Melvins Founder Buzz Osborne on Influencing Nirvana & Metallica's Best Album | LAST WORDS

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    Melvins founder Buzz Osborne discusses growing up in Aberdeen, Washington, influencing Nirvana and the entire Seattle grunge movement, and how there's no such thing as the good ol' days.
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  • @CryptoAce
    @CryptoAce Рік тому +54

    "I'd rather have him be alive & unfamous than famous & dead."
    Heartbreaking words from a real friend who genuinely cared for Kurt's health and safety. ❤️‍🔥💔 All hail King Buzzo

    • @Factory_Muff
      @Factory_Muff Рік тому +4

      I said this before too that it would have been better if Kurt stayed with Tracy Marander or left Courtney like he intended had he lived and faded into obscurity like Jason Everman and the rest of us did that are still alive.

    • @ps.6023
      @ps.6023 11 місяців тому +4

      @@motneokon4494 putting him down how? he said it true, when he became famous he became someone who he was not, Buzz actually knew him.

  • @jlfvrs
    @jlfvrs Рік тому +19

    “I didn’t like teenagers when I was a teenager.” OMG I can totally relate. effing hilarious.

    • @Eric-Indiana
      @Eric-Indiana Місяць тому +2

      I was exactly the same way, so I can relate as well 😂

  • @larrycarlini328
    @larrycarlini328 8 місяців тому +4

    "I didn't like teenagers when I was a teenager" same here. My sentiments as well. Excellent quote. Love it.

  • @VanishedPNW
    @VanishedPNW 2 роки тому +25

    I'm not a huge Melvin's fan, I can't lie, but I love listening to Buzz's takes. He's awesome. I appreciate that he isn't a dick about the inevitable, endless Cobain inquiries. People have an insatiable appetite for Nirvana/Kurt Cobain insight (myself included). It's awesome hearing him on all rock topics, and his appreciation for Judy Garland and Tina Turner is badass.

    • @GodyP
      @GodyP Рік тому

      Bruh He legit hates on Kurt everytime he’s brought up

    • @VanishedPNW
      @VanishedPNW Рік тому +5

      @@GodyP Yeah, it's sad but but true, and that part is unfortunate. I like Buzz Osborne as an artist and musician, but I think he's kidding himself when he claims he's not jealous of what happened to Nirvana in 1991. He was/is jealous, and the reason why is a total no brainer. KC was Osborne's little brother in some ways, his protege, even, at least early on. So to go from being the king of Montesano and having this guy hauling your gear around looking up to you, to suddenly becoming the biggest rockstar in the entire world and mentioned right alongside your lifelong icons...that would be tough. It would be complicated to even process that, and I think most people would just have to emotionally detach from the situation, which Osborne did, I think.
      He claims he would never want that lifestyle, etcetera, but I mean...c'mon man. Lol. I just don't buy that. I'm sure he got into music to be barely scraping by still touring at with an AARP card in front of 100 fans. One can both want and not want something simultaneously, we are not simply binary "1's and 0's" emotional beings. Things are often complex.
      All that said, I still love Buzz Osborne, and think he's totally brilliant. Truly original and a total trailblazer. I love his music, too, some of it. I also think he loves Kurt Cobain in a familial kind of way, and is actually quite protective over Cobain's legacy and image, while also probably being disappointed at how it turned out for his friend. People are complicated and things are never quite black and white. So he's a bit jealous of his old friend Kurt Cobain, it happens, I think he also loves and respects Kurt Cobain. To make it that far from Aberdeen and Montesano..Weatherwax High.. and to see someone impact the whole world knowing full-well that their life would have been the usual small-town bullshit otherwise, it's wild... has to take years to digest. Buzz has the whole story, he knows just what a longshot it was for those goons to do what they did. Surely he cannot help but to marvel at it from time to time, probably in the quiet evenings when artistic folk are prone to unwanted flights of introspection and reflecting. Might also still be processing all of that shit little by little, would take a lifetime for most, especially if you're the Type-A, rebellious kinda person that Buzz is. Anyway, just my opinions and thoughts, who knows. I've seen Osborne also have genuine moments where you can tell all the Nirvana shit fucks with him quite a bit. He stood up for Cobain during the Montage of Heck fiasco.
      Plus, Buzz is not some musical casualty who exists purely to reflect on Nirvana. Buzz Osborne is a musical pioneer, and without him there is no way you get Nirvana. No way. He's done a lot of incredible projects, especially his acoustic stuff.

