King Buzzo & Trevor Dunn at Turf Club, St Paul (20 Aug 2024)
- Lysol*
- Dark Brown Teeth^
- Laid Back
- Dirty One & the Poor Dog
- Eat the Spray
- I Like Stuff Clean
- Sidewalk Begging (Dicks cover)
- Suicide in Progress*
- Science in Modern America^
- Revolve*
- Boris*
- Mock She^
* Melvins song
^ King Buzzo song
Officially, the band is called King Dunn, on their “King Dunn Tour,” but for clarity, the show is billed as King Buzzo & Trevor Dunn. This is not to be confused with Melvins Lite, which is a trio featuring King Buzzo, Dale Crover, and Trevor Dunn. Personally speaking, they should just call this Melvins with Dunn, but that might even be more confusing.
Anyway, originally, the King Dunn duo was meant to come to the Turf Club in 2020, but the pandemic forced the cancellation… so this King Dunn show was literally years in the making.
As predicted, the two play mostly Melvins and King Buzzo’s songs on their setlist. There were a couple of original King Dunn songs, sandwiched in the middle of their set.
Opening the show was JD Pinkus, member of Butthole Surfers. He had much of the adult sense of humor as the Butthole Surfer, as he sings next to a giant inflatable pair of pears. It’s in reference to his album Grow A Pear, which is out now.
Pinkus started and ended his set with a devil voice modulator and a loop machine. Between songs he tells these awfully bad jokes, like dedicating a song to “the oldest chick I ever had sex with” (his wife).
His song finale was “a cover of a song that I wrote” called “Bride of Crankenstein” by the Melvins.
Remaining tour dates:
- August 21 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
- August 22 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean
- August 23 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
- August 24 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
- August 26 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Pyramid Scheme
- August 27 – Detroit, MI – The Shelter
- August 28 – Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
- August 29 – Columbus, OH – The Basement
- August 30 – Bethlehem, PA – Musikfest Café
- August 31 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Music Hall
- September 1 – Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall
- September 3 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
- September 4 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
- September 5 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
- September 6 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
- September 7 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
- September 9 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern Café
- September 10 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle – Back Room
- September 11 – Charlotte, NC – Visulite Theatre
- September 12 – Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
- September 13 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
- September 14 – Nashville, TN – Exit In
- September 16 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
- September 17 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia
- September 18 – Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
- September 20 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
- September 21 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
- September 22 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
- September 25 – Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole
- September 26 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge
