Thing that elevates Paul Leary to top shelf guitarist is that he can play every Buttholes song live, exactly as it sounds on the record. And as any Buttholes devotee will attest: before the Buttholes, NO ONE had ever played the guitar like Paul Leary.
For all of the shitty things that exist on the internet, stuff like this interview makes it all worthwhile. Thank you. I grew up with the Buttholes too and to my ears, they sound as fresh today as they ever did - even the less critically acclaimed albums toward the end, I enjoy immensely.
For real. Probably the most foundational moment of my life is first cackling like an idiot at their name and then being scared shitless by Locust Abortion Technician. I was twelve.
In the 70s you played at a house party, all I remember is Gabby singing Mary,Mary,Mary because the guys girlfriends name was Mary. Everyone was drunk and having fun.
I loved this band when I was young, though people I knew thought I was playing them for shock value I loved them from the start, their stupid crazy songs about nothing was such a breath of fresh air in a world of endless love songs. They easily remain one of my fave bands ever and I will cherish those records as long as I can slip them on the turntable. Greetings from Australia.
Matador Revisionist History Podcast Ep. 13 - BUTTHOLE SURFERS. 10.4.24. . Kung Fu scene????? Gas Huffer took up that notion for knife manual record sleeve split with Mudhoney......
I was there! Oakland Coliseum! Fantastic show, to be sure, but sadly not like seeing the Buttholes at the I-Beam in years previous with all the built-in mayhem!!! But yeah.....great way to bring in the New Year!!!
@@jonanjelloI have my ticket stub, which sadly I can't post here, but you are technically correct.......8 PM, Friday December 31, 1993 General Admission $25.00 (No Bottles Or Cans, Photos or Alcohol!).
@@jeffreygoodman9258 I saw the Surfers one other time - at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. They and another band opened for Stone Temple Pilots. Each lead singer used a megaphone at some point during their set. LOL. I saw Nirvana five times: twice before Nevermind, once in support of their big release, once at the Cow Palace with Breeders and finally with the Surfer that New Year's Eve.
Summer 86, record store, I wanna order a new album. Clerk says…”What is it?” Butthole Surfers…Rembrandt Pussyhorse. I’ve never forgotten the look on his face.
Hats off to King Coffey!! I remember those dark days doing time at EHHS with you....and the inception of the Hugh Beaumont Experience!! Throbbing Gristle, Brother!!! LOL
I saw Hugh Beaumont Experience at the Island in Houston way back when, maybe opening for Verbal Abuse? I was a child who ran away from a New Orleans boy’s home slumming in Texas and of course punk rock changed everything for me. Seeing BHS at the Dream Palace in NOLA later on in the 80’s when “Hardcore” had gotten generic and boring and their gig was eye opening magical… maybe 40 people in attendance. By that time I was into stuff like Exodus, Sodom & Bathory and also Birthday Party, Culturcide, Test Dept, Einstürzende et al. So glad Paul mentioned SPK, a major influence on me…
"Psychic, Powerless..." was and still stands out as Butthole Surfers' most experimental album. Better than that, it stands out as capturing that fine and subtle balance between making use of a variety of groundbreaking rock hooks and influences, some slightly mutated, that offered a solid, tuneful sound while also allowing room for experimentation to capture moods and feelings that otherwise wouldn't get expressed applying conventional methods and techniques. And that menacing and harrowing Chrome-like (i.e. Helios Creed and Damon Edge) guitar sound on tracks such as Concubine, Eye Of The Chicken and Cherub are just absolutely and lysergically mind blowing!
There will never be any album like it. It is full of youthful energy and total indifference to anyone’s expectations. Too weird for punk. Too abrasive for psychedelic rock True sonic mayhem.
Great interview., thanks fellas! Poor Paul with just as much stamina needed to work in a lumber yard. Butthole surfers changed the way i hear music and has made a lasting impression. Love you guys
P. Leary, Gus Varner and Joe Dart are among the most underrated guitarists of their era. Gus and Joe played for the crucifucks. Great interview. Thank you.
