Melvins
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Saw The Melvins in Hoboken last night. Big Business opened for them--they're a decent younger band who combine Melvins-y sludge with some of the kniveyness of Judas Priest. They're solid citizens all around. But when the Melvins came on, they did not take the stage as a seperate entity but actually incorporated the younger band, oozing on to the stage like a virus attacking a host body, and suddenly there were two drummers pounding in harmony, and King Buzzo was there, and the odd thing was that he looked like the spitting image of the singer for Big Business, but older and more ravaged, like a golem overseeing every club they he ever played in the twenty years he's been around, and reminding the lead singer for Big Business that this, too, shall pass. And suddenly the band just sounded sick and double-headed and wonderful, like a glow-in-the-dark bumblebee superglued to a human skull.
posted by Greg Purcell @ 9:04 PM,
