The show rocked. Mouth Sewn Shut opened, they were horrible. Nothing good to say about them. Then, Alice Donut played. They were pretty good. I don't know their music, but they put on a decent show.
Then, out comes David Scott Stone for about 5 solid minutes of bass and mouth noise. Prettycool stuff, and the sound was great. Then, Dale comes out and starts hitting the drums, it gets even better. Then, finally Buzz comes after a while and they break into a killer rendition of Pigs of the Roman Empire. The song sounded AWESOME. Probably the best sound I've heard out of them to date, and I think this was my 9th Melvins show. Then, they played amazon and AMAZON. Awesome again. Don't remember the whole set list, but there were two tracks off of Houdini I believe, and The Bloated Pope. After the first POTE song though, the sound got kind of muffled a bit. But, they still sounded really good. Seems like they played another couple songs, but I really can't remember. Dave was great. And, maybe it was just me, but the drums sounded a bit more metalic or something, they were really great sounding.
Then, they disapeared for about a minute, and returned with ski maskes on. They started playing, then Jello came out in a white trench coat, jumping around like a madman. They all sounded great together. Again, don't remember the set list but they played quite a bit off of Never Breath, and it seemed like 50% of the set was Dead Kennedys music which kicked major ass. All the NYC punk kids seemed to love that, they were going nuts. Highlights were Kalifornia Aber Alles, a Weslie Willis song about Rock and Roll McDonalds, Caped Crusader kicked total ass, I love that song, and the climax of the show for me was Holiday In Cambodia during the encore. It was just awesome to be in a room full of people screaming Pol Pot. Jello had a couple rants, which were kind of tired but expected. Not too bad I guess. Oh, and it was Dale's birthday and they brought out a cake. Dale said it said Happy Birthday Bitch on it.
It was a great show, and I'm glad I finally got to see Jelvins. For an old fat dude, Jello sure does jump around and have way too much energy. He's very entertaining to watch. And, he's always doing this mime stuff. He kinda reminded me of the landlord guy from The Big Lebowski when he does his little recitle thing that The Dude and friends have to go watch. Kind of a tubby guy who can't jump, but trys real hard. He's a great performer, he gives it everything he's got.
Oh, and they had a poster for the show which I picked up.
The Melvins have yet to let me down in concert. Another great show. And, I'm glad they played a few non-Jello songs first too because I took a friend to the show, then he could get a taste of why I'm obsessed with them. He liked both parts a lot, but especially the Melvins only part. I may have another conversion on my hands. :lol:
I travelled to NYC for the weekend to see this, Hella and Les Claypool, and Alex Grey's Avatar.
No one could have wrapped up the beauty of this weekend like the Melvins. This was my first time seeing the Melvins in over two years (driving into Hurricane Jenean last year in hopes that somehow the show would happen was a bad idea), and I didn't even know how much I missed them until they hit the stage. Dave seems to fit the mold very well, and Buzz and Dale really need no comments.
My only complaint though, is after seeing such a solid 50 minute pre-Jello Melvin set, I want more of the trio. I love the Jelvin material, but I can't help but want more Buzz leading.
Glad you picked up the poster, Mike Martain of enginehouse13 did the work. Go Columbus, Ohio go.
think you could post a pic of the poster, or a link? i'll do the same for the boston one sometime soon as well.
the boston one is cool. features Goofy dressed in full third-reich garb, heiling "seig howdy!"
me like
Quote from: Vcavallo on October 25, 2005, 09:25:20 PM
think you could post a pic of the poster, or a link? i'll do the same for the boston one sometime soon as well.
the boston one is cool. features Goofy dressed in full third-reich garb, heiling "seig howdy!"
me like
(http://www.gigposters.com/posters/TN_54337.JPG)
My friend has my camera, I'll take a pic when I get it back.
Quote from: Pelican on October 24, 2005, 08:32:28 PM
Oh, and they had a poster for the show which I picked up.
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(http://www.gigposters.com/posters/53650.jpg)
Quote from: Pelican on October 25, 2005, 09:35:07 PM
It was weird to see him with a "normal" sized head. :lol:
hahaaa
next time i'm home during a melvins show i'd love to meet up with you. hey, did you see my parents in the back? they went and called me afterwards, they really enjoyed it!
my mom said at one point she was craning her neck and said "i can't see buzz!" and one of the younger kids next to her slowly turned and looked at her with much confusion. someone else asked my dad if he worked there and he replied with, "no, i'm here for the melvins!", which also earned him a surprised response from the younger fellow.
i would have loved to watch them. my mom said she couldn't help dance during "let it all be". ooooh yea, go buzz.