    • @davis2k1234
      @davis2k1234 9 місяців тому +1

      His only claim to fame is a actual talented musician mention him

    • @Degarth
      @Degarth 7 місяців тому

      I am the opposite. I fucking love The Melvins, but when I listen to Buzz it reduces my love just ever so slightly. He comes across bitter to me.

    • @D3epFaik
      @D3epFaik 3 місяці тому

      @@GodyP moron

  • @caliblue2
    @caliblue2 10 місяців тому +5

    I saw them last October on my birthday- it was the best show I’ve seen in forever 💜

  • @crazyralph6386
    @crazyralph6386 2 роки тому +33

    Dude is a real as one rock star gets! A G*d damn national treasure.

    • @Xxrocknrollgod
      @Xxrocknrollgod 2 роки тому +3

      People have to know who you are to be a national record

    • @slaythembeforeme
      @slaythembeforeme 2 роки тому +5

      Buzz is way too full of the punk rock spirit to be a rockstar. Way too down to earth and real.

    • @somewhatsomething4882
      @somewhatsomething4882 Рік тому

      @@slaythembeforeme way too full of something...
      🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
      Buzz is just another never was gloating over the corpses of dead men. Dead men who sold more records and connected with more people than this fat half-assed no talent hack.
      Seriously I'm fkn disabled and have arthritis in my hands and I can play guitar better than this loudmouth.

    • @davis2k1234
      @davis2k1234 9 місяців тому

      @@slaythembeforemeThinks he’s a song writing machine he is pompous 🤡 in Buzzos mind Buzzo is the greatest musician ever his only claim to fame is Kurt liked him why no interview he does doesn’t involve Cobain

  • @juggalo7718
    @juggalo7718 3 роки тому +20

    Buzzo is on point

  • @user-zm6yh3ux7l
    @user-zm6yh3ux7l Рік тому +11

    Everybody thinks that Buzz got jealous of Nirvana. Dave Grohl once said in an interview that they had asked Buzz to be there second guitar player. He turned them down and that's when they got Pat Smear. Buzz basically said that he knew Kurt was a mess and he didn't want any part of that situation as I'm sure he knew how it would turn out.

  • @sessions1617
    @sessions1617 3 місяці тому +1

    Buzz is a legend. His Outlook has always been refreshing. A true artist.

  • @billyharding2874
    @billyharding2874 11 місяців тому +3

    I love the fact i only started listen to the melvins recently when i heard kurt say in a documentary thatthe melvins arethe hardest...and boy o boy i get to enjoy there catalog like it justcame out

  • @jonnybarnard8578
    @jonnybarnard8578 Рік тому +7

    God I cant imagine how tired he is of EVERY SINGLE interviewer asking him about kurt. I get it of course but they have to understand that it's not all romantacised in his head, to him it's just that his friend is gone and never coming back.

  • @laylavladi
    @laylavladi 3 роки тому +55

    Can’t spell Melvins without Elvis.

    • @orion10x
      @orion10x 3 роки тому +9

      Melvis

    • @laylavladi
      @laylavladi 3 роки тому +1

      @@orion10x lol!

    • @laylavladi
      @laylavladi 3 роки тому +1

      @@chrisradstorgoff7715 you’re RIGHT 😳😳😳

    • @thermalmedia6454
      @thermalmedia6454 2 роки тому +2

      “Melvins GOOD Nirvana BAD”

    • @laylavladi
      @laylavladi 2 роки тому +2

      @@thermalmedia6454 hahaha!

