Is it kismet that the punk-metal band The Melvins played an outdoor mini-concert in Chicago's Humboldt Park while a delicious Jeni's Ice Cream Truck was parked directly behind them?
I mean, what better way to introduce young kids to the sludgy sound of a band that was a huge influence on Nirvana, than to give away free ice cream cones?
Am I right?
Once the swarm of kids descend upon the yellow truck for the free ice cream cones, the band opens up with a cover of the Butthole Surfers' Graveyard (which I always felt should have been a "Summer" song in its own right).
Now, I don't know about you, but I always thought the lyrics: You lie in the graveyard/Well you're rotting away/When I talk to you daily/You've got nothing to say/You lie in the graveyard/Well you are down making plans/Well you control all my thoughts/Well you make dust fall would pair well with a pint of Jeni's Cherry Lambic Sorbet.
Video after the break.
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