"When we worked with Kurt, I thought, 'What does a producer do?'": Melvins’ Buzz Osborne reckons Kurt Cobain was sacked rather than quit

Buzz Osborne The Melvins.

It’s safe to say that early grunge and sludge-rock pioneers Melvins played a fundamental role in both genre’s early 90s crossover into the mainstream and the subsequent rise of bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

What’s more up for debate however is just where the paths of Melvins and Nirvana, and more specifically the trajectories of their front men Buzz Osborne and Kurt Cobain, actually (if ever) combine or ever cross.