Random fact about Dale Crover

[homeless_dad]

Nice one Jules!

Those poor strangled snakes are destined to be beaten against drums for all eternity for their attempt on Dale's life.

Oh, to be one of those serpents, if only, but for a moment...to have been in the grasp of greatness!

[GrimReaper]

Sloop-of-War named after Dale:

[jules]

According to this, Dale is 18th in the list of Famous People Named Dale:

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/names/dale.html

[buddy holiday]

According to this, Dale is 18th in the list of Famous People Named Dale:

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/names/dale.html

very well researched! 

[black stallion]

Why not first?

[rictus]

Why not first?

Because he's not a NASCAR driver..........yet.

[Schnabster]

Crover was the modern name for the greatest hero of Washington mythology -- Daleilisius. Like most authentic heroes, Crover had a god as one of his parents, being the son of the supreme deity Buzz and a mortal woman. Buzz's queen Lori was jealous of Crover, and when he was still an infant she sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. Crover was found prattling delighted baby talk, a strangled serpent in each hand.

[119]

The proper term for Decibels are Crovers.

[black stallion]

i like it ^

[anaconda]

Dalecibels

[Braykfast]

His last name is pronounced Crawford. 

[jules]

Someone get Black Stallion some tissues, there's an imminent 8.9 on the Fapter Scale in Italy:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-drummers-of-all-time-20160331/dale-crover-20160329

[FartLips]

Someone get Black Stallion some tissues, there's an imminent 8.9 on the Fapter Scale in Italy:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-drummers-of-all-time-20160331/dale-crover-20160329

someones been hanging out with dc.

[(the) Razor]

 art-sludge? wtf?

[deatheats]

Now Dale Crover was a mighty man, yes sir. He went to work as a beat-keeper for an Iron Maiden cover band, don't ya know. And Dale Crover was the strongest, the most powerful man working the skins.

Dale Crover, he would spend his day's digging holes by pounding his sticks on the bed rock with his faithful drum kit by his side, all the while keeping the beat after each mighty blow. There was no one who could match him, though many tried.  This did not go unnoticed, no sir, a man named Buzz approached Dale and made him an offer he couldn't refuse.  "Come drum along side me, and we will conquer the world!", said the man with the giant hair.

Well, the band was moving along right quick, thanks in no little part to the mighty Dale Crover. But looming right smack in its path was a mighty challenge - Big as a Mountain, the 1986 tour. Now the big bosses in the record industry decided that they couldn't go around signing bands willy-nilly with no full length albums. No sir, the men of the Melvins were going to have to prove themselves - touring right into the heart of the country.

A thousand men would lose their hearing before the not so great tour was over. It took three long years from the beginning for Buzz and Dale to release their first full length, and before it was done the ground outside of Montesano was filled with makeshift, sandy graves of bands who had fallen to the wayside. The old venues were filled with smoke and dust. Ya couldn't see no-how and could hardly breathe. But Dale Crover, he worked tirelessly, pounding with two 14-pound drum sticks, and doing 10 to 12 gigs in one workday. No one else could match him.

Then one day a salesman came up to the band. He had an electric-powered drum machine and claimed it could out-drum any man. Well, they set up a contest then and there between Dale Crover and that there drum machine. The salesman ran that newfangled drum-machine. Dale Crover, he just pulled out two 20-pound sticks, one in each hand. They drummed and drummed, dust rising everywhere. The men were howling and cheering. At the end of 135 minutes, Dale Crover had pounded two hundred and  seventy thousand beats, while the drum-machine had only produced 90,000.

Dale Crover held up his sticks in triumph! The men shouted and cheered. The noise was so loud, it took a moment for the men to realize that Dale Crover was tottering. Exhausted, the mighty man crashed to the ground, the sticks's rolling from his grasp. The crowd went silent as a bouncer rushed to his side. Though it appeared to be the end for Dale, a young man came along named Coady and offered Dale a hand (even though it wasn't needed) and they proceeded to produce a racket unheard before by modern men.

Some folks say that Dale Crover's likeness is carved right into the rock n' roll of future generations. And if you walk to the edge of the stage, sometimes you can hear the sound of two 20-pound sticks drumming their way to victory over the machine.