Paul Leary's guitar work definitely made me aware of an array of possibilities and differences in sound ... and then in the studio - his workings on the Locust album, which is largely created by him twisting, chopping, and rererecording sounds/songs and compiling them together to bring to life this horrific masterpiece ... I have to say, with Sweeney & guitar work in mind, I was curious that there was no mention of the Hairway To Steven album, considering its demonic psych rock insanity ... great seeing these two in the same interview nonetheless. 🤠
I used to talk on their message board. Paul sent me an autographed clown picture and a guitar pick. Stick men with Rayguns?? Hehheh. Scavenger of Death!! Love BHS. ❤
The PCPPEP was my intro to the wonderful world of the Buttholes (other than a demo track that Jello Biafra played by them on my local community radio station). I remember when I bought it I played it at the wrong speed (it said 69 RPM on the label). I was really confused but I absolutely loved it and was a convert.
Fantastic interview, great to see Paul and King. Butthole Surfers are my favorite band. I’m now praying for those unreleased tracks to see the light of day 🙏
Saw half a dozen BHS shows in the 80’s in the VA/DC area..legendary shows (esp the one at the pyramid club in Richmond VA)….so pure…made my head a little flatter forever…
The world definitely needs more butthole surfers. When people ask what music I'm into, I'll always end by saying and of course the best rock n roll band in the world, the butthole surfers... you can probably imagine the responses I get.
1983 Thursday midnight punk show on the radio, 'Something' comes on and it scared the shit out of me . I was 12 and it changed everything. 6 months later I was jumping out my window to go see SPK and Sardine V
WTF have matador done. Not admitting Negro Observer. And also editing down the running time of American Woman by cutting out a couple of minutes of the song. Avoid these Matador repressing and stick to the ones put out in 2021
I had my Butthole Surfers records (along with a few others) taken by my parents one day, my older brother had been warning them about the records I was listening to…I don’t think any of them actually listened to one of the songs, I gave them no time to keep them from me…and just took them all back and told them all “it’s music that I love, taking them away is idiotic.” I think that was the point they all realized I just wasn’t willing to compromise with the ridiculous, unfounded fears of others. They never mentioned it again….so, thank you Butthole Surfers!!
I had a 2 cassette bootleg of the BHS way back in the day. I think it was called "double live" with the alien on the cover. 1989. Absolutely glorious insanity. Pretty sure it's on youtube. So this interview is pure gold.
the "alien" is actually Kathleen Lynch IIRC? if so she was the lady who did nude dancing during the Surfers' set for a few years in the sorta mid/later 80s
woly boly is my all time fav riff!!! the nazztyness of the crunchy swing!!! Fortunate started listening to the butthole surfers when I was 7. My brother and I got a mixed tape and Butthole was all over it in 83 or 84.
I can listen to hours and hours of this, when a friend showed me Mexican caravan of blind eye sees all, I remember so clearly how fascinated I was, there is no turning back...
I remember a show in Seattle, in Ballard, that I tried to attend not realizing that it was an over-21 thing. I spent HOURS with my nose pressed to the glass getting glimpses of shadows and chaos. As close as I ever got but always loved the band based on those half-seen moments. It sounded pretty good from outside.
I was salty about the no BS reunion until rn. I totally get it. Thanks for all the kickass music and shows, y'all, I saw the Butthole Surfers more than any other band. And I saw a lot of bands, we were in one. You guys played several of the best concerts I've ever seen.
My native studies teacher, Mr. Briscoe introduced me to these guys , he said anytime he saw them live they never played their songs the same … I went home and looked them up on the Gary and Scott show in n UA-cam and was hooked
My Son used Your Music in his Vernissage "GONZO LIFE" and is deeply grateful to You for sharing such an Extraordinary Story. Explicit Titles like “Lady Sniff” and “Dadgad” were particularly used, so the Butthole Surfers Music could be heard once again in Germany. Sincerely Tobias Klemm
You never burned down the club , but in 86 at some skaterink in oxnard ca, you left 1" Gough marks on their skate floor.....classic. I don't think they ever hosted another show 28:33
Well this is exciting! Do they talk about why the one tune was removed from Psychic? It was one of their catchiest, and not even offensive. Well, they offended me by removing it, 😂
They give Watchtower some props!! That band is highly revered by some old school metalheads. The Butthole Surfers song “The O-Men” was inspired by another Texas based metal band called Omen after Gibby and Paul happened to watch Omen perform while tripping acid , the crazed proto industrial metal track that they created is one of the best and freaked out songs in the catalog of Butthole Surfers. What’s up with the BHS documentary that was in production? I watched a trailer and have not heard anything about it for a year or two.
