Mangled Demos from 1983

[klump]

I cant read them before i get the record    

[GrimReaper]

Thanks for posting this- very interesting   Dan Raymond is my pretend friend!    I agree with Buzz, 'Cocaine' is a crappy song.  Personally, I thiink Eric Clapton is realllly over-rated.

As for people getting pre-release cd's, I'm fairly certain Dillard was selling/giving away a few copies.

First off, if you don't like the song Cocaine blame JJ Cale.

Second, who the fuck is Dan Raymond? A very cyptic ending to the rant. Mumu, did you make him a friend hat?

Klump you are so right! I should have waited until I had the Demos in my hand before I read the liner notes.

[Mesteren]

Here's a link to the liner notes and press release:
http://girlieaction.com/Band%20Pages/melvins%201983/melvins-index.html

For those paying attention it was also poster here on May 1st:
http://www.themelvins.net/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=3040&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[Green Honey]

Its being released in the UK first apparently for some reason (May 16th):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009A0KGA/qid=1115725984/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl/026-7369013-7000418

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009A0KGA/qid=1115726031/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/102-4290311-0637766?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

//http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009A0KGA/qid%3D1115726227/028-0103563-3408533

[DubEMC]

Blimey Sussex louts! A pox on the lot of ya!
Just kiddin

[LouiLoomis]

Amazon always do that, then as the release day gets closer they change the date to a week after the US release.  

[cellphone]

Buzz has a pretty decent storytelling vibe, if a little disjointed.  I'd be interested in reading an extended collection of memories like these, because I think a lot of people can identify with that sort of backwoods redneck upbringing, where you grow up in this tiny podunk craphole and slowly begin to realize how huge the world actually is, whether that's by playing in a band that attains a level of global respect or whatever career or path you choose.  Hell, even couchcrashing bums that get around the country could identify.

My own childhood started out similarly, though not quite so bleak.

[rictus]

Mangeled Demos is up On Ipecac's discography, along with Orthrelm.

[Reverend Ebeneezer]

...and Matt Lukin was in college studying carpentry when the band started out! Hee hee!

[(PAUL)]

Yeah, they have a sample mp3 too, although it's not the whole song.

[(PAUL)]

Here's a review from AllMusicGuide:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781DD948AE7020C9973352C0BA60A329D74BFB9A1B23465ACBBB22068E027BFD4FFD889BF5B670AB78ABE02CA45A0A9FC9E457FDD6643D2DED93&sql=10:xpe097ufkrkt

Much has been said about the Melvins' formative years -- they inspired Kurt Cobain to start a band, they single handedly invented grunge by slowing down punk rock to a snail crawl, etc. But as evidenced by the majority of the songs that comprise

[Smellis]

It's a good thing too, I hear Lukin has a day job as a carpenter and is not playing music any more.

[Rusty Shackleford]

come on anaconda, you know what we want!

[anaconda]

I think I can oblige.

[Reverend Ebeneezer]

If you're in Birmingham, UK Tempest Records has Mangled Demos for sale now. Bought my copy today...interesting historical document at least.