BUZZ is like that guy that tells everyone he doesn't care about fame but secretly is salty his friends got way more famous than him.

The Melvins toured with Kiss.............. in arenas.

This is like a big budget film with a storyline that goes nowhere........

I'm 50 years old this year. I had my run of playing music and being in the alternative/hardcore scene in my teen years & early 20s throughout the late 1980s to mid 90s. Got to play with some people, got to meet even more people. I can honestly say that King Buzzo is by far one of the nicest guys I ever met during that time. We were just a little shyte band, but played a 3 or 4 band bill, ending with the Melvins that night, and Buzzo genuinely talked to all of us backstage. Asked what we play, where we were from, would talk about guitar tuning tricks, stories from the road, very funny guy... Just genuinely the all around nicest guy I ever met from that scene. I met far bigger people, but they were nowhere near as down-to-earth as Buzz.

Legend has it is that Buzzo is still stood in that same spot calling Dave Grohl out to this very day.

You need to edit this title to "Middle-Aged Friends Don't Have Time To Hang Out Much Anymore"...

criminal that buzz can have all of these incredible experiences and people still go "who the hell are the melvins?"

Did he "call out" Dave? The story seemed to me that Buzz said "Dave got famous and then i was a jerk to him and now he doesn't call me anymore"

Dave's at home like "I honestly don't remember any of this"

Punk rock seems to have a lot of rules.

I just saw a Howard Stern interview with Dave Grohl from 2011. I guess this exchange between him and Buzz happened before the interview. DG mentioned that one of the previous Nirvana drummers chose to stay with the Melvins instead of joining Nirvana. At that point Stern and Robin starts to joke and laugh about the fact that the guy stayed with The Melvins and probably is working in a McDonald’s now. Guess who is defending him: Taylor and Dave. They did not said any bad words about The Melvins.

It’s good to see Sideshow Bob still out there entertaining.

Buzz: I saw the Rolling Stones in the early 80's Random guy: Bummer

The title of this video is a little misleading. He's not really calling out Dave Grohl, he's talking about how he blew it with Dave Grohl. lol

I saw the Melvins open for tool in late 90's.... an ARENA tour.

Legend has it that his hairstyle is made to hide the enormous chip on his shoulder

This isn't calling anyone out on anything

I thought several times he was going to announce he was living in a VAN... DOWN BY THE RIVER!

Just imagine how many people are calling Dave Grohl on a daily basis. I would imagine he’s a stretched pretty thin. Sure he didn’t return a few texts but he did invite Buzz to this gig as a VIP which is pretty fucking cool . Let’s be honest, he has zero reason to do this other than to reach out to Buzz as an old friend. But then not only does Buzz decline his offer, he goes on stage and talks shit about him. Seems like an overreaction to me

Why is this called “calls out Dave Grohl? It should say “call up Dave Grohl”. It’s clear who is a knob in this story and he says it himself. Context is everything...

I like Buzz but he did blow it. Sounds like his ego is a little bruised.

He should be proud of his achievements. He’s been touring for years and releasing albums. He influenced nirvana. He shouldn’t feel some type of way because the band that looked up to him became way bigger. Anyone who is musically intelligent and knows about real rock and real records is gonna respect King Buzzo.

I love Buzz but funny he said that about arenas. I clearly remember seeing him with Fantomas opening for Tool in one.

As much as I love the melvins, Buzz really looks like he’s jealous of his friends’ success and he kinda comes off as a douche sometimes.

The longest 7 minutes of my life.

is he breaking a sweat by just by telling story?

This story makes Dave Grohl sound even cooler.

this just confirms dave is a nice guy

I saw The Melvins open for Tool and they were by far the loudest band I've ever seen live.

Best line about fame ever. About hitting it big. Jason Newsted was asked about Metallica being a sellout. His reply is the best ever ... "Yes, we sellout ... Every seat in the house."

Sounds like Dave Grohl was trying to help out an old friend.

Some context for the saltiness of lines like "when you're famous phones stop working both ways": -Buzzo helped Grohl get the Nirvana gig. Most crucial point. -Melvins drummer Dale Crover sat in on drums for Nirvana for a while, basically as a favour -Melvins got Cobain a gig as a roadie when he was borderline homeless despite him being very bad at being a roadie -Cobain constantly admitted to ripping off many aspects of the Melvins music So yeah, after all this for Grohl to dissapear for 20 years, I think some saltiness on Buzzo's part is justified. And to his credit he's pretty self deprecating and has a sense of humour about the whole thing as well. A lot of other guys at his position would go about these sort of things a very different way, starting silly beefs left and right and shit like that.

