Melvins 9/9 PDX

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

Brazil and South Americ ,make me sick !! 
hey Hirte, did you taped the show?

does the pope wear a funny hat?

I did both Portland and Seattle. I was planning on Eugene, but bailed since I am getting over some kind of sickness (cold/flu type). Ate 18$ on tix for Eugene... damn!

Ran aud and sbd.. will probably post aud or a matrix at somepoint. I am in the process of selling my existing house and buying another so time is REALLY short...

The pope DOES WEAR A FUNNY HAT!!!!! He DOES!!! He DOES!!!! He DOESSSSSS!!!

[jhirte]

Brazil and South Americ ,make me sick !!

[FartLips]

Brazil and South Americ ,make me sick !!

[sheathforever]

First, the bad news. My dad forgot to bring the camera, so I have like 4 shitty pics on my buddy's camera phone.     

"Is there ANY REAL MELVINS FANS IN HERE?" the guy screamed while I was taking a piss. The walls were shaking from the barrage the Melvins were making. I turned my head around and croaked "This is my 10th show in 10 years." "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?" he screamed with excitement. "THIS FUCKING BIG BUSINESS/MELVINS MELD? I'M FROM OLYMPIA AND HAVE SEEN THEM A MILLION TIMES BUT THIS IS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!" Indeed, I thought. The volume was so loud and the music so brutal my mind was quaking.

So I met my buddies in a parking lot across the street at about 8:30. I had been waiting for a half hour on 6th and Couch. No Melvins in the area behind the venue, but I got to watch a Puerto Rican beat the fuck out of a brother with a large crutch for not having monies owed. When they arrived I immediatley sized up the situation. No camera. A half-drank bottle of Chivas Regal. My degenerate father and two of my friends wacked out on shrooms. Hooray!

"I saw the Melvins at the Comet Tavern in 1991" said the dude up in the balcony. I was on my second vodka tonic. "They played with Tad, Dwarves and Mudhoney. Someone threw a 40 oz at the Dwarves' bass player and they walked off the stage. The guitarist jumped into the audience and started beating people with a mic stand. Then the Melvins came on and opened with 20 minutes of feedback. I'm gonna try and get them to cover 'Hand of Doom' tonight."

Iommi Stubbs is a Portland band that missed the stoner rock bandwagon by a couple of years when they finally called it quits. They were kind of like the Portland version of Karp. Really derivative of Melvins/Sabbath/early doom. They are far less 'indie' than Karp, as far as their sensibilities seem to lie. They would have done better headlining a smaller club instead of opening for Big Business and the Melvins, because the audience didn't seem to into them, which is a shame. They are JUST as heavy as Electric Wizard. During their set, I went and checked out the merch table. JESUS CHRIST. At least 15 different Melvins/BB/Altamont/Porn shirts. Altamont panties. Melvins tote bags. Melvins Nikes, Zippos, dolls, paperweights, books. An assload of CD's. Stag, Stoner Witch and Peace through Chemistry on vinyl. The HAT singles........I asked M. Moss if Porn was playing that evening. Seems that the Porn/Altamont/BB/Melvins show will happen a bit later in the tour. So fuck you all who get to see that and have a good time 

Big Business......how can two people make such a racket? This is the first time I've seen them, other than youtube shit. They were so loud it was hard to differentiate notes, melodies. It was like being sucked into a jet engine. Dale came out and played a few songs on guitar with 'em, and he pulled off a couple of great buttrock geetar solos that had the devil horns a-flyin.' Before you know it, Dale is playing in perfect tandem with Coady. Then Buzzo come out and they go into The Talking Horse.

What follows is 80 minutes of brutality. Sheer heaviosity. Humongous riffage. Buzz looking evil in his black satanic mumu. Every other heavy band is rendered obsolete. And drums DRUMS AND MORE DRUMS. There probably wasn't more than five minutes where there wasn't drums. A note about the double drum kit. It is two single kits melded into one. They are not seperated, Dale and Coady play right next to each other, in tandem. Perfect synchronicity. This brutal barrage gets spotlighted at the end of damn near every song.

The whole band appears happy as shit with the new lineup. They played 8 new songs including Talking Horse and A Civilized Worm. I haven't heard any other track off the new album.
W/O knowing some of the new songs it looked something like this:

Talking Horse
Civilized Worm
The Bloated Pope
New Song
New Song
Oven
New Song
New Song
Let it All Be
New Song
Set Me Straight/DCH
Sky Pup
New Song
Revolve
Hooch
The Bit
Lovely Butterfly
(One of the double drum solos sounded suspiciously like the second half of Cow)

Highlights for me include a great extended oven, The best version of Let it All Be I've ever heard, A vicious Bit, and a barnstormer version of Lovely Butterfly. Coady and Dale play the Butterfly beat after Buzz and Jared walk off stage for a couple of minutes. Then they wave, leave, no encore, nothing left to prove.

As we pulled into traffic we noticed we were behind a gold ford focus with MELVINS vanity plates. A familiar silhouette was visible on the passenger side. My buddy Jason hopped out and ran up to the window. When he came back her said, "He looks a lot different up close. He has an elf nose."

but... they did not open with the talking horse, they played something else before that, with a kind of marching beat and jared singing. what was that song, i wonder it. also they did the drum outro to 'black stooges' at one point, i think right before they went into 'oven'? small point.

[Beto Brasil]

does the pope wear a funny hat?

I did both Portland and Seattle. I was planning on Eugene, but bailed since I am getting over some kind of sickness (cold/flu type). Ate 18$ on tix for Eugene... damn!

Ran aud and sbd.. will probably post aud or a matrix at somepoint. I am in the process of selling my existing house and buying another so time is REALLY short...

great!!! thanks Hirte  !!!
good luck with the sale of your house man !!

[glen]

i think he does have a hold of himself.

and a little too often, I might add.