That's funny. I actually was in the back by the bar during the begining of the show. But, slowly crept my way up the right side about half way. Don't know if I saw your parent's or not, probably did at some point. I took my parent's to see the last show at Webster Hall when they were out to visit last fall. That was fun. I think they're still kind of in shock. :lol: My Dad said, "that drummer really earns his keep." I had to agree, lol.
Yeah, we should definately meet up. I was actually looking around to see if you'd be at this show, just looking based on the photos you've had as avitars. I figured you wouldn't be down since you said you were going to interview them in Boston, that's quite a hike.
my parents said the same thing about dale. more or less. i guess it is obvious to anyone how hard he works.
i would love to come back to NY sometime for a melvins show. i may do it next year. if they'd tour in the summer i'd be able to see them in new york again! i am getting slightly sick of this middle east nonsense for three years now...boston just doesn't cut it for me. i imagine many bands must be on their best in NYC, it is kind of a landmark as far as the east coast goes.........(:cough: the world :cough:)
Hey there all -
Yeah - the NYC show was pure thunder & adreneline...Melvins & Jello have to be the hardest-working men in the
music biz, & their collective professionalism shines through....I haven't seen a show that genuinely exciting in ages....
the brooding & thunderous Melvins set...a barrage of tension-filled heaviness....combined with the explosion of kinetic energy that is Jello..with the Melvins backing in terrorist-style ski masks (save for Dale).....(.did Jello refer to it as "Shock & Awe?" 'cause that about sums it up)....was overwhelming....brilliant show...the material from "Never Breathe" was really super-charged...I was really digging watching Buzz kick some major butt on guitar...and kudos to Dave Stone who has a super-heavy bottom sound on bass & was right in the pocket all along...& Dale..what else can you say about Dale that hasn't already been said.....the drums sounded like they were being hit in the temple of the gods or something.....hands down best show/tour in a great while.....
had to put my two cents in.
mouth sewn shut would have been good if they were playing an abcnorio matinee on saturday...not for this shit.
that other band that did the trombone cover of fugazi's waiting room was so awful i went outside until it was over. efk... it seemed like jello owed them a favor or something.
as for the melvins...
amazing of course. not long enough by any means. you could tell the division of melvins vs jelvins a bit...
jello was alright but i just wasnt digging it. you know i get so submerged in the melvins and then everything changes and i feel a little blindsided by his charades that no one can guess at. at one point he jumped into the crowd- and almost fell on my godamn head- no one really wanted to catch him... it was pure fear in the eyes of small girls [not myself but the frontliners with pigtails. anyway...
i kept going over the setlist in my head on the way home.
for the ride there i only listened to the radio for prep so i could clear my mind---
on the ride back there was only silence. i couldnt bear to put anything on for some reason.
vinney i didnt see your parents -- its too bad. i love me a little helen.
also thanks for telling me what the setlist was going to be like before hand. i find myself strangely attracted to dss....
i may have to address this problem at a later date.
ps hit me with a vid of the boston thing.
kisha.
I had a great time, although I wanted to hear June Bug, YOA, and honeybucket.
Quote from: Pelican on October 24, 2005, 08:32:28 PM
The show rocked. Mouth Sewn Shut opened, they were horrible. Nothing good to say about them. Then, Alice Donut played. They were pretty good. I don't know their music, but they put on a decent show.
Then, out comes David Scott Stone for about 5 solid minutes of bass and mouth noise. Prettycool stuff, and the sound was great. Then, Dale comes out and starts hitting the drums, it gets even better. Then, finally Buzz comes after a while and they break into a killer rendition of Pigs of the Roman Empire. The song sounded AWESOME. Probably the best sound I've heard out of them to date, and I think this was my 9th Melvins show. Then, they played amazon and AMAZON. Awesome again. Don't remember the whole set list, but there were two tracks off of Houdini I believe, and The Bloated Pope. After the first POTE song though, the sound got kind of muffled a bit. But, they still sounded really good. Seems like they played another couple songs, but I really can't remember. Dave was great. And, maybe it was just me, but the drums sounded a bit more metalic or something, they were really great sounding.
Then, they disapeared for about a minute, and returned with ski maskes on. They started playing, then Jello came out in a white trench coat, jumping around like a madman. They all sounded great together. Again, don't remember the set list but they played quite a bit off of Never Breath, and it seemed like 50% of the set was Dead Kennedys music which kicked major ass. All the NYC punk kids seemed to love that, they were going nuts. Highlights were Kalifornia Aber Alles, a Weslie Willis song about Rock and Roll McDonalds, Caped Crusader kicked total ass, I love that song,
Verbalmasturbation, who's the guy with the wig and the gun?
