There is one person I will not hate if they do decide to not heed my call to BOYCOTT THE MELVINS SHOW on Oct. 13, 2006 at the Living Room in Providence RI. That is Jonathan W. He is a fan and should over-ride this and go.

Everyone else, should think hard about what I am about to write.

Back in the day, Arab on Radar was very excited to play a "big" show with the Melvins at the Living Room. A few of us worked wt that place for brief stints and really hyped the show up bigtime to Mr. Randy Hein (RIP). Randy as a result, took our word and gave the MELVINS everything they demanded in thier rider - including beer, a compelte catered dinner for all thier crew and themselves, it was literally a room full of stuff, Randy shelled out major cash for it...

Long story short, and hour before thier sound check (apx. 6 PM) thier manager calls from Boston trying to shake Randy down for an extra 1000.00 to play. They debated for a while and Randy could not pay them what they asked. Then they moved on to the reason - they didn't want a local band on the show, they did not want to pay the local band yadda yadda...
They basically did not want to play...

So, they screwed everyone, did not show up, and continued on thier tour.

We in AOR put up a sign letting fans know that they weren't playing. About 250 people looked at it, turned around and left. We played to about 50 people... bad show.

Thats do-able, OK.

BUT.

The next week my homie from Atlanta (thier next stop on tour) mailed me a clip from their local Phoenix type of newspaper, I think it is called the Atlanta Weekly or something like that...

It contained an interview with King Buzzo, that stated the reason they cancelled Providence was because the club owner "did not support local bands"... ! You can find all of this online if you care to do some googling or other forms of websearching.

SO that was BS, we e-mailed thie management and threatened to kick thier asses if they came back... which (funny enough) kept them out of Providence for many years. no lie...

They apparently did come back later with HELMET and basically snag stupid showtunes and fuckedoff the whole show.

in a nutshell, they absolutely suck, the music, the hairdos, talentless cronies and jaded old farts.

I call on all people, who care about local music to pass on this show...

I find it personally repugnant that anyone in Providence would BOOK this shit knowing the score, but someone did, and ya know... someone always does. It is like being an intern for Antonin Scalia, theres always some poor schmuck that will sell out all principles and do it... sad, truely sad.

But please do not go.

I can offer a free 7'' (made in mexico) to anyone who seriously can convince me that they were going and decided not to due to this call to boycott.

This is the first and probably only boycott I would ever contemplate, but we need to make it not profitable to screw over bands and awesome club owners like Randy was.

I loved that guy and miss him much.

Melvins Schmelvins (you can download every good album of thiers for free easily, they suck live, they have sucked for years, give it up)

thanks.

schneidlomat

I'm interested in why you feel that the only fan who should override this is Jonathan W?

I find melvins dumpster diving too.

I didn't even know about the show.

rusted shut does a song called "I hate Seattle".

Wouldn't it be better if a punch of people went and punched the Melvins in the face?

For those not in the know "a punch" is an old english term for a group of people consisting of more than 20 people but less than 42 people.

Raping local bands is a form of discrimination. I've been boycotting the Melvins since their first useless indie rock drone album. Maybe a group should go, abduct them and anally rape them.

It might improve king bozo's haie.

hair^

Might give them some real angst for their songs.

first off, Arab on Radar is the superior shit. I listened to Queen Hygiene making breakfast yesteday.

second, Melvins are NOTORIOUS for this. My old band was scehduled to open for them at TT The Bears' in '92, and they blew it off (TT's is pretty small, I should've anticipated that, but I was a but wee lass)

third, I hadn't really planned on going anyway.

Kurt Cobain was nicer than the Melvins.

DECADENT CAPITALIST GARBAGE
CALUMNY OF WESTERN LIES
AGAINST GLORIOUS SOVIET UNION!

boycotting is stupid. get over it!

saw the melvins in 1996. I think it was even billed as an evening with the melvins, if i recall. I thought what a jip,no opening band.

arab on radar>melvins

I saw the Melvins at Babyhead in '95. There were no problems.

dookie pie

The Melvins are good enough to make you feel hurt.

