Dale Crover - Drumb 7"

I know some dude requested this here about a year ago...pretty much no one has a rip of this, so this is my christmas present to him and all of you.

This is Dale Crover's only legit solo release. It was released back in '96 with somewhere around 200-500 copies I'm pretty sure. Side A is Drums and Noise (Four Words), while Side B is Side A backwards (Sdraw Kcab). I ripped the record at both 45RPM and 33RPM, as I wasn't sure which was the right speed...but it sounds a hell of a lot more evil at 33. Included with the download are complete scans of the front, back, and inlay of the sleeve, as well as a scan of Dale's short-lived minizine "Drumb" (props to themelvins.net).

Dale Crover - Drumb 7"

Excerpt from Dale's Drumbzine:

Q: What has three legs and an a**h%!$ on top?
A: A drum throne.

Q: How do you know when a drummer is at the door?
A: The knock speeds up.
A: When you say come in, he comes in late.
A: By the domino's uniform.

Q: A drummer who can keep time, A drummer who can't keep time, and Santa Claus are walking down the street. A $50 bill blows by. Who gets it?
A: The drummer who can't keep time. The other 2 do not exist.

Enjoy and have a good christmas/break/whatever the fuck

--fred

BONUS:
Here are a few of Dale's efforts from the past twenty something years, including his Solo EP, released with the Melvins:

Melvins - Dale Crover EP
Melvins - Night Goat 7"
Porn (The Men Of) - Wine, Women and Song
NIRVANA - Live 8/20/1990 w/ Dale on drums
Shrinebuilder (w/Wino, Scott Kelly, and Al Cisneros)

Melvins - Three Albums You Already Have

Here we are again, on the pre-ignition of another monday, and there's none more of an appropriate time for us to appreciate the Melvins. (MELVINS MONDAY!) That and I have more schoolwork I'm avoiding.

Prior to 93, the Melvins were anything but typical compared to their contemporaries from the region (see: grunge); they were sludge, they were metal, they were punk. When that whole dumb thing in the north-west corner happened...something changed. Bullhead wasn't too far removed from the formula we heard on Ozma--if anything it represented a transitional period. But in 1993, they veered off-course for better or worse.

The Melvins made a straight-ahead "rock" album, not unlike what everyone else was doing at the time. Were they cashing in? Were they taking the piss out of everyone else? It's not like they completely abandoned what they were doing before and turned to some contrived sound without reason; vestiges of their old style still soaked through in a few tracks (Hag Me, Copache, Set Me Straight, At the Stake, yadda yadda). What gets me about the whole change is that it's not like what they were doing on Ozma, Bullhead, and Eggnog was worn out or unoriginal...they fucking INVENTED sludge and played it for not even 5 years--then said fuck it--and moved on. Something so innovative, so new and fresh, although not all that accessible compared to other music, was at the very least THEIRS...and they just fucking threw it aside for other bands to pick up and march on with.

Really though, if they hadn't grown into a different genre of music, chances are their records would've ended up as stale, boring and unexciting as a Slayer or Cannibal Corpse release...the type of shit that only someone like Angry Pantera Kid would cum all over himself about. Or they could've suffered a slow painful death like TAD did from the mid to late nineties.

...nonetheless: whatever they were doing--they did it WELL, and that's what counts. Here's to 3 years of Mark D, solos, and KISS covers:

1993 - Houdini
1994 - Stoner Witch
1996 - Stag

--fred

The Melvins - Pick Your Battles

Here's a 15-Track CD that was released along with Brian Walsby's Manchild 4--not unlike the first Manchild Walsby released that included the Melvins' 'Making Love Demos'. This disc features 8 tracks from their performance at 'Gilman St. Project in Berkeley, CA back in 1989, while the remaining 7 tracks are from their performance at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA last year. Something to bide your time with 'til someone circulates their 25th anniversary show recording...

Melvins - Pick Your Battles

--fred

Radio Shit -- WMUC -- WMBC

Soooo, more boring blah blah radio announcements. Our show, MINDGRINDER, is airing tomorrow from 10pm to 12am (eastern time) at wmucradio.com, streaming real-time on that interwebbernetsthingermajigger. Expect more noise rock.

Also, important to note, beware those who frequent the blog daily (I know there are some of you! Like two of you or something.): I'm going to shittily embed a windows media player stream of our show a little before we go live on the air and take it down once the shows over. This will be in place 'til I put effort into figuring out how to embed a quicktime stream. I know this will be annoying to most of you...because I know when I'm stealing other people's music, I'm probably listening to other shit I've stolen really really loud. But SHIT--deal with it for 2 hours every week, indulge us.

