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Dale Crover covers Neil Young / Melvins

Posted by Loren on June 18, 2026

Dale Crover covers Neil Young / Melvins
photo by Sarah Linton

Dale Crover (Melvins, Redd Kross) has announced an EP on Sept. 4: Get Yer Ba-Ba's Out, out on Joyful Noise.

Still three months away, Crover gave an early taste today by sharing the double single "Harvest Moon" and "The Bit," with the former being a cover of the Neil Young favorite and the latter being a Melvins tune he co-wrote.

"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," Crover says.

"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!"

Tracklist

1. Harvest Moon/The Bit

2. Doug Yuletide

3. Get Yer Ba-Ba’s Out

4. Rings

5. I Can’t Help You There

6. Jane

Dale Crover covers Neil Young / Melvins
photo by Sarah Linton

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