Kill Rock Stars/Rock Stars Kill/Stars Kill Rock, various artist compilations. Released: 1991/1993/1994.
The Melvins - “Eye Flys”. This song is featured in ‘Kurt Cobain: About A Son’.
Kurt Cobain with The Melvins, Jonathan Burnside (engineer), & Lori Black, taken during the recording process of the “Houdini” record.
The Melvins EP, full-length album coming soon!
The Melvins have always been a busy bunch, issuing new recordings at a rapid pace. The new year will be no different, as a pair of new Melvins releases will hit the streets by summer. March 13th will see the release of an EP, Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & the Bees (available as a free download via ScionAV.com), and on June 5th Ipecac Records will issue the full-length Freak Puke.
What about collaborating with ex-Nirvana bassist/onetime Melvins roadie Krist Novoselic? “We would love to record with Krist,” says Osborne. “That would be great. I don’t know what is going on with him – I see him and talk to him once in a while, but the ex-Nirvana guys, I really don’t have much to do with. It’s not because I don’t want to. Those guys are busy doing whatever it is they’re doing.”
1/15/92 Crocodile Cafe - Seattle, WA.
Krist [bass] & Dave [drums] joined Buzz Osborne [guitar/vocals] under the name “The Melvanas” and covered Flipper songs.
3. “Milk It” Of course I like this song! Of course I like it because it’s a total, TOTAL ripoff of a song I wrote called “It’s Shoved.” It’s on our Bullhead record which I think came out in ’91… Listen to both back to back and then tell me if I’m crazy… Well, I am crazy, but not because of…
“Buzz Osborne, guitar player from the Melvins, he like, discovered punk rock, and uh, he was turning people on to it. I heard it, and uh, it sounded live to me, and then um I borrowed the record Generic Flipper, and I listened to it, and it just, it was like a revelation. It was like ‘wow!’, it was just heavy, it was art, I was affected, and I’ve never been the same since. It was like a breakthrough.” - Krist Novoselic.
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