Excellent King Buzz interview from 10/25/2010

[zdrum1984]

I found this on a live music page I frequent.

Here is the url:

http://hardtimes.ca/themelvins2010

[(((O)))]

Actually that has already been posted in the Melvins Video Thread (i think) but you're certainly right it is a great interview. Its the first time i've ever heard Buzz go into more detail as to his beliefs/the wider world.

[(the) Razor]

Much more interesting questions than the usual .

[(the) Razor]

It was beautiful when he stumped the interviewer with "why didn't they just go to Iraq with a nuclear bomb and say 'look what we found''! The logic he uses to counter is brilliant.

[TheLegitMan93]

Buzz has such an awesome laugh.

[Greasy Statement]

it's such a mischievous giggle....
it's fun listening to him take the interviewer down a peg. the sheep like leftist politics of the punk community can be far too grating.

[TheLegitMan93]

I don't have a problem with capitalism as long as it doesn't elevate into fascism like some people say, but in the same theory socialism is just as bad! Both ensure a wealthy elite (the government/the rich) and everybody else is 2nd priority.

[danimal]

It was beautiful when he stumped the interviewer with "why didn't they just go to Iraq with a nuclear bomb and say 'look what we found''! The logic he uses to counter is brilliant.

When people say there were bombs in the WTC, I always wonder why people would go through the trouble of crashing planes into the buildings, if there were already bombs in there.  It seems like a lot of unnecessary work.

[Justafilthylurker]

When we are all being opprosed by omicorp instead of the damn guv'ment, then... then we'll be free. 

[bgpurzycki]

I don't have a problem with capitalism as long as it doesn't elevate into fascism like some people say, but in the same theory socialism is just as bad! Both ensure a wealthy elite (the government/the rich) and everybody else is 2nd priority.

I guess it's not so much as elevating to fascism, but into undemocratic institutions which by definition corporations are.  They are designed to maximize profit as expediently and cost-effectively as possible. That seems to consistently entail lower quality, lower wages, creating desires through advertising and public relations, and lobbying governments to do various things like tax-breaks, bailouts, and the repression of democratic institutions (see Nigeria!).  Historically, business has been inextricably linked to government (long before Adam Smith wrote about "the masters of mankind") and couldn't exist without their service.  They also have "limited liability" which makes the individuals that compose corporations effectively immune from prosecution.  This is also a "failure of government", but at least here, we can participate in it to change it.  We just choose not to.  It's our failure as much as the government's.  

[dead mike]

Wow, Thomas Sowell is Buzz's favorite political/economic commentator. I would have guessed P.J. O'Rourke.

[Jaron]

I hate that I watched this interview. In yet, I'd wanna talk to him more. Especially about his comments on Wal-Mart. Buzz portrays himself as sort of a conservative Republican almost. I'm sort of upset about the comments on Wal-Mart, saying their crime was, "Selling stuff for cheaper and everyone else." I as a individual would question why? Or how? In which, I know why they can do that. Bigger corporations can afford to pay people in other countries for less than what they could do here and they bring it back and sell it. When you boil it down. A little place owned by local residents, no chance in Hell they could pull that off. Also, the people that make the cheap things they sell don't have any insurance the company has to pay. Now, I hear him talking about health care and jobs. I personally think in that we should take care of ourselves and others for the sole fact that if I got sick or was hurt I'd hope someone would help me not just say, "Well good luck with that." I can understand why someone would say, "Well, I don't wanna pay for some other lowlife who's going to use my money to sit on their ass and do nothing", but I think we've spiraled so far down that we have more people that would do that now just, because of how our life styles have become. Eh, it's a big mess and there's no real solution I know, but it's something we should pay more attention to. For example if people were to all find out that there was no God, that when we die there's nothing, we would maybe try and make life a little bit better while were here instead of not caring about posterity and the others around us.

This probably isn't a well thought out statement, but I'm tired and want to go to bed.

[Bigval]

Pretty disappointed in Buzz's Wal-Mart comments but hey I knew the guy was a right-winger. Buzz should educate himself a bit more on the stuff Wal-Mart get up to it's far from his simplistic "their only crime is to sell things cheaper than everyone else". He's not as stupid as that. The guy obviously hasn't got a problem with them screwing over their workers. Then again I can't say I've ever cared for anything I've heard come out of Buzz's mouth. I won't open up on him too much here because I know a lot of melvins fans being fiercely loyal will get their noses out of joint. Stick to appearing on Fox News, Buzz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wal-Mart

[Bigval]

I hate that I watched this interview

Not that Buzz would give a shit but minimum wage in the US is what $7? In Australia a country with a fraction of the USA's wealth it's $15. And we have less unemployment.

$7 an hour? Now that's a crime.

[rictus]

The guy obviously hasn't got a problem with them screwing over their workers.

They don't have to work there.