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Or middle aged friends just don't give a shit anymore about what you're doing with or without them. I'm there 43, don't give a fuck. Go do it without me, I'll be watching shitty shows and drinking beer and having the time of my life.
@@TheDonUrbas yeah and it's crazy how nirvanas looked upon as the best band, but melvins are put in the backdrop as the roughed punk band that nobody like hmmmmmmmm
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.
No, he's being very sarcastic when he said that lol. He's calling Dave out on being a bad friend and forgetting where he came from. He's doing it so subtly that you really have to be as smart and as sarcastic as he is to understand it.
Jason honestly, how did he sell out? I think he plays the kind of music he wants to play. Records records how they use to record records. How’s that sellin out?
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.
Only a non-musician like Stern would make jokes about working at McDonald's instead of "hitting it big". Any real musician has worked some shitty job to be able to afford to do what they love, which they do because they love it, not so they can be a rich asshole poking fun at struggling musicians. Dale Crover hasn't worked a day job since the mid 80s anyway.
@@chrisknight3734 Your rite bro but....... Any musician who tries to act like they don't care about making it big is lying there ass off. Dave could have been a douchebag or maybe not. He always seemed to be a genuine nice guy but Buzz seems a little bitter. Could be justified tho. Hard to say
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
Yeah exactly, dude's salty as fuck. He also didn't even try to hide the reason- spent half his story talking about how Dave became more successful than him, so it's pretty clear he's jealous.
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 saw King Buzzo play in Sunset Overdrive in... well I don't want to say it was an arena, but you could literally look through a sniper sight at the musicians. And after the whole audience got shot and exploded, Buzzo flew into the sky with a parasol. Unbelievable.
well, he kind of was. he was calling dave out for forgetting his dearest friends onward to becoming a superstar. buzz and dave were once very close, as dave was the man who introduced buzz to kurt. of course, if you know your history, nirvana rode the melvins coat tails to mega stardom. not taking anything away from kurt or nirvana (as i'm a huge fan), though dave really does owe buzz a bit of gratitude. buzz denying dave's invitation was his way saving his dignity. it wasn't an ego thing, it was a "dude, where the fuck have you been the last decade" thing. i would've done the same to any friend i've lost touch with.
na man he just honest dude he was happy to see dave again and the dude never talk to him again , so dave some day call this dude and invite him in this big thing and buzz is more a underground dude more like hey you wanna drink some beer or something like that , and dave problably just wanna by nice to buzz and buzz response offend him so , shit happen
He's dissing someone who's good buddies with Barack "drone strike" Obama. The sympathetic nervous system is often a step ahead of critical reflection... or whatever.
lol hilarious to me how some people try to put their politics into things that have absoutely nothing to do with politics.. like some of the comments here!
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.
This is exactly how those silly beefs start. The only reason this didn’t turn into a silly beef is because Dave Grohl didn’t go up on stage and tell some sarcastic story about the dude from the Melvins. I really don’t know how anyone could watch this and see it as anything other than petty and a little sad.
@@godofspacetime333 not saying it isn't petty and a little sad, just try to look at it from his POV. Grohl owes this guy the Nirvana job. How many millions is that? You'd probably be petty and a little sad as well. What I'm saying is that Buzz dealt with it in a way that strikes me as a bit more mature than most would've in the music business.
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.
jacob toomey so if you forget to call some1 back and months later you try to invite the same person to one of your shows where he can meet a living legend (john paul jones)backstage= you’re a douche. You must be the luckiest person alive who only met Mother Theresa and Jesus Christ if you find this a douchey move.
@@showandtell100 Grohls minions are everywhere to protect him, just like anyone else that has them hired to protect their name's they tarnished themselves.
help out? by showing him the backstage of some wanky venue? with over the hill dipshits like jpj? the point i get here is dave was trying to powerplay him. and he was like i got dogers tickets you hack sellout fuck off. if dave was still down to earth he would of just texted back, not upstage him later with a shitty vip invite to a place only wankers care about.
its true, but from when musicians have to be perfect mentally fine people? They make kickass music and they can do all kind of obnoxious crap after that.
Adam Nadeau i agree. I got star struck seeing MY favorite band live in a fucking grubby club in portland. If dave grohl ever crossed my path i dont think i would connect with him at all. FOo fighters suck in my opinion. So knowing that i would probably say something very offensive to him but not meaningful... just to steal a penny from the bank.
DSC C Dave is also a modern day Richie Blackmore. He shits on his fans. His stupid documentary he goes off about how music isn’t original anymore. Then what? He rips off Holy Diver on the very album he claims is a statement for being original. Fuck Dave!
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.
It just seems he's proud that he was a dick, in a hipster douchy "I'm so underground" sort of way. That being said I still like The Melvins and King Buzzo.
That's why I don't like the title of the video. Seems to be a trend with media outlets (pro & non-pro). Let's grab the reader's attention with some B-S.
Except all the numerous parts about Grohl being too busy, Grohl being rich, etc. If he thinks he blew a good occasion, how come all his mentions of Grohl are sarcastic? He didn't have single nice thing to say (that he meant). It would be very easy to tell the same story about blowing his chance, in a much nicer way, or at least without all the jibes at Grohl. But he didn't.
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."
So the story goes, Malcolm Young said once: "I'm sick and tired of people saying AC/DC have released eleven albums that sound identical to each other. We've released TWELVE albums that sound identical to each other. Get it right."
@Joe Sudz you fundamentally understand a lack of integrity and approve of it,...? I've never seen anyone "keep it real" by admitting they're not real... 🤔cool story bro. 🤘Stay metal!... as long as it's lucrative I mean. 🙄
@Joe Sudz don't strawman me, I never said they don't deserve to be paid, ...what I said was just because you would sell out your Integrity, your art form, for money not everyone else would (or did)thank God. Our opinions differ.
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.
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...
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.
I know this is unfortunate for you, and I am sorry. At the same time though I really do appreciate you sharing this as it gives a fan states away a more intimate view and history of what they love. Your comment is years old, I'm not sure if you'll see this.