  • @derunsympath
    @derunsympath 3 роки тому +17

    finally some1 defending the loutallica record

  • @progoski719
    @progoski719 2 роки тому +5

    like to hear his thoughts on pantera and dimebag

  • @djsaeg
    @djsaeg Рік тому

    Keepin it real thanks for this words Buzz as an artist sometimes you feel frustrated when decades pass by and you're audience doesn't grow but true first and.foremost i do it for me and as i would appreciate as a fan and yes there is nothimg more satisfying than that

  • @MalcomJuliaMorgan
    @MalcomJuliaMorgan 2 роки тому +11

    i bet hes pretty fuckin tired of talking about kurt cobian

    • @GodyP
      @GodyP Рік тому +1

      It seems like he’s always hated talking about him, anytime he’s mentioned he always has to bring up his addiction

  • @gameconsumer2517
    @gameconsumer2517 3 роки тому +19

    Nobody ever asks him about Chris Cornell

  • @soth1sol
    @soth1sol 3 роки тому +9

    goat

  • @Demention94
    @Demention94 10 місяців тому +2

    So, an entire interview about Kurt Cobain. How original!

  • @norseman3514
    @norseman3514 2 роки тому +11

    yo Buzz farted at 7:14 very quietly haha

  • @goodboyconformist
    @goodboyconformist 6 місяців тому

    Buz, is King! It's in the name and the claim to the true throne of musical perfection. All hail!!!

  • @wigglethemiddle1
    @wigglethemiddle1 Рік тому +6

    Did that girl blow Barney? What’s on her lips

  • @TrumpDoesntWipe
    @TrumpDoesntWipe Рік тому +2

    Say what you want about him, but he definitely doesn't sugarcoat anything lol

  • @99problemsbutafishaintone35
    @99problemsbutafishaintone35 2 місяці тому

    Buzz is such a hard working no nonsense dude.

  • @keithamandahall8548
    @keithamandahall8548 Рік тому +2

    Buzz says after two generations no matter how much wealth one has it will be gone. That's not actually true, depending on what bloodline you're born into.

  • @jonathanholbrook6300
    @jonathanholbrook6300 Рік тому +1

    I hope so much that he keeps coming out with music, he's getting close to retirement age but I'm not ready for him to stop creating

    • @Statchypoo
      @Statchypoo Рік тому +2

      I don't see him retiring any soon. He seems to be going strong with putting out albums and touring and such.

    • @Dungavenhooter-1700
      @Dungavenhooter-1700 Рік тому

      Yeah.

    • @w_g_5427
      @w_g_5427 10 місяців тому

      ​@Statchypoo Just saw his tour in Dallas and he's still badass

  • @ttamdizzle
    @ttamdizzle 10 місяців тому

    King

  • @somewhatsomething4882
    @somewhatsomething4882 Рік тому +2

    "Ok Buzz, if that is your real name..?!"

  • @billyharding2874
    @billyharding2874 11 місяців тому

    Rite with u there buzz...❤❤..afterso many years i still can not phathom why pop music or shall i say poop music sell so much...like whats going into peoples ears..

  • @billyharding2874
    @billyharding2874 11 місяців тому

    Aah dust in the winds a masterpeace buzz oo..😊

  • @ericcook4665
    @ericcook4665 10 місяців тому +1

    it's the toe cutter lol

  • @orion10x
    @orion10x 3 роки тому +13

    Interview summary: Kurt Cobain, drugs, social media, ?Zena hijacked 10 minutes, venue size, healthcare. Another interview with Buzz where the interviewer didn’t do much research.

  • @shizukaPNW
    @shizukaPNW 2 роки тому

    working with UZAKI CHAN

  • @Teekay617
    @Teekay617 3 місяці тому

    I kinda wish king Buzzo talked some sense into Kurt. Obliviousy he was going to do what he wanted.

  • @WESSERPARAQUAT
    @WESSERPARAQUAT 2 роки тому +4

    wanna see/hear the gal with the purple gob sing a cover of floyd the barber that would be funny

  • @benmiller9854
    @benmiller9854 11 місяців тому

    I meet Buzz right after Cobains death in Lawrence Kansas. We ate at Denny's after the show.

  • @crypttonite
    @crypttonite 2 роки тому

    outside the ....is actually inside the .....

  • @WorthyAdversary
    @WorthyAdversary 4 місяці тому +2

    Buzzo the eternal contrarian. No way he actually thinks the Lou Reed album is better than their 80s stuff. I swear sometimes he's like listening to an edgy teenager.

  • @OldSchoolFilm1930
    @OldSchoolFilm1930 Рік тому

    Every artist who surpassed time never cared about other peoples opinion and that's a fact!

