Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne talked about Nirvana and the late Kurt Cobain, remembering how he took Kurt to his first gig:"It was a hall that maybe held three or four hundred people, maybe 500 if it was packed - it was not packed. It was a Black Flag [1984's] 'Slip Ut In' tour.We were friends with Kurt and had been for a long time, and I've been going into weird music for a lot longer than that.The beginning musically, for me, was all on my own. There were no record stores where I lived, there were no radio stations that would play anything weird.I discovered all that through pictures and magazines and ordered the records through mail orders.I didn't have older brothers or sisters or people that were turning me onto cool music, unlike the way I did with all the people like Krist Novoselic, the guys in my band, Cobain...All those people would never probably have ever gotten into any of that stuff without me saying, 'There's this whole world out there that you might be interested in. What do you think of this?'I was like, 'Come on, we're going to go see this band Black Flag, I'd already seen them a bunch of times, you should come and check it out.'But you gotta remember, he [Kurt] was from a poor background. That really is a rags-to-riches story for those guys, all those guys, they had really nothing - no money.The families had no money, no parental support whatsoever, no one that believed in anything that they did.And so I was like, 'We're friends with all these people, you might have fun. You'll come up and see this thing and it would be a lot of fun.'
i dont care that buzz is a butthurt fagmelvins are a billion times cooler than gay ass nirvana
>>130315385>b b but if it hadn't been for my influence...lol what a pathetic yid
The Melvins were a cool, hipster band to know. Now people roll their eyes at Buzz talking about his own importance, but I give him a pass because the southern sludge bands have all cited the Melvins as a key influence and I love those bands, especially Eyehategod. Black Flag may have sort of created sludge with My War, but the Melvins were the first true sludge band. I just don't like their sound or songs and they've always been a bit too hipster for me, but they're the ones who applied noise and punk/post-hardcore sensibilities to doom metal, so to some degree we have recognize without them there'd probably be no Electric Wizard, no Eyehategod, and grunge would probably be very different. I think the only real criticism I would make is that they didn't really come out of nowhere, since what they were doing wasn't really that different from what Scratch Acid, Flipper, and Poison Idea were doing. The Melvins just had the insight to apply that noisy, post-hardcore sound to metal, instead of just being another post-punk band.
>>130315480What a pathetic racist (you)
>I knew kurt brolol
>>130315385lol Cobain's first rock concert was a Van Halen show when he was 12, but he never wanted to admit to it
well known stuff to anyone who isn’t a zoomer manlet.
>>130316102The funniest part is everyone standing around without the least amount of concern lol
>>130316102HAHAHAHAHAHA this shit is so funny LOL. The kid looks so skinny as if he was a chicken.
>>130315540All this makes perfect sense, thank you for posting. I think Kurt would have loved Oasis and Coldplay.
>>130316102Zoomers are such a little bitches Millennials won
>>130315385Every time I see this guy mentioned he's talking about Kurt Cobain