I've heard several times that Jello was the first guy to do stage diving and crowd surfing. Then just the other night I just saw a WW2 documentary with footage of one of the victory parades, and people were doing it in 1945.
Quote from: Pelican on October 27, 2005, 07:28:09 PM
Verbalmasturbation, who's the guy with the wig and the gun?
I've heard several times that Jello was the first guy to do stage diving and crowd surfing. Then just the other night I just saw a WW2 documentary with footage of one of the victory parades, and people were doing it in 1945.
Jello was the first and only to stage dive. It happened. The guy with the wig is buzz lol, they all have guns.
anyone remeber the setlist for Melvins (sans Jello)? My reccollection falls apart after the killer opener of Pigs Of The Roman Empire...
....with all due respect to Jello, I suspect Iggy laid the foundation for all future generations of stage diving performers...
Quote from: Pelican on October 24, 2005, 08:32:28 PMThen, Alice Donut played. They were pretty good.
Alice Donut are legendary, and extremely underated.
Also, I have posted a fair recording of this performance below.
However, I am unaware of the live recording policy of this board or the Jelvins?
Therefore, if I have broken any rules by sharing this, I emplore the Administration of this space to edit this post.
Enjoy:
QuoteMelvins / Jelvins (w/Jello Biafra)
2005.10.23
Webstrer Hall
NY, NY
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/ApostleOfAudio/53650.jpg)
01. Dave Scott Stone
02. Dave Scott Stone Crover
03. Dave Scott Stone Dale Crover King Buzzo
04. Pigs of the Roman Empire
05. amazon
06. Amazon
07. The Bloated Pope
08. Let It All Be
09. Hooch
10. Night Goat
11. Plethysmograph
12. McGruff the Crime Dog
13. Jello
14. When Ya Get Drafted
15. Kaliforni Uber Alles
16. I Am The Owl
17. unknown
18. Jello
19. Yuppie Caillac
20. Voted Off the Island
21. Chemical Warfare
22. Caped Crusader
23. Happy Birthday Dale
24. Lesson In What not To Become
25. Bleed for Me
26. The Lighter side of Global Terrorism
27. Rock n Roll McDonalds (Wesley Willis)
28. Holiday In Cambodia
http://rapidshare.de/files/9365272/melvin1023051.zip
http://rapidshare.de/files/9366031/jelvins1023052.zip
Thanks, that was cool. 8)
Thanks AlienOnAcid. Not only did you grant my request of a setlist, but now I can relive the show (which btw sounds FUCKING KILLER!!). THanks again.
you broke no rules. great job!!
and welcome
how long will it be till these expire? i can put them up on my site afterwards
oh, just realized this thread was from december. i guess they didn't expire.
i guess i posted three times in a row too, oops.
4 times.
i am listening to this right now with headphones cranked to maximum volume.
god i love the melvins.
this brings back concert memories in a painful way. painful because i want to be at a melvins concert RIGHT NOW. -i apologize to anyone who hasn't seen them live- i haven't even been listening to them that much lately, but hearing this and imagining the experience makes me realize that going to these concerts is probably my favorite thing to be a part of. as far as sensory experiences go, nothing tops it. i think i'd rather be at a perpetual melvins concert for a straight month than have a perpetual orgasm for equally long.
it's always so pleasant to be reminded that what these people do on stage and on record is not ordinary human stuff. the bloated pope was just played and i thought i could have transcended time and space if i listened a little harder.
buzz's voice is godlike
sorry, i'm just having one of my periodic re-discoveries of the MELVINS
anyone else think bloated pope is the new anaconda live?
anyone else get slightly annoyed when they play their songs just a bit too fast live and
you are able to hear their tightness suffer? that was a bad sentence but i think you know what i mean.
First off, don't apologize for these kind of posts, I always enjoy reading them. I'll be seeing the Big Band live in two weeks and I'm damn excited as well. I have only seen the Melvins live once, should have been twice at least though, but still I'm not as exciting as I would be if it would have been just the Melvins, without Fantomas. The Melvins rule!
Quote from: Vcavallo on April 09, 2006, 10:34:11 PM
anyone else get slightly annoyed when they play their songs just a bit too fast live and
you are able to hear their tightness suffer? that was a bad sentence but i think you know what i mean.
I was thinking, maybe you want to point out you're missing the sludge, is that it? One of the first threads on this board was about sludge, I think. Anyway, even when that isn't the case, I think know what you mean.
