You're listening to nakedly examined music a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Linson Meyer.

My guest for episode 223 is Dale Crover, best known as the drummer from the Melvins, which was perhaps the parent band of Nirvana.

Dale even played briefly with Nirvana in the early days.

You're right now hearing Spread Eagle Beagle, the final track from the Melvins,

Hudini 1993.

Dale has played on all 28 albums by the Melvins.

Most songs are written by the guitarist and lead singer Buzz Osbourn,

but they also do a lot of group writing and in

1995 they each released a solo EP. Around that same time 1994 Dale

started Altamont which he was the lead guitarist and lead singer.

They released four albums in parallel with Melvins through 2005.

In the past eight years or so, Dale has started recording on his own some more. He's just released his third full solo album,

Glossolalia, and we're going to be talking about I quit from that record, then bad move from his 2017 solo album,

The Fickle Finger of Fate, and then a Melvin's tune that

Dale wrote the basis of The Bit from their 1996 album Stag and for both that song

and Bad Move there was a new recording made in 2021 by Mekons for an all-acoustic album called Five-Llegged Dog.

So we'll hear little clips of those alternate interpretations of those two songs.

Finally we're going to hear a tune from the last Altamont album The Monkey's Uncle 2005.

The song is called El Stupido.

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