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From the Ipecac website

Hey there! Some of you have been wondering what the hell has our friend Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Melvins, Tomahawk) been up to. Well if you are in LA, you can find out.
Kevin's first ever solo art gallery showing (paintings,sculptures) is Jan 7th - Feb 17th at DIY gallery, 1218 Temple Blvd., LA,CA 90026, 213/977-9602
then his latest musical offering, Hepa-Titus plays the Smell in LA on Feb 12th.
Time to catch up with old friends!


Just thought you guys may care.

is there a list somewhere of songs that Melvins have covered? If not we should start one, but if there is could someone please direct me toward it?

Thanks

http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Metal-Time-Activity-Book/dp/155022798X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196132551&sr=1-1

If you haven't heard of it it's definitely worth checking out because it's hilarious. Essentially it's a heavy-metal themed book full of crosswords, word searches, connect the dots, pictures to color etc. And it's really comprehensive as well. Oh yeah, there's also a Connect the Dots picture for King Buzzo's hair...

I was absolutely amazed that I was able to get to the show. I literally ended up there due to a series of "let downs". Basically, a friend and I were bored and he called me up asking if I was doing anything. I told Him I wasn't up to anything and asked if I wanted to go to six flags. I said, sure, why not and we tried to contact people to join us but no one was around. So we were sitting around bored and I remembered that Circle Jerks were playing and I said, lets go to that. He was immediately game. So we go and pick up his friends (who were nice guys but deadbeats so I ended up paying for their tickets) We showed up to the venue a little late. Them, being "too punk" to see any other band besides Circle Jerks went out back and I assume did drugs or something. As for me, I stayed for the remainder of the Qui set. I'm totally unfamiliar with Qui's music but I liked what little I heard. David Yow was on stage and absolutely hammered, in traditional David Yow fashion. They closed their set with a cover of Frank Zappa's "Willie The Pimp" that was dedicated to the guitarist's dad, who happened to be in the audience. This version of Willie the Pimp was, naturally, much heavier and much more chaotic. Yow careened and stumbled all over the place drunkenly howling the lyrics and then jumped into the audience and proceeded to shake the guitarist's father and was kind of just running into everyone and stumbling around. What can I say, it was entertaining.  I then walked outside and proceeded to talk to various Melvins fans and Buzz for a brief moment while The Bronx played.  Then Circle Jerks came on and played a pretty damn good set. They took a few breaks to remind us all that the Melvins and The Locust were awesome and to tell us to vote etc. All in all it was entertaining, if not pretty much like every punk show I've ever seen. The Melvins then proceeded to take the stage, with special guest bassist absolutely no one,  and announced that their band was pro-everything including abortion and sex.  They said some other things I simply can't remember and then said they were going to play a song in the great punk rock tradition. Turns out that the song was Merle Haggard's Okie From Muskogee. I can't remember what order they played everything in, but I do remember them playing Set Me Straight/DCH,Hog Leg, Ballad of Dwight Fry, Hooch, and Sky Pup, which had lyrics about how punks are all the same and how they're useless, at least from the parts of the lyrics I heard. Unfortunately they weren't up too long but, as always, every minute of it was extremely enjoyable, though I thought it would've been kind of cool to have them bring out David Yow for a cover of Blockbuster,but whatever, it was still a killer set. Then The Locust came up. I really like The Locust and I have been wanting to see them for years but never have been able to catch any of their shows. Unfortunately, their live shows are no where near as exciting as their 90 pound tight jeaned groupies would want you to believe. They can play well, sure, but 90% of the time it was utterly impossible to figure out what songs they were playing. I think that if they mixed up the set more with some of their newer material, which has slow parts, then the set would have at least been varied, but no, they only played a few off of their new album.  In between songs they were met with crys of "play some music!" which they would respond to by either playing one of their songs or noise.  I don't want it to sound like I hate The Locust though, I really do think they're a great band but they should only be listened to 20 minutes at a time at most, otherwise it just gets way too stale. I do have to give them props though, because they are very talented and can pull off all their songs with ease. All in all, the show was totally worth it, even though I ended up paying for 3 times the amount of a normal ticket, but considering the purpose of the show, I can't really be upset about it. Just to recap - Qui was definitely a winner and I'll be buying their new album in september, Circle Jerks were pretty good and I'd probably see them again, The Melvins were top notch as always and pretty much proved that they don't even really need a bassist, and The Locust was entertaining for about 10 minutes.