The Melvins: Why they hated touring with White Zombie
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1995 Saw White Zombie release their final studio album Astrocreep 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head. The album would be the group’s most commercially successful record peaking at number 6 on the billboard album charts. To support the album, White Zombie would hit the road with a variety of bands including the Toadies, and today’s topic the Melvins. It seemed like an odd pairing and it was. The melvins had a horrendous time opening for white zombie and frontman king buzzo would describe it as one of his worst experiences.. Today let’s take a look at what happened on that tour.
In 1995 the melvins were playing support to several high profile bands including today’s topic White Zombie and Nine Inch Nails, a band we’ll talk about later in the video. One year prior the melvins released their album Stoner Witch.
The band would spend almost two months on the road with White Zombie from May to June of 1995. And also on the bill for part of the tour was reverend horton heat and babes in toyland. One review I stumbled upon said the following at one of the shows of the tour in philadelphia. saying “”Considering today’s lackluster stage shows White Zombie over the top blowout was a joy. “Opening act the Melvins went over everyone’s heads and knew it. When the group pointed out that philadelphia was home to the mutter museum few in the audience had ever heard of the famous repository of medical oddities.
In a separate review i found online from robohara.com who wrote
The Melvins have always been known as being a little bizarre if not temperamental, and when the anxious crowd began chanting “WHITE. ZOMBIE. WHITE. ZOMBIE.” about two songs into the Melvins’ set, lead guitarist/vocalist King Buzzo announced something to the effect of, “Here’s our new song called ’30 Minutes of Feedback’.” With that, the band leaned their instruments up against the speakers causing a terrible squeal. The sound man, I suspect not knowing if this was part of the band’s regular show or not, let the instruments scream for a minute or two before cutting the sound. Everyone in the crowd looked at one another, slightly bewildered. A few minutes later the stage was cleared, White Zombie came on, and that was the end of that.
Back in 2012 the Melvins were out on tour and frontman King Buzzo published stories from the road on Spin.com where he discussed the tour with White Zombie in detail saying
“We played a lot of shows with them [Babes In Toyland] back then, and they were always fun. We did a tour with them and White Zombie, and we both got treated like fucking dogshit on that tour by the powers that be. It was a massively unnecessary situation of pointless rock-star behavior. I don’t know what was going through his [Rob Zombie’s] head, but if making enemies is what you set out to do, well, mission accomplished.
I’ve been around people you would consider a rock star, like the guys in Kiss, and they never behaved like that. It just makes you hate lower-level fuckheads like Rob Zombie even more. If I got treated like that by the fing mailman, I’d hate his guts.
The dumbest thing I've ever seen a fellow musician do. Man I don't even know where to begin. One time we were on a tour, I'm assuming it was the worst tour we ever did, which was opening for White Zombie & there sound guy made us stop sound checking because it was bothering Rob as he was eating. I remember thinking what is he eating a fabrige egg omlette, are you joking. Whatever. There was endless amount of that stuff. Endless, endless. I don't know people for some reason they either don't believe those stories or they think that since we haven't sold millions of records our opinion doesn't count.
It was in 2014 that King Buzzo spoke to the phoenix new times where he once again slammed Rob Zombie saying
I mean, do you think on the White
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