I hope Pail Gibby and King. I've been into you guusy for years.I love the shows on UA-cam and this comment is requesting a tour? Ive haven't seen you live.
The Butthole Surfers were my favorite band in the 1980's & to this day. I was fortunate to see them many many time sin Atlanta & Athens, Georgia. Thanks for sheding light on one of the most original bands of that time period.
One of the times I saw them at The Ritz in Austin, it was the only show I'd been to where I had serious doubts about whether I would leave the building alive.
"We're super-excited to be part of the Matador family" Ugh, really?!! THEY CUT A SONG OFF OF "Psychic... Powerless". Censorship of your art SUCKS HARD, why would you be *excited* for that?!! I am super-disappointed in the band for agreeing to this.
Revisionist means rewritten it's not going to be the same why would they care about being censored it's all nonsense that means nothing that's why it's great.. it's jibberish chaos that's the point.
Ive loved y’all since i was 12. My favorite band and guitarist. I played shitty music most of my adult life bc of Paul Leary. Great interview. Love you guys
Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed this podcast. So many ways to interpret Butthole Surfers, to me they are more than a punk band.... definitely experimental with originality...disturbingly beautiful music with vibes of seeing a therapist yet finding the humor to laugh at the trauma....at the very least their music is open to your imagination.
Playing in a band in Australia a long time ago, I remember an American record company guy was in Australia scouting for bands. He came and saw my band and asked us who our biggest influences were. The guitarist said Metallica and Slayer, the drummer said Led Zepplin. Then it was my turn and I said Butthole Surfers and he cracked up laughing and said that that was the last band he expected someone from Australia to say.
Grew up in Buffalo which was pretty fucked up in a lot of ways in the late 80's early 90's, the Surfers were an apropos soundtrack for the times and the stuff still holds up. Amazing musicians.
One more thing - can they, will they, release a remastered HD 4K version of their masterpiece "Entering Texas" AKA "BBQ Movie" ? It deserves better than existing only on decaying decades old VHS tapes and grainy lo-res UA-cam transfers!
This was amazing. The only other thing I could ask for is a one hour interview just about Locust Abortion Technician. Well, three hours if I'm being honest.
@@Matthew-qk1xi That song is possibly the LEAST offensive thing about the band. The 2013 and 2021 reissues put out under Latino Bugger Veil still have it.
Jeff told me that one of the employees at Matador was uncomfortable with the name of the song, the song existing or something to that effect and it got dropped.
Thing that elevates Paul Leary to top shelf guitarist is that he can play every Buttholes song live, exactly as it sounds on the record.
And as any Buttholes devotee will attest: before the Buttholes, NO ONE had ever played the guitar like Paul Leary.
Paul has been one of my favourite guitarists since I was 14. 41 now!
Literally my favorite guitarist.
Paul Leary was god, he is the favourite guitarist of my favourite guitarists.
We dare not even look in Paul's naked eyes. He is THAT good!
and fingeratively? :)
HaHa!@@stringlarson1247
Tell me you have Born Stupid
Paul is the shit, and it is so rad to see King.
Paul's hooks on songs like 22 Going on 23 are hypnotic and haunting, and there's nothing else like his style.
One of the all time greatest guitar solos. Hair on end!
New, unreleased songs from "Psychic, Powerless" and "Rembrandt Pussyhorse"?! OMFG!
For all of the shitty things that exist on the internet, stuff like this interview makes it all worthwhile. Thank you. I grew up with the Buttholes too and to my ears, they sound as fresh today as they ever did - even the less critically acclaimed albums toward the end, I enjoy immensely.
I would not be the person I am had I never heard the Butthole Surfers.
