Big Business / Melvins - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA - August 9th

[SitnikovI]

It was on my birthday, August 3rd, I found out that Melvins are coming to town.

Honestly, I had no idea what to expect - I heard some of their songs here and there and I knew that everybody loves them, even though they don't have official hits and none of their songs are on the radio (not necessarily a bad thing, since many "hitless" bands often  turn out to better than platinum monsters).

Anyway...

It all start with a 2-piece band and I have no idea what they were called (obviously, one of them was drumming for Melvins later on that night), but then it could've been a pure improvisation, as they played for about 15 minutes or so. It was a mix of power electronics/experimental/noise and guitar stuff and it general it was quite good.  I think that they could use samples in a different way or get rid of them altogether, but other than that they were alright.

Big Biz were next and, honestly, to my ears, they sounded better on record, at least from what I can remember. One of them (Jared, huge lead singer with a beard) used to be in Karp, who were much better, even though they were often given "Melvins Clone tag". Appropriately enough, a couple of guys from Big Biz and Karp ended up in Melvins....

Who finally started their set around 11:20 or so and they were fantastic, although I have no idea about what songs they were playing - one of them sounded exactly like "My Hero" (no surprises there, since Dave Grohl is a huge fan of Melvins, so its likely that he was influenced by them to some degree) and another one sounded like Led Zeppelin on steroids, hehe.

All in all, great show, it was definitely worthy to pay 16 dollars for this one.

[gesundheit]

oh wow

[FartLips]

It was on my birthday, August 3rd, I found out that Melvins are coming to town.

Honestly, I had no idea what to expect - I heard some of their songs here and there and I knew that everybody loves them, even though they don't have official hits and none of their songs are on the radio (not necessarily a bad thing, since many "hitless" bands often  turn out to better than platinum monsters).

Anyway...

It all start with a 2-piece band and I have no idea what they were called (obviously, one of them was drumming for Melvins later on that night), but then it could've been a pure improvisation, as they played for about 15 minutes or so. It was a mix of power electronics/experimental/noise and guitar stuff and it general it was quite good.  I think that they could use samples in a different way or get rid of them altogether, but other than that they were alright.

Big Biz were next and, honestly, to my ears, they sounded better on record, at least from what I can remember. One of them (Jared, huge lead singer with a beard) used to be in Karp, who were much better, even though they were often given "Melvins Clone tag". Appropriately enough, a couple of guys from Big Biz and Karp ended up in Melvins....

Who finally started their set around 11:20 or so and they were fantastic, although I have no idea about what songs they were playing - one of them sounded exactly like "My Hero" (no surprises there, since Dave Grohl is a huge fan of Melvins, so its likely that he was influenced by them to some degree) and another one sounded like Led Zeppelin on steroids, hehe.

All in all, great show, it was definitely worthy to pay 16 dollars for this one.

who's dave grohl?

[SitnikovI]

Well, um...he's that hairy dude who's selling out arenas these days and doing tours with remaining members of Queen or something.

Ahem.

[FartLips]

karma for you since your heart is in the right place.

[SitnikovI]

Thank you kindly!

[halfwayhouse12a]

I think the Zeppelin song on steroids was probably The Kicking Machine.

I want to know what that Big Business song was that was 3/4 time and part of the chorus had two crash mutes in it. Jared was hovering around the 9th and 12th frets on his bass during the song. I know that's all a terrible description, but maybe someone could help me out.

[I am the Sun]

Nice to know someone's paying that much attention though. I'm impressed!