Mark my name is Russ I'm a drummer and bassist from Tacoma, I just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to thank you for being such a huge and influential part of my teenage and young adult life. Out of all the Melvins albums my absolute favorites were during your tenure as bassist. In particular Stoner Witch and Stag🤘You sir are an absolute legend! The way you approached the bass and the music you helped create impacted my life and as a musician in many positive ways. So once again thank you
Hey Russ, Thanks so much for sharing that. I absolutely appreciate hearing the experiences of yourself and others throughout my journey. I have a Patreon page that you might want to check out where I'm exclusively posting unreleased material and other things : www.patreon.com/markdeutrom Thanks for watching my channel, and please subscribe here !
WOW! This is going to be so freakin cool to watch! I'm less than 3 minutes in and I paused to type this message. It was MAMMOTH Records that was involved, which I always thought was weird because they were based out of Carrboro, NC, which is where I first saw the Melvins at a place called the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro on Sunday September 22, 1996. It was just you guys and you played three sets (as you probably remember). Anyway, that was a great night and that was the night I went back around to the front of the building as soon as the show was over and got to talk to Buzz for about five minutes alone outside the front of the venue. It was an awesome experience for a 15-year-old.
Thanks for the reminder...I knew it was something beginning with M ! Glad you have a good memory of that. Concerts I saw as a 15 year old have stayed with me also. I'm going to talk about more of them. Uriah Heep/Grand Funk/ZZ Top etc.
Absolutely loving your videos Mark! Thanks for sharing all your memories and stuff. Stag was the current Melvins album when I first discovered the band and maybe I’m biased as result but to me it’s always been the absolute best introductory album to the band. It is incredibly varied stylistically, has some of the most popular songs, flows great, and is just such a classic. Wondering if you’re familiar with the Amrep singles 1-12 track “Fast Forward”? It sounds like a tape recording related to the second half of Skin Horse.
I'm familiar with those. I gave my copy of all 12 to the drummer that played on my record The Silent Treatment. I'll have to refresh, but I've have a couple of requests to run through those. I'll get to them at some point. Thanks for watching !
( Minute 15) The tape technique you are mentioning i think is known as PREVERB (done digitally in a DAW of course) Thanks for this awesome video. One of my fav MELVINS albums undoubtedly.
Hey thanks ! If you check my patreon page in the links below, you can hear my current band playing a version of that tune "Toshiro Mifune". There is currently free access to that !
One of my favorite records ever.I listened to this endlessly at home and on a walkman when I was in high school. Was always bummed that it got crammed on one vinyl record as it was originally released on Atlantic. So it s great that now there is this two record rerelease on Third Man Records. Sounds much better, bigger and more adequate for the material. Really interesting to hear you talk about this! Cheers from Munich, Germany!
I still remember being in a record store and “ The Bloat” came on…not realizing that Stag was set to be released and just laughing at how awesome it was…ahhh Melvins memories…🌈🫀👽
Mark, loving this as I have been viewing it non chronologically. A random short of yours will pop up. Then I want to learn about this song. Or this one. I admit this one was was a hard listen after Stoner Witch, it lied flat for years. Then I popped a CD in after work, after The Bit, the whole thing just pounded me like it hadn't in years. I was finally getting it around 2018 upon revisiting it. It's great that you said the new guy came in and didn't like the band. Somehow we knew that's exactly what Buzz wanted. I bought my friend a vinyl copy.
I actually liked Stag better when I listened again after a long time for these videos, so I know what you mean...there are some really nice sounds on it and the whole thing was one of those momentary collaborations that every once in a while produces something timeless. It's reputation seems to improve over time and it was a cool thing to be a part of. Thanks for watching !
I always wondered what a “normal” mix of Goggles would’ve sounded like, but the Stag version is one of my favorite tracks. Hope to hear you talk about the outtake “Specimen” in part 2 as well!
I JUST got the album on CD and then this video comes out, perfect timing! thanks for the music and I’m looking forward to diving in deeper into this very great sounding record!
The more experimental side of the album are among my most favorites: Goggles, Sterilized, and Lacrimosa. Goggles sounds like it's underwater, I love the production! The whole thing (vocals, drums etc) sounds 'gurgly' or 'bubbly'. I always thought that's why it was called "Goggles", haha. That bass line is killer! Sterilized sounds menacing! Love it!
