Buzz Osborne (Melvins) explores his long history of fandom, from The Who through to The Stooges, Sex Pistols through to introducing his band and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic to underground music (and Kurt's first live show, Black Flag), that time Tool backed his band on Ozzfest (and why all of nu-metal sounds like Helmet), his catalyst for making music, why Judas Priest made the best heavy metal record ever, misremembered rock myths, why the only grunge band he still listens to is Soundgarden, the movies he and Mike Patton obsess over and much more.
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Buzz Osborne Content Guide:
00:00 Introduction
00:25 The new Melvins acoustic record sounds like a Sixties death cult
01:15 Born in the Sixties, Hunter S. Thompson & the Manson murders
03:19 When Buzz got into rock and roll via Alice Cooper and The Stooges
04:26 The Who’s dramatic nature & gear smashing ways
07:34 Ron Ashton from the Stooges, Pete Townsend & subversion
08:17 What was the catalyst for playing music?
09:44 What was missing from music that the Melvins could bring
10:39 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana’s first show (Black Flag) & discovering weird music
15:33 Did Nirvana getting big change everything?
18:37 Carving out a space and a sonic palette
20:22 Why Priest created the best heavy metal album ever made
22:43 The dissonance of loving punk rock and heavy metal at once
24:29 Tool’s Aenima 25th anniversary, their Ozzfest love & Buzz’s take on nu-metal
29:57 The 180 degree gap between Melvins and Pearl Jam
31:44 The most mistold rock myth: Nirvana jealousy
33:08 My theories were right - more than metal but still aggressive
33:25 The trappings of fame: groupies, divorce, etc
35:21 Have you ever taken acid? What robots share with trippers
37:52 Is everything in music relative?
40:02 Watching movies on mute while writing tunes & David Lynch
41:47 George Orwell & individualism
45:30 Grunge, sludge, doom & High on Fire
47:00 What do you fangirl out on with Mike Patton?
48:51 A secret hunch about death? And never getting over Cobain
50:15 What do you miss the most about Kurt? How he got into music
53:06 The rock and roll history line from Jerry Lee Lewis to Johnny Rotten (and Tina Turner)
59:02 Music has meant something since the dawn of time
1:00:25 Being heartbroken by music itself & 5 Life Changing Songs
1:02:38 Chris Cornell’s exceptional James Bond theme
1:03:50 The early years of Soundgarden & why they made the 2 best albums from that era
1:07:05 The greatest female rock star & Bikini Kill
1:09:47 Zines and the early underground scene in Olympia & San Francisco
1:13:57 Buzz’s best decision ever: Marrying Mackie Osborne
1:17:16 Dolly Parton and the Buzz Osborne theme park
1:18:14 The story of the Melvins quadruple acoustic record
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