The irony of it all: he's also playing and telling the story at a non-venue.

i like buzz and i like the melvins, and he seems like a pretty good story teller, but at the same time he comes off like a bitter, hurt little kid.

He's letting Dave live rent-free in that mind of his... Success is better vengeance than playing tiny venues, spouting to a handful of people... The longer you live in the past the less future you have left to live.

he is showing his true colours here...the bitterness is REAL

So Dave feels bad about not getting back to his texts and tries to make it up to him by inviting him to his show and this jealous guy snubs him. nice.

he really loves hearing himself talk

Dave hung up the phone and said “THANK GOD”

It’s funny cuz my first concert was Tool with The Melvins opening… at a giant basketball stadium.

I love ya Buzz! Same story here as you know. I have been friends with Scream since I was 13. Franz was dating my friend who was 18 (they were all older than me) so we always made time for each other. I love all of them. I loved our punk rock scene in Seattle. A few year later when I was around 17 or 18, I met Dave and was glad he was my age etc. We were friends.. Later, I was dating Duane from the Derelicts and they played a show w Nirvana and the Dwarves. As I ran across the street that night I hear someone yell out my name and was shocked to see Dave waving me over. He said he was there to audition for Nirvana and asked me what I thought. I was sad to hear that Scream had broken up but absolutely loved Bleach. I absolutely encouraged him to join. I didn’t realize that that was the beginning of the end of the end. The small intimate punk rock scene of Seattle shifted and we all know the rest. Buzz is spot on about the change of behavior. It’s sad. I absolutely love the Melvins and Scream. It was always an amazingly insane night of music and craziness when they played together. Buzz walks his talk. I don’t think he is “salty” at Dave’s success, I think he is sad that he lost someone that he cared about. I feel the same way. And so does. My twin sis.

To be fair I saw the Melvins open for Rush at the Oakland Colosseum in the early 90’s.

I'm sure he calls all of his friends who are successful "sellouts," while he in turn uses their names to create clickbait and be relevant.

Hell of an artist, he can play the sound of resentment perfectly

For the record, I don't care about Dave Grohl (He is a nice guy and I respect him but his music is fluff to me), but people are entirely misinterprething the point of this story - He says it himself. "This is how I blew it..." - In an interview about this story he clarifies that it wasn't to make fun of Dave Grohl, but to show how much of a dick he was. He blew his chance to hang out with an old pal for no real reason. He knows he's the dick in the story.

both Buzz, and Dave are 2 of the hardest working, busiest musicians on the planet.

Grew up in the 80's/90's. Loved the music, hated the scene. It was always some egoic b/s about how "my scene is better than yours" or "band x is so shit" - not because band x were actually shit, but because there were rules at play that dictated who you could and could not listen to based on the scene. What made it all so laughable was that the truly standout bands in any given (super underground) genre listened to and were inspired by a ton of other genres. Those counter-culture egos criticizing the mainstream "sheeple" only to create an uber exclusive scene of their own shrouded with a ton of rules always seemed to me the ultimate hypocrisy.

This dude could write the most incendiary memoirs

Interesting he never really said anything negative about Dave. Just pretty much explained the situation. lol

The janitors gonna have to work late sweeping all the names Buzzo just dropped all over the floor lol

I had an experience at a Stones concert like he mentions - 1989, huge arena, nosebleed seats at the far wall, and the sound was beyond cruddy. I literally couldn't tell when anyone was taking a solo the sound was so mushy, echoey, and time-lapsed. And could hardly see the band - they had huge video monitors halfway down the arena for the people at the back, but I needed mini binoculars just to see the image on the monitors! Total waste of time, although luckily my ticket was free. Unless you had seats near the front It would have been a better experience to watch a videotape of them at home. I also had tickets once for a Jeff Beck show ("Guitar Shop" era) in a real venue (800 seater - the Commodore in Vancouver that's really just a huge bar) that I was stoked about, but like King Buzzo I found out the date conflicted with a commitment I had so I sold the scalped tickets that I had scrambled so hard to find and procure. What a mistake, which I kick myself for to this day. The commitment was a duo gig I had with a temperamental female diva, which turned out shitty, and to top it off at the end of the night the bartender disagreed about what she was supposed to pay us. I won out and got us the full pay, but to the chagrin of the bartender and the owner who obviously couldn't remember what she'd agreed on. The entire night left a bad taste in my mouth. I thought to myself "I cancelled seeing Jeff Beck for this?!". Lesson learned - never be "responsible" and honour work commitments over a special life experience, whether it's a good concert or an opportunity to date a nice woman, whatever...