Thanks ! I thinks Goggles might be a reference to Rob Zombie wearing goggles all the time. Sterilized is definitely murky and is some kind of live recording with extra sauce.
I'm so happy to have found your channel today Mark! Bassist of one of my favorite bands of all time! I'm curious, what is the correct bass tuning on Melvin's songs. Is it standard D, or something else?
Thanks for finding this ! Plenty of atmospheres and assorted chewy centers on this channel. I think some of the tuning was a 'Drop D" which is only the E string dropped down a whole step to D. Not every tune was in drop D but a few were. Pitch was A440.
@@MarkDeutrom It's interesting you and Lori Black were both in Clown Ally. I just heard them for the first time by watching your channel. It's so cool to see two Melvin's bassists together on stage pre Melvin's. One thing that struck me instantly when I hear Clown Ally for the first time is I thought of the Melvin's song, Dr. Geek, from Hostile Ambient Takeover. I wonder if that song was influenced by Clown Ally? That was my first impression.
Thanks again for doing these. Would you be into doing a video about how you came to be in the Melvins and why it you left or what happened for it to end with you playing?
Thanks for the question, and also for watching. I worked with them from 1986-1998 in a variety of roles that I will probably get to. Much is unknown and will get explained at some point.
I'm not trying to spam your comments Mr. Deutrom, but I just thought you/others might find this kind of interesting. I don't really get the Disney part myself, but whatever, I guess good for the founder: Mammoth Records was founded by Jay Faires in 1989 in Carrboro, North Carolina. One of the most premiere independent record labels of the 1990s, Its roster featured diverse talent as Antenna, Blake Babies, Chainsaw Kittens, Dash Rip Rock, Dillon Fence, Frente!, Fun-Da-Mental, Fu Manchu, Jason & the Scorchers, Joe Henry, Juliana Hatfield, Kill Creek, Machines of Loving Grace, The Bats, The Melvins, My Friend Steve, Seven Mary Three, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Sidewinders, Vanilla Trainwreck, and Victoria Williams. The label went from a stand-alone company to being a part of a joint venture with Atlantic Records in 1993. The label hit the open market again in 1997. Faires sold Mammoth Records to The Walt Disney Company in 1998. Mammoth Records was folded into Hollywood Records in 2003.
Interesting, I always thought I heard Scarborough Fair on Yacub's Lab. Also the N.O.I. reference just blew me away because it's spelled "Yacob's" on my old CD copy. I had no idea. Thanks for doing these!
I remember having to buy Stag from Tower Records in Glasgow via mail order, Melvins albums seemed to be quite hard to get hold of in the UK back then. I saw you play at Bradford Rio’s in November 1996 and had to camp on a hill as we had no way to get home till the morning, great days! Any way you should do a tutorial for The Bit bass line as I always wondered what you were doing/playing on the scraping verse bits.
What a great story ! I like to camp myself, but Bradford is low on my list of camping destinations. I would have to relearn The Bit to do a reveal of it, but maybe one day.
Fantastic breakdown- thanks a ton for this Mark! For the songs that have backing vocals on this and the the other records (Stoner Witch and Honky), did you contribute on them all or was it mostly Dale?
Thanks for watching ! I think we were all singing. Can't remember exactly but when I was listening recently I could hear myself in there. Part 2 of Stag coming later this week.
By any means, do you know why "Bar-X The Rockin' M" is called like that? In the chapters it's called "Barracks the Rockingham" and that doesn't make any sense to me (it doesn't have to make any sense either).
I think the youtube is throwing out all kinds of rando stuff, but that is a pretty good song title by itself ! I believe the Bar X title is a vague reference to cattle brands on some level but don't quote me on that !
to me, goggles always sounded like the soundtrack to someone who just lost his glasses in a crowded place and is now looking for them. crawling on his knees between everybody. he can't see anything without his glasses, people stepping on his fingers... maybe his glasses have already been stepped on and are shattered into a thausand pieces? 😀
I'm referring to the Meatball Envelope Filter built by Lovetone in the 1990's. I go into some detail about it in the video about equipment I used back then, but I did use a Meat Box also. Thanks for watching !
