Dale Crover

Dale Crover
Dale Crover performs at Toad's Place in October 2006
Background information
Born	(1967-10-23) October 23, 1967
Origin	Aberdeen, Washington, United States
Genres	Sludge metal, grunge, hardcore punk, experimental rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, engineer, producer
Instrument(s)	Drums, vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion, sitar
Labels	Amphetamine Reptile, Joyful Noise Recordings, et. al

Dale Crover (born October 23, 1967) is an American rock musician. Crover is best known as the drummer for Melvins, and has also been the drummer for Men of Porn, Shrinebuilder, Crystal Fairy, and, for a brief time, Nirvana. He is also guitarist and vocalist for Altamont. He has also toured with Fantômas (filling in for Dave Lombardo), Off!, and Redd Kross.

Biography

Melvins recruited Crover on drums in 1984 from an Iron Maiden cover band, following original drummer Mike Dillard's departure. In late 1985, Crover played bass in Fecal Matter, a band he formed with Kurt Cobain and Greg Hokanson. After Hokanson left the band, Cobain and Crover recorded Illiteracy Will Prevail on a 4-track in December 1985 at Cobain's aunt's home in Seattle, Washington. Crover played bass and drums on the demo. "Spank Thru" from this demo appears on the Nirvana album Sliver: The Best of the Box. Fecal Matter disbanded in 1986.

Crover drummed on Nirvana's ten-song demo recorded January 23, 1988 at Reciprocal Recording Studios in Seattle. Nine of these songs have been officially released:

• Floyd the Barber, Paper Cuts and Downer – Bleach
• Beeswax, Downer, Hairspray Queen, Mexican Seafood and Aero Zeppelin – Incesticide
• If You Must and Pen Cap Chew – With the Lights Out

Nirvana with Crover played a 14-song show in Tacoma, Washington, on the night of the same day that they did the demo session. Three cuts from the show – Downer, Floyd the Barber and Raunchola/Moby Dick – appear on With the Lights Out. Later in 1988, Crover and Melvins' bandmate Buzz Osborne relocated to San Francisco, California.

Crover briefly rejoined Nirvana during a short west-coast tour with Sonic Youth in August 1990. In April 1991, Crover drummed on a demo version of Drain You with Cobain on guitar and vocals and Dave Grohl on bass. The track appears on With the Lights Out.

Crover is also credited as the drummer on most of the tracks on Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project from 2006.

In 1994, Crover founded the band Altamont with Joey Osbourne and Dan Southwick of Acid King. He produced and performed additional vocals on Acid King's début release that year. During this time he was also married to Acid King's frontwoman Lori S., but they divorced. Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, 2014. Although not officially inducted with the band, he was singled out for his work with them during Crover's successor Dave Grohl's acceptance speech.

Crover joined L.A. veterans Redd Kross for their 2017 American tour.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Maureen, their daughter, Scarlett, and their son, Cassius.

Appearances

Dale Crover has made an appearance in Neil Young's video "Harvest Moon".

