Brian Walsby Appreciation Thread...

[Chief Ten Beers]

If the Melvins were ever to cover the Grateful Dead and put out an odd single of it, that has to be the cover art!

[glen]

get ready to get beat up for being a MELVINS fan.       that kind of seems like his go-to move when referencing MELVINS fans.  we're annoying complainers that ask stupid questions and go out of our way to irritate the merch slinger.


GUILTY AS CHARGED   

[vince furnier]

[JUDY]

This shitpost I made a few years ago got me unfriended by Walsby. He seems pretty thin skinned for a so-called satirist.

OK, but this is seriously hilarious. I haven't seen walsby on tour with those guys in a long, long time. Not sure if they had a falling out or what. I've never felt like I bothered the guy, but he's just overall not at all very friendly.

But to be fair sometimes I still feel like this when I'm waiting to say hello to Buzz and Dale.

[GiveMe45]

He's always been pleasant to be around and talk to.  I got to sit next to him during the screening of the Melvins documentary in Minneapolis (with Lori from Babes in Toyland sitting right in front of us).  I knew a person that he had known forever, and I'm pretty sure they were in a band together way back when (RIP Tom Hailey!). One of the 3 times I flew to Minneapolis for Melvins, I got a picture of me and Walsby and texted it to Tom and said Brian says hi!  Tom responded, "oh, it takes a guy from Portland to fly to Minneapolis to tell me a guy who lives in the same city as me says hi?". 

[Dumpster D]

Walsby is a really nice guy, I've met him a few times at shows and he's made time to chat with me a little bit.

I'm a fan of his work, sure. He's hilarious.

Blocking people on facebook? I mean...Are people still on facebook anyway?

If I was still on facebook I'd block myself.

Last time I met him he was sorting some merch in the back of the Van, sure he can be crabby but he's 'not here to be polite' as Robert Crumb would put it as a cartoonist.

I waited in the 2 mile long merch line, and finally got up to Brian and said 'I don't know what I want, but sell me something please!'

He dug out his Davidians record and said here, buy this!


And it's great, he didn't plug himself as the drummer, but I was really impressed man he's a kick ass drummer for sure.

Check out his work. I asked him about some of his older bands like snake nation and Shiny beast...he said that stuff is on youtube.

Check it out.

That said, that is a really funny post, considering some of his Melvins tour posters You'd have thought he'd get a kick out of it for sure.

[glen]

Walsby is a really nice guy, I've met him a few times at shows and he's made time to chat with me a little bit.

..and then he drew a spoof cartoon character of you with a caption that reads "If I buy this now can you have Dale sign it and hold it for me until after the show?"

 

[JUDY]

If I was still on facebook I'd block myself.

    

Fb is great for keeping in touch with all of my now elderly friends that I used to work with.

I collect melvins records and senior citizens.

[glen]

Fb is great for keeping in touch with all of my now elderly friends that I used to work with.

we still work together.

[PepsiMike]

In one of the manchild books, walsby mentioned this site. I forget what he said.

[Dumpster D]

In one of the manchild books, walsby mentioned this site. I forget what he said.

We are "Creepy and Obsessive"

I mean....He's not wrong. 

I actually signed up on the board after reading that, I wanted to see for myself....and 18 years later....I'm still a poser after all these years.

One time I met Walsby in Toronto before a show, and he was pissed from the night before, they'd played a show up in Quebec and some French Redneck guy had been giving Walsby shit for not having the Merch sign in bi-lingual French/English. He asked me if we were all like that here up in Canada, and I laughed and said naw man....That was Just some Drunken French Redneck. Walsby was not amused.

Don't let it ruin your day Walsby, take it as a compliment. Wear it as a badge of honour!!

I found it charming and magical that it got him all bothered, now you know what we have to deal with here!!!

Quebeqois are their own weird hybrid Subculture, It's part Redneck, part...Je ne sais quois?!?!?

You gotta love how everyone else in Canada has to have their signs posted in English AND french, except when you're up in Quebec...It's all Just french

Don't get me wrong, they're a beautiful culture, they are authentic and real. Just all their own up there, Look at a map...Quebec is a HUGE province!!! HUGE!!! I'll say this much, if they want to reform and seperate from the rest of Canada, they're more than welcome. So let em' bark all they want.

That said, please be Grateful to the English pigs, We beat them back to France in the 17th Century...Well they were probably an even match but the cold and scurvy made them reconsider.

Je me Souviens. 

PS.

Another time I met Walsby at the Merch booth and asked if I could buy one of his posters, he asked which one, and I said I don't know, would you please pick one for me? He hesitated, and reached under the counter and pulled out a 'Gene simmons Police story' poster, and offered it up, and I bought it....You could tell he was proud of that one in particular, it actually turned out really great!! He didn't have to sell it to me, It was a pretty amazing gesture.