Melvins Stoner Witch Tour 94 - Live 1994 Essen, Germany Zeche Carl 

... when i'll find the time... will master the audio and make the video quality better... have the tools... but not the time @ moment... but as it looks like ... it's worth to spend a few day's on it... many thx @ all for the nice comments and thumb's up! Will also write the story behind this videos ...

Watching this video brings back some good memories. I had just discovered the Melvins in 1993 when my sister and I went to see Primus and the Melvins opened for them. She said I just stood there with my mouth opened with a look of amazement during their entire set. I had just started learning to play the drums in 1992, so I was hyper focused on Dale the entire time. His drums were enormous and sounded like cannons every time he hit them. He also played really big cymbals and incorporated some percussive elements I had not heard before. The 2 ribbon crashers, LP jam block, and at times in the '90's, he had just the metal frame of a large roto tom (14" or 16", I think) mounted on a cymbal stand and it provides a very clear bell-like sound. I instantly fell in love with the absolute power he plays with, as well as the creativity of his playing. From that day since, I've been a huge fan of this band.

Melvins, I heard them talked about lots, whilst getting deep into Grunge and Sludge. Both of which being created by the Melvins. But they never really clicked for me, until I was getting into the band Boris. Then the Melvins clicked, holy fuck they clicked.

1:18 Anaconda 5:14 At A Crawl 8:18 Queen 11:15 Joan of Arc 16:29 Lizzy 21:18 Oven 22:36 Goose Freight Train 27:15 Skweetis 28:31 Sweet Willy Rollbar 29:52 Revolve 34:14 Hooch 37:59 Night Goat 42:09 Jam 1 46:50 Shevil 54:04 Second Coming

This is the fucking perfect view and video quality for 1994 good job there’s not a lot of old Melvin sets recorded

Dale fn Crover, everyone

28:36: that drum fill at the start of sweet willy rollbar is insane

Great video! I had the pleasure of working with Dale, Buzz, and Mark during this time with Atlantic. Great times!

Melvins starting to enjoy their fame around this time😊

it's wild to see them singing such weird lyrics in unison. Hooch with 2 singers is almost incomprehesible

Proper artists. Never disappoint!

The mighty Melvins! What a beautiful Noise.😍

I love the Melvins...buzz with the greatest doo of all time!!!...strange to me that they weren't bigger stars than nirvana....not to knock them...but they are more my wheel house than nirvana

greatest band I should have go into a LONG time ago

They're the quintessential garage band that, no matter how seasoned and old they got, never left the garage. (I mean that in a good way).

Thank you

This is true grunge. Heavier than heavy. It's a shame these guys aren't lauded more often in the 90s retrospective docs.

Dale Fucking Crover! 🤘🔥🥁🔥🤘

0:04 - the song while they are preparing for the show: Pentagram - Bride of Evil

wow thanks for this video

The mid nineties.

I love the merch guy at the end. I think he's still selling merch, I went to a melvins show in 2023 and bought a signed vinyl from him, his voice sounded familiar. I was surprised it was signed, he saw me and said "that's right signed by King Fucko himself". Lol. he's a real cool dude.

Thank you , great footage great line up at the time with Mark.

i can't wait to see Melvins and Bungle

What an incredible show, thanks so much for sharing it! Do you happen to have filmed the Bielefeld show from the same tour?

Wow great recording! What a powerhouse. Revolve is one of my favorites, amazing dynamics in that song.

Awesome video!

Amazing! What a show! I got to meet them one time in Denver while THEY THE BAND were loading in the gear. Talk for a minute asked for a picture so cool and down to earth no ego! Much much love!

I remember when Dale used big drums, that was cool.

Love them, nice set

Wow thanks for sharing!

WOW EPIC 😎

Dale clovver, highly underrated, Melvins too.

Surprised they weren`t bigger.

This is the band everyone ripped off to sound cool in the 90s. But unlike all of their imitators they still sound cool

🤘

This is so crisp. Thanks for uploading.