As much as I love the Melvins today, I still think their earlier stuff is better than their recent work. Now don't give me any 'crybaby' remarks, I'm just being honest here! And maybe it's only logic to prefer a band's earlier work, especially when they've been around for so damn long. Maybe I'll like HAT as much as I like Bullhead in a couple of years, I'll let you all know in 2008.
it's not so much the song selection that bothers me ("sludge" vs. "non-sludge" tracks) it's when they speed up songs that are recorded just slightly slower. buzz has to spit the vocals out sloppily and dale's crashes just aren't the same. i think sometimes i can hear the unity break down ever so slightly. see fast amazon in that 2005 NYC show alienonacid posted to see what i mean. i'm sure it's fun for them to speed it up, but for me it doesn't build intensity, it takes away from it by becoming sloppy.
Quote from: norecess on April 10, 2006, 08:33:28 AM
First off, don't apologize for these kind of posts, I always enjoy reading them. I'll be seeing the Big Band live in two weeks and I'm damn excited as well. I have only seen the Melvins live once, should have been twice at least though, but still I'm not as exciting as I would be if it would have been just the Melvins, without Fantomas. The Melvins rule!
Quote from: Vcavallo on April 09, 2006, 10:34:11 PM
anyone else get slightly annoyed when they play their songs just a bit too fast live and
you are able to hear their tightness suffer? that was a bad sentence but i think you know what i mean.
I was thinking, maybe you want to point out you're missing the sludge, is that it? One of the first threads on this board was about sludge, I think. Anyway, even when that isn't the case, I think know what you mean.
As much as I love the Melvins today, I still think their earlier stuff is better than their recent work. Now don't give me any 'crybaby' remarks, I'm just being honest here! And maybe it's only logic to prefer a band's earlier work, especially when they've been around for so damn long. Maybe I'll like HAT as much as I like Bullhead in a couple of years, I'll let you all know in 2008.
If you see Buzz or Dale, tell him you think Dan Raymond's a pretty cool guy. It's a good icebreaker.
Quote from: KURDTLUVUR! on April 10, 2006, 08:22:07 PM
If you see Buzz or Dale, tell him you think Dan Raymond's a pretty cool guy. It's a good icebreaker.
Pooh, I don't think I'll get to meet them, European shows are much different from the US shows.
A friend of mine from SF roadied for the Melvins in 92, maybe 93 and Fantomas, in 2002 or 2003 or something, so that should be a good opener as well. Thanks though ;)
And who's Dan Raymond again?
Quote from: norecess on April 11, 2006, 12:31:27 PM
And who's Dan Raymond again?
HELLO??? you mean you don't know who dan raymond is? my god (you believe that? he doesn't know who dan raymond is).
jeez, who doesn't know who dan raymond is, isn't it obvious? I mean, if YOU don't know who dan raymond is than I sure as hell can't tell you.
who's dan raymond....
wait a minute, who IS dan raymond? I don't know either.
Quote from: Vcavallo on April 09, 2006, 09:16:13 PM
how long will it be till these expire? i can put them up on my site afterwards
They probably haven't got long left, so that might be a good idea.
Vinney, not sure I agree with you. I don't mind the faster live versions. When I was standing in the crowd, I wasn't thinking about that at all. I think it was my 7th or 8th Melvins show, and just like every time before, all I could think was "my God, this kicks total fucking ass!"
A band either sounds good live or they don't. The Melvins have yet to let me down. Fast or slow.
Maybe it's having the visuals that go along with the show and a huge stack of speakers blasting in my face, but a faster live version of amazon is still a live version of amazon, and that's better than most things I can think of ever seeing. Or hearing. I don't mind if they switch stuff up a little. It's still Melvins to me. 8)
Seeing this thread again reminds me, I need to frame my damn poster already. And stop procrastinating. Maybe tomorrow. Or next week. :lol:
Quote from: glen on April 11, 2006, 01:19:36 PM
Quote from: norecess on April 11, 2006, 12:31:27 PM
And who's Dan Raymond again?
HELLO??? you mean you don't know who dan raymond is? my god (you believe that? he doesn't know who dan raymond is).
jeez, who doesn't know who dan raymond is, isn't it obvious? I mean, if YOU don't know who dan raymond is than I sure as hell can't tell you.
who's dan raymond....
wait a minute, who IS dan raymond? I don't know either.
Glen, I'm still sittin on the couch (Wait, uhm.. read my previous posts first if you want to understand the state I am in. Shit, I'm missing my point, here I go, be prepared) and I just laughed out loud.
When you typed it, were you thinking of three aunts, like Elaine's aunts for example, who were discussing my Dan Raymon question? That's how I read it. Not how they said it, but how you were imitating the ladies.
That makes me an idiot too.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melvins
Dan Raymond - "Soporte Moral" (1981-2006)
:lol:
Quote from: norecess on May 09, 2006, 06:03:32 AM
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melvins
Dan Raymond - "Soporte Moral" (1981-2006)
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Hey KURDTLUVUR, does your avatar changes back sometimes?