That's a lot of "Larry's"!

[Leroy]

Interesting, why so many songs with "Larry" in the title?  It is pretty funny, but did they have a close friend named Larry?  Just curious

[Shatz]

[oldernie]

larry
instant larry
and
friends before larry.

am i missing any others.

[(((O)))]

am i missing any others.

Yes Pigs!!!

Pig House, Magic Pig Detective, Pigs Of The Roman Empire, Hog Leg oh and Prig. 

[oldernie]

pigskin/starve already

[oldernie]

[danimal]

pigtro

"pigs don't let it" is a subtitle in the eggnog booklet

filth pig is kind of night goat

[Dumpster D]

Look up the definition of Prig one more time. (don't forget the King BUzzo solo EP track closely titled PORG I think)

[Fureon Nectarmoon]

Well, that picture from the Revolve single clears up the pig thing - I think it's become sort of a running gag for Melvins - to show that Buzz has some, uhh, affection to the pig kind, which might be just a prank by Buzzo and not the real thing. Apart from song titles, you can see Buzz using a phrase "hotter than a pig bastard" in this blog post. So... yeah.

But what about Larry? Who is he? I hope somebody will ask that in one of the interviews.

Also, I see that Melvins use some sort of cryptic symbolism in their songs (which I really like), a key to which only Buzz knows. Like, there's a lot of "green" used as a noun in different songs, and "green" doesn't seem to belong there in its literal meaning. It looks more like it's a replacement word, a symbol which probably means something else. So what if Larry is a symbol too? What do you think can Larry possibly mean?
Hmm... Death? (Larry = Grim Reaper?)

• Death
• Instant Death
• Friends Before Death

Maybe I'm nuts, but it sort of makes sense to me.

[anaconda]

Buzz was a massive fan of this show set in Portland:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Larry

[Dan_Halen]

Damnit!!! I wish I never read this thread, I always hoped it was all about this guy!!!
(Listening to  "Friends Before Larry" right now)

[andy the angry bald man]

ah, great, now i don't have to start a new thread to ask this question:

has "instant larry" ever been played live?  it's easily in my top 10 melvins tracks ... fucking brutal song.  that guitar solo (which mark likely played) kills!