    • @SHENDOH
      @SHENDOH 8 місяців тому

      Baloney

  • @kingkiller_1001
    @kingkiller_1001 10 місяців тому

    Kurt Cobain produced The Melvins song The Bit

    • @chiefchimp2789
      @chiefchimp2789 9 місяців тому

      Stag came out in 1996, so no. Cobain produced some tracks from Houdini in 1993.

  • @Mikishots
    @Mikishots 6 місяців тому +3

    Well, it's official. The absolute worst "interview" ever attempted. Buzz was the only thing keeping this trainwreck from going up in flames.

  • @progoski719
    @progoski719 2 роки тому +2

    Not having health insurance is an issue for rock stars? lol

    • @walkingolga6235
      @walkingolga6235 2 роки тому +6

      yeah, they make their money by throwing their bodies around for 90 minutes with 9 lbs wood slung over their shoulders. 4-5 nights a week for months at a time, and they have to do that consistently before any money starts coming in.

  • @mikec6733
    @mikec6733 2 місяці тому +1

    A good friend needs to step in and save the overwhelmed superstar get their feet back on the ground before it's too late.
    Just talk heart to heart.
    "Dude, forget the hype, take care of yourself."

  • @EmeraldWoodArchives
    @EmeraldWoodArchives 2 роки тому +4

    I think all interviews should be filmed while one is sitting on the toilet. That woman's lopsided bra gives me extreme OCD.

  • @johnnyaguilar3611
    @johnnyaguilar3611 2 роки тому

    Katy is low key 🔥

    • @Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55
      @Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55 Рік тому

      What’s the name of the other woman ?

    • @kevinrutkowski3034
      @kevinrutkowski3034 10 місяців тому +1

      She looks like the kind of girl who would read your comment and then claim sexual harassment.

  • @jakebee7205
    @jakebee7205 2 роки тому +4

    his nostril is all pinched

  • @HerenowGoneforever
    @HerenowGoneforever Рік тому

    Grandma buzz

  • @phreffable
    @phreffable 2 місяці тому

    Whooooooooooooooo???

  • @curtisbush5728
    @curtisbush5728 8 днів тому

    People get so mad when king buzzo soeaks, hes the modern day johnny rotten! Its okay to be real!

  • @WESSERPARAQUAT
    @WESSERPARAQUAT 2 роки тому +1

    kurt was interested in big t*** ask tracy mauraner , and the idea of a statue of "king" :P buzz would be disgusting if that ever happened never will buzzo

  • @jlfvrs
    @jlfvrs Рік тому

    Groucho Marxist

  • @bauhausera
    @bauhausera 5 місяців тому +1

    God, could you dress up your interviewer to more pretentious and shallow, she just ruins everything

  • @stephenkane2464
    @stephenkane2464 2 роки тому +5

    these chicks are so hot lol

  • @johnrotten3268
    @johnrotten3268 14 днів тому

    That chicks purple lipstick is so off putting lol... Do ppl honestly think that looks good??

    • @haxio17
      @haxio17 6 днів тому +1

      It looks so 80s

  • @larchlarch9851
    @larchlarch9851 2 роки тому

    Who cares ?

  • @johnsmith5022
    @johnsmith5022 2 роки тому +4

    He’s so full of himself

    • @terriblecrayon
      @terriblecrayon 2 роки тому +1

      He can afford to be.

    • @mozdaboz
      @mozdaboz 2 роки тому +2

      No biggie he's the godfather of grunge

  • @Mars-
    @Mars- 9 днів тому

    This guy. All wrong. MISanthropy isnt "cool" unless youre 15. Time to grow past that Buzzzz.
    Yaya

    • @haxio17
      @haxio17 6 днів тому

      Cooler than you

  • @luciferdzhugashvili
    @luciferdzhugashvili Рік тому

    Woke metal.

    • @philyeary8809
      @philyeary8809 10 місяців тому +2

      Riiiiigt....since 1988....
      You swung and missed .
      If you need woke, try Maroon 5😂😂

    • @luciferdzhugashvili
      @luciferdzhugashvili 10 місяців тому

      @@philyeary8809 you sucked and I came. Shut up and swallow.