He actually explains is much nicer here than he used to. Maybe it's because he's had contact with him lately and because he talks to Krist more these days. But basically he used to say Dave just stopped talking to him and Dale around 95. Which is weird cause they were close. I honestly think they were genuinely hurt.
auxilliarydrain Yeah they probably were hurt cause that's really not cool to do that once you're all of a sudden big in your band and you ditch your friends. Funny though at the Nirvana Hall of Fame induction he said Dale was his drumming hero .. lol
Yeah, Buzz is bitter about a lot of things, it seems. But this is typical shit in big music or big film. He knows it and I'm betting he's not any more bitter about that than a lot of other shit in life.
@@CoveMusic I mean Dave was wearing a Melvin's tee at the MTV awards one year!!!..Buzz can't say he wasn't or isn't supportive of other bands ..just look at the support acts the Foo's have..they are always younger up and coming bands who just need their shot..Foo's introduced me to Cave in..who became one of my favourite ever groups
@@smittenthekitteninmittens2679 I’m just saying, it’s not that Buzz is smearing Dave, he’s basically just saying Dave is big time now and they’ve lost touch…in his typical Buzz way. He’s friends with Mike Patton and tells “stories” about him, too. I just think you are reading too much into it, thinking Buzz is “bitter”.
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.
He's salty cause Dave didn't text him back twice. Does Dave do that to Josh Homme? Or John Paul Jones? Or Snoop Dog? Or Jimmy Fallon? Prolly not. Buzz is a fucking legend. I've seen Melvins live. They are the best.
Indeed. Buzz is a legend but his impact is all relative. He set Nirvana up with a kid who was on his way to becoming one of the best rock drummers of all time. That's Grohl's impact, Buzz didn't give him his talent. There's Butch Vig's impact. Andy Wallace. DG was going to introduce Buzz to one of the greatest musicians of all time. Page and Plant were fans of Big Black and the US underground in general. If JPJ wasn't familiar with Melvins, he would've been once DG told him he wanted to introduce him to his old friend. I'd feel confident saying he was already a fan, but DG would've easily sold them to him if he wasn't aware of them. This wasn't a meet and greet. This was an influential and successful underground musician being hyped to a LANDMARK musician. @@SurfingOnBrainwaves
@@SlowerRiot Dave is one of the hardest working musicians in modern rock and roll lol. I’m sure he didn’t text a number of people back plentyyyy of times. also, he’s in a band with Josh and John….so that’s pretty different. he’s so famous, celebrated, and even decorated that I highly doubt he gets starstruck even by guys like Snoop. Buzz is just insecure and lashed out. You can tell through other interviews where he has to make it crystal-fucking-clear that he and kurt were tight af in the early days. It’s sad….he’s the frontman of a legendary, HIGHLY influential band. He should be proud no matter what.
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.
When the camera stopped, he continued...."sometimes Dave Lombardo and Mike Patton are willing to hang out with me. Lars once even invited me to his kid's birthday party."
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.
There's an old saying..."Never meet your idols because you'll be disappointed every time." Most famous people are petty and immature. They've never went through hard life that builds character.
+Joseph Hamer So in other words you forget your friends and those that bought you to where you are. Much like Dave to Buzz. Dave should be licking Buzz's ass now for introducing him to Nirvana, not forgetting about them. This is how people also think if Gidget Gein when it comes to Marilyn Manson
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!
Lou Cadabra And there you have it! I'm all about a musician 'standing up' for his or her beliefs, but make sure when you stand up for said beliefs, you don't come out looking like a fool....which, Buzz did.
I saw an interview were he was talking about supporting Rush, and that all those shows were held in hockey arenas and he still said the samething. And I dont see a problem with that. Wouldnt it be hypocritical if he´d criticise something without actually experiencing it himself?
*BUZZO:* "Haha, yo Dave, flag down the hot dog vendor, he's coming this way. *DAVE:* "Haha, nah, I'm not hungry man. I'll be alright. *_PRESENT DAY:_* "Soooo, we were at the stadium, which I think Paul McCartney played at once. Only sellouts play stadium concerts. I like the up close experience... So anyway, DAVE GROHL... ya know, from that greedy Nirvana band, I asked him to get a hot dog from the vendor who was passing, and what do ya know.. HE DIDN'T GET THE HOT DOG! I was disgusted. I left the ballpark and never answered his texts again."
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.
Exactly! Lol..he looks like an old grey palm tree whose clearly jealous of Nirvana's success! ..who they fuck would wanna see someone called "king buzzo" with that fucking retarded haircut and half assed songs and talent that didn't even compare to Nirvana! ..this guy is in his late 50s now and he still can't see that maybe Nirvana was just better than him and his lame band! Lol
@@LB00146 Bud.... The Melvins influenced Nirvana. They are influential in grunge, sludge, and drone, so I think that your remarks about "half-assed songs" and Buzzo having no talent come from a place of idiocy. I get it, you kiss your Kurt Cobain poster every night before you go to bed, but maybe you should pay attention to what actually happened instead of choking your chicken to Nirvana's MTV unplugged.
@@christaylor9300 Kurt liked alot of shitty bands honestly. I'm not even a huge nirvana fan, all I'm saying is that Nirvana had 10 times more talent than this guy and I wouldn't even care if buzz wasn't so jealous about nirvana's success and always taking jabs at them every chance he gets!
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!
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.
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.
Wait where did he bash Grohl? He was joking around a bit and then even made fun of himself for turning down an invitation to be with fucking John Paul Jones in the backstage of a TCV concert because he had a ticket to a game.
What do you want him to do?. His game was important as TCV was for Dave so he missed, end of the story. Maybe the point of the whole story was Kurt never lost contact with him even though became biggest that what Dave it is now, but with his satirical touch.
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
Oh please. It takes 10 seconds to send a text. What about the ten years previous that he didn't stay in contact? He obviously doesn't like him all that much for whatever reason.
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.
Corporate rock is a different thing to famous rock. Famous rock is just rock that's famous, whereas corporate rock is rock that is written specifically to be safe and sell records rather than being interesting or exciting. You can be famous without making corporate rock.
