scott wrote:I heard a rumor that people who refer to the band Melvins as "the melvins" should not be taken seriously.

No "the".

Seriously.

DICK
She should've done it on "The
Number Four With a Smile."

BARRY
Isn't her album called "Number Four
With A Smile?"

DICK
That's what I said.

BARRY
No, no, no, you said "The Number
Four With a Smile," and there's no
"The" at the front of the title of
the album.

DICK
It's a reference to a Chinese meal
in Toronto and I think that there
is a "The." But I could be wrong.

BARRY
You can be and are wrong.

Those youtube videos were great - would love to see some of them playing older songs too though (they were just starting to play oneat the end of one of the videos).

Just listening to 'Senile Animal' for the first time as I type. Really enjoying it so far. Loving the double drumming, it has to be said. I'm a drummer, by the way.

its just fucking semantics. does it really care ?

BadComrade wrote:

Germ War wrote:it's kind of pointless to have them both playing if they're both playing the same thing.

Oh, how I fucking hate that. I've seen a few bands that did this. One of them was this terrible band from Champaign, IL called Steak Daddy Six.

I like the dual drummer thing on that first Pigface album a lot.

I never understood the dual drummers of Steakdaddy Six. Totally unnecessary.

What I was struck with during the Melvins show, was this: whether you like Dale Crover or not, his playing is not easy. I was fully impressed with Coady from BB's chops - to not only learn all of that volume of patterns, but to play exactly in synch excepting for obvious deviations.

Also, at the end of the set there was this 6 minute drum/feedback thing that was devastating where they both pounded the shit out of a beat for four bars or so, then subdivided and pounded the shit out of the beat, then subdivided again and pounded the shit out of the beat and then made a polyrhythmic shift and pounded the shit out of the beat. Repeat.

It was fully tremendous and completely Melvins.