From UCLA to Germany in a year.... MELVINS ARE AMAZING

Damn this is heavy as hell.

Sooo fuckin good. This looks amazing considering when it was shot and the sound is excellent. Like drinking from the Holy Grail and oh Mark D's hat. One of the best bands ever riiiiiight here.

....."THE POWER OF THE RIFF COMPELS ME?!!!!".....😅

Thank you for this reminder. I was there but not really there. That day my work was very stressful, tiring, my girl made me feel like she doesn't love me anymore and other stupid things that day just spoiled the enjoyment of a MELVINS CONCERT. But now I can catch up on that pleasure. Thanks!

Zapp ended up falling on hard times in Nevada, like so many.

Very good quality !! wonder if this could be an opener for one of the last nirvana shows

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the upload! I could see them twice in 1994. Still one of the best concerts I have been... If I was responsible to choose songs for a "Melvins Best Of LP", these songs would be on it.

Thank you so much for uploading this! I love the mighty Dale Crover from a drummers point of view! I have seen some shows of them too, but it was around 2001 and later , in Prime Club, in Kantine with Tomahawk , and two Shows in Gebäude 9 later in 2017 and 2018. My favorite show was the one in Prime Club which Dale started with drum solo intro and double paddle playing! And from this point seeing that power live i fell in love with Dale and the Melvins! Since then i'm addicted to Melvins and Dale Crover especialy because i play drums too. Thank you so much!

Unearthly!

Holy shit this is awesome!

wow how and why am I just now checkin these dudes out, fking awesome ! like what I've been looking for ?!

I wish I had another pair of hands... So I could give this performance four thumbs up!

Dale Crover is a walking natural disaster

The Almighty Melvins opened up for NIRVANA right before we lost Kurt, and the amazing Pentagram was playing over the speakers before they had started to play

amazing ending 😅

Damn. 30 years ago. Dale in his prime. What a beast. Tight as f*ck this show.

King Buzzo looks like a young Patton Oswalt in a wig

Rocin it like it isn't no thang

Pretty sweet to be able to see this

Pentagram as anthem. Yee haw.

Dale is a beast behind the kit

This is the 149th comment.

No EGC guitar could ever sound like this.

What the hell is going on here

Best hair in music

CROVER IS GOD

Oh man. This band is fucking cooking

Jam 1 @ 42min is Zep's Levee Breaks

DAT SNARE!!!!!!

これは、どんな宗教よりアブねー❤😂

That was the first of many Melvins shows I've been to. I didn't know them before that day and loved them right away, when they started. My friend Nils, bass-player of my former band by then, invited me and took me there with him. A few years later he got depressive and killed himself - very very sad and another reason for me to write, play and teach music. Thanks for the introduction and everything, Nils! Thanks, Melvins!

Yeah, hard rock

They opened for Nirvana here right

Some of the best music out of my home state.

Great sound quality here!

Palm 🪴Springs

The hard way is the best way

AndEver

Maybe. Surprised at how deep they are

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

there's no such a thing as Sludge/Doom Grundge dying regardless if Cobain died at that year or Not

It's the brother of Robert Smith, BTW.

Thanks for this. Brilliant band.

Melvins $$$ made after 91? Nirvana

I'm not choosing anybody, because they are all really good

I'm finding out the hard way

Melvins NIN helmet Unsane are my big 4

Nobody here is disappointed

This is the show from November 29, 1994 in Essen not March - they didn't play all those "Stoner Witch" stuff in March. I saw them twice that year...brandmarked me for life.

OOh. Wait. Alot of talent here

Background music

Oh fuck. Just hold on

I'm going to find out

Good background

Outta time like a mf

quasi-creamy

Hell yeah. The Melvins have ALWAYS delivered live. So damn great, thanks for posting. Coming up on 30 years!

Alright

Well it's definitely not Nirvana cuz Nirvana would sound good so it must be elvims.

Afrob

Fuck. I'm glad that I'm drunk. Otherwise forget it