 PM
Quote from: the ether bunny on September 01, 2009, 04:57:40 PM
Quote from: Uncle Fester on September 01, 2009, 03:08:15 PM
cute girl. nice pose... but maybe it would be better if she was just wearing the bass guitar?
no kidding.
i wonder if if she doesnt know how to stand up straight at all. like a disfigurement of sorts. (for lack of a better word by all means.)
It's too bad her music is no good.
i actually right clicked the image to see who broad was and saw "mindless self indulgence". its sad but true butthole boy.
How did I know that I would learn absolutely nothing from this thread...
Quote from: perusha on September 01, 2009, 06:29:32 PM
How did I know that I would learn absolutely nothing from this thread...
you have psychic abilities?
I still feel sorry for Kevin. Even if he drank too much or took whatever drugs he was supposed to have taken he was still a professional. It's ok to have junkies in bands as long as they get the job done.
Quote from: conj on September 02, 2009, 10:20:30 AM
I still feel sorry for Kevin. Even if he drank too much or took whatever drugs he was supposed to have taken he was still a professional. It's ok to have junkies in bands as long as they get the job done.
Steven Drozd.
Though he's not on drugs anymore, he managed when he was.
Quote from: PrickHonky on August 31, 2009, 06:16:04 PM
I've never understood why the Melvins don't record a studio album with Trevor Dunn. He is obviously an amazing bass player and would bring a lot to the band musically.
Trevor Dunn had the chance to join the melvins didnt he? but didnt want to move to L.A. or something. its in one of the many interviews on this forum.
I heard that they had to let Joe go for odoriferous reasons. (didn't like bathing)
did he give off a creepy smell?
Quote from: conj on September 02, 2009, 10:20:30 AM
I still feel sorry for Kevin. Even if he drank too much or took whatever drugs he was supposed to have taken he was still a professional. It's ok to have junkies in bands as long as they get the job done.
I think the problem was that he was no longer being professional. He would be too messed up to do shows and what not. If I remember correctly.
do you have to play a Fender jazz bass or precision bass to be in the Melvins?
Quote from: PrickHonky on September 05, 2009, 05:24:17 PM
do you have to play a Fender jazz bass or precision bass to be in the Melvins?
Kevin played one of those Longhorn basses for his whole stint, not the Danelectro though. I forget what kind they were.
Quote from: jlamour on September 05, 2009, 07:15:43 PM
Quote from: PrickHonky on September 05, 2009, 05:24:17 PM
do you have to play a Fender jazz bass or precision bass to be in the Melvins?
Kevin played one of those Longhorn basses for his whole stint, not the Danelectro though. I forget what kind they were.
I think the Longhorn came out around the HAT record. I may be wrong about that. He played a P bass alot before that.
Someone around here had a bass made by the same luthier that made the SHOVE IT bass.
Quote from: black stallion on August 29, 2009, 04:57:51 AM
here's my opinion
Deutrom---too talented and intrusive
Kevin----see Lori
Joe----too lazy
Lukin---didn't know how to play bass
Jared (.........) i will put the reason as soon as they'll fire him
It is funny to hear someone say that Lukin couldn't play bass. The Lukin era has the strangest time signatures and quirkiest songs. Wow, someone doesn't know jack shit.
Quote from: PrickHonky on September 05, 2009, 05:24:17 PM
do you have to play a Fender jazz bass or precision bass to be in the Melvins?
Lori played an ibanez and I SWEAR ive seen a pic of her rocking a gibson eb bass. Maybe that was a walsby drawing.
Quote from: moderndayviking on September 11, 2009, 02:18:32 PM
Quote from: black stallion on August 29, 2009, 04:57:51 AM
here's my opinion
Deutrom---too talented and intrusive
Kevin----see Lori
Joe----too lazy
Lukin---didn't know how to play bass
Jared (.........) i will put the reason as soon as they'll fire him
It is funny to hear someone say that Lukin couldn't play bass. The Lukin era has the strangest time signatures and quirkiest songs. Wow, someone doesn't know jack shit.
I guess Buzz himself doesn't know jack shit. He's the one that said Lukin couldn't play anything in time.
Quote from: Bitches of Copacabana on September 11, 2009, 04:04:34 PM
Quote from: moderndayviking on September 11, 2009, 02:18:32 PM
Quote from: black stallion on August 29, 2009, 04:57:51 AM
here's my opinion
Deutrom---too talented and intrusive
Kevin----see Lori
Joe----too lazy
Lukin---didn't know how to play bass
Jared (.........) i will put the reason as soon as they'll fire him
It is funny to hear someone say that Lukin couldn't play bass. The Lukin era has the strangest time signatures and quirkiest songs. Wow, someone doesn't know jack shit.
I guess Buzz himself doesn't know jack shit. He's the one that said Lukin couldn't play anything in time.
No one can play in time after a case of beer. He still helped write the bass lines. Besides I always heard it was a mutual thing because Matt didn't want to move to Berkley, and that the offer to be in Mudhoney was rather attractive to him.
From Wikipedia....
Matt Lukin was the first Melvins bassist and a founding member of the band along with Buzz and Mike Dillard in 1983.
He left the band in 1987, when Buzz and Dale moved to San Francisco. He remained in Washingon state and formed Mudhoney with former members of Green River. Mudhoney is still together, but Matt left the band, his last show with them was on January 20, 2001 at Graceland in Seattle.
Maybe he wasn't even fired??? Could it be that if Mr. Lukin moved to the Bay area with Buzz and Dale maybe there wouldn't even be a bassist morgue??? One can only ponder the answers......
Here is my best Lori story....
This happened in her second stint in the band on a tour for Houdini and if memory serves right either the record hadn't come out yet or they were on tour when it did. They played the cafeteria at Western Washington University. They opened this tour with the soundtrack of "the Star Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix. The anthem had started playing and Buzz and Dale were on stage, no Lorax. Buzz looked at Dale, Dale motioned toward the hallway they came through to get to the stage. Buzz left stage and I saw him run into Lori in the hallway on her way to stage. She was walking slowly and staring at her feet. Buzz said some things that looked somewhat like "where have you been?" not sure what was actually said I couldn't hear. Lori walked right by him and made her way on stage without even looking at him. She crossed the stage with the same slow walk looking at her feet, picked up her bass, and started playing Eye Flys just as the anthem ended. Buzz looked pissed. Not saying I think I know anything about what was going on but if I was asked my opinion I would say someone was wasted.
Quote from: moderndayviking on September 11, 2009, 04:57:12 PM
Here is my best Lori story....
This happened in her second stint in the band on a tour for Houdini and if memory serves right either the record hadn't come out yet or they were on tour when it did. They played the cafeteria at Western Washington University. They opened this tour with the soundtrack of "the Star Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix. The anthem had started playing and Buzz and Dale were on stage, no Lorax. Buzz looked at Dale, Dale motioned toward the hallway they came through to get to the stage. Buzz left stage and I saw him run into Lori in the hallway on her way to stage. She was walking slowly and staring at her feet. Buzz said some things that looked somewhat like "where have you been?" not sure what was actually said I couldn't hear. Lori walked right by him and made her way on stage without even looking at him. She crossed the stage with the same slow walk looking at her feet, picked up her bass, and started playing Eye Flys just as the anthem ended. Buzz looked pissed. Not saying I think I know anything about what was going on but if I was asked my opinion I would say someone was wasted.
wasn't Lori fired because she was strung out on heroin all the time? I think I read that on here somewhere but maybe not.