@@slingshotmcoy disagree tbh, listen to In Utero and Bleach and tell me you think they were written for mainstream pop appeal (not that that's very relevant to Grohl since Kurt wrote the songs.) I understand Nevermind was a fairly commercial album, but regardless it's brilliant and, at the time of release, was the antithesis of what was then considered corporate rock. On the topic of Dave's own stuff, I think he gets too much flak. I understand it's more hard rock and not grunge or punk, but it hasn't ever been exactly in line with any contemporary musical trend and I therefore don't think any of it is corporate rock. With some stuff I just couldn't see how it could be called that at all (such as Run and the title track from concrete and gold and many of their album tracks from over the years.)
Odd, if he's so right and they're so wrong...why did he ALSO sign to a major label? ALSO tour doing shows in arenas that he claims in this video aren't for "real music?" ALSO talk so much about how musicians shouldn't make political statements, then 20 years later has no problem stating his political views in interviews? He's just salty that he ALSO tried to sellout, but failed.
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
Bill Hobbs "drop D tuning showing Thayil ,Staley" First of all Layne Staley barely played guitar. That would be Jerry Cantrell and secondly, drop D and half step down tuning was started by Tony Iommi. It was a Sabbath thing first, not a Melvins thing. Plus, only Nirvana and some bands were influenced by the Melvins. Alice in Chains was never influenced by the Melvins.
1984 I grew up in Seattle.....Buzz would be the guy standing next to me at Husker Du, TSOL, and Circle Jerks....Green River, Soundgarden, and Melvins were the Seattle Sound....Mark Arm and Chris RIP would also enjoy the crowd surfing too.... The Melvins Opened for the Circle Jerks at the Gorilla Gardens (last show there before the riot) and then most punkers there just were not ready for the sound of the Melvins yet.. Some said too Sabbath sounding but I loved it... After the weekend shows we would end up back at school and I would go on about the Melvins with my high school friend Chad who later around 88 went to drum for Nirvana, too bad that did not work out. Without Buzz there was no Kurt...And I think Bleach was the Best Nirvana....
Bill Hobbs One thing all of them have in common is being highly influenced by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Deep Purple, various punk.bands and Jimi Hendrix and The Doors, The Who but especially.the first 5 I listed and Hendrix.
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 a hypocrite as well. He toured with a dozen or so bands in arenas, yet is talking here about how "arenas aren't for real music." But when confronted on the inconsistency defends his arena-playing heyday by talking about how great the PA systems in arenas are. Pathetic and transparent.
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.
@@Freshjuices15 yea dude I was kinda bummed out, about 3 songs into their set the power completely cut for both smaller stages, cutting off both Melvins and Sevendust! Technical difficulties riddled the event for the smaller artists but the big stages for the headliner's were top notch (except Death Grips who had like 5 minutes of setting up difficulties) I saw Mr.Bungle right after though and it was fantastic! 10/10 day
buzz was on the scene very early in Seattle. I guess buzz actually was the scene in Seattle at the beginning. He was like Cobain's big brother taking him to shows, showing him life outside abedeen. buzz was kinda left behind but I don't think he really cares. still doing his thing. he probably has the life cobain would have enjoyed if that guy was ever able to enjoy anything.
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
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..
+Shenequa Neckface Really? Really? You're being serious? Sorry, but Buzzo is only a legend in certain circles. On a national scale, he's pretty much nonexistent. Not only that, but he's pretty much a has been at this point. Buzzo should have been on his knees thanking Grohl for the opportunity to be noticed again.
Exactly. Once you get married,have kids and move halfway across the country the boys you hung out with a few decades earlier aren't always priority number one.
2:00 True. I saw The Black Keys at Phillips Arena (where the Hawks play) and although they were great and played their hearts out, it wasn't conducive to a concert.
Kinda odd though how 10 years after he had this revelation about arenas he frequently opened for other bands...playing arenas. But it's "Not for me" he says. Wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that he never headlined and quickly faded back into obscurity while his peers were rising to the peak of their success?
To all of those who are saying Buzz is bitter, jealous, etc - Buzz presents this story as how HE blew it. He's making a mockery of himself in a humorous tale for the audience's enjoyment. He's not being disrespectful towards Dave and any statements about him are true: Foo Fighters are a huge band that play arenas/stadiums, Buzz knew Dave before Nirvana, etc. I think it's ridiculous people are getting bent out of shape over this as I'm certain neither Buzz or Dave could care less.
He has trashed Dave, Kurt and basically every musician or band that's ever been brought up to him. I'm shocked he said he likes the Stones in this video. Mike Patton does this too. It's like the two of them can't like what's popular. They have to like obscure random stuff no one knows because that's a cool personality trait
@@AndyFelbab That is what insecure people do. They are so afraid for being called sellouts or somoene dissing them for that they they will travel tremendous lengths and play or enjoy the weirdest things just so nobody can say anything. At the back of all of it lies a big shameful trauma from the past. MIke Patton made a fool of himself once imitating Anthony Kiedes from the Chilli peppers and ever since then he hates the RHCP for calling him out on it. Buzzo on the other hand, is a jealous little prick who acts as if he doesnt need money and fame but the fact is he was never been offered any of it.
There was so much missing from the Seattle episode. I was disappointed. It just seemed like that episode was a "Dave/Kurt" ep rather than a full on telling of the story of Grunge. To have a show all about Seattle and not even mention the survivor that is Mark Lanegan is, imo, really stupid.
Delboy219 or what about doing an hour long episode on new york city without so much as a mention of The Velvet Underground. they flashed an album cover for a split second but no word on lou reed or cale or nothin
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.
um no, he's just honest
He's super famous..... Lol just not like mainstream famous....
He’s bummed, like I am, that we lost someone we cared about.
@@tylerbrittain6483 exactly.
Lol you think the Melvins frontman gives a fuck about being famous?
You need to edit this title to "Middle-Aged Friends Don't Have Time To Hang Out Much Anymore"...
Or middle aged friends just don't give a shit anymore about what you're doing with or without them. I'm there 43, don't give a fuck. Go do it without me, I'll be watching shitty shows and drinking beer and having the time of my life.
Shoutouts to Demian from AntiBastard from Adrian the Melbourne goth
you do know if it wasn’t for Melvins Nirvana wouldn’t be fuckin anywhere
@@SurrealiamPrime Odd how Melvins arent fucking anywhere...
