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Like Dave Foster, Chad Channing and Dan Peters, Dale Crover was drummer in legendary grunge band Nirvana for a while. He hit the skins somewhere in 1988.
However, Dave Crover is better known as drummer in the much-revered stoner/doom/sludge band The Melvins. Over the course of the Melvins’ 17-year career, the influential trio has been considered post-punk, indie rock, grunge, and now stoner rock. But no one label has ever really fit the lugubrious sonic lava flow that the group so lovingly exudes.
Crover: "We’ve always been oddballs, because we have elements of heavy metal in our stuff, but we’ve always hated the cheesiness of heavy metal. We’re too nerdy for the heavy-metal audience, and we’re too heavy for any kind of alternative audience, but there are definitely people who like us and all the weird stuff that we do. It’s great that we’ve managed to exist off this band for so long and not go away—Buzz and I have been doing this as our day jobs now for 10 years.”
Crover’s desire to play the drums was initially fueled as a young teen by the music of KISS and Ted Nugent. “I took lessons for a while, starting on snare drum, but my drum teacher knew that I wanted to play rock,” he says. “He was like a jazz drummer, so he went out and got me a Carmine Appice book.” Vanilla Fudge veteran Appice and Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward would become major influences on his playing with the Melvins, which may be best described a........click for full story of Dale Crover
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