Other news: Our buddy Apoctosis over from Death By Hanger got a radio show (titled Into the Void) at UMBC's station, and he's been kind enough to rip the internet streams by his own ingenuity. Look at how much he's done for you! You owe him, BIG. And paying him in garglejobs isn't cutting it anymore. (On the Air Live Thursdays from 2-4pm (eastern time))

Into the Void is handi-capable radio. We will have to have a crossover episode sometime, like in X-Men.

--fred

Shut the fuck up: Melvins - Ozma

Joe Preston!!

Long time no see?

I was going to do this really big Joe Preston appreciation post and up 6 or so albums that he played on, but I just don't have the time to write something that large right now (plus I'm really really lazy).

INSTEAD--I will shut up and present you with these A+ Preston-affiliated efforts:

Melvins - Lysol EP
Melvins - Joe Preston EP
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Thrones - Alraune

MINDGRINDER! Tomorrow at 10pm! (eastern) -- wmucradio.com

I'll make an honest effort to post a little more regularly in the next few weeks

--fred

Melvins 7" Extravaganza

Who remembers when the Melvins were still about the kids? I certainly don't.

Included in this are the 7"s:
Leopard Geck-o w/
Oven/Revulsion-We Reach

Slap a Ham w/
Your Blessened/Pronoun-Piece Me

and Babaraal w/
Two Untitled Tracks

Go Forth!

--fred

CORRECTION: The second track on the Barbaraal 7" is "June Bug". I'm pretty sure.

Melvins - ECHOHEAD EP

This is a collection of the Melvins' early early demos, back when they were more hardcore than anything else. I'm fucking loving this right now--you will too.

Melvins - Echohead EP

Melvins - Nude With Boots

This is the brand new album from the Melvins (which you can probably find everywhere else on the internet right now). They're touring now with Big Business and the Men of Porn, try to catch them if they swing through your area!

Remaining Tour Dates:
August 9, 2008 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club w/ Big Business
August 10, 2008 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street w/ Big Business
August 12, 2008 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place w/ Big Business
August 13, 2008 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Big Business
August 14, 2008 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom w/ Big Business
August 15, 2008 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar w/ Big Business
August 16, 2008 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle w/ Big Business
August 17, 2008 Atlanta, GA - The Drunken Unicorn w/ Big Business
August 18, 2008 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club w/ Big Business
August 20, 2008 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks w/ Big Business
August 21, 2008 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live w/ Big Business
August 22, 2008 Austin, TX - Emo's w/ Big Business
August 23, 2008 Dallas, TX - House Of Blues w/ Big Business
August 25, 2008 Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad w/ Big Business
August 26, 2008 Tucson, AZ - Plush w/ Big Business
August 27, 2008 Phoenix, AZ - The Brickhouse Theater w/ Big Business
August 28, 2008 San Diego, CA - Canes w/ Big Business
August 29, 2008 Pomona, CA - Glass House w/ Big Business
August 30, 2008 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour w/ Big Business
August 31, 2008 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour w/ Big Business

Nude With Boots

(and don't forget to pick up BB's new Tour EP if you go)

--fred

P.S. > Everything we upload here is done with some sort of intention, whether it's to help out friends, or just support (and expose) bands that we enjoy. We're here to make friends--not enemies. We hope that anyone who finds something on here that they enjoy and want to share with others will share similar intentions to our own and at the very least, send more curious listeners and music lovers our way.

We Reach - Music of The Melvins and Carcass - Requiems of Revulsion

Personally, I'm not that huge of a fan of tribute albums, but these two albums in particular are shining stars in my opinion. They both feature artists that we're big fans of covering two bands that we love, so what could go wrong? Download away! (and listen to our latest and FINAL show).

We Reach - Music of The Melvins
Requiems of Revulsion - A Tribute To Carcass

Melvins Night Goat 7"

There's a Pussy Galore cover and Joe Preston was on it. 'Nuff said.

Manchild 3 -- The Melvins Making Love Demo

So Brian Walsby has released his 3rd comic art book; for those of you not familiar with him--he used to draw illustrations for magazines back in the 80s (Flipside--Maximum Rock N Roll, you see what I'm getting at...). But what is of interest to US, is the CD included with the book. Included with Manchild 3 is a Digital Copy of a Melvins demo from 1987; which is more than enough of an incentive to pony up the cash for the book. Get at it:

The Melvins - [1987] "Making Love Demo"

Amazon (Come on, it's like 12 bucks.)