The Butthole Surfers Thread

dankind · September 2019

eeriepadave said:

This would be pretty cool to see. Gibby Haynes playing Butthole Surfers songs with kids

https://www.punknews.org/article/70645/gibby-haynes-to-play-full-butthole-surfers-set-backed-by-kids

They announced a Ny show on Oct, 25. Also a philly show the night before at some club i never heard of.

I’m guessing only late-era stuff.

eeriepadave · September 2019

dankind said:

eeriepadave said:

This would be pretty cool to see. Gibby Haynes playing Butthole Surfers songs with kids

https://www.punknews.org/article/70645/gibby-haynes-to-play-full-butthole-surfers-set-backed-by-kids

They announced a Ny show on Oct, 25. Also a philly show the night before at some club i never heard of.

I’m guessing only late-era stuff.

so like the 90's stuff?

dankind · September 2019

eeriepadave said:

dankind said:

eeriepadave said:

This would be pretty cool to see. Gibby Haynes playing Butthole Surfers songs with kids

https://www.punknews.org/article/70645/gibby-haynes-to-play-full-butthole-surfers-set-backed-by-kids

They announced a Ny show on Oct, 25. Also a philly show the night before at some club i never heard of.

I’m guessing only late-era stuff.

so like the 90's stuff?

Yeah. Maybe Independent Worm Saloon and Electriclarryland. I could see "Wooden Song" and "Pepper" fitting the bill. No "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave," though.

Poncier · September 2019

dankind said:

-- of course, only one of us had his dick out and was farting into a megaphone --

Surprised they didn't kick you out of the venue for that.

Seen them a handful of times back in the day. One night at the Paradise the show just stopped abruptly (should have probably lasted another 15-20 minutes we guessed) with no explanation. There was a rumor that someone got stabbed, totally unsubstantiated. Also some kid crowd surfing that night get flung face first into one of those big concrete columns they have there...he probably didn't have his best night. They also had the "addadictomy" video playing behind them at one point, took us a couple minutes to figure out what we were watching.

Last time I saw them was in 93 at the Polish American Beach Club in Gardner MA (weirdest place I've ever seen a show). They were touring Drive-in theaters with STP and Flaming Lips, couldn't get the OK to play a nearby drive-in so booked this place instead. Was basically a stage set up in the back of like your local Amvets club or similar...with a pond behind it. It was the show that Weiland and one of the Deleos bashed some kids skull in with the bass guitar and fists.
Earlier in the day Gibby was just walking about in the crowd wearing a name tag that said "Hi my name is: Julio"

Merkin Baller · September 2019

Poncier said:

red mos wrote:

They had a screen behind them showing all kinds of weird shit. From pornographic images, to marijuana smoking (during the "bong song") and just weird visuals that totally fit with their music and in a weird way help you understand it, the visuals and music fit perfectly.

They've done that for years...I'll never forget seeing them at The Paradise in Boston and watching one of the videos of some kind of hospital operation and suddenly realizing it was film of a sex change (addadictomy).

Haha, I was at that show, (2010, right? or maybe '09?) I recall seeing the gential surgery, but didn't realize it was a sex change. Too funny.

That was the only time I saw them, and it was fantastic. I went with a band I was playing with at the time (our rehearsal space was a few blocks away from the venue) and we were so inspired. They had the sickest jam off a song that was all of 2 or 3 notes, it was so cool to see how something so simple could sound so awesome.

Poncier · September 2019

The show I am referring to was well before that, late 80's or early 90's (possibly 1989, need to dig out my ticket stub book at home). Slap Shot and I think also The Dead Milkmen opened.

dankind · September 2019

Poncier said:

The show I am referring to was well before that, late 80's or early 90's (possibly 1989, need to dig out my ticket stub book at home). Slap Shot and I think also The Dead Milkmen opened.

There's a time for takin'
And a time for givin'
But rippin' off the Butthole Surfers
Is how we make our livin'

--"The Fez"

Merkin Baller · September 2019

Poncier said:

The show I am referring to was well before that, late 80's or early 90's (possibly 1989, need to dig out my ticket stub book at home). Slap Shot and I think also The Dead Milkmen opened.

Funny, they were definitely showing a video of genital surgery when the played at the Paradise around 2010 too.

Poncier · September 2019

When something works you stick with it.

hrd2imgn · September 2019

Wont lie, Pepper is the only song of theirs I know...but I FUCKIN LOVE IT!!!

eeriepadave · January 2020

This is probably the closest i am going to see the Butthole Surfers. Gibby Haynes had a book release and live event near me in Phoenixville, PA at the Colonial Theater. He pretty much just read snippets of his book and had a group of kids (kinda like a School of Rock thing) sing some songs and also did a Q & A in between that.