Boris/melvins stubbs barbeque

[Dead Cowboy]

Im really fuckin tired, just got back home, for now, I want to say it was great, Boris fucking rocked and the Melvins destroyed.

Pics and review tomorrow, im going to bed.

[Rev. Mike]

Dammit man, that's not enough!

[ManWithNoName]

tease!

[glen]

a crucial question:  were there mumu's?

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

a crucial question:  were there mumu's?

hopefully not!

[glen]

a crucial question:  were there mumu's?

hopefully not!

what in the name of fuck is wrong with you?    please explain to me what your issue is with the mumu's. 
you're a fairly bright and "with-it" kinda guy,  do you not realize that the mumu's are a crucial part of the MELVINS live experience?      you would rather see MELVINS in t-shirts and jeans on stage?   whats your deal man?

not to mention the fact that mumu seems to be a moniker very near and dear to you.   

[jgarver]

a crucial question:  were there mumu's?

hopefully not!

Buzz? yes
Jared? no

[Dead Cowboy]

k. Here goes.


Fuzzbass, myself, and two other guys, Jake and Colin, set of the day before the show to georgetown, about twenty minutes from Austin. You see, Tejas is a big place, so we thought it would be better to get there the day before and NOT drive 5 hours the day of the show. Anyway some of colins family friends let us stay the night and heres the important part:

their daughter,

SOOO FINE
We woke up next morning and headed to cracker barrel, for we were hungry, and we wanted to get a gift. we dropped some money and got the melvins a 50 dollar gift card. I figured since we werent paying for ticket we had to thank them somehow. we made it to Austin fine, cept the whole place was crawling with people. we got to the line about ten or so with like 1 dude in front. there was a gate but we got to hear The melvins soundcheck, and throught the gate we saw takeshi,wata (with a kid?) and atsuo prowling around. Anyway the line filled out, and they opened the gates. My friends and i were wondering how they were going to get all those people in there while checking rsvps but they just let us in... fuckers. I spent so much time wondering and they were just like "come on in!"

I want to take the time to say that this guy and his kid who couldnt have been older than 8, came walking up sporting matching melvins Army shirt. They kinda shuffled past me and I was like "YOU ARE THE COOLEST DAD EVER! ROCK ON MAN YEAH!" or some stupid crap like that. they kinda stopped, his kid looks up at him and they had some kinda moment or something, then he looked up an thanked me.Its really encouraging to me that stuff like that goes on in this world. I hope Buzz and co. are still playing when I have a kid.

I bolted to the pisser cause I had to go, then me and colin saw buzz autographing some of the kids stuff, shook his hand, all that. After the kid and his dad were done I walked up to him and said" er, Buzzo since we didnt have to pay for tickets have dinner on us!' it was in a cardboard holder thingy, and I think he didnt know what it was at first cause he just kinda looked at it. so theres this pause that lasted about 15 seconds the he goes... oh thanks! I told him I would see him onstage and walked around looking for mersh.

Only Boris and Pelican had stuff at the booth so far, so I figured I would wait. I got up front in time to listen to the dj play really shitty remix crap (back me up Jgarver) until the first band, panthers went on.
I wasnt impressed, kinda generic garage rock.

So after that I walked back to the mersh booth, still just Boris and Pelican. So I dropped about 100 bucks on Boris stuff, got a shirt and come discs, between all of us we got everything in the booth besides the girls shirt(s). Im still wandering around looking for melvins stuff but pelican was about to go onand h crowd was getting thicker so I decided to go back and claim my rightful spot in front. Pelican goes on, and at first they were kinda boring but they were ok. Bassey and I asked one of the guys if he liked Black Flag's process of weeding out, his face lit up and said YEAH!
So I decided that I would pick up one of their albums, he recommended the last one they put out. The guy was pretty likeable so I figured why not.

But then Boris went on and I forgot to pick up a Pelican album.
They were so fucking good, I nearly creamed myslef. Or maybe it was because wata looked so fucking hot up there. Or maybe it was atsuos sexy leopard shirt. I cannot stress this enough, they were so good. They only played stuff from pink as far as I could tell, but since that was their only album I had heard so far that was fine by me.
Takeshi was great, when they went into pink I thought my head was going to explode.
Atsuo was a real crowd pleaser, holloering into his mike and shit, thwacking a gong.
But out of the whole set, what surprised me most was Wata.
She has to weigh 98 pounds, TOPS, and shes sporting a Les paul that has to be at least 12 pounds, just fuckin nailing solos and riffs. And she did not break a sweat. she is BEAUTIFUL. I am not worthy. I also noticed at different times through the set, Buzz and dale watching from the side. Buzz eyes were kinda big, and dale had this " we have to go on after this????" look on his face. I think that they were both thouroughly impressed.

After Boris pays america back for Hiroshima, the audience collectively picks itself up off the floor, and my friends and I jsut kinda stand around talking to the security guard, He was a cool guy, name was Richter and he was a melvins fan. Then the dj starts playing his shitty remix crap, the only two song I could pick out were Slayers "reign in Blood" techno remix edition, we were talking so much shit to that guy. and then he put on that "i was getting some head, g-g-gg-getting some head" shit and we just gave up.

finally, the melvins get set up, Jared coady and dale start up and buzz stalks out and they destroy. Higlights include The Ballad of dwight fry
Oven
Bloated pope
Set me straight/dch
Sky pup (this song is sooo fucking awesome live)
all the songs you expect from ASA
they closed with oven.
It was a really good show, But i think the one I went to in dallas was better, but only because it was more intimate and there was no barier, and because they had all their gear. I think they were playing through rented stuff, becase buzz was without his beloved Rat and palyed through JCM 900s, and Jareds setup was smaller and very diferent. They were awesome, really the only band I can think of that could go after boris and still impress. I got the set list after the show but I can seem to find it right at this moment, Ill find it sometime. An interesting note, between a history of bad men and the bit, it says hooch.
But they didnt play hooch.
Hmmmm.
After the show I found out that there was mo melvins mersh. DAMMIT.
but, overall, it was a good day and I got to see 2 really fucking great bands play back to back.
Fuzz bass took all the pictures, so you will have to wait for him to put them up.

[tommyhc]

Sounds like a mighty fine outing. Good review man.

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

k. Here goes.

their daughter,

SOOO FINE

What Boris albums did you get?  Which shirts?  pictures!

[Dead Cowboy]

I got the Pink shirt, because A. its a boris shirt
and 2. its a fucking Pink shirt.
I also got amplifier worship, akuma no uta, and altar.
I also go the pink shirt in small for a friend that couldnt nake it, and a copy of amplifier worship for him, cause im a good friend like that.

O yeah, instead of a mumu, jared had a fucking shirt with a fucking junglecat on it. funny as shit.
and Dale=underwear.

And i was talking about the people I stayed with, not the kid with wata.

[glen]

jared still sporting the full mountain-man look?

[Dead Cowboy]

yeah, get him some overalls and a banjo and he would be right at home in good old Texas

[anaconda]

it's interesting that Jared rules the mumu,
the mumu does not rule Jared. Balls of steel.

[Buttcakefred]

christ that sounds like an amazing show, great review