german interview from 2003/4 - translations?

[Green Honey]

http://www.triggerfish.de/ox/home.cfm?p=3412&rid=1050&ls=0&n=0&CFID=31305498&CFTOKEN=13807676

I already have the first half from somewhere online, cant remember where:

MELVINS (OX-Fanzine #52)

Freestyle

TOMAHAWK and MELVINS together on tour - what a pack! And above all these two bands have found each other under the roof of Ipecac Records, they share Kevin Rutmanis as a member, and both bands have a similar 'we-do-what-we-want-whatever-comes-up'-approach.

And a conversation with Buzz Osborne, the best hairstyled man under the sun, was due anyway.

So, foward to Cologne, where we met a chatty Buzz Osborne in a good mood just before their
set. Oh yeah, the MELVINS: for 20 years the punkiest interpretation of BLACK SABBATH!

The MELVINS are a band, that I connect with the dark side of life, I'm confused that you
you go out to play at eight with bright sunshine.

"Well, I'm delighted. It's something different. Early in. Early out. Perfect. We would prefer to play at three in the afternoon anyway, our shows would for sure be way better."

Why? Biorhythm?

"That's the time you'll do your soundcheck. Everything is perfect, but no-one's there to hear it. And then you wait six hours till the show, sit around, wait, bore yourself and that's not very motivating. That's why we started to rehearse in the afternoon and not in the evening a long time ago. But shows have to be in the evening, cause the people have to work during the day, we have to live with that."

Apropos working: what are you up to?

"Expect playing with the MELVINS, I play with Mike in FANT

[Moebius05]

No, I will not translate it, tha reason for that is that I have read THE WHOLE THING and I can remember having read EXACTLY THE SAME INTERVIEW in english some time ago and I am sure I read it on this site.

I can't find it just now.

For those of you who remember, it's the one where Buzz complains about Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Dave Grohl singing "London Calling" at a MTV show and about U2 and Negativeland and also about Jello Biafra vs. the other Kennedys.

Also, I've got far too much work to do till the end of June.

[Green Honey]

Yea I think I got the above portion from here a long time ago too.
I just found it on my computer you see and would be very appreciative
if someone translated it or found the complete translated version.

[Moebius05]

Also: it's old. I reckon it was made just before this gig:

07/11/2003 Koln, Germany Koln Cantine w/ Tomahawk

[noctrun]

I re-translated the first "half", within this board, I didn't found it in english and just posted a part of it.

here is some more of it, I gotta go to work now, maybe I'll finish it tonight... remember that I translate a translation here so it might be wierd and not exactly what buzz said

But it took you some time, until the MELVINS could freely do whatever you wanted.

Not that "Houdini" from 1993 is bad at all, but at that time it appeared to me that you guys were turning to mainstream - and from the middle of the 1990s you stopped to care and started to deal with things your own way again.

"Hmmm ... our approach was always, to try out something new, something we hadn't done before on the next record. The "Houdini"-record is a wierd record, really, especially if you look at what else was released during that time. "Houdini" was, at that time, the logical step after "Lysol". The answer to the question, were are we going from here? I disagree with you, in my opinion "Stoner Witch" was our most commercial release, it came out a year after "Houdini". But the tag 'commercial' on one of our records that's totally different, hahaha. To tell you the truth we've never been in the situation, where someone told us what to do and what not to do. Even Atlantic had no say in it. We had a contract with 100 % artistic control, they couldn't force us to do it their way and they did not try it either. We delivered the records including the artwork and that's it. Our deal was this: they had to pay us anyway, whenever they put it out or not, they couldn't force us to do a replacement for it. It was perfect. We had no problems with Atlantic doing the 3 records."

But that was more like the expection, wasn't it?

"Yeah sure, that's rare. And a lot of people had a diffrent view on the time we had a contract with a major label. It was a time when nobody knew what would sell and what didn't, and Dale and I didn't thought it would work out."

But now you have found the perfect solution for the MELVINS, FANT