For real. Probably the most foundational moment of my life is first cackling like an idiot at their name and then being scared shitless by Locust Abortion Technician. I was twelve.
In the 70s you played at a house party, all I remember is Gabby singing Mary,Mary,Mary because the guys girlfriends name was Mary. Everyone was drunk and having fun.
🤣😂🤣 What a comment.
Samesies. Brah.
Saw them play in NYC in 1987 and I've never been the same (in a good way)
I love Paul’s playing so much…it sounds like the catastrophic end of the world & a weird lullaby all at the same time. ❤
Described it perfectly
The guitar solo in X-Ray of a Girl is the closest thing to flying that I've heard.
Nice! Yup yup indeedy
I loved this band when I was young, though people I knew thought I was playing them for shock value I loved them from the start, their stupid crazy songs about nothing was such a breath of fresh air in a world of endless love songs. They easily remain one of my fave bands ever and I will cherish those records as long as I can slip them on the turntable. Greetings from Australia.
Love these guys since the 80s. I saw them live in Nashville.
The world needs these guys.
Matador Revisionist History Podcast Ep. 13 - BUTTHOLE SURFERS. 10.4.24. . Kung Fu scene????? Gas Huffer took up that notion for knife manual record sleeve split with Mudhoney......
January 1, 1994 saw the Butthole Surfers open for Nirvana. Bobcat goldthwait was the announcer, still my favorite show I've ever been to.
Holyyyyyy crap, that's amazing
I was there! Oakland Coliseum! Fantastic show, to be sure, but sadly not like seeing the Buttholes at the I-Beam in years previous with all the built-in mayhem!!! But yeah.....great way to bring in the New Year!!!
I was in attendance, as well. (I grew up in Castro Valley)That was actually New Year’s Eve or did they also play New Year’s Day?
@@jonanjelloI have my ticket stub, which sadly I can't post here, but you are technically correct.......8 PM, Friday December 31, 1993 General Admission $25.00 (No Bottles Or Cans, Photos or Alcohol!).
@@jeffreygoodman9258 I saw the Surfers one other time - at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. They and another band opened for Stone Temple Pilots. Each lead singer used a megaphone at some point during their set. LOL. I saw Nirvana five times: twice before Nevermind, once in support of their big release, once at the Cow Palace with Breeders and finally with the Surfer that New Year's Eve.
Summer 86, record store, I wanna order a new album. Clerk says…”What is it?” Butthole Surfers…Rembrandt Pussyhorse. I’ve never forgotten the look on his face.
Hats off to King Coffey!! I remember those dark days doing time at EHHS with you....and the inception of the Hugh Beaumont Experience!! Throbbing Gristle, Brother!!! LOL
King is one of Fort Worth's best cultural exports!
I saw Hugh Beaumont Experience at the Island in Houston way back when, maybe opening for Verbal Abuse? I was a child who ran away from a New Orleans boy’s home slumming in Texas and of course punk rock changed everything for me. Seeing BHS at the Dream Palace in NOLA later on in the 80’s when “Hardcore” had gotten generic and boring and their gig was eye opening magical… maybe 40 people in attendance. By that time I was into stuff like Exodus, Sodom & Bathory and also Birthday Party, Culturcide, Test Dept, Einstürzende et al. So glad Paul mentioned SPK, a major influence on me…
Most underappreciated band of all time.. these dudes were fking bat shit crazy and had brilliance at the same time
King Rules, standing up because he lost his pedal, he delivers the goods on every track
"Psychic, Powerless..." was and still stands out as Butthole Surfers' most experimental album. Better than that, it stands out as capturing that fine and subtle balance between making use of a variety of groundbreaking rock hooks and influences, some slightly mutated, that offered a solid, tuneful sound while also allowing room for experimentation to capture moods and feelings that otherwise wouldn't get expressed applying conventional methods and techniques. And that menacing and harrowing Chrome-like (i.e. Helios Creed and Damon Edge) guitar sound on tracks such as Concubine, Eye Of The Chicken and Cherub are just absolutely and lysergically mind blowing!