I would never boycott The Melvins for any reason, ever.

king bozo

schneidlomat = melvins destroyer

Melvins = Sonic Youth for slow-moving people

i saw the melvins and the cows play a show at the rat way back. they came out and played some shitty drone for about 45 minuts. it seemed like an eternity. when they stopped i looked around the club. almost everybody had left. they sucked. there schtik was wack then and its wack now. i call bullshit on the melvins. their metal is weak.

the next night entombed unleashed morbid angel and cardinal sin thrashed the channel!

what a bunch of uninformed silly fools.

i shit in king buzzos hair 10 years ago ...its still there today.
fuck the melvins. support local music.

No, support GG Allin. He needs more cigarette butts and urine on his grave.

yeah right!
like Im gonna listen to a guy from Arab on radar!
hilarious!
take some Valium and a nap...preferrably a dirt nap.

Frink

I used to be obsessed with the whole Seattle scene and bought almost everything that came out on Sub Pop since they both started, and yea, the Melvins were never good. They've always been one of those bands that shithead critic-type losers think you HAVE to like in order to like something else. Idiots think they started some new style of sludge stuff, but they were just hideously ugly guys so people that couldn't get laid said they were great and it just snowballed. But they've just always been shitty.

Support local music.

1. Arab on Radar put me through some pretty torturous sets. And I don't mean that in a cute way.
2. If this is true fuck the Melvins for life because those clowns always screamed about how they were better people than all the rock star prima-dona bands out there. Another big mouth band that was full of shit. No big surprise. *cough*bane*cough*

I live in dallas tx, all of our local bands suck! I can prove this with one word. Well 3 words really. WHITE TRASH Pantera

ps Im glad that dimebag was blasted on!

Can you blame the Melvins? Arab on Radar weren't worthy to open. Simple really.

Sir, you are a fuck stick.

Boycott the Melvins cause your band didn't get to open for them? hahahaha

Love the Melvins, and this sounds like normal Melvins behavior. Also, about 99% of their fanbase have nothing to do with RTTP, so this boycott fails instantly.

this just sounds like a cheap way for this winner to unload some shitty 7 inches that he found gathering dust in his mom's basement.

NippleViolater said:

never been good? houdidni, stoner witch, fucking STAG!! classic shit right there. You are an idiot, you don't agree with me and Weymouth, therefore, you have no valid opinions

Whoever wrote this is a selfish prick

Way to think of the other bands that are playing and how this might affect them

One band is from Iceland, if I am not mistaken. I'm sure they'd be stoked to get fucked out of an audience because some promoter had a miscommunication with a band that years later was never resolved in a mature way.

" Ghostigital

Oct. 13, 2006 Providence, RI The Living Room
w/ Melvins, Big Business "

Ghostigital

In Cod We Trust

Einar Örn – Vocals
Curver – Electronics, Tape Delays, Gadgets

It seems that when Einar Örn (former SUGARCUBES and K.U.K.L. front man) enlists another artist to work with him, it’s like collaborating with the Cubists, or the Dadaists in musical form. His partner in this case, with the movement named Ghostigital, is Curver. An Icelandic multi-instrumentalist, Curver’s background is as eclectic as the music he dabbles in: a producer, artist, a remixer (Sigur Ros) , a music teacher. Ghostigital’s Les Demoiselles de Avignon is named In Cod We Trust. Welcome! You’re really in for a fantastic treat.

For those new to the sonic world of Ghostigital, you should know that there doesn’t seem to be any floor plan to the music, even though there is architecture. It’s best you just relax, release preconception, don’t think or analyze too much. Here’s an idea: let us do the analyzing so the thoughts don’t get in the way of your listening experience. Know the music will come to you the way it wants to; you are not in control. Often it seems that neither is Einar. His vocal tone evokes the everyday man hung on an everyday line and pushed to extremes, but extremes that for the moment are livable and sometimes amusing. His rap does not spew harsh violence but the cool cosmically comic fright-journalism of breakfast in workaday hell.