Can you feel my love, Buzz?

I love Buzz, but he comes across as pointlessly bitter in interviews and conversations. He "lost track of Dave" probably because they lived in different cities, Dave got married, divorced, married again, had children and was involved in like a billion bands. Christ, I'm not nearly as productive and busy as Dave Grohl, but I rarely hang out with some of my closest friends because I have a job, a girlfriend, a band, family and other shit going on. It just seems like Dave tried to extend an olive branch after losing touch for many years and Buzz acted like a bit of a cunt about it. Whatever. The Melvins are still fucking great.

Buzz is pulling an Abe Simpson as in telling long, pointless stories that don't go anywhere.

I saw The Melvins open for KISS at The Superdome in New Orleans. You know, the super-est of all domes? So........

"I like playing at a music shop because I can't sell out an arena like both of Dave Grohl's bands." Wish I had never found this video.

This guy still has the same haircut he did when he was 16. Nuff said.

I saw the Melvins in 1998, in one of those non-venues in Dallas, opening for Tool. They played one song, and were being so relentlessly booed and pelted by projectiles by a very unaccepting and hostile crowd, that they left. I felt so bad for them, and was super bummed because I had never seen them before, but having listened to them for a few years, was looking forward to it. That’s my really uninteresting Melvins story.

You might have read KB’s bit in AV Club on “bands who were great but blew it”. He still has this 16 year old punk purist view on what bands should or should not do and I think he fails to take into account that REAL LIFE gets in the way sometimes.

I saw the Melvins, Mr. Bungle and Incubus on one bill in Minneapolis in 1999. Absolute mayhem. I met Buzz and Dale outside the venue after the show, and I could only manage to say one thing to Dale with my moment: “You drum good.” He gave me a twirly finger bow. Then they all piled into their white minivan and drove out into the night.

Doesn't 'call him out', just tells a good story.

"So Dave's playing venues where you can barely see him with a deer rifle," Man is fuckin' hilarious.

So, you talked yourself out of a great night at a huge rock n roll show but Dave Grohl got too big for you? This guy is all over the place.

Jealousy doesn’t flatter you, or the hair

Dave Grohl blew his chance to go to a dodgers game with KING BUZZO

Sounds to me he's more hurt about the whole deal then anything else. Further, he talks about he *only* plays in venues that are for music, not venues that are for sports. But yet, back in the early to mid 90's, they were playing places like ARCO Arena, San Jose Arena.... Sure, they also played smaller club/theaters around that time too, but don't talk all sorts of shit about something when you yourself are guilty of it!

I love all his work with Mr. Mike Patton, Mr.Bungle and multiple Ipecac related releases

Buzzo's salty tears are still fresh 5 years later.

The craziest part of this story is this dude has a wife

A record store is not a venue either, if we're gonna get technical about it.

This video has popped up at least 20 times in the last 5 years !

This story was better than seeing just the singer from the Melvin's with an acoustic guitar.

I can see why Kurt liked this guy so much!

I'm not a Grohl-Fan at all and Buzzo was always the cynical kind of guy, but in the last ten years he seems to have gotten bitter. Why tell this story about Grohl in public, and why tell it on several occasions? What does Buzzo get out of it? Is the Grohl-bashing part of the setlist? Grohls musical output may have gotten more and more mainstream and mediocre over the last two decades, but he is still a great drummer and he seems to be a cool person as far as I can tell. Maybe this bashing says more about Buzzo than about Grohl.

Well at least this dude made a good living from his character on the simpsons

Video title is misleading and clickbait, but still a good, funny story.

dave grohl is probably a real busy person, I imagine it is possible he could lose a cellphone or he could leave town without it or something- then he would miss a lot of messages. Just 'cause you call or text someone 2X without a response is not grounds to conclude that they are brushing you off. Friends give friends the benefit of the doubt, and friends do not pass judgement on friends without making sure they are right. Just sayin

I love buzzo! Great sense of humor.

1:56 speaking straight fax 📠

Damn Robert smith put on some weight. Smh

This video keep getting recommended to me so I finally watched it. I like the melvins much more than any of Dave’s projects but Buzz just comes off as a jealous, insecure, bitter old man... Dave at least is humble and great towards his fans. People keep saying that it’s his stick and you “don’t get it”. I see it... dude wishes he was more famous and rich... gross. Layoff stories from 25 years ago.