There will never be any album like it. It is full of youthful energy and total indifference to anyone’s expectations. Too weird for punk. Too abrasive for psychedelic rock True sonic mayhem.
Great interview., thanks fellas! Poor Paul with just as much stamina needed to work in a lumber yard. Butthole surfers changed the way i hear music and has made a lasting impression. Love you guys
Best band all times
P.
Leary, Gus Varner and Joe Dart are among the most underrated guitarists of their era. Gus and Joe played for the crucifucks. Great interview. Thank you.
did not expect to see a gus varner and joe dart mention on this video. love the crucifucks. 🤘🏻
Paul Leary's guitar work definitely made me aware of an array of possibilities and differences in sound ... and then in the studio - his workings on the Locust album, which is largely created by him twisting, chopping, and rererecording sounds/songs and compiling them together to bring to life this horrific masterpiece ...
I have to say, with Sweeney & guitar work in mind, I was curious that there was no mention of the Hairway To Steven album, considering its demonic psych rock insanity ... great seeing these two in the same interview nonetheless. 🤠
Surfers, Mudhoney, Bad Brains, Sublime, RHCP, and Jimi Hendrix helped me survive my teenage years.
I love this band so much! Nobody has ever done anything like what they have in music.
I used to talk on their message board. Paul sent me an autographed clown picture and a guitar pick. Stick men with Rayguns?? Hehheh. Scavenger of Death!! Love BHS. ❤
Free for all madness, I was there!
@@mikeystool Right on bro!! Dems da good ole days,! ✌️🎶🎵
Saw them at Georgia Theater in Athens. Surgery videos played in the background, cymbals on fire. Amazing! 🔥
The PCPPEP was my intro to the wonderful world of the Buttholes (other than a demo track that Jello Biafra played by them on my local community radio station).
I remember when I bought it I played it at the wrong speed (it said 69 RPM on the label). I was really confused but I absolutely loved it and was a convert.
Fantastic interview, great to see Paul and King.
Butthole Surfers are my favorite band.
I’m now praying for those unreleased tracks to see the light of day 🙏
Saw half a dozen BHS shows in the 80’s in the VA/DC area..legendary shows (esp the one at the pyramid club in Richmond VA)….so pure…made my head a little flatter forever…
I have several T-shirts that Paul drew the clown on after the shows back in the day. I even have one with PP the Sailor on it. -Maje
The world definitely needs more butthole surfers. When people ask what music I'm into, I'll always end by saying and of course the best rock n roll band in the world, the butthole surfers... you can probably imagine the responses I get.
1983 Thursday midnight punk show on the radio, 'Something' comes on and it scared the shit out of me . I was 12 and it changed everything.
6 months later I was jumping out my window to go see SPK and Sardine V
WTF have matador done. Not admitting Negro Observer. And also editing down the running time of American Woman by cutting out a couple of minutes of the song. Avoid these Matador repressing and stick to the ones put out in 2021
my favorite band ever.
I had my Butthole Surfers records (along with a few others) taken by my parents one day, my older brother had been warning them about the records I was listening to…I don’t think any of them actually listened to one of the songs, I gave them no time to keep them from me…and just took them all back and told them all “it’s music that I love, taking them away is idiotic.” I think that was the point they all realized I just wasn’t willing to compromise with the ridiculous, unfounded fears of others. They never mentioned it again….so, thank you Butthole Surfers!!
I had a 2 cassette bootleg of the BHS way back in the day. I think it was called "double live" with the alien on the cover. 1989. Absolutely glorious insanity. Pretty sure it's on youtube. So this interview is pure gold.
One of the few pieces of vinyl that I still have is that one.
Double Live was an "official" bootleg and it sells for a tidy sum nowadays, even the cassette.
the "alien" is actually Kathleen Lynch IIRC? if so she was the lady who did nude dancing during the Surfers' set for a few years in the sorta mid/later 80s
woly boly is my all time fav riff!!! the nazztyness of the crunchy swing!!! Fortunate started listening to the butthole surfers when I was 7. My brother and I got a mixed tape and Butthole was all over it in 83 or 84.