@@TheDonUrbas yeah and it's crazy how nirvanas looked upon as the best band, but melvins are put in the backdrop as the roughed punk band that nobody like hmmmmmmmm
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"
Buzz seems pretty butt hurt that he’s not in Daves shoes. He always has.
@@waterwoodguitars6871 Green River was better than The Melvins
Dave sucks, and you suck for liking him.
Yea, I was all about this video at one point and then I realized buzzo was a fuckin loser and all he does is talk about how much he influenced Nirvana
The Archies were better...
This is like a big budget film with a storyline that goes nowhere........
Seinfeld reference noted
Some more crime, full penetration.. and this goes back and forth until the movie just sort of... ends
was there a knuckle involved
The Melvins toured with Kiss.............. in arenas.
Lol
duuh! how about this... The Melvins Toured with Nirvana in 93/94..in BIG arenas
I saw them open for Tool in hockey arena as well.
I saw the Melvin's live in 1993. Opening for Nirvana. In a venue that literally had the word "arena" in its name.
I seen them with tool , in a basketball arena !
Legend has it is that Buzzo is still stood in that same spot calling Dave Grohl out to this very day.
Superglue! Dave's a real prankster troll.
If only... Lol I saw him and The Melvins with Ministry a couple weeks ago
He is still there at this moment going on
Probably the same spot the band started and didn’t get far besides a cult following
Is still stood?
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.
Never heard or read that he was nice.
He might be nice but when it comes to Dave he is extremely petty and bitter. Anyone that got bigger than him is a sellout in his eyes.
Hi buzz
criminal that buzz can have all of these incredible experiences and people still go "who the hell are the melvins?"
Only plebs say that.
They suck
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
Hal, what's the problem hal?
'...how he blew it with Dave Grohl'
No, he's being very sarcastic when he said that lol. He's calling Dave out on being a bad friend and forgetting where he came from. He's doing it so subtly that you really have to be as smart and as sarcastic as he is to understand it.
First Name Last Name yeah dave is a dick he pretend to be punk and underground to this day
They both are shitty friends, that’s the story.
Dave's at home like "I honestly don't remember any of this"
prudence fitzenstein because he sold out and ditched them all.
Jason honestly, how did he sell out? I think he plays the kind of music he wants to play. Records records how they use to record records. How’s that sellin out?
Ugh you said “record” four times in a sentence... but sure I agree
abhikbjolly I know I hate myself for it too
@@SurrealiamPrime idk about selling out. But that doesn't make his music any less crappy.
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.
Only a non-musician like Stern would make jokes about working at McDonald's instead of "hitting it big". Any real musician has worked some shitty job to be able to afford to do what they love, which they do because they love it, not so they can be a rich asshole poking fun at struggling musicians. Dale Crover hasn't worked a day job since the mid 80s anyway.
Probably still wouldn't say a bad word about them.
@@chrisknight3734 Your rite bro but....... Any musician who tries to act like they don't care about making it big is lying there ass off. Dave could have been a douchebag or maybe not. He always seemed to be a genuine nice guy but Buzz seems a little bitter. Could be justified tho. Hard to say
I never heard of the Melvins until KC started mentioning them .
It's just Melvins, not THE Melvins...geeeeez
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
Buzz needs the attention. He's a dusty old fart.
I’ll say
Yeah exactly, dude's salty as fuck.
He also didn't even try to hide the reason- spent half his story talking about how Dave became more successful than him, so it's pretty clear he's jealous.
That’s Buzz for ya.
@@Ariel_thenotsolittlemermaid Definitely salty.
Punk rock seems to have a lot of rules.
!!!!!!
Only if you go by them
word, god forbid an arena gets to see a punk show. Fuck this guy.
No only buzz.
There's a difference between rules and standards or principles
Buzz: I saw the Rolling Stones in the early 80's
Random guy: Bummer
Holy Child Fuck that guy!!!!
That made me laugh. If you've ever seen "Let's Spend The Tonight Together" you'd know.
That’s one of those guys who’s too cool to listen to anything that’s ever cracked the top 10
Hahaha the music scholar from "the best show"
So did I, first gig ever.
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 saw the Melvins open for tool in late 90's.... an ARENA tour.
No shit. I saw them open for White Zombie at Barton Coliseum....a BASKETBALL STADIUM!!!! Fucking poser.
Phillip Malloy Are you seriously calling Buzz Osbourne a poser?
@@pemalloy he is kinda a problematic dude but you know
they opened to KISS as well. Not that i have any problem with that, but yeah
I saw King Buzzo play in Sunset Overdrive in... well I don't want to say it was an arena, but you could literally look through a sniper sight at the musicians. And after the whole audience got shot and exploded, Buzzo flew into the sky with a parasol. Unbelievable.
This isn't calling anyone out on anything
well, he kind of was. he was calling dave out for forgetting his dearest friends onward to becoming a superstar. buzz and dave were once very close, as dave was the man who introduced buzz to kurt. of course, if you know your history, nirvana rode the melvins coat tails to mega stardom. not taking anything away from kurt or nirvana (as i'm a huge fan), though dave really does owe buzz a bit of gratitude.
buzz denying dave's invitation was his way saving his dignity. it wasn't an ego thing, it was a "dude, where the fuck have you been the last decade" thing. i would've done the same to any friend i've lost touch with.
It's a two way street though. Whatever I'm sure Buzzo had his reasons.
Joey Velarde
agreed
Joey Velarde BUZZ never made ir,DAVE did.The End.
philthy alfred you must really love dave ghrol. been watching his HBO show lately? i heard it was the best....
I like Buzz but he did blow it.
Sounds like his ego is a little bruised.
na man he just honest dude he was happy to see dave again and the dude never talk to him again , so dave some day call this dude and invite him in this big thing and buzz is more a underground dude more like hey you wanna drink some beer or something like that , and dave problably just wanna by nice to buzz and buzz response offend him so , shit happen
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.
sometimes?
Pffft
Foff….love Grohl but Buzz is truthful
@@leshtricity lol came to say this exactly
he tells it like it is... grohl would be no one without cobain
It’s good to see Sideshow Bob still out there entertaining.
I thought several times he was going to announce he was living in a VAN... DOWN BY THE RIVER!
Smoking doobies
@@law-cd1sx Ha I was just gonna say....Using his handbills for rolling DOOBIES!!
you clearly don’t know who the Melvins are.
