Review and photos from Houston, Tx show...

[sfbarker]

Hello all. I run a website that does music reviews and we covered The Melvins. Yes, you're all amazed and elated, I just know it. Anyways, here are the links:

http://www.houstonmusicreview.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1255&Itemid=47 - Review
http://www.houstonmusicreview.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1258&Itemid=47 - Photos

Enjoy the coverage. The show was stellar, I dug the shit out of Big Business. Of course, the Melvins were phenomenal. Porn was like seeing a drum solo...for like 3 minutes, it was withstandable...then you want to see something really happen...it just drags on, you get bummed because this is stuff you did with your friends when you were 15 and didn't really know how to play, so you let feedback make weird sounds for hours on end...That really describes it for the most part. When I read the Dale was in the band, I sat down and was like "Hmmm...what were the redeeming factors of the band...the drumming was good for the most part...but it couldn't save everything else." So there you have it...

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

Yes, what is up with Porn's guitarist?!?!!!

[Smellis]

"The best way to describe his sound would be to envision the melody provided by a monkey trying to fuck a guitar that is plugged in and ran through a pedal board."

"The bassist had no obvious use. Perhaps he's a good friend of Crover, he rarely played anything and looked pretty bored for the most part. And that is where a lot was lost. Perhaps if the band looked more intense and like they weren't just 3 guys doing the musical equivilent of jerking off on stage, it could have been better. But, they didn't look it and they weren't good."

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!! Guess he didn't like PORN. I have seen PORN with Billy Anderson on bass. They were damn incredible. I bet Crover and Moss would find this review amusing.   

[sfbarker]

Yeah, sorry everyone. I'm a fan of noisy rock and stuff, but I just didn't get it, I guess. To each their own, I guess.

[Smellis]

I think with the MELVINS sound man Kurt Schlagel on bass and the fact that PORN was opening for BB and MELVINS, they had a totally different sound than when they play their own show. I think they are kind of just screwing around on this tour and having fun with the costumes and noise jam. They can be a really great act though, Tim Moss is a pretty damn good guitarist when he's playying heavy riffs and not just noise jams. You're right though, Dale just never wavers. He is always solid. Nice pics BTW!

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

BTW is internet code for 'BY THE WAY'

[Smellis]

I'm too damn lazy to type it out! BHM is internet code for "Buttholeman."

[sfbarker]

Yeah, I agree they can be pretty good. I heard the songs from the new album on myspace tonight, I'll have to download it. If it's really rad, I'll pick it up. The dude next to me was totally wigging out and loving it. I mean, I can appreciate it i it's a part of the set, but they just did WAY too much of it. Some of the guitarist's slide work was pretty cool, however, 20 minutes of the set was just noise with the occassional chords. All noise and then D E F, noise for 5 minutes, D E F, noise for 5...the opening was a song, which was cool...but was only a few minutes...I had no idea it was Dale's other band I just kept saying "dude, at least the drummer is killer."

All of that said, I stand by my take on this set. 

[Smellis]

check out PORN with Billy Anderson.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOs6nrvMwI

[glen]

I thought porn rocked live.   guess I better lay off the dope.

[FartLips]

I thought porn rocked live.

[Smellis]

Tim Moss is the coolest cat on the planet. I don't care what Richie says. 

[mopafeena]

I'd love to see live porn one day, i mean, porn live.

It still sounds wrong  , nevermind.

[TGH]

I'd love to see live porn one day, i mean, porn live.

It still sounds wrong

[FartLips]

mop, you dont have to go into the hospital for chronic masterbation.