Gibby’s vocals on that song are unreal! I don’t think they ever played it live because it would be impossible to recreate the insanity
First song I ever learned on guitar was BBQ Pope in 1986. Paul Leary is a lot of people's Hendrix.
I can listen to hours and hours of this, when a friend showed me Mexican caravan of blind eye sees all, I remember so clearly how fascinated I was, there is no turning back...
Teresa Taylor ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 we miss you and love you
Rip TT
The world NEEDS outtakes!!!!!
That story about the drum track for Hey is so good.
one of my top 5 bands ever. love y'all. rembrandt and locust are the best
Yes. Those two and Hairway To Steven.
Not to mention Cream Corn
I remember a show in Seattle, in Ballard, that I tried to attend not realizing that it was an over-21 thing. I spent HOURS with my nose pressed to the glass getting glimpses of shadows and chaos. As close as I ever got but always loved the band based on those half-seen moments. It sounded pretty good from outside.
Paul, thank you so much for the years of fun. Watching this now... about 7min in. Rock on man!
I’m so glad Paul’s dad got him those guitars!
I was salty about the no BS reunion until rn. I totally get it. Thanks for all the kickass music and shows, y'all, I saw the Butthole Surfers more than any other band. And I saw a lot of bands, we were in one. You guys played several of the best concerts I've ever seen.
Lol, including the Jackofficers show at SXSW with the odor machine. That night was hysterical.
My native studies teacher, Mr. Briscoe introduced me to these guys , he said anytime he saw them live they never played their songs the same … I went home and looked them up on the Gary and Scott show in n UA-cam and was hooked
I love their live performance of "Something" in 85. It had a almost zappa-ish way about it.
Made me weep, so special to hear this fellas talk.
I love the whole band from Butthole Surfers but Paul's way of putting tripped out effects in theirs and his solo songs blows me away!
Really great interview with 2 of the nicest most generous freaks I’ve ever met!
Awesome insight, thanx
My Son used Your Music in his Vernissage "GONZO LIFE" and is deeply grateful to You for sharing such an Extraordinary Story. Explicit Titles like “Lady Sniff” and “Dadgad” were particularly used, so the Butthole Surfers Music could be heard once again in Germany.
Sincerely
Tobias Klemm
You never burned down the club , but in 86 at some skaterink in oxnard ca, you left 1" Gough marks on their skate floor.....classic. I don't think they ever hosted another show 28:33
Well this is exciting! Do they talk about why the one tune was removed from Psychic? It was one of their catchiest, and not even offensive. Well, they offended me by removing it, 😂
I loved the Shockabilly/ Kramer talk
These guys are the BEST!!!
Literally dude!! Fk the Clash , Butthole Surfers were the only band that mattered 🤣
My favorite live rock show ever was the Surfers with Beme Seed opening, at the 930 Club in DC, in 89 or 90.
They were good live. I think the first time I saw them was opening for PIL in LA.
They give Watchtower some props!! That band is highly revered by some old school metalheads. The Butthole Surfers song “The O-Men” was inspired by another Texas based metal band called Omen after Gibby and Paul happened to watch Omen perform while tripping acid , the crazed proto industrial metal track that they created is one of the best and freaked out songs in the catalog of Butthole Surfers.
What’s up with the BHS documentary that was in production? I watched a trailer and have not heard anything about it for a year or two.
the documentary is still in production, they just recently interviewed dave grohl
I hope Pail Gibby and King. I've been into you guusy for years.I love the shows on UA-cam and this comment is requesting a tour? Ive haven't seen you live.
The stammering
The rocking in the chair
Good Lord, man!
You sound like my dad.
I still think to the first show I saw, was early, 8BC on the Lower East Side. I was working door and had a ball. Fracking wonderful.
The Butthole Surfers were my favorite band in the 1980's & to this day. I was fortunate to see them many many time sin Atlanta & Athens, Georgia. Thanks for sheding light on one of the most original bands of that time period.
This is such a freaking cool watch for a surfers fan. Coffey is AWESOME, Leary is AWESOME.
Great interview but barely scratched the surface. I have so many more questions
I thought that by 'revisionist history', there might talk about how a track was dropped from Psychic... Powerless...