Lmfao
@@SurrealiamPrime ...it's just MELVINS (I have a real good idea who they are, thanks) but you clearly don't know who Matt Foley is.
is he breaking a sweat by just by telling story?
+b sher No if you watch the full show he had been playing awhile so he was kinda getting sweaty by the time he started telling the story.
He's dissing someone who's good buddies with Barack "drone strike" Obama. The sympathetic nervous system is often a step ahead of critical reflection... or whatever.
+Joshua Cromarty what
I burst out in uncontrollable laughter just by reading your comment for some reason
lol hilarious to me how some people try to put their politics into things that have absoutely nothing to do with politics.. like some of the comments here!
This story makes Dave Grohl sound even cooler.
Pfft
Implying he's cool in the first place, lmao.
No
No , dave grohl is an asshole even kurt knew it , and kurt was fired by buzzo for being an an irresponsible junkie...
Dave grohl is so cool that he is pretty cool
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.
Well put.
True
This is exactly how those silly beefs start. The only reason this didn’t turn into a silly beef is because Dave Grohl didn’t go up on stage and tell some sarcastic story about the dude from the Melvins. I really don’t know how anyone could watch this and see it as anything other than petty and a little sad.
@@godofspacetime333 not saying it isn't petty and a little sad, just try to look at it from his POV. Grohl owes this guy the Nirvana job. How many millions is that? You'd probably be petty and a little sad as well. What I'm saying is that Buzz dealt with it in a way that strikes me as a bit more mature than most would've in the music business.
nah still gotta pave your own way, no one owes you shit
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.
Sure you can respect him musically, but still come to the conclusion that he is a complete asshole.
Everything you have said is true. However, you can be a complete asshole at the same time.
That's all the guy ever talks about. And that's not true. The Melvins are very bad
Yeah I recall Robert Plant pointing to Buzzo as one of his biggest inspirations.
Buzzo's always seems to suffer from sour grapes syndrome.
I saw The Melvins open for Tool and they were by far the loudest band I've ever seen live.
[turns up amp]
Damn now that's art
I saw Nirvana in Bilbao. Teenage Fan Club opened for them, and they were the loudest band I've ever seen live.
@@JeffMelland of course you did 🤣, buzzo riffs are something out of this world, we get it you love nirvana kid x
@@hvrtful6978 whats with Melvin fans hating on Nirvana so much
Theyre truly a meteocre band
@@hvrtful6978 kid? I'm 51. 😆
this just confirms dave is a nice guy
helldeirch it kind of confirms he’s a douche, regardless of the show he offered him.
jacob toomey so if you forget to call some1 back and months later you try to invite the same person to one of your shows where he can meet a living legend (john paul jones)backstage= you’re a douche. You must be the luckiest person alive who only met Mother Theresa and Jesus Christ if you find this a douchey move.
@@showandtell100 you really think Dave could be that perfect with everyone? I bet he's still nice, this story is just very :/
@@showandtell100 not really lol
@@showandtell100 Grohls minions are everywhere to protect him, just like anyone else that has them hired to protect their name's they tarnished themselves.
Sounds like Dave Grohl was trying to help out an old friend.
help out? by showing him the backstage of some wanky venue? with over the hill dipshits like jpj? the point i get here is dave was trying to powerplay him. and he was like i got dogers tickets you hack sellout fuck off. if dave was still down to earth he would of just texted back, not upstage him later with a shitty vip invite to a place only wankers care about.
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.
lolz
how so? to me he seems like a happy go lucky, nice, genuine kind of guy
its true, but from when musicians have to be perfect mentally fine people? They make kickass music and they can do all kind of obnoxious crap after that.
Adam Nadeau
i agree. I got star struck seeing MY favorite band live in a fucking grubby club in portland. If dave grohl ever crossed my path i dont think i would connect with him at all. FOo fighters suck in my opinion. So knowing that i would probably say something very offensive to him but not meaningful... just to steal a penny from the bank.
seth land Are you being sarcastic ?
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.
What's the point? they're not friends. If you've ever been in a band you get that you are being handled by more famous musicians.
Foo Fighters are total ass.I would rather see the Melvins any day opposed to Dave Grohls corporate shit music.
DSC C Dave is also a modern day Richie Blackmore. He shits on his fans. His stupid documentary he goes off about how music isn’t original anymore. Then what? He rips off Holy Diver on the very album he claims is a statement for being original. Fuck Dave!
clayton walton exactly, this dude is a shit friend. Filled with resentment and jealously.
Thiccachu - really? Both past their prime but id watch foo fighters
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.
Remember that guy you were friends with in third grade. He told me you blew him off and he's pissed
pretty sure Buzz didn't upload the video man. Pretty sure he wouldn't even know how.
Legend has it that his hairstyle is made to hide the enormous chip on his shoulder
That chip must be insanely salty
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.
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you've said and idk why I chose to tell yu but I did lol
It just seems he's proud that he was a dick, in a hipster douchy "I'm so underground" sort of way. That being said I still like The Melvins and King Buzzo.
Thank you. F'ing someone who isn't completely daft.
That's why I don't like the title of the video. Seems to be a trend with media outlets (pro & non-pro). Let's grab the reader's attention with some B-S.
Except all the numerous parts about Grohl being too busy, Grohl being rich, etc. If he thinks he blew a good occasion, how come all his mentions of Grohl are sarcastic? He didn't have single nice thing to say (that he meant). It would be very easy to tell the same story about blowing his chance, in a much nicer way, or at least without all the jibes at Grohl. But he didn't.
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."
That's not the story.......Gene Simmons asked if Kiss was a sell out.......He replied "Are we sell outs??......yeah, every night."
So the story goes, Malcolm Young said once:
"I'm sick and tired of people saying AC/DC have released eleven albums that sound identical to each other.
We've released TWELVE albums that sound identical to each other. Get it right."
@Joe Sudz you fundamentally understand a lack of integrity and approve of it,...? I've never seen anyone "keep it real" by admitting they're not real... 🤔cool story bro. 🤘Stay metal!... as long as it's lucrative I mean. 🙄
@Metal Massacre \m/ spoken like a true gray haired metal kid. Integrity makes no sense to those who have none...🤔🤘
@Joe Sudz don't strawman me, I never said they don't deserve to be paid, ...what I said was just because you would sell out your Integrity, your art form, for money not everyone else would (or did)thank God. Our opinions differ.
