The Melvins performing "Civilized Worm" live at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on July 10th 2010. "Civilized Worm" was included on the Melvin's album (A) Senile Animal, which was released in 2006
I was there. If you can believe it, Isis that was before them was even heavier. After those two sets, I needed a breather and went to John Prine’s set to chill out. Those were the days of Bonnaroo past.
The Melvins dont need a title of the Best they are The Melvins that is it no other sound or energy matches them its pure perfection timing is everything.xo
I wish I could have seen them when they were doing the double drum shows. I saw the in the 90’s and just recently again and the shows were great. Missed this whole time frame unfortunately.
The pure shock and disbelief of the crowd has paralyzed the uninitiated. I'm old and will die one day, and when that happens, I'll say that the Melvins were my all time favorite band; albeit I have ~20 years for HCTM to catch up!
People are calm cause they have to pace theirselves this was obviously a day time show which means you gotta save your energy for the next 20 shows that day. I swear people talk shit cause they don't know it's always "I would have fucked that crowd up" yeah right if you gotta talk about it your not about it
Why do you have more than one guitar in a band? It thickens the sound. Genesis, Santana, the Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, Doobie Brothers, Arcade Fire, Adam and the Ants, and King Crimson all have multiple drummers. James Brown was one of the first guys to do it- at one point he had FIVE drummers in his band- not including himself. He eventually worked it down to two-Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks- and that was one of the most famous and tightest rhythm sections of all time.
They were my favorite performance there, the only band I went out of my way to see amongst the random drifting from stage to stage. Your post made me laugh regardless of the mistake; Dale is indeed awesome.
"i like these quiet little moments", for me The Melvin require no introduction or analysis. it's $*#@# sound, oh the sound shakes me and I am purified,
Well, the Melvins inspired Nirvana. This song kind of sounds like Night Goat which was released by the Melvins on Houdini years before Dave even performed My Hero, much less released it.
see 'em live and you'd know... makes the heaviest even more heavy..IMO- just saw this line up in atlanta tonight..even better than last year and saw them half a dozen times in the 90's as a three piece
@demonchocobo What's more amazing is I was there, and didn't even realize there were two drummers. They opened with this song and I was too captivated in the sway of electric ooze.
We move more than I would like to gamble I came with my poor poor eyes crawling weakling warning My favorite come and lie here Under my bed or deep under my fingers Well on my hands and knees in times of winding We night it's only when we civilize that worm For vagrant time we need it What secret of your knowing is their begining For chance to be old believe it believe it His widow's nest is growing cold, cold, cold Set sail and hurt your hand he work a lot, you're going home
According to Buzz: "Civilised Worm was an interesting one, because it got this reaction from Jared [Warren, Big Business vocalist who was then recording bass and guitars with Melvins] that no other song got. We took it to him and he was like 'that's a really good song!', real excited. There's odd time signatures again and the music under the vocals are really weird to play, like it feels like it shouldn't work but it does. It came out great. I loved everything about that song, and we played it on tour a couple years back. It's an odd rock song, if I had to describe it. I grew up isolated in a very small town with nobody showing me music, so when I discovered punk music I never knew that liking the Damned, Sex Pistols and The Clash alongside Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones was a bad idea! We've never lost that." www.loudersound.com/features/melvins-buzz-osbourne-my-life-in-10-songs
