Ep444: Recording Melvins with Buzz Osborne & Toshi Kasai
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Buzz Osborne and Toshi Kasai have been musical collaborators for several decades of Melvins and related releases. They discuss their partnership, history, studio lessons and memories, recording "Tarantula Heart", future releases and more.
- Buzz and Toshi met at a Tool recording session
- Toshi and Buzz have similar humour and work ethic
- Melvins work on defined time schedules
- How "Tarantula Heart" was recorded
- Melvins have to re-learn the songs from Tarantula Heart
- Potential relation to "Plan D" recording approach
- Making the 20 minute track "Pain Equals Funny"
- How to approach playing "Tarantula Heart" tracks live
- Melvins activity during the pandemic
- Recording session with Melvins & Napalm Death
- Lots of Melvins unreleased material
- What has Buzz Learned from Toshi?
- Buzz would like to re-record the Atlantic albums
- What has Toshi learned from Buzz?
- How will Buzz approach the next album?
- Constraints during recording
- Trying to not overthink material
- Examples of sessions that were not successful
- Husker Du's "Data Control" was recorded multiple times before the Helms Alee version
- Upcoming HAZEXXL remix of "Pain Equals Funny" / Boris split
- Melvins recent vinyl reissues
- "(A) Senile Animal" vinyl screwup
- Any preparation for the end of Melvins?
- Upcoming projects, albums
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:20.7 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:23.5 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:28.3 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:31.9 | Well, hello everyone. |
| 0:33.5 | It's Nate. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome to episode 4-444-4 of the Vinyl Guide. 4-44-4 of the vinyl guide. |
| 0:38.7 | 4-4-4-3-4s we got on the board. |
| 0:41.8 | Holy mackerel. |
| 0:43.3 | And what better way to celebrate that sort of weird milestone with two guests today, |
| 0:50.0 | involved in perhaps my favorite band of all time, Melvin's, long-time creative collaborators, |
| 0:57.4 | Buzz Osborne, and Toshi Kasai. Now, you all know Buzz as a guitarist and co-founder of Melvins, |
| 1:03.7 | and Toshi is their longtime engineer, producer, and collaborator. So, if Melvins are the Beatles, |
| 1:10.5 | then Tashi is George Martin. And today we talk to both Buzz and collaborator. So if Melvins are the Beatles, then Tashi is George Martin. And today we |
| 1:13.4 | talk to both Buzz and Tashi about their history together, working on Melvin's solo projects, |
| 1:20.2 | the extremely unique approach of the new Melvin's album, Tarantula Heart. We talk about some |
| 1:27.2 | upcoming recordings, outtakes, vinyl records we can expect to see, and quite a bit more. |
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