Buzz Osborne
Buzz Osborne
Roger "Buzz" Osborne, also known as King Buzzois the American guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and technically the only remaining founding member of the Melvins. He's also collaborated with various other artists such as Cows and Tool. Osborne is additionally a founding member/guitarist for both the groups Fantômas and Venomous Concept. He was a high school friend of Kurt Cobain and the bassist for Cobain's first band, Fecal Matter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth25 March 1964
CityMontesano, WA
CountryUnited States of America
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.
To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.
By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
We signed an amazing deal with 100 percent artistic control simply because when we signed it Nirvana were at the height of their fame.
I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?