It’s a rock rivalry we didn’t see coming, but now shots have been fired by the Melvins’ Buzz Osborne, who has referred to Rob Zombie as a “lower-level fuckhead”.
For more than 35 years, Buzz Osborne has remained the longest-serving member of experimental rockers the Melvins.
Having toured with some of the biggest names in music history, you can expect that he’d have a lot to say about just about everyone in the business.
However, if you were to ask him who his least-favourite artist on the scene is, it seems that none other than Rob Zombie will receive the dubious honour.
Speaking to Rolling Stone recently, Osborne was asked to name some of his favourite grunge records.
While albums by Soundgarden and Nirvana obviously made the cut, it was the eye-catching comments that accompanied Babes In Toyland’s Spanking Machine that got everyone talking.
“We played a lot of shows with [Babes In Toyland] back then, and they were always fun,” Osborne recalled. “We did a tour with them and White Zombie, and we both got treated like fucking dogshit on that tour by the powers that be.”
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“It was a massively unnecessary situation of pointless rock-star behavior. I don’t know what was going through his [Rob Zombie’s] head, but if making enemies is what you set out to do, well, mission accomplished.”
Check out the Melvins’ ‘Hooch’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33ml_q9nvc
“I’ve been around people you would consider a rock star, like the guys in KISS, and they never behaved like that,” Buzz Osborne continued.
“It just makes you hate lower-level fuckheads like Rob Zombie even more. If I got treated like that by the fucking mailman, I’d hate his guts. So it was fun to have Babes In Toyland along.”
Of course, this tour in question occurred back in 1995, so if Rob Zombie was indeed the “lower-level fuckhead” that Buzz Osborne refers to him as, there’s every chance that things may have changed in the last 23 years.
Regardless, it’s not looking like Rob Zombie will be dumping Marilyn Manson as his tour partner to welcome the Melvins aboard any time soon.
Check out White Zombie’s ‘More Human Than Human’:
