Biography Melvins

Bazz, Dave and Matt studied together at secondary school at Montesano. Once they read in a newspaper about a fifty -year -old man named Melvin, who was caught in the Montesano department store, when he stole Christmas Christmas trees from there. Even by Aberdeen standards, it was an unusually daring and meaningless crime; The group liked it, which immediately christened itself - The Melvins.

This happened in the year, but by that time the group had been playing on local sites for two years. Unlike other Aberdin teams, The Melvins joined the second wave of the American punk and to the emerging hardcore and began to play something noisy and frame -like: an endless funeral song about the disappointment, stupidity and cruelty of the surrounding reality. However, despite the fact that they attributed themselves to the panka, The Melvins were children of the beginning of the seventies.

Bazz Osbourne admitted that he had never listened "nothing released later and lived on the old reserve. We played music in the spirit of Kiss and the lives of the Gulf Grace." In addition to KISS, whose caricature images of monsters and theatrical tricks on the stage and outside the American teenagers were amused, bringing all the critics to the frenzy, with the exception of the original Lester Banges Lester Bans, The Melvins worshiped other fathers of extremism - Black Sabbath and Tad Nugent.

The people did not cut. We stayed for a long time when nobody liked it. "Well, not quite. Kurt Cobain, who was about fourteen or fifteen, saw these local heroes completely differently. He began to imitate The Melvins in everything, became a real" group ", spent hundreds of rehearsals, dragged amplifiers into their van, sat behind the scenes while the group pulled out his The funeral marches before the indifferent spectators.

By that time, Kurt was no longer alone. In the year, after Cobain graduated from school, Bazz Osborn introduced him to a guy two years older and eight inches above him - eighteen -year -old Chris Novoselich.

It is absolutely natural that Cobain and Novoselich, who felt like outcasts in the conditions of Aberdin's colorless youth life, were attracted by the only city rebels - The Melvins. I dragged from them. Then I began to lure these grandfathers of my friends, but they did not cut. One guy said: "Yes, they are all the nonsense." A year earlier, Matt Lukin brought Kurt to Seattle to the first real rock concert in his life - the performance of the Black Flag group.

One year at night, Kobain, Novoselich and Osbourne sprayed their next slogan on the wall of the bank in the center of Aberdin. When the local police caught them behind this occupation, Chris and Bazz managed to hide in the shade of the alley, and Cobain remained standing on the spot with an aerosol in his hand, with the MDC cassette as a personality certificate. He was fined for dollars and awarded thirty days for vandalism.

What was written on the wall? Cobain claimed that it was the slogan "homosexual law in action." A more prosaic Osborne recalls that it was a "quiet riot." Over the years, stories are polished. The Melvins nobody in Aberdin fell in love, but on February 8, the group recorded its first album in Seattle. He was tooth-free-bladder, absolutely uncompromising.

Soon Matt Lukin left the group and moved to the team that played the covers Iron Maiden, then he ended up in Mudhoney. Almost immediately after this, the group leaves Aberdin to San Francisco. Now The Melvins live in Hollywood. Nirvana helped Dale Krover in their work on their debut album "Bleach". It can also be heard on the album "Incesticide". Then the group produces several more albums, but still they were unknown to the general public up to a year, when they signed a contract with a large recording company thanks to Kurt Cobain.

The music of The Melvins can be dull and boring, but their place in the history of rock is very interesting. While all their students became famous after Nirvana released its album "Nevermind" in the year, Melvins only increased their cult status. They signed a contract with Atlantic only in the year, but after the release of three albums at this company, the group decided to return to Indie, and signed a contract with Amphetamine Reptile in the year.

In the year, Lori leaves the group, instead of her in the group, Mark Dutrum Mark Deutrom appears in the group, which leaves the group of the year. On this trip, David Stone David Stone took part as the second guitarist of the group. In addition to the album, the project was also recorded by EP. And Osborne’s side project - Fantomas, released 2 more albums: in Delirium Cordia, and in “Suspended Animation”.

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