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.
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...
Music always comes before women.
Damn, that's a bummer. The Guitar Shop lineup is one of my favourite ones. Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas are beasts at their instruments.
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.
Becca Mama ok, so did you meet again with Dave after that and he look through you, or what happened?
I know this is unfortunate for you, and I am sorry. At the same time though I really do appreciate you sharing this as it gives a fan states away a more intimate view and history of what they love.
Your comment is years old, I'm not sure if you'll see this.
Interesting he never really said anything negative about Dave. Just pretty much explained the situation. lol
He actually explains is much nicer here than he used to. Maybe it's because he's had contact with him lately and because he talks to Krist more these days. But basically he used to say Dave just stopped talking to him and Dale around 95. Which is weird cause they were close. I honestly think they were genuinely hurt.
auxilliarydrain Yeah they probably were hurt cause that's really not cool to do that once you're all of a sudden big in your band and you ditch your friends. Funny though at the Nirvana Hall of Fame induction he said Dale was his drumming hero .. lol
Not to mention he's literally the one who introduced Dave to Kurt and Krist
chucksbrain Cant u read between the lines ??? He explains it just right !
Lol no, he was very negative, if you understand the language of sarcasm.
he is showing his true colours here...the bitterness is REAL
Yeah, Buzz is bitter about a lot of things, it seems. But this is typical shit in big music or big film. He knows it and I'm betting he's not any more bitter about that than a lot of other shit in life.
@@CoveMusic I mean Dave was wearing a Melvin's tee at the MTV awards one year!!!..Buzz can't say he wasn't or isn't supportive of other bands ..just look at the support acts the Foo's have..they are always younger up and coming bands who just need their shot..Foo's introduced me to Cave in..who became one of my favourite ever groups
@@smittenthekitteninmittens2679 I’m just saying, it’s not that Buzz is smearing Dave, he’s basically just saying Dave is big time now and they’ve lost touch…in his typical Buzz way. He’s friends with Mike Patton and tells “stories” about him, too. I just think you are reading too much into it, thinking Buzz is “bitter”.
Thanks for inspiring me to change my profile pic, as well. Done so in honor of you, :)
@@CoveMusic no problem my dude
This dude could write the most incendiary memoirs
To be fair I saw the Melvins open for Rush at the Oakland Colosseum in the early 90’s.
HA!
Mustache is RAD bro
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.
That really says a lot about Tool fans.
@@jpthompson2270 Yet tool are fans of the melvins.
And also, Tool hates Tool fans
Tool...🙄
@@danielbeotich1664 Do you realize tool refused to play ozzfest 98 unless melvins were added to the roster?
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.
According to him Dave is the problem.
He's salty cause Dave didn't text him back twice. Does Dave do that to Josh Homme? Or John Paul Jones? Or Snoop Dog? Or Jimmy Fallon? Prolly not.
Buzz is a fucking legend.
I've seen Melvins live. They are the best.
He s an asshole huge ego
Indeed. Buzz is a legend but his impact is all relative. He set Nirvana up with a kid who was on his way to becoming one of the best rock drummers of all time. That's Grohl's impact, Buzz didn't give him his talent. There's Butch Vig's impact. Andy Wallace. DG was going to introduce Buzz to one of the greatest musicians of all time. Page and Plant were fans of Big Black and the US underground in general. If JPJ wasn't familiar with Melvins, he would've been once DG told him he wanted to introduce him to his old friend. I'd feel confident saying he was already a fan, but DG would've easily sold them to him if he wasn't aware of them. This wasn't a meet and greet. This was an influential and successful underground musician being hyped to a LANDMARK musician. @@SurfingOnBrainwaves
@@SlowerRiot Dave is one of the hardest working musicians in modern rock and roll lol. I’m sure he didn’t text a number of people back plentyyyy of times. also, he’s in a band with Josh and John….so that’s pretty different. he’s so famous, celebrated, and even decorated that I highly doubt he gets starstruck even by guys like Snoop. Buzz is just insecure and lashed out. You can tell through other interviews where he has to make it crystal-fucking-clear that he and kurt were tight af in the early days. It’s sad….he’s the frontman of a legendary, HIGHLY influential band. He should be proud no matter what.
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.
The janitors gonna have to work late sweeping all the names Buzzo just dropped all over the floor lol
When the camera stopped, he continued...."sometimes Dave Lombardo and Mike Patton are willing to hang out with me. Lars once even invited me to his kid's birthday party."
I thought this was the janitor
@@Doorkicker505 😸
And also scrapping the thick crust of salt.
The irony of it all: he's also playing and telling the story at a non-venue.
You weren't listening.
Shut up
No, that is a venue.
All the "venues" are closed..everything now is a non-venue. Old rock stars are playing at Tiny jazz clubs.
Exactly, this guy is so fkn jealous
It’s funny cuz my first concert was Tool with The Melvins opening… at a giant basketball stadium.
Can you feel my love, Buzz?
both Buzz, and Dave are 2 of the hardest working, busiest musicians on the planet.
Corey Taylor as well definitely
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.
There's an old saying..."Never meet your idols because you'll be disappointed every time." Most famous people are petty and immature. They've never went through hard life that builds character.
Read my comment again dumbass. I said MOST famous people.
+Joseph Hamer Why do the top comments always have to stupid shit like this. No-one respects your opinion on here.
+Arthur Hates You *have to be
+Joseph Hamer So in other words you forget your friends and those that bought you to where you are. Much like Dave to Buzz.
Dave should be licking Buzz's ass now for introducing him to Nirvana, not forgetting about them. This is how people also think if Gidget Gein when it comes to Marilyn Manson
they put a record out on Discord? which server?
Jealousy doesn’t flatter you, or the hair
Buzz is pulling an Abe Simpson as in telling long, pointless stories that don't go anywhere.
I was expecting some super fucked up story but nah 6 minutes for him to say they lost touch
"so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Then we ate turkey, which back then was known as Walking bird..."
he really loves hearing himself talk
Somehow even more than Dave lmao
Well at least this dude made a good living from his character on the simpsons
What character on the Simpsons?