Probably VA. We made up the story about going to Russian Tea Room with Ahmet, but I did get to meet him. Pure class. Angelica died ??? That's really sad. She was awesome as well as Laura and Bobbi. Saw Bobbi in the Glen Campbell doc, couldn't believe it.
2 great Melvins albums. Be proud, you sound great in them and Buzz and Dale were lucky to have you. Stay safe, live long and prosper.
Thanks for watching ! Check back for unexpected topics.
this video is a treasure for Melvins fans looking for info on how the albums were recorded! much appreciated!
Thanks for watching. Check out Pt 2 of Stag that I just posted.
Pretty much exactly what I just commented before even reading your post, wow
Mark my name is Russ I'm a drummer and bassist from Tacoma, I just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to thank you for being such a huge and influential part of my teenage and young adult life. Out of all the Melvins albums my absolute favorites were during your tenure as bassist. In particular Stoner Witch and Stag🤘You sir are an absolute legend! The way you approached the bass and the music you helped create impacted my life and as a musician in many positive ways. So once again thank you
Hey Russ, Thanks so much for sharing that. I absolutely appreciate hearing the experiences of yourself and others throughout my journey. I have a Patreon page that you might want to check out where I'm exclusively posting unreleased material and other things : www.patreon.com/markdeutrom Thanks for watching my channel, and please subscribe here !
WOW! This is going to be so freakin cool to watch! I'm less than 3 minutes in and I paused to type this message.
It was MAMMOTH Records that was involved, which I always thought was weird because they were based out of Carrboro, NC, which is where I first saw the Melvins at a place called the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro on Sunday September 22, 1996.
It was just you guys and you played three sets (as you probably remember).
Anyway, that was a great night and that was the night I went back around to the front of the building as soon as the show was over and got to talk to Buzz for about five minutes alone outside the front of the venue.
It was an awesome experience for a 15-year-old.
Thanks for the reminder...I knew it was something beginning with M ! Glad you have a good memory of that. Concerts I saw as a 15 year old have stayed with me also. I'm going to talk about more of them. Uriah Heep/Grand Funk/ZZ Top etc.
One of the best Melvins albums imo. Top tier awesome.
No one plays the bit like you Mark! Great song
Thank you !
Such a treasure for e Melvins lifelong fan, my goodness thank you mark, i also wonder how dale and buzz view this info
Thanks ! I haven't wondered about that in particular, but since we made this stuff together I'm sure it's all good.
Bought this record 13 years ago when I was very young. Always treasured it ever since, its a classic.
Thanks for watching.
It's great to get to know the behind-the-scenes stories about Stag. Thanks a lot Mark!
Thanks for watching ! Plenty more surfacing ...
Thanks so much for making these videos! The story behind the mix of Goggles is great. That's actually one of my favorite Melvins songs.
Thanks for being here.
Such a cool story about Goggles! My fave track on there. I agree with Buzz - you guys made it!
Everyone has their favorite. You might be the first w/ Goggles !
Stag. The Melvins White Album. My fav!
i would rather compare it with sgt. pepper, but really great album also imho
Absolutely loving your videos Mark! Thanks for sharing all your memories and stuff. Stag was the current Melvins album when I first discovered the band and maybe I’m biased as result but to me it’s always been the absolute best introductory album to the band. It is incredibly varied stylistically, has some of the most popular songs, flows great, and is just such a classic. Wondering if you’re familiar with the Amrep singles 1-12 track “Fast Forward”? It sounds like a tape recording related to the second half of Skin Horse.
I'm familiar with those. I gave my copy of all 12 to the drummer that played on my record The Silent Treatment. I'll have to refresh, but I've have a couple of requests to run through those. I'll get to them at some point. Thanks for watching !
( Minute 15) The tape technique you are mentioning i think is known as PREVERB (done digitally in a DAW of course) Thanks for this awesome video. One of my fav MELVINS albums undoubtedly.
so happy to have found this!
love your album "The Silent Treatment", Track 1 has such a cool vibe!
Hey thanks ! If you check my patreon page in the links below, you can hear my current band playing a version of that tune "Toshiro Mifune". There is currently free access to that !
Cool i'll check it! :D@@MarkDeutrom
This is great. Thank you. i love Mark D’s playing on this record…. Saw Stag tour at CBGB’s!