Trevor Malcolm RULES!
Paul's playing reminds me of Hendrix sometimes.
Absolutely! He carried on Hendrix’s tradition of experimentation
i agree with the bass lines! so good
One of the times I saw them at The Ritz in Austin, it was the only show I'd been to where I had serious doubts about whether I would leave the building alive.
Thanks for this great interview, Surfers!
The Ridiculoids story is amazing and has enhanced my life
My fav band
Mine too, I'm so lucky to have had a friend introduce them to me around 30 years ago. Their music is the soundtrack to my life.
I just learned that Gary Floyd died a few days ago. So glad this interview led me to discover his music.
A brave and wonderfully outrageous artist.
this is sick, especially the kung fu parts
Wtf are these questions?
"Di-di-did yo-you have fun when you made music?"
I love this. In their day it felt to me like having the Beatles in our town.
The Butthole Surfers Got me through highschool along with fugazi and the Jesus lizard
Been noticing these dudes’ Spotify monthly listeners going up lately
So stoked to have seen them live twice when I was 21.
Amazing band ❤❤❤❤
"We're super-excited to be part of the Matador family"
Ugh, really?!! THEY CUT A SONG OFF OF "Psychic... Powerless". Censorship of your art SUCKS HARD, why would you be *excited* for that?!! I am super-disappointed in the band for agreeing to this.
Revisionist means rewritten it's not going to be the same why would they care about being censored it's all nonsense that means nothing that's why it's great.. it's jibberish chaos that's the point.
King Coffey and King Buzzo are the only Kings that matter ✊🏼✌🏻
Played our small club and diner with great hamburgers in Richmond in 84 or 85. Legendary night. I think everyone had a tasty burger and tasty show
Ive loved y’all since i was 12. My favorite band and guitarist. I played shitty music most of my adult life bc of Paul Leary. Great interview. Love you guys
Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed this podcast. So many ways to interpret Butthole Surfers, to me they are more than a punk band.... definitely experimental with originality...disturbingly beautiful music with vibes of seeing a therapist yet finding the humor to laugh at the trauma....at the very least their music is open to your imagination.
Playing in a band in Australia a long time ago, I remember an American record company guy was in Australia scouting for bands. He came and saw my band and asked us who our biggest influences were. The guitarist said Metallica and Slayer, the drummer said Led Zepplin. Then it was my turn and I said Butthole Surfers and he cracked up laughing and said that that was the last band he expected someone from Australia to say.
Grew up in Buffalo which was pretty fucked up in a lot of ways in the late 80's early 90's, the Surfers were an apropos soundtrack for the times and the stuff still holds up. Amazing musicians.
RIP Teresa Nervosa....
Yessssss!
Paul made me the guitarist I am, for whatever that’s worth.
I always thought his guitar playing sounded like Godzilla fighting monsters that what always attracted me to them
Im glad i watched this. I love the surfers.
Saw them live in LA, mind altering experience 💥
My favorite
One more thing - can they, will they, release a remastered HD 4K version of their masterpiece "Entering Texas" AKA "BBQ Movie" ? It deserves better than existing only on decaying decades old VHS tapes and grainy lo-res UA-cam transfers!
Why did Matador delete the song, Ngr Observer, from the "Psychic, Powerless..." LP?
This was amazing. The only other thing I could ask for is a one hour interview just about Locust Abortion Technician. Well, three hours if I'm being honest.
Bass lines from Jeff cougar are the. Best
So did Matador, or the band, remove Negro Observer from the Psychic Powerless reissue?
Please tell me that didn’t happen.
Glad I have my original CD of that release. I will not buy without that fantastic song included.
@@Matthew-qk1xi That song is possibly the LEAST offensive thing about the band. The 2013 and 2021 reissues put out under Latino Bugger Veil still have it.
Jeff told me that one of the employees at Matador was uncomfortable with the name of the song, the song existing or something to that effect and it got dropped.
@@chadwickmcrorie2816 That’s incredibly lame
I saw you play at some dive club on Ponce De Leon in Atlanta. You were scary but I bought your albums anyway.