@@chrisbenson3374 Sideshow Bob, cause of the hair.
@@ninjor1034 dam how did that one pass me by. That was a good one
Video title is misleading and clickbait, but still a good, funny story.
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!
My first Melvins show was at Wings Stadium in Kalamazoo MI and that is a Hockey Arena.
Lou Cadabra And there you have it! I'm all about a musician 'standing up' for his or her beliefs, but make sure when you stand up for said beliefs, you don't come out looking like a fool....which, Buzz did.
You know buzz he always has so ething to say or about someone
I saw an interview were he was talking about supporting Rush, and that all those shows were held in hockey arenas and he still said the samething. And I dont see a problem with that. Wouldnt it be hypocritical if he´d criticise something without actually experiencing it himself?
Buzzo said he PREFERS to play in venues that were made for music.
Dave Grohl blew his chance to go to a dodgers game with KING BUZZO
*BUZZO:* "Haha, yo Dave, flag down the hot dog vendor, he's coming this way.
*DAVE:* "Haha, nah, I'm not hungry man. I'll be alright.
*_PRESENT DAY:_*
"Soooo, we were at the stadium, which I think Paul McCartney played at once. Only sellouts play stadium concerts. I like the up close experience... So anyway, DAVE GROHL... ya know, from that greedy Nirvana band, I asked him to get a hot dog from the vendor who was passing, and what do ya know.. HE DIDN'T GET THE HOT DOG! I was disgusted. I left the ballpark and never answered his texts again."
@@racistnice4652 😂
I'd rather meet John Paul Jones.
Haha! That's how I look at it
Their a greedy band because they wanted their music to be heard? I guess that makes sense
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.
What scream album is he talking about?
This guy still has the same haircut he did when he was 16. Nuff said.
Lol thats the best laugh I have had in a long time
Exactly! Lol..he looks like an old grey palm tree whose clearly jealous of Nirvana's success! ..who they fuck would wanna see someone called "king buzzo" with that fucking retarded haircut and half assed songs and talent that didn't even compare to Nirvana! ..this guy is in his late 50s now and he still can't see that maybe Nirvana was just better than him and his lame band! Lol
@@LB00146 Bud.... The Melvins influenced Nirvana. They are influential in grunge, sludge, and drone, so I think that your remarks about "half-assed songs" and Buzzo having no talent come from a place of idiocy. I get it, you kiss your Kurt Cobain poster every night before you go to bed, but maybe you should pay attention to what actually happened instead of choking your chicken to Nirvana's MTV unplugged.
@@christaylor9300 Kurt liked alot of shitty bands honestly. I'm not even a huge nirvana fan, all I'm saying is that Nirvana had 10 times more talent than this guy and I wouldn't even care if buzz wasn't so jealous about nirvana's success and always taking jabs at them every chance he gets!
@@christaylor9300 Melvins are good but Buzz is just a sad middle aged man that has resentment for more successful people...
The longest 7 minutes of my life.
What music was he playing in this alleged show?
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!
Honey Bucket, Night Goat, really anything off Houdini. The Bit is an awesome song as well.
Hope you’ve heard Lysol by now
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out!
"So Dave's playing venues where you can barely see him with a deer rifle,"
Man is fuckin' hilarious.
The craziest part of this story is this dude has a wife
And justly deserves a wife.hes fucking king buzzo.a real musical badass an a great mind.
@@thefuneralparade he's a jealous asshole
@@kwiebus24 reading comprehension
@@thefuneralparade he looks like shit tho
Why does Kimg Buzzo not have a podcast?
I saw The Melvins open for KISS at The Superdome in New Orleans.
You know, the super-est of all domes?
So........
troll gathering place??
Hahaha
_They were told there would be snacks_
Buzz Osborne is the ultimate troll.
A record store is not a venue either, if we're gonna get technical about it.
I love all his work with Mr. Mike Patton, Mr.Bungle and multiple Ipecac related releases
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.
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.
Wait where did he bash Grohl? He was joking around a bit and then even made fun of himself for turning down an invitation to be with fucking John Paul Jones in the backstage of a TCV concert because he had a ticket to a game.
What do you want him to do?. His game was important as TCV was for Dave so he missed, end of the story. Maybe the point of the whole story was Kurt never lost contact with him even though became biggest that what Dave it is now, but with his satirical touch.
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
Oh please. It takes 10 seconds to send a text. What about the ten years previous that he didn't stay in contact? He obviously doesn't like him all that much for whatever reason.
Dave’s “great nice guy” persona is just an act. He is fake as they come unfortunately.
Dave hung up the phone and said “THANK GOD”
Buzzo's salty tears are still fresh 5 years later.
I love buzzo! Great sense of humor.
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.
Corporate rock is a different thing to famous rock. Famous rock is just rock that's famous, whereas corporate rock is rock that is written specifically to be safe and sell records rather than being interesting or exciting.
You can be famous without making corporate rock.
@@ant9754 And Dave Grohl became a corporate rocker.
@@slingshotmcoy disagree tbh, listen to In Utero and Bleach and tell me you think they were written for mainstream pop appeal (not that that's very relevant to Grohl since Kurt wrote the songs.) I understand Nevermind was a fairly commercial album, but regardless it's brilliant and, at the time of release, was the antithesis of what was then considered corporate rock.
On the topic of Dave's own stuff, I think he gets too much flak. I understand it's more hard rock and not grunge or punk, but it hasn't ever been exactly in line with any contemporary musical trend and I therefore don't think any of it is corporate rock. With some stuff I just couldn't see how it could be called that at all (such as Run and the title track from concrete and gold and many of their album tracks from over the years.)
Odd, if he's so right and they're so wrong...why did he ALSO sign to a major label? ALSO tour doing shows in arenas that he claims in this video aren't for "real music?" ALSO talk so much about how musicians shouldn't make political statements, then 20 years later has no problem stating his political views in interviews? He's just salty that he ALSO tried to sellout, but failed.
Damn Robert smith put on some weight. Smh
King Buzzo > Robert Smith
This video has popped up at least 20 times in the last 5 years !
