241: Buzz Osborne (Melvins)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

For nearly 40 years, The Melvins have been an astounding live band and peerless in their prolific ability to create a consistently adventurous body of work--a musical universe unto itself. Buzz Osborne discusses: his childhood in WA; feeling comfortable around firearms; being too smart to enjoy school; writing his memoir; the discipline required to maintain a career as a professional musician; dogs; his songwriting process, and more!

Because we're in lockdown due to the Corona virus outbreak. We're recording by phone and bringing you new episodes of The Trap Set every day for the foreseeable future.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:14.0	Welcome to the coronavirus outbreak, we're recording by phone and bringing you new episodes of the trap set every day for the foreseeable future.
0:38.0	Today's guest is Buzz Osborne, the singer and guitarist of the Melvins.
0:43.0	Over the course of nearly 40 years and thousands of shows, the Melvins have been a consistently
0:48.2	astounding live band. They're also peerless in their ability to sustain a prolific and creatively adventurous body of work,
0:56.4	a musical universe unto itself.
1:00.2	Buzz is gearing up for a solo tour in May.
1:03.2	And now my conversation with Buzz Osborne.
1:16.6	Yeah. Oh, it's Hello?
1:17.6	Hey, Buzz.
1:19.6	Yeah.
1:20.6	Hey, it's Joe.
1:21.6	How are you?
1:22.6	Oh, it's all the weirdest, one of the weirdest things I've ever been through.
1:30.5	It's like life after the 94 earthquake here, you know.
1:39.7	9-11 was more centered around one area, and people panicked for a couple days, and then we were on tour with Phantamas when that happened.
1:47.3	And so, you know, at first it was weird, and then two days after it happened, people were ready to go out and party.
1:50.9	That's the last thing they wanted to do was think about all that shit.
1:51.4	Right.
1:54.7	So the shows were packed and everybody was wasted.
1:58.6	I can understand it.
2:01.2	They've been sitting at home for two days looking at all this death.
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