[1] 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.

Nine of these songs have been officially released:[6][7] The original incarnation of Nirvana including Crover on drums played a 14-song show in Tacoma, Washington, on the night of the same day that they did the demo session.

The Melvins opened for Nirvana at what turned out to be their final show in Munich after Cobain's overdose in Rome and shortly before his death.

Prior to Cobain's departure for what wound up to be a short stint in rehab, the Melvins had several other shows scheduled to open for Nirvana in Europe.

During the same year, Crover founded the band Altamont with Joey Osbourne and Dan Southwick of Acid King.

A high proportion of the most substantive and historically infromative entries in Kurt Cobain's published journals consist of unfinished letters that he started writing to Dale Crover.

[11] It may be significant to point out that after Cobain's death and the waning of grunge rock's centrality in the popular culture of the 1990's, Crover's career with Buzz Osborne in the Melvins, though they started playing together a decade earlier in 1984, had still scarcely begun in 1994.

[13][14][15][16] In the summer of 2024, he released Glossolalia on Joyful Noise Recordings with musical guests including Tom Waits, Ty Segall, Kim Thayil and Rob Crow.