One of my favorite records ever.I listened to this endlessly at home and on a walkman when I was in high school. Was always bummed that it got crammed on one vinyl record as it was originally released on Atlantic. So it s great that now there is this two record rerelease on Third Man Records. Sounds much better, bigger and more adequate for the material. Really interesting to hear you talk about this! Cheers from Munich, Germany!
Always loved Germany at Christmas ! The best place ever. Stag should have always been a 2 record set, just like Physical Graffiti...
@@MarkDeutrom If you ever happen to come to Munich (any time of the season). Get in touch if you want. I ll be happy to show you around! 🙂
❤@@MarkDeutrom
Thanks Mark for all of the insights. Much appreciated!! When are you coming back to Houston?
I love HTX. I just need a quality engagement.
You were always my favorite bassist for the Melvins
Excellent choice !
Este álbum es samnete extraño e interesante, excelente video te felicito
Muchas Gracias !
I still remember being in a record store and “ The Bloat” came on…not realizing that Stag was set to be released and just laughing at how awesome it was…ahhh Melvins memories…🌈🫀👽
Mark, loving this as I have been viewing it non chronologically. A random short of yours will pop up. Then I want to learn about this song. Or this one. I admit this one was was a hard listen after Stoner Witch, it lied flat for years. Then I popped a CD in after work, after The Bit, the whole thing just pounded me like it hadn't in years. I was finally getting it around 2018 upon revisiting it.
It's great that you said the new guy came in and didn't like the band. Somehow we knew that's exactly what Buzz wanted.
I bought my friend a vinyl copy.
I actually liked Stag better when I listened again after a long time for these videos, so I know what you mean...there are some really nice sounds on it and the whole thing was one of those momentary collaborations that every once in a while produces something timeless. It's reputation seems to improve over time and it was a cool thing to be a part of. Thanks for watching !
I always wondered what a “normal” mix of Goggles would’ve sounded like, but the Stag version is one of my favorite tracks. Hope to hear you talk about the outtake “Specimen” in part 2 as well!
I'll be running through the whole record including an alt take of Tipping the Lion + Interstellar Overdrive that were recorded during those sessions.
I JUST got the album on CD and then this video comes out, perfect timing! thanks for the music and I’m looking forward to diving in deeper into this very great sounding record!
Nice ! Thanks for watching. More to come, including my own records.
The more experimental side of the album are among my most favorites: Goggles, Sterilized, and Lacrimosa.
Goggles sounds like it's underwater, I love the production! The whole thing (vocals, drums etc) sounds 'gurgly' or 'bubbly'. I always thought that's why it was called "Goggles", haha. That bass line is killer!
Sterilized sounds menacing! Love it!
Thanks ! I thinks Goggles might be a reference to Rob Zombie wearing goggles all the time. Sterilized is definitely murky and is some kind of live recording with extra sauce.
I'm so happy to have found your channel today Mark! Bassist of one of my favorite bands of all time! I'm curious, what is the correct bass tuning on Melvin's songs. Is it standard D, or something else?
Thanks for finding this ! Plenty of atmospheres and assorted chewy centers on this channel. I think some of the tuning was a 'Drop D" which is only the E string dropped down a whole step to D. Not every tune was in drop D but a few were. Pitch was A440.
@@MarkDeutrom It's interesting you and Lori Black were both in Clown Ally. I just heard them for the first time by watching your channel. It's so cool to see two Melvin's bassists together on stage pre Melvin's.
One thing that struck me instantly when I hear Clown Ally for the first time is I thought of the Melvin's song, Dr. Geek, from Hostile Ambient Takeover. I wonder if that song was influenced by Clown Ally? That was my first impression.
i agree with the take on Black Bock, i wish that song was 10 minutes
With a DAW it can now be 10 hours !
Loving these videos
Thanks for watching.
@@MarkDeutrom You tell the story well. I'd love to hear you read books out aloud!
@@WeEmptyRooms Great idea ! I'll start with Remembrance of Things Past and then move onto The Fall of the Roman Empire ! Hope you are good
Thanks again for doing these. Would you be into doing a video about how you came to be in the Melvins and why it you left or what happened for it to end with you playing?
