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Buzz Osborne (Roger Osborne) was born on 25 March, 1964 in Morton, Washington, U.S., is an American musician (born 1964). Discover Buzz Osborne's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

Popular As Roger Osborne
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Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 25 March 1964
Birthday 25 March
Birthplace Morton, Washington, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1964

Roger "Buzz" Osborne (born March 25, 1964), also known as King Buzzo, is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.

He is a founding member of the rock band Melvins, as well as Fantômas and Venomous Concept.

Born in Morton, Washington, Osborne is of English, Italian and Jewish descent.

He moved to Montesano, Washington at the age of 12.

He first started listening to the music of Aerosmith and Ted Nugent, then became greatly interested in punk rock after a few years.

1980

In the early 1980s, Osborne founded the Melvins with Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard who all attended Montesano High School (Wheeler Building) where he graduated in 1982.

The Melvins began playing fast hardcore punk after Osborne was introduced to bands such as Black Flag, Flipper, and MDC by a friend.

1984

When Dillard left the band in 1984, Dale Crover was recruited, and the band's rehearsals moved to a back room of Crover's parents' house in Aberdeen, Washington.

They began to play slower and "heavier" songs.

1986

In 1986, the band released their Six Songs EP on C/Z Records (later re-released as Eight Songs, 10 Songs and as 26 Songs in 2003 on Ipecac Recordings) that was recorded live to a two-track.

In October 1986, they recorded their first full album, Gluey Porch Treatments, at Studio D in Sausalito, California, which was released in 1987 on Alchemy Records (and later re-released as a bonus on the CD version of their second album Ozma on Boner Records and in 1999 on Ipecac Recordings with some garage demos).

1987

After Corrosion of Conformity original singer Mike Dean left the band in 1987, they contacted Osborne to join in.

Emma Ruth Rundle called him "a worthy hero in all regards and a very genuine man."

1988

In 1988, Osborne, with Crover, relocated to San Francisco, California where the band recorded their next album, Ozma, in May 1989.

It was released later that year.

Osborne, along with the rest of the Melvins, knew the members of Nirvana.

When Dave Grohl's previous band, Scream, disbanded, he approached Osborne for advice.

Osborne, in response, introduced Grohl to Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic.

1994

Osborne also appears in the 1994 video for the Beck song "Beercan" which samples the Melvins' song "Hog Leg".

Osborne joined Tool onstage during their tour for Ænima.

The Melvins also opened for Tool on the tour.

1997

In 1997, Osborne appeared in the promo video for The Offspring's video "All I Want", as a masked pianist.

1998

In 1998, Osborne joined a new band known as Fantômas with Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton, a band which he remains involved with to the present day.

2005

Fantômas' latest studio album release is 2005's Suspended Animation.

A concept album, it focused on the theme of holidays and featured a frenetic punk rock sound.

The album was a commercial success and reached the No. 7 spot on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart and No. 12 on its Top Independent Albums chart.

2014

In 2014, Osborne announced his first solo acoustic tour along with a 10" EP entitled This Machine Kills Artists and an album to follow in June on Ipecac Recordings.

Osborne makes a cameo appearance in the 2014 video game Sunset Overdrive as himself and performs a song for the soundtrack.

2017

In 2017, he played as part of Crystal Fairy with Teri Gender Bender, Dale Crover and Omar Rodríguez-López.

In that same year, he also co-produced the full length album Orenda by rock band With Our Arms to the Sun.

Osborne has remarked, "From a very early age I was interested in underground music. I never appreciated the big stadium shows in the first place—I cut my milk teeth musically on smaller shows. A much more intimate basis. That's the lessons I learned from punk rock that I never forgot. That extends to today."

As referred to before, he had a very wide set of musical influences since his childhood, ranging from arena rock to glam rock to punk to power pop and more.

Osborne has called himself a lifelong "musical anthropologist" and stated that "since I never grew up around people who gave me any indication of how one was supposed to act, I was equally excited seeing the Kinks as I would be by seeing a punk rock band. Or Cheap Trick."

In terms of hip hop music, he has stated that his favorite rap album is Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell.

From their earlier slow metal style, the Melvins have been attributed with providing the framework for what would become the grunge, sludge metal and drone doom genres.

Buzz Osborne's seminal influence on grunge have sometimes led him (and his band) to be dubbed as the "Godfather of Grunge".

Labelled as an "icon of the alt-metal world", Osborne has been named a key influence by guitarists such as Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Adam Jones (Tool), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher (Mastodon), Matt Pike (Sleep), Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O), Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod), Hank Williams III and Nate Garrett (Spirit Adrift). Adam Jones said that Osborne possesses the two most important qualities for any guitarist, i.e. "attitude and discipline", and compared his artistry with King Crimson founder Robert Fripp. Jones added: "Where I do more of a shoe-gazer thing onstage, Buzz will microwave a crowd." Scott Kelly of Neurosis stated that Osborne's non-cyclical approach to riffs was a massive influence on his band, wherein he plays a section once or at most twice in a song without repeating it again.

Kim Thayil cited that same aspect as highly inspirational, in addition to Osborne's drop D tuning and slower compositions.

Dylan Carlson, leader of the drone metal band Earth, has constantly cited Osborne's personal advice as a guide for his career path.

The bands Earth and Sunn O))), which were heavily influenced by Melvins' slower pieces, based their amplifier choices on those of Osborne, as did Clutch as well.