Roger Osborne

Roger "Buzz" Osborne (born 1964), also known as King Buzzo, is the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and technically the only remaining founding member of the Melvins. He is characterised by his large frizzy afro-like hair. (Drummer Dale Crover is often regarded as a founding member, but he joined after the band was formed, though before they had yet recorded an album.) Buzz Osborne is also a founding member/guitarist for both Fantômas and Venomous C... more

Roger "Buzz" Osborne (born 1964), also known as King Buzzo, is the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and technically the only remaining founding member of the Melvins. He is characterised by his large frizzy afro-like hair. (Drummer Dale Crover is often regarded as a founding member, but he joined after the band was formed, though before they had yet recorded an album.) Buzz Osborne is also a founding member/guitarist for both Fantômas and Venomous Concept. He was also the bassist for Kurt Cobain's first band, Fecal Matter, from 1986. In the early 1980s, Osborne founded the Melvins with Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard who all attended Montesano High School in Montesano, Washington, where he graduated in 1983. In the beginning the Melvins played The Who and Jimi Hendrix covers but began playing fast hardcore punk after Osborne was introduced to bands such as Black Flag, Flipper, and Millions of Dead Cops by a friend from out of state. When Dillard left the band in 1984, Dale Crover was... less