Thanks for the question, and also for watching. I worked with them from 1986-1998 in a variety of roles that I will probably get to. Much is unknown and will get explained at some point.
I'm not trying to spam your comments Mr. Deutrom, but I just thought you/others might find this kind of interesting. I don't really get the Disney part myself, but whatever, I guess good for the founder:
Mammoth Records was founded by Jay Faires in 1989 in Carrboro, North Carolina. One of the most premiere independent record labels of the 1990s, Its roster featured diverse talent as Antenna, Blake Babies, Chainsaw Kittens, Dash Rip Rock, Dillon Fence, Frente!, Fun-Da-Mental, Fu Manchu, Jason & the Scorchers, Joe Henry, Juliana Hatfield, Kill Creek, Machines of Loving Grace, The Bats, The Melvins, My Friend Steve, Seven Mary Three, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Sidewinders, Vanilla Trainwreck, and Victoria Williams.
The label went from a stand-alone company to being a part of a joint venture with Atlantic Records in 1993. The label hit the open market again in 1997. Faires sold Mammoth Records to The Walt Disney Company in 1998. Mammoth Records was folded into Hollywood Records in 2003.
Not spam at all...that's interesting. Thanks for the info....it's just money. The days of people like Ahmet Ertegun are long gone.
Interesting, I always thought I heard Scarborough Fair on Yacub's Lab.
Also the N.O.I. reference just blew me away because it's spelled "Yacob's" on my old CD copy. I had no idea.
Thanks for doing these!
Yes ! It's all very mysterious and no one seems to know (to quote Father Ted Crilly) Thanks for watching.
I remember having to buy Stag from Tower Records in Glasgow via mail order, Melvins albums seemed to be quite hard to get hold of in the UK back then. I saw you play at Bradford Rio’s in November 1996 and had to camp on a hill as we had no way to get home till the morning, great days! Any way you should do a tutorial for The Bit bass line as I always wondered what you were doing/playing on the scraping verse bits.
What a great story ! I like to camp myself, but Bradford is low on my list of camping destinations. I would have to relearn The Bit to do a reveal of it, but maybe one day.
I love these breakdown videos , but how is it the Melvins have gone through so many bass players ? Are you on speaking terms with the guys ?
Apologies, but I have no answer for that ! No "speaking terms" since 1998. Thanks for watching !
One of the best
Thanks !
Fantastic breakdown- thanks a ton for this Mark! For the songs that have backing vocals on this and the the other records (Stoner Witch and Honky), did you contribute on them all or was it mostly Dale?
Thanks for watching ! I think we were all singing. Can't remember exactly but when I was listening recently I could hear myself in there. Part 2 of Stag coming later this week.
By any means, do you know why "Bar-X The Rockin' M" is called like that? In the chapters it's called "Barracks the Rockingham" and that doesn't make any sense to me (it doesn't have to make any sense either).
I think the youtube is throwing out all kinds of rando stuff, but that is a pretty good song title by itself ! I believe the Bar X title is a vague reference to cattle brands on some level but don't quote me on that !
I love Goggles. I would love to hear your original mix.
Me too ! I have no idea where it is...maybe on a DAT somewhere...
to me, goggles always sounded like the soundtrack to someone who just lost his glasses in a crowded place and is now looking for them. crawling on his knees between everybody.
he can't see anything without his glasses, people stepping on his fingers... maybe his glasses have already been stepped on and are shattered into a thausand pieces? 😀
I believe you are absolutely correct.
@@MarkDeutrom 😁😁😁
by meatball box do you mean DOD Meatbox ?
I'm referring to the Meatball Envelope Filter built by Lovetone in the 1990's. I go into some detail about it in the video about equipment I used back then, but I did use a Meat Box also. Thanks for watching !
What is a meatball box?
It is an Envelope Filter built by Lovetone in the 1990's.
Val Azzoli? I thought Ahmet liked you, though? Took you to lunch at the Rainbow Room? You did have great PR ladies - Angelica (RIP), Laura, etc.
Probably VA. We made up the story about going to Russian Tea Room with Ahmet, but I did get to meet him. Pure class. Angelica died ??? That's really sad. She was awesome as well as Laura and Bobbi. Saw Bobbi in the Glen Campbell doc, couldn't believe it.
*Promo SM* 😳