Jared Warren and Coady Willis of Big Business kick the night off. Photo: Niels Jensen
Coady Willis lays into the drums with force. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared Warren of Big Business. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared Warren and Coady Willis of Big Business. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared and Coady more than warmed up the crowd before joining Dale Crover and Buzz Osborne to complete the Melvins line-up. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared Warren from the soundboard. Photo: Niels Jensen
A crowd member hangs on as Buzz delivers the best riffs. Photo: Niels Jensen
Buzz and Dale belt it out. Photo: Niels Jensen
Two drummers are better than one. Photo: Niels Jensen
Buzz Osborne belts out the chorus to “Black Betty.” Photo: Niels Jensen
Photo: Niels Jensen
Buzzo’s sweat-laced chrome guitar ruled the night. Photo: Niels Jensen
Osborne prefers to rock out in PF Flyers and a heavy cloak. Photo: Niels Jensen
Dale Crover. Intense as he comes up to the drum set. Photo: Niels Jensen
Dale Crover raises ’em to the sky in anticipation of the next prolonged note. Photo: Niels Jensen
Buzzo in a cloak. Never a disappointment. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared Warren backs Buzz on vocals. Photo: Niels Jensen
Crover and Willis kept the intense pace throught the set. Photo: Niels Jensen
Crover and Osborne have been playing together for a long time, and their timing showed through the night. Photo: Niels Jensen
Dale Crover and Coady Willis in sync. Photo: Niels Jensen
Dale Crover delivered what the crowd came for. Photo: Niels Jensen
Buzz Osborne has hair. The best hair. Photo: Niels Jensen
The reflections of Osborne’s guitar made for a visual, as well as auditory feast. Photo: Niels Jensen
Buzz Osborne takes in the energy from the crowd. Photo: Niels Jensen
Buzz delivers a righteous solo. Photo: Niels Jensen
After Buzz left the stage, Warren kept the crowd involved while the drummers finished out. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared Warren lays into the crowd as he sings in slow motion. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared nears the end of his slow motion journey across the stage. Photo: Niels Jensen
Jared is finally swallowed by the crowd. Photo: Niels Jensen
The end of Jared’s slow motion fall into the crowd. Photo: Niels Jensen
Coady Willis and Dale Crover take to one drum set. Photo: Niels Jensen
Dale Crover’s version of tipping his hat to the crowd is getting up on his chair and doing the twist. Photo: Niels Jensen
Merch table. Melvins Rule. You Do Not. Photo: Niels Jensen
Classic line-up for the week reflected in the Melvins tour van. Photo: Niels Jensen
Big Business wasted no time showing everyone you can make a wall of sound with just two people. Drummer Coady Willis and Jared Warren on bass and lead vocals kicked off the night with energy to match the crowd. With a killer opening set, they had everyone primed for the sludge kings to follow. Rarely do you see an act walk on stage with such crowd anticipation as Melvins on Sunday night. If you were there, you know. If not, you missed the boat. With Willis and Warren back on stage, Buzz Osborne (King Buzzo!) and Dale Crover continued the heavy onslaught. The set list included old classics as well as newer cuts with reliable Melvins riffs. Drummers Dale Crover and Coady Willis blew the crowd away as they played insanely hard the entire time. The duo of drummers were unreal in the way they complemented each other in such complex way. Osborne didn’t disappoint at all either. Donning a long, heavy paisley cloak, he charged through the set full-steam ahead such that an encore wasn’t even necessary or expected from the crowd. As a t-shirt at the merch table said: “Melvins rule. You do not.” Words have rarely rung so true.
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