How you knew The Melvins?

[qsysue]

Hey Ego!

Your wife's the coolest.

[Filosofem]

i got into the melvins about a yr and a half ago, i founf out about them through the kurt cobain bio, heavier than heaven, i downloaded the song easy as it was, and i was in love, as a bassist myself there songs are fun to play and a little bit tricky i like the variety of their music eg stoner witch and houdini, you have songs like goose freight train and sky pup there totally differnt to the rest of the songs on the album, for me it is a band that you cant copy or "try to be" there are no copy cats of this band, it is like the pixies and the cure, you cannot copy the cure due to rob smiths voice and the layering of the songs, so that is why i love the melvins because there unique unlike the clones today like good charlotte and simple plan....

[Magic Pig Detective]

I heard about The Melvins through Tool's tour of Australia (of which i was unable to attend), But it was not until i got into Fantomas last year that i really gave them a listen. I heard Creepy Smell on some compilation, and my friend hated (It was too short and didnt make sense.)it but i liked it, so i downloaded some more and looked for them in music stores and i found their cover art incredibly funny. Then someone gave me HAT and I was convinced of their brilliance. Houdini let me down a little but The Maggot and Stag convinced me they still rule... My favorite is probably Honky because it scares the shit out of me. Stag also tickles me fancy.

[Beto Brasil]

i saw new guys here and i dont see the guys talking about this topic...
any news guys?

[Moebius05]

how bout i just come over there and put my big american balls on you in person?

Give this man the 12,000 dollars for producing quite simply the funniest thing I've ever read on the Net. Is that a rash on your neck or what...

sound fun?  oh yeah are you a chick? cuz i don't know too many girls who are melvins fans.

I'm a hermaphrodite and it's soooooooo hard to find fellow Melvins loving all-sexuals.

you made my day

[Moebius05]

In 1998, when reading the "Come as you are" book about Kurt Cobain.
It said The Melvins were the seminal grunge band. I just had to hear them for myself.

me too!

through this book, i discovered also the Butthole Surfers and others...

three years ago, i watched a german tv, and there was an Fantomas show.... i was fascinated, but i didnt understand it..... and there was an interview with them, and i saw some strange guy with an afro.... who looked very freaky...... i had no idea it was buzzo - cause i herd about melvins, i knew they must be good but i didnt herd them....

and when i found out that it was KING BUZZO from THE MELVINS... it blew my mind

They showed a fantomas concert too, didn't they?
Buzzo pushed his knee against his gibson les paul and I jumped out of my TV couch, fell on my knees right in front of the set and sobbed: "Oh please, sir don't hurt the guitar!"

Honestly, he used so much of his body wheight I couldn't believe that thing didn't break, or at least permanently detune.

[Moebius05]

I taped the radio-FM4 live broadcast of this:
Holzstock Festival Ebensee (Sa 02.09.95) featuring: Beck / Foo Fighters / Melvins / Babes in Toyland / Kurort / Orange Baboons / Texta
and loved it
Then I bought this:
"Instant Larry" (Tales of the crypt. The Demon Night - Soundtrack)
and hated it.
I bought the Crybaby, because Page Hamilton was on it (I also thought that "Oven" was the best song on "Born Annoying").

[Rusty Shackleford]

how bout i just come over there and put my big american balls on you in person? sound fun?  oh yeah are you a chick? cuz i don't know too many girls who are melvins fans.

   i can't believe i posted that


btw, eyehategod got me into the melvins around 99, specifically a jimmy bower interview, but i already said that in this thread about two years ago.

[the bloat]

My relationship with the Melvins has been love/hate. The first CD of theirs I ever bought was Prick in 95 or so. I had heard of their name through a BMG catalog referenced as the "Godfathers of Grunge" and so I thought it would be cool to check them out. Obviously I was like "what the fuck" upon listening to it.

I eventually sold the disk and a year or so later was feeling frisky and bought Singles 1-12 when it came out in 96 or 97 (I think) and I was happy to hear atleast a couple of "songs" on two disks worth of material. Still turned off, but intrigued.

Later that year I bought Stag and it was all over....next came Houdini, Stoner Witch, 10 Songs, GPT/Ozma, Honky, Eggnog, Lysol, etc. and now I got all of em' (including Prick)

[RichieGoodtimes]

How do I know the Melvins?

Mutual friends.

[klump]

How do I know the Melvins?

Mutual friends.

 

[rimb]

I bought the Crybaby, because Page Hamilton was on it (I also thought that "Oven" was the best song on "Born Annoying").

I think you mean Henry Bogdan?

I think Oven by Helmet was probably the first Melvins song I ever heard as I was massively into Helmet before the Melvins.

[Branch Breaker]

I saw them open for Tool in 98 and hated them. Probably because I was  14 at the time and it was my first concert. And, apparently, a douche for not liking the mighty Melvins. That put me off the Melvins for a long time. I later got into Mike Patton projects by way of Buckethead. I picked up the first Fantomas album and Stoner Witch on the same day. I went back later that afternoon and got Hostile Ambient Takeover.    I wish I could watch that show again and see if there was any reason to have disliked it. Because Melvins and Tool is a pretty sweet first concert to go to. I just wish I could've enjoyed it the first time around.

[tinycorkscrew]

I can't believe that so many of you guys got into the Melvins after bad first experiences. If Prick were the first Melvins record I bought, I don't think I would have come back for more.

Anyway, I bought Bullhead shortly after it came out because it got great reviews in several magazines that I read. I saw the Melvins a few months later when they first began playing songs from Eggnog.

I've been a big fan ever since.

[Moebius05]

I bought the Crybaby, because Page Hamilton was on it (I also thought that "Oven" was the best song on "Born Annoying").

I think you mean Henry Bogdan?

I think Oven by Helmet was probably the first Melvins song I ever heard as I was massively into Helmet before the Melvins.

Nah, Bogdan is the bass player, page hamilton is the singer/songwriter/guitarist.