Buzz Osborne

2005 at one gig

Buzz Osborne (born March 25, 1964 , actually Roger Osborne, pseudonym King Buzzo ) is an American singer, guitarist and producer .

In the early 1980s he founded the Melvins with Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard in Montesano , Washington . He later met Kurt Cobain in the local punk scene , whom he had a lasting influence. In 1988 he moved to San Francisco . He now lives in Hollywood with his wife . In the 1990s, at the height of the grunge boom, the underground Melvins were signed by the major label Atlantic Records . There they released the albums Houdini (1993), Stoner Witch (1994) and Stag (1996). In the late 1990s they switched to Mike Patton's label Ipecac Recordings . Osborne describes the criticism of major labels that is common in the alternative scene as exaggerated and, looking back in 2014, praised the collaboration with Atlantic: “Nobody told us what we had to do. It was the exact opposite of what many people think. All in all, indie labels are bigger ripoffs than majors. ”In 2014 he released his solo album This Machine Kills Artists on Ipecac Recordings. The title is a reference to the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists" that Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar. Although Osborne speaks out against asking entertainers about social and political issues, he is often controversial about the latter and takes a position against what is perceived as left-liberal mainstream. In an interview with Jörg Scheller he characterized himself as a “Classic Liberal” and said: “Why should it be okay for the government to pull money out of your pocket for matters that you have nothing to do with? No this is not okay. On the contrary: that is theft! And that goes hand in hand with massive corruption. ”Osborne is a supporter of the liberal-conservative economist, philosopher and Milton Friedman student Thomas Sowell .

Osborne also has various side projects.

• Fantômas
• Venomous Concept
• Melvana - Bootleg 7 "with Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from Nirvana
• The Cows - Sorry In Pig Minor (Producer)
• Tweaker - The Attraction to All Things Uncertain (co-author and guitarist)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5h0JgDSDj0
2. ↑ http://larecord.com/interviews/2011/07/18/the-melvins-hes-a-big-mother
3. ↑ http://www.pop-zeitschrift.de/2014/09/23/buzz-osborne-melvins-im-rechner-us-amerikanischer-klassischer-liberalismusvon-jorg-scheller23-9-2014/
4. ↑ http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/410253/buzz-osbornes-top-5-influences.htm