Buzz Osborne is no stranger to high-volume electric guitar. The frontman/guitarist of the Melvins has spent the last 40 plus years crafting some of the most uncompromising tones in the underground, and toured with the heaviest bands on the planet. But the loudest guitarist he has ever heard? That’s a player outside of the rock and metal underground.
In a recent interview with Guitar World, in which King Buzzo talks about the players who shaped his sound, he credits the English blues-rock trailblazer Robin Trower as the loudest he has ever heard, admitting that he felt “stomped into the dirt” after seeing the former Procol Harum guitarist live in 1982.