  • @GodyP
    @GodyP Рік тому +3

    I don’t get why he tries to diminish Kurt/nirvana every chance he gets, Kurt always spoke highly of him and his band he just comes off as jealous/bitter, You don’t have to put him on a pedestal but he legit only brings up the negative any time he’s mentioned

    • @RogueBoyScout
      @RogueBoyScout Рік тому

      It's called a counterpoint. Now go home and worship your Kurt poster. [For the record, Kurt was an a$$ hole. A Contrarian. And no one talks bad about him from the band because who wants 1 million fanboys and girls harrasing you like some twisted junkie beatlemania]

    • @dbhoy07
      @dbhoy07 Рік тому +6

      He misses his friend

    • @Michael-zt1yl
      @Michael-zt1yl Рік тому +4

      He doesn't diminish Kurt, he just tells the truth about Kurt. Buzz hung out with Cobain for years pre-Nirvana and pre-fame. So he genuinely knew Kurt was a true friend of his. Buzz just gives honest, no bullshit interviews. Buzz once said something along the lines and f : I really wish that there was an infamous alive Kurt, instead of the famous dead Kurt.

    • @GodyP
      @GodyP Рік тому

      @@Michael-zt1yl naw he definitely tries to diminish him, theres an interview where he just straight up says he only got famous because of his “wounded junkie image” and he’s smiling the entire time I’ve never heard him say anything positive without immediately following it with negative bs, it’s blatantly obvious he resents Kurt

    • @Doyle-fq7we
      @Doyle-fq7we 10 місяців тому +1

      @@GodyPBuzzo is not wrong though. When the press like rolling stone asked sub pop for their hottest band and when Tad showed up they weren’t interested. They didn’t want to talk to the “fat, bearded lumberjack”. They wanted to talk to the Cornell’s, Staleys, vedders. You know, the “ handsome wounded junkies “. Those bands are great and certainly had more commercial appeal but there was no promotion for the “ugly” musicians. Buzz isn’t bitter about nirvana or soundgarden being more famous. He’s bitter at the music press.

  • @crypttonite
    @crypttonite 2 роки тому +4

    Elvis was not a hick, Buzz..you a cool dude, wake the fuck up. Elvis was totally connected running around with other rich Jewish kids in Memphis, that's right Elvis was Jewish, not that it makes a difference, except you probably did not know it, Buzz is also. Marketing people as working class is an old trick.
    Did you know the Rolling Stones were funded by LSE? Ask yourself why a School of Economics would finance a band? Go see if USC School of Business will fund your rock n roll band.
    Buzz is legit, but not too bright on the reality of the world.
    See Miles W Mathis for door 3 and to wake up for real.

    • @Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55
      @Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55 Рік тому +3

      Elvis wasn’t Jewish, he wasn’t a rich kid either

    • @crypttonite
      @crypttonite Рік тому

      @@Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55 shit for brains, love to see u prove otherwise.
      Jewish.Not white.

    • @jaysonlee4394
      @jaysonlee4394 Рік тому

      According to Detroit Jewish News he is and several other articles..and there is a grave marker now to indicate as such.

    • @Druffmaul
      @Druffmaul Рік тому +1

      I was more taken aback by him trying to gas light us that Lulu was a good record.

    • @RogueBoyScout
      @RogueBoyScout Рік тому

      It's always the Jews. Even when it was the Nazis, it was still the Jews LMFO...

  • @RichLclopps
    @RichLclopps Рік тому

    Get a haircut

  • @ericrojasvelez8891
    @ericrojasvelez8891 Рік тому +1

    One of the worst band ever..

  • @Niarfor
    @Niarfor 2 роки тому +3

    That purple-lipped "woman" needs to brush her teeth, SEVERELY.

    • @mkcoleman669
      @mkcoleman669 Рік тому

      What an ignorant comment I'm sick of lil ignorant pieces of shit in this world ,it's probably your fuckin shitty phone or TV fuckin dewshbag!!!

  • @frankie4fingers552
    @frankie4fingers552 9 місяців тому +1

    Buzz still hating on how big Nirvana is and Melvins aren't

  • @lancechadwell5138
    @lancechadwell5138 Рік тому +2

    Rule #1: Don't get nose rings if you have a giant nose.