Buzz Osborne
Roger "Buzz" Osborne, also known as King Buzzo (born March 25, 1964) is the American guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and technically the only remaining founding member of the Melvins (drummer Dale Crover is often regarded as a founding member, but he joined after the band was formed, though before they had yet recorded an album). He's also collaborated with various other artists such as Cows and Tool. Osborne is additionally a founding member/guitarist for both the groups Fantômas and Venomous Concept. He was a high school friend of Kurt Cobain and the bassist for Cobain's first band, Fecal Matter.
Biography
Osborne first started listening to the music of Aerosmith and Ted Nugent around the age of 12, then became greatly interested in punk rock in a few years' time. In the early 1980s Osborne founded the Melvins with Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard who all attended Montesano High School (Wheeler Building) in Montesano, Washington, where he graduated in 1982. In the beginning the Melvins played The Who and Jimi Hendrix covers but began playing fast hardcore punk after Osborne was introduced to bands such as Black Flag, Flipper, and Millions of Dead Cops by a friend from out of state. When Dillard left the band in 1984, Dale Crover was recruited out of an Iron Maiden-cover band, and the band's rehearsals moved to a back room of Crover's parents house in Aberdeen, Washington. They began to play slower and "heavier" songs.
King Buzzo (album)
King Buzzo is an EP by The Melvins' guitarist Buzz Osborne, which was released in 1992 through Boner Records. Osborne recruited Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl for the project. Grohl is credited as "Dale Nixon", a pseudonym Greg Ginn adopted to play bass on Black Flag's My War.
Osborne does not appear on "Skeeter" as it is a remix of the song "Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson" that Grohl recorded December 23, 1990 along with five other songs that were available on Grohl's Pocketwatch solo album. Skeeter Thompson was the bassist of Grohl's old band Scream.
The cover art for the album is a parody of the cover art from Gene Simmons' 1978 solo release.
Track listing
All songs written by Buzz Osborne except where noted.
Personnel
References
Podcasts:
King Buzzo
ALBUMS
- This Machine Kills Artists released: 2014
This Machine Kills Artists
Released 2014- Dark Brown Teeth
- Rough Democracy
- Laid Back Walking
- Drunken Baby
- Vaulting Over a Microphone
- The New River
- The Vulgar Joke
- Everything's Easy for You
- The Ripple Driving
- How I Became Offensive
- Instrument of God
- The Spoiled Brat
- Illegal Mona
- Good & Hostile
- The Blithering Idiot
- Useless King of the Punks
- The Hesitation Twist
