i was very sad to see kevin go also...but.....now..............
i enjoyed kevin's stage presence a lot, but honestly i never really thought of him as a real person. haha! maybe this is funny to say. he was so fucking bizarre that i hardly considered him human. i did like that aspect of him, but after seeing the melvins last night as this coherent unit of musicians each with their own personality and liveliness, i was really pleased. i saw a short clip of the melvins playing in kevin-era today, and it just seemed that something was missing. seeing dale play by himself was depressing in an odd way. it was like he was lonely back there. it was like buzz and dale alone on a stage with some space alien gyrating away in the other corner. as i've already said, in the past i found that dynamic incredibly pleasing, as i enjoy alternate and extreme presentations of reality and perceptive experience, but the new line-up feels very real and grounded and .."full". i am a fan.
OF THE MELVINS! i'm so happy about that.