Discography

Date of release	Title	Label	Credited for	Catalog number
1994	Acid King: Acid King	Sympathy for the Record Industry	Additional vocals
1996	Dale Crover: Drumb	Man's Ruin Records	Performer
September 7, 1999	Hank Williams III: Risin' Outlaw	Curb Records	drums on "Cocaine Blues"
October 19, 2004	Men of Porn: Wine, Women and Song	Small Stone Records	drums	SS-047
October 2009	Shrinebuilder: Shrinebuilder	Neurot Recordings	drums	NR070
February 2015	Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends: The Enemy of Everyone	Seismic Wave Entertainment	drums	SW013
May 2016	Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends: The Art of Murder		drums	SW014
September 2019	Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends: Protons and Electrons		drums	SW027
December 2020	Plan D	Joyful Noise Recordings	drums	JNR 309
Solo
Date of Release	Title	Label	Credited for	Catalog Number
August 2016	Skins	Joyful Noise Recordings	Performer
July 2017	The Fickle Finger of Fate		Performer	JNR235
August 2019	Sell Out	Seismic Wave Entertainment	Vocals, Guitar	SW026
with Altamont
Date of Release	Title	Label	Credited for	Catalog Number
May 27, 1997	Wanted Dead or Alive (split album with Acid King)	Man's Ruin Records		MR-072
October 13, 1998	Civil War Fantasy			MR-085
March 26, 1999	In the Groove (Compilation album, Rattlesnake Shake)	The Music Cartel
July 10, 2000	Right in the Nuts (Compilation album, Make It)	Small Stone Records
May 1, 2001	Our Darling	Man's Ruin Records		MR-2020
November 1, 2005	The Monkee's Uncle	AntAcidAudio		AAA-995
with Melvins
Date of Release	Title	Label	Credited for	Catalog Number
1986	Six Songs	C/Z Records		CZ002
1987	Gluey Porch Treatments	Alchemy Records		VM103
1989	Ozma	Boner Records		BR16-2
August 21, 1991	Kill Rock Stars (Compilation album, Ever Since My Accident)	Kill Rock Stars		KSR 201
1991	Your Choice Live Series Vol.12	Your Choice Records		YC-LS 012
1991	Bullhead	Boner Records		BR25-2
1991	Eggnog			BR28-2
1992	Salad of a Thousand Delights	Box Dog Video		BDV002
1992	Dale Crover	Boner Records		BR33-2
1992	Lysol (aka Melvins)			BR35-2
September 21, 1993	Houdini	Atlantic Records		82532-2
August 1994	Prick	Amphetamine Reptile Records		AmRep 031
September 1994	Stoner Witch	Atlantic Records		82704-2
July 15, 1996	Stag			82878-2
May 5, 1997	Honky	Amphetamine Reptile Records		AmRep 064-2
August 26, 1997	Singles 1–12			AmRep 063
1998	Alive at the Fucker Club			AmRep 072
May 17, 1999	The Maggot	Ipecac Recordings		IPC-002
August 23, 1999	The Bootlicker			IPC-004
February 7, 2000	The Crybaby			IPC-006
November 27, 2000	Gluey Porch Treatments			IPC-012
February 6, 2001	Electroretard	Man's Ruin Records		MR2002
April 16, 2001	Colossus of Destiny	Ipecac Recordings		IPC-014
April 1, 2002	Millennium Monsterwork 2000 with Fantômas			IPC-019
April 15, 2002	Hostile Ambient Takeover			IPC-020
March 11, 2003	26 Songs			IPC-038
September 16, 2003	Melvinmania: The Best Of The Atlantic Years 1993–1996	Atlantic Records		5050466574428
March 9, 2004	Neither Here Nor There	Ipecac Recordings		IPC-047
August 23, 2004	Pigs of the Roman Empire with Lustmord			IPC-054
October 19, 2004	Never Breathe What You Can't See with Jello Biafra	Alternative Tentacles		Virus300
September 26, 2005	Sieg Howdy! with Jello Biafra			Virus350
May 16, 2006	A Live History of Gluttony and Lust Houdini Live 2005	Ipecac Recordings		IPC-076
October 10, 2006	(A) Senile Animal			IPC-082
July 8, 2008	Nude With Boots			IPC-105
June 1, 2010	The Bride Screamed Murder			IPC-112
June 5, 2012	Freak Puke (Melvins Lite)			IPC-136
April 30, 2013	Everybody Loves Sausages			IPC-144
November 5, 2013	Tres Cabrones			IPC-150
October 14, 2014	Hold It In			IPC-164
April 1, 2016	Three Men and a Baby with Mike Kunka	Sub Pop		SP 1147
June 3, 2016	Basses Loaded	Ipecac Recordings		IPC-178
July 7, 2017	A Walk with Love & Death			IPC-195
April 20, 2018	Pinkus Abortion Technician			IPC-201
with Nirvana
Date of Release	Title	Label	Credited for	Catalog Number
June 15, 1989	Bleach (On the songs "Floyd the Barber", "Paper Cuts" and "Downer")	Sub Pop		SP-034
November 21, 1989	Teriyaki Asthma,Volume 1 (Compilation album, "Mexican Seafood")	C/Z Records		CZ009
August 21, 1991	Kill Rock Stars (Compilation album, "Beeswax")	Kill Rock Stars		KRS-201
November 1991	Teriyaki Asthma Vols.I-V (Compilation album, "Mexican Seafood")	C/Z Records		CZ037
December 14, 1992	Incesticide (On the songs "Beeswax", "Downer", "Mexican Seafood", "Hairspray Queen", and "Aero Zeppelin")	DGC Records		DGCD-24504
November 23, 2004	With the Lights Out (On the songs "If You Must", "Pen Cap Chew", "Downer", "Floyd the Barber", "Raunchola/Moby Dick", and "Drain You")	Geffen Records		B0003727-00
November 1, 2005	Sliver: The Best of the Box (On the song "Drain You")