Guns N’Roses

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Before he joined the Melvins as Dillard’s
replacement, he caught the band at a local
talent show.
“When I first saw the band, we were playing
in my high school cover band,” Crover
says. “We were playing at this radio talent
show. It was like an open-call Christmas
show. I don’t know how we got on it. I don’t
know how they get on it, but I was like, ‘Who
the hell are these guys?’ My other bandmates
did not appreciate it. They thought it was
dumb.”
What was so, well, dumb?
“They looked different,” Crover continues.
“They didn’t look like the normal rednecks
who live in Washington State. They
looked weird and had their own songs. They
were aggressive and far different from what
anybody else was doing. I could relate to it
because I really liked the new wave of British
heavy metal, like more obscure stuff. Motorhead.
That was obscure for living in a small
town like we did. Nobody knew Motorhead
where we were. So the Melvins were definitely
out of place.”
Three decades on, that’s still the case.
The band, says Osborne, survives because it
continues to reside just outside of any sort of
normalcy.
When the Melvins first started making
money, Osborne was struck with an insight: “I
realized I got to that point by not compromising.
So I wasn’t about to start. I’m not going
to ruin it now by thinking, ‘I wonder what they
want.’ No. Be happy with what you’re getting.
“Even now,” he continues, “if you put is in
front of the right crowd, they’re going to hate
our guts.” l
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