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
Profound
Bill Hobbs "drop D tuning showing Thayil ,Staley" First of all Layne Staley barely played guitar. That would be Jerry Cantrell and secondly, drop D and half step down tuning was started by Tony Iommi. It was a Sabbath thing first, not a Melvins thing. Plus, only Nirvana and some bands were influenced by the Melvins. Alice in Chains was never influenced by the Melvins.
MrTechselect exactly. They're all influenced by Sabbath.
1984 I grew up in Seattle.....Buzz would be the guy standing next to me at Husker Du, TSOL, and Circle Jerks....Green River, Soundgarden, and Melvins were the Seattle Sound....Mark Arm and Chris RIP would also enjoy the crowd surfing too.... The Melvins Opened for the Circle Jerks at the Gorilla Gardens (last show there before the riot) and then most punkers there just were not ready for the sound of the Melvins yet.. Some said too Sabbath sounding but I loved it... After the weekend shows we would end up back at school and I would go on about the Melvins with my high school friend Chad who later around 88 went to drum for Nirvana, too bad that did not work out. Without Buzz there was no Kurt...And I think Bleach was the Best Nirvana....
Bill Hobbs One thing all of them have in common is being highly influenced by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Deep Purple, various punk.bands and Jimi Hendrix and The Doors, The Who but especially.the first 5 I listed and Hendrix.
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 a hypocrite as well. He toured with a dozen or so bands in arenas, yet is talking here about how "arenas aren't for real music." But when confronted on the inconsistency defends his arena-playing heyday by talking about how great the PA systems in arenas are. Pathetic and transparent.
I dont like foo fighters but dave comes across as one humble and lighthearted guy. This story just shows how salty he is.
Hell of an artist, he can play the sound of resentment perfectly
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.
I'm about to see all three of them as well! Sick new world festival!
@@Freshjuices15 yea dude I was kinda bummed out, about 3 songs into their set the power completely cut for both smaller stages, cutting off both Melvins and Sevendust! Technical difficulties riddled the event for the smaller artists but the big stages for the headliner's were top notch (except Death Grips who had like 5 minutes of setting up difficulties) I saw Mr.Bungle right after though and it was fantastic! 10/10 day
Doesn't 'call him out', just tells a good story.
I can see why Kurt liked this guy so much!
Just got back from Capital One Arena it is a basketball and hockey venue I saw Rage Against the Machine it did not affect the performance
I love Buzz but funny he said that about arenas. I clearly remember seeing him with Fantomas opening for Tool in one.
I'm sure that Buzz prefers his crowds to Dave's. He basically drove Dave away.
Rick Allen exactly
buzz was on the scene very early in Seattle. I guess buzz actually was the scene in Seattle at the beginning. He was like Cobain's big brother taking him to shows, showing him life outside abedeen. buzz was kinda left behind but I don't think he really cares. still doing his thing. he probably has the life cobain would have enjoyed if that guy was ever able to enjoy anything.
This story was better than seeing just the singer from the Melvin's with an acoustic guitar.
What Country is this guy a Monarch of?
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
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..
Jon if thats what you got out of this, then you missed the point.
Jon dude, he had tickets that day.....
+Shenequa Neckface Really? Really? You're being serious? Sorry, but Buzzo is only a legend in certain circles. On a national scale, he's pretty much nonexistent. Not only that, but he's pretty much a has been at this point. Buzzo should have been on his knees thanking Grohl for the opportunity to be noticed again.
MultiUnreal
Do you think Buzz care about being "noticed again" as Grohl?. You certainly don't have a clue about The Melvins.
suhijo Yes, I do think he cares, because every time a starts bashing on Dave Grohl, the envy and jealousy in his voice almost feels palpable.
can't hold grudges on old friends losing communication. It happens all the time brother it is what it is...
Exactly. Once you get married,have kids and move halfway across the country the boys you hung out with a few decades earlier aren't always priority number one.
Just because he’s played arena shows, means that he has to like them? I don’t like arena shows either but I’d love to play one
2:00 True. I saw The Black Keys at Phillips Arena (where the Hawks play) and although they were great and played their hearts out, it wasn't conducive to a concert.
Kinda odd though how 10 years after he had this revelation about arenas he frequently opened for other bands...playing arenas. But it's "Not for me" he says. Wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that he never headlined and quickly faded back into obscurity while his peers were rising to the peak of their success?
To all of those who are saying Buzz is bitter, jealous, etc - Buzz presents this story as how HE blew it. He's making a mockery of himself in a humorous tale for the audience's enjoyment. He's not being disrespectful towards Dave and any statements about him are true: Foo Fighters are a huge band that play arenas/stadiums, Buzz knew Dave before Nirvana, etc.
I think it's ridiculous people are getting bent out of shape over this as I'm certain neither Buzz or Dave could care less.
I hope none of my friends talk about me withthe same sarcasm and pure bitterness on display here.
Deacon Brodie seriously
He has trashed Dave, Kurt and basically every musician or band that's ever been brought up to him. I'm shocked he said he likes the Stones in this video. Mike Patton does this too. It's like the two of them can't like what's popular. They have to like obscure random stuff no one knows because that's a cool personality trait
@@AndyFelbab That is what insecure people do. They are so afraid for being called sellouts or somoene dissing them for that they they will travel tremendous lengths and play or enjoy the weirdest things just so nobody can say anything.
At the back of all of it lies a big shameful trauma from the past.
MIke Patton made a fool of himself once imitating Anthony Kiedes from the Chilli peppers and ever since then he hates the RHCP for calling him out on it.
Buzzo on the other hand, is a jealous little prick who acts as if he doesnt need money and fame but the fact is he was never been offered any of it.
I would rather hear him talking instead of his "music."
Lol that "goin there" "damn it" makes this video so much better hahah
might explain why they were not featured in the sonic highways episode on seattle
There was so much missing from the Seattle episode. I was disappointed. It just seemed like that episode was a "Dave/Kurt" ep rather than a full on telling of the story of Grunge. To have a show all about Seattle and not even mention the survivor that is Mark Lanegan is, imo, really stupid.
Delboy219 or what about doing an hour long episode on new york city without so much as a mention of The Velvet Underground. they flashed an album cover for a split second but no word on lou reed or cale or nothin