The Melvins visit Stonehenge (via the Melvins Facebook page)
The Melvins performing “The War on Wisdom” for Last Call With Carson Daly.
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What does it mean? I don’t know what it means. Freak puke! Freaky puking. It’s a freak that pukes. It’s a freakish puke. It’s puke that becomes freaky. It just sounds good together. FREAK. PUKE. They work great. I’m not sure where it came from? I write down stuff all the time that I hear, and like. It could’ve come from a wide variety of sources. Let’s say, let me make something up. Let’s say it came from a Bob Dylan poem I read. It’s not true, but we’ll say it is for today.
Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne on the title of their upcoming album Freak Puke
(Source: sfbg.com)
Poster for this weekend’s Melvins/Unsane San Diego show, designed by Malleus.
![The Melvins with engineer Jonathan Burnside (second from left) and Kurt Cobain, during the sessions for the Melvins’ major-label debut Houdini. Cobain is credited as a producer on the album.“Kurt played on ‘Sky Pup’ and the last song on the album. He was just completely strung out, and I realized pretty quickly that it wasn’t going to work. I went to [Nirvana manager] Danny Goldberg’s office in L.A. and said, ‘Look, Kurt Cobain’s strung out.’ Kurt was really bad, as bad as he’s ever been. I fired Kurt from the record. I didn’t talk to him about it. I think he was happy to have it go. I don’t know how it was worded to him. I think they just let him walk away from it.”—Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne, recounting Kurt Cobain’s production work on Houdini in Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m259m9Rk3m1qir6ydo1_500.jpg)
The Melvins with engineer Jonathan Burnside (second from left) and Kurt Cobain, during the sessions for the Melvins’ major-label debut Houdini. Cobain is credited as a producer on the album.
“Kurt played on ‘Sky Pup’ and the last song on the album. He was just completely strung out, and I realized pretty quickly that it wasn’t going to work. I went to [Nirvana manager] Danny Goldberg’s office in L.A. and said, ‘Look, Kurt Cobain’s strung out.’ Kurt was really bad, as bad as he’s ever been. I fired Kurt from the record. I didn’t talk to him about it. I think he was happy to have it go. I don’t know how it was worded to him. I think they just let him walk away from it.”
—Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne, recounting Kurt Cobain’s production work on Houdini in Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
(Source: nirvananews)
I never hipped my parents that much to what I was doing musically. But that’s okay—they had their own shit going on. They dealt with being parents with the tools that their parents had given them, which was none. My father was born in a West Virginia hovel with no power or running water, and his father was a coal miner. My grandfather left home when he was 12 years old because his father couldn’t feed him anymore. He was a hobo. My mom was 15 years old when she had me. My parents never would have fucking gotten married if it wasn’t for that.
Melvins singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne, who turns 48 today, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
The Melvins’ onetime touring van, a.k.a. the Melvan, has been relisted on eBay, this time with no reserve (minimum starting bid is $50,000; the auction ends Sunday). That’s Leland Cobain posing alongside his grandson Kurt’s handiwork (the Kiss portraits). The previous auction failed to find a buyer.
More Melvins! New, kid-friendly video for “The War on Wisdom.”
New video of the Melvan. Less than 24 hours remain to bid on this beaut!
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