Who wants free ice cream
August 9, 2013 8:11 AM   Subscribe

Watch the Melvins (with Jeff Pinkus) play a Butthole Surfers tune while giving kids free Ice Cream.
posted by cellphone (10 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
 
I love this more than words can express.
posted by googly at 8:14 AM on August 9, 2013


These are a few of my favorite things: Jeni's ice cream, Humboldt Park, the Melvins and the Butthole Surfers. How did I miss this?? It's blocks from my home!
posted by deliciae at 8:26 AM on August 9, 2013 [1 favorite]


Sweet!
posted by safetyfork at 8:56 AM on August 9, 2013


Oh, and they picked the Butthole's signature tune from their best era - Graveyard! Aces!

I call it their signature tune because it was the one song they seemed to play every show for years... there are two album versions from Locust Abortion Technician, a slow grindy one with the voice pitch-shifted down and a faster, more depraved version with distortion on the voice.
You lie in the graveyard
Well, you're rotting away
When I talk to you daily
You've got nothing to say

You lie in the graveyard
Well, you are down making plans
Well, you control all my thoughts
Well, you make dust fall
I actually never worked out the lyrics exactly, even though I must have heard this song hundreds of times...
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 9:34 AM on August 9, 2013


Hey! The drummer on the left is wearing a John Brannon t-shirt that a friend of mine designed.
posted by NoMich at 10:41 AM on August 9, 2013


FUCK YES

TWO DRUMMERS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO BUTTHOLE SURF
posted by idiopath at 11:14 AM on August 9, 2013 [4 favorites]


There may be bands that I love more than the Melvins, but at any given moment there is no band that I love more INTENSELY than the Melvins.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:41 PM on August 9, 2013


This was awesome. The kid in the striped shirt who sticks it out to the end...that kid is goin' places.
posted by Otis at 2:44 PM on August 9, 2013 [1 favorite]


I kinda wondered, because the text blurb doesn't make it clear, whether or not the free ice cream was always part of the plan, or if it just happened due to Royal Decree?
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 12:58 PM on August 10, 2013




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