He's not angry or bitter. The Melvins moved to the Bay Area in 85/86. The Melvins helped a lot of the Seattle bands with shows hook ups and networking throughout Cali before 1992. After Nirvana broke through with the Normal crowd,little by little the Melvins former friends became celebrities. They railed against "corporate rock" yet signed to major labels,bitched about "being famous",and imitated the same addictions divorces and entertainment lawsuits of the much maligned "glam metal bands". Their former friends bitched about glam metal but Imitated their lifestyle to the hilt. Buzz isn't bitter rather he sees his former comrades as self important blowhard hypocrites and wants nothing to do with their Entertainment Tonight type lifestyle.

The Melvins and the Wiltern with DOWN was one of my favorite shows in LA. So powerful, but the Melvins at Pappy’s OMG Heaven ….

I’d totally go to an LA game with buzzo, I’m more of an Angels guy but a chance to watch a ball game with him would be amazing

KING BUZZO gave Seattle's bands the glory and power of drop D tuning showing Thayil ,Staley and the rest of them basically the whole meat of Seattle's sound Now that they are all rich and Buzz still has to work and play for the same kind of money his band made in the 80's,no one in the grunge wants to know him. Its the same miscarriage of justice Howlin' Wolf,Muddy Waters,Willie Dixon and Albert King went through getting ripped off by the British invasion bands. Thanks for letting me get this off my chest

He was right about this story being pointless.. So he texts Dave and Dave calls him back to invite him backstage at a show and Buzz declines because.. Dave Grohl is too famous or something.. cool story. Dave tries to reconnect with an old friend and Buzz finds a reason to turn it into something weird..

In case we’re not following the story: 1. Buzz gets Dave into Nirvana. 2. Kurt’s generational talent makes Nirvana timeless. 3. Nirvana’s stature takes Dave into an echelon far above anyone like Buzz wanted. And it’s an echelon that eventually brings Kurt to his end. 4. Dave fully embraces that echelon, and does his thing there. Which is fine and he’s a super cool, nice dude. 5. Dave even offers to bring Buzz up into that echelon, to join the world of John Paul Jones and Paul McCartney. But out of loyalty to his own ethics - and to Kurt - Buzz finds an excuse to “blow it.” Is Dave a super nice guy and a great ambassador for rock? Absolutely. Is Dave part of a world that Buzz wanted nothing to do with, for many personal reasons? Absolutely.

I've never listened to the Melvins or The King but that was damn funny! Now I want to hear some Melvins toonage. Any recommendations out there I should listen to? Thanks in advance!

i remember buzzo from back in the day when the melvins would play in olympia, back in the punk rock days right as the world was going into grunge mode i guess you could say..the melvins always had this wall of sound and raw angst along with some other area bands like Tad and grunt truck and of course The Accused. the melvins played there asses off on what i called the puget sound scene and always remained in left field so to speak because you couldn't pigeon hole there sound..was it punk, was it grunge was it stoner rock.it was all of that..buzz was always a cool ass dude, even though he spilled beer on me once..hey good times olympia style..good story from buzzo and glad to see he is still keeping it real

I'm sure that Buzz prefers his crowds to Dave's. He basically drove Dave away.

One of those moments where you watch someone bitter try to act too cool to be bitter and it just comes off insecure and embarrassing. A classic “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” moment.

People shouldn't be jealous of their friends period, I know Dave personally through family and can say he is a genuine friend to his friends,,I actually brought this up in passing and Dave told me that he had just switched cellphones and couldn't figure it out after doing an update which scrambled his contacts and apps and I totally believe him because I've seen him struggle with functions on his cellphones for years,,he's no computer teck by any means,,also when he did eventually call Buzz it wasn't even mentioned simply because Dave didn't even realize he received a text and several other texts from others! Buzz is an envious type and took it way too personally.

troll gathering place??

Amateur Stand-up hour at Denny's? The clown wig gave it away.

He isn't calling out. He's saying he blew it with dave

I feel like Buzzo, always one step short of where I should be….all my life.

Dave B.C.

Buzz comes off as a sanctimonious, bitter, old hipster here.

Am I the only one who found this story simply... funny? I don't even know Buzz in person, but just from the sense of humour that all his work radiates makes me just find this to be a funny little story.

Hilarious...I love how buzzo totally overlooks Josh homme as "idk Somone else" ... ahahaha