Unmistakably Icelandic, their subjects could have multiple national origins – exchange codfish for… well, anything and you get the meaning. In 1940s America, “fish” was slang for the dollar and there, the joke of the album is easily apparent. Whether Einar is commenting on what he sees while standing in line at the grocery store, men who are fixated on fish or seeing the Northern Lights through a headache, his songs are still stories of relationships with average living, a lifestyle that merges the mundane with the sublime.

While the genre-mashing In Cod We Trust pulls the aesthetic rug out from under a listener’s expectations, one should not fear that they are lost in a pop music sea. Ghostigital fashions an aural forest of industrial, Bel Canto, Jazz, Rap, ‘80’s New Wave, and Electronic music– just not necessarily in that order or only at one time.

I apologize, what really happened is that we've been doing this the same amount of time as the Melvins and I still haveto work two day jobs.

Fuck yeah.

RADAR rolls over the Melvins in so many fucking ways...FUCK King Scuzzo

There's alot of us that have been killing ourselves for years (decades)doing this music thing and trying to get half of the notoriety of some of these shit bands that make it. I think the Melvins music is awesome but I've heard many times over how much dicks they are and I can attest to how shitty they are live. Fuck them. Let them starve like the rest of us.

i will gladly sit at home and do nothing instead of seeing this crappy band.

Boycott threads about boycotting.

Arab on Radar said:


waaaaaahhhhhhh! life is tough, get fucking used to it you weasely pampered art school douchbag. all of you are a bunch of fucking tools who wouldn't know good music if you miraculously produced it yourselves. please, roll over and die, i could use the fresh air.

stoner witch sucks.

My lifelong boycott of the Melvins stands regardless of this thread, or anything else beyond their music.

i'm certain they'll miss having the no neck, hockey pucks in ears, hatebreed shirt wearing demographic at their shows. you heartless bastard.

HOW MUCH IS THE SHOW.... curious to see what they are getting at the door

instant larry said:

well that certainly describes me perfectly.

give it a rest.

Boycott Life!!!!
Abort The Human Race!!!!

I boycott the boycott on the Melvins.

wait, boycott this show and come to the middle east tonight.

anyone who can even compare the melvins to bane should sit back and realize that hardcore isn't music. it's just an attitude... a shitty one at that. :-)

The Melvins to Bane? WTF OMG! Thank god I didn't read anything in this thread.

MadOakDevin said:

fantastic. CC me an Outlook calendar item so I can know what I should be sitting back and realizing.

I'm in houston,it's to far to drive.

XmikeX @ work said:

I don't know what that means, so I'm going to drink me a budweiser beer and sit back and realize you have no say in Melvins thread.

Why? The Melvins say they aren't rock stars because THEY AREN'T. They even talk shit about rock star bands because the Melvins are so far from that.

The tour before the Jello Biafra tour, they toured in a Lincoln Continetal? (I could be wrong about the car and model, but it was a boat). With A U-Haul trailer attached because they didn't have enough money to rent a van for the tour.

The one time toured in just a van because they couldn't get a trailer, too. They spent the whole tour borrowing gear from local openers.

Every band who's been on tour has had to be a pain in some promoters ass at some point. Get over it, quit crying. Maybe you should go write in your blog.

What the hell do I care if the Melvins toured in a Lincoln Continental, a ford Escort, the Oscar Meyer weiner car, or a blimp? They couldn't get a trailer. Boo hoo. They've toured internationally, played Ozzfest, and probably get paid more per show then any of my shitty bands have ever made total. If they fuck that up that's their problem. If I don't like some pube from the internet's favorite band that's their problem. If they screwed over Arab on Radar that's Arab On Radar's problem. And if I want to compare one bullshit band to another than that's Bane's problem. Wahh.

xmikex said:

mike, you know that's not true at all.

you'd TOTALLY care if they toured in the oscar meyer weiner car.

can we start again?

The Melvins FUCKING KILLED IT on Friday with Big Business; Ghost Digital was a totally sick performance as well... anyone who boycotted this the show is a total douchebag on several levels.
Lastly, Bane truly sucks. as if...