Buzz Osborne

Buzz Osborne (born in 1964), so known under the pseudonym King Buzzo , (name of birth Roger Osborne ) is the Guitariste/Chanteur/Compositeur and technically the last of the founding members of the Melvins still forming part of the group. Dale Crover (beater) is often regarded as founding member him also, but wrongly: indeed, it joined the group right after its creation (although he was member before even as an album is recorded). Buzz Osbourne is also a founding member/guitarist of Fantômas and Venomous Concept.

Biography

With the beginning of the year 1980, Osborne founda The Melvins with Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard which went all to the college of Montesano, Washington, where it obtained its diploma in 1982. At their beginnings, Melvins played of the resumptions of The Who and Jimi Hendrix, then they started to play of the faster Punk hardcore. When Dillard left the group in 1984, Dale Crover replaced it and the meetings of repetition moved in a part of the house of the parents of Crover with Aberdeen, Washington. They do not reflect a long time to find their style: slower and “heavy” songs, i.e. what about all their contemporaries made.

In 1988, Osborne and Crover moved with San Francisco, California. It is there that in May 1989, the group recorded its third album, Ozma , which left in the current the year. In 1990, Nirvana did not have any more a beater, and Crover repaired them at the time of a rapid turned on the west coast with Sonic Youth. Osborne gave to Dave Grohl group Scream the phone number of Krist Novoselic, the bass player of Nirvana; Grohl became thereafter the new official beater of Nirvana.

Osborne lives today with Hollywood with his wife Mackie.

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