Metal Anarchy

Dale Crover has shared a mashup of Melvins’ “The Bit” and Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon.” The track is from his upcoming acoustic EP “Get Yer Ba-Ba’s Out.” That effort will be released on September 4 and it will also feature “Doug Yuletide,” “Get Yer Ba-Ba’s Out,“ “Rings,“ “I Can’t Help You There,“ and “Jane.“

Crover commented:

“Years ago I played Young Neil Young in the video for ‘Harvest Moon.’ It was quite a surreal experience! When I met Neil, I was made up to look just like him. Not that I didn’t already look a bit like him. That is how I got the part, after all. When I meet Neil, he starts explaining to me that he has this pair of pants that he wants me to wear for the video, and the mechanics of how the zipper works since it was broken! Not only did I play his younger self, but I also doubled for him. When he’s seen on stage playing, I’m dancing with his wife and when he’s dancing with her, I’m on stage.

There’s a scene where I’m driving with young Pegi Young and I’m not looking where I’m driving because I’m paying attention to her. I had to drive off the side of a skinny country road into a ravine, not looking where I was driving. The first few takes were fine but on the last shot, I jammed the rear fender of Neil‘s actual 1955 Cadillac into a stump. That stump saved me from rolling the car off the side of the hill, surely killing us both!

I thought it would be fun to cover this song and combine it with Melvins ‘The Bit,’ a song I co wrote with Buzz Osborne, since both songs share the same guitar tuning. I started performing the songs live and knew right away that I wanted to record them, making it the spur for this new EP.”