Lori Black, AKA Lorax, replaced sludge-metal mavins the Melvins’ founding bassist Matt Lukin in 1988, after playing for punk crossover band Clown Alley. She played on the album Ozma, which was released in 1989. Lorax split the band in ’91, then rejoined from 1992-1993, when this performance of “Zodiac” was recorded.

It’s debatable whether Lorax played on 1993 Melvins record Houdini. What’s not debatable is that Lori Black is the daughter of child star Shirley Temple and aquaculturalist and oceanographer Charles Alden Black. Today she apparently works as a freelance photographer making occasional cameos in the audiences at bay area rock ‘n’ roll shows.

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