Middle aged METAL guitarist here. I was way younger back then. I got talked into seeing this band with the jacked up name that I had never heard of before. I went to this fly by night bar in Trenton called City Gardens in Spring (sometime between March and May) 1987. Butthole Surfers. I'm standing there arms folded waiting for these people to do something. I had seen RUSH, AC/DC, VAN HALEN etc...at the Capital Centre in Landover MD so I knew my way around a concert (or so I thought). The lights went out. The band came on. Never saw two full drumkits used in such a way. The 2 drummers were literally pummeling the kits. The bass was MOGWAI levels of loud. It started to hurt my chest about 3 songs in. Gibby Haynes began throwing photocopies of cockroaches into the audience. Just follow me. It hurt to stand as close as I was standing to this band but I wasn't backing down. They have this super cute Juliette Lewis type stripper up on stage wrapped in saran wrap and dancing with flip flops on. I feel like I'm tripping. Gibby Haynes got the mega📣phone into the microphone thing working overtime. Guitars bass and drums are crushing. Saran wrap girl still dancing. Gibby Haynes starts messing with a can of Ronsonol lighter fluid, dropping some of it on the drum riser and on the cymbals. I'm about 4 and a half songs in (I think) when someone in the audience, maybe the club owners Randy Now and/or Tut (I have no idea what his real name was) called the Trenton Cops. By the time the dust settled, The Surfers had been physically manhandled and removed (while they were still performing) from the stage at City Gardens, I had managed to attend (and survive) my first "Alternative" show in New Jersey, and had a life altering experience I will never forget. I still love Metal. I always will. But those crazy BHSurfers really taught me something about Rock N Roll. They lived their performance right on the edge (OK probably both feet way over the edge). ROCK ON SURFERS. AND R I P TERESA NERVOSA. You all made a lasting impression on me.
I love to hear show experiences, bc I'm a huge fan but never caught a show. A little before my time. Thank god for UA-cam. A blind eye sees all is a great video of the surfers performances and an interview. The Portland '91 show is great, too.
At one point apparently Siouxsie Sue from Siouxsie and the Banshees was rolling around on the floor with Gibby, trying to wrestle the shotgun out of his hands. Anyone who'd met Gibby couldn't be certain it wasn't loaded with live ammo. As it was it was just extra-loud blanks called "poppers".
I was on a "substance" and Gibby comes on stage, shirtless, with a shotgun, his belly hanging out, and fires the shotgun into the air a few times while the band played Sweat Loaf or something...that is the thing I will always remember...and Perry Farrell talking about ripping yuppies eyes out with fishhooks...and seeing fractals...
That was my exact experience seeing BHS for the first time...on a substance and a shirtless hippy looking dude (Gibby) comes on stage firing off a shotgun and then the band starts playing Helicopter and the crowd just explodes!
I am honored to have been at this concert. I painted the album cover of PCP PEP on my van. The clown flipping the bird. Cops pulled me over and gave me crap about it. I told them it was the BUTTHOLE SURFERS and they left me alone. They looked at me like I was a leper. Couldn't get away fast enough from me. 😂 Butthole surfers save the day🙏
I saw this tour at Sandstone. I was laying in the sun, peaking as the Surfers came on. What a day. Ice-T was walking around w/o security. I got a high five off him. Damnit that was a good day.
Gibby Haynes must have some supernatural powers to make it out alive, after all these years of constant touring and terrorizing crowds just like this one!! I made it to one Butthole Surfers show back in 89/90 , and not even twenty minutes into the show there were fireworks going off inside the small venue. Gibby nearly burned down the club with everyone in it by pulling a torch and a can of hairspray from behind stage, skipping around like a maniac while dodging security. What a beautiful freak!
Don't leave Paul Leary out of that... he's 110% the crazy Gibby is. I don't believe Paul is 100% human - but he's alive and well and surprisingly normal these days.
i never thought i would see footage from a show i was at in 91. youtube rulz. man we were all packed in that crowd so tight you could barely move. what a great time in music history when bands with talent that didn't fit in mainstream culture could rise to a decent level of popularity. And a band like the Buttholes no less. The happiest band I've ever heard in all my years.
They certainly were wild, but I don't know about happy. Their songs were about drug addled monkeys, housewives, nightmares, hallucinations, and fictional political conspiracies. Not exactly flowers and puppydogs.
Agreed! I was security in front of the stage. I remember throwing water on the crowd trying to keep people from overheating, and giant plumes of steam coming off the crowd.
Possibly the two most insane sounding rock acts ever. It’s impossible to say who’s better. I think the Butthole Surfers were more outright insane and nilhistic but Beefheart’s music was farther out there.
Holy shit. I was at this show. Just a few minutes ago I randomly thought of the Butthole Surfers, was trying to figure out who was the original artist they took "Kuntz" from (knew it was Thai!) and then remembered this show and googled "butthole surfers shotgun Lollapalooza". I am somewhat relieved and disturbed to know that Gibby shooting into the air really happened and I didn't hallucinate it.
One of my all time favorite shows was at a campground outside Cincy with Flaming Lips, STP and Butthole Surfers. $15 bucks, bring in your own poisons, camp out, and Gibby's shotgun. All 3 bands were killing it that night.
J R Ray I was at a show at valdue lakes somewhere in MI. Same line up same shotgun. The front as all benches in rows and you had to stand on them. Greatest show ever
Aww man that's so Rad dude I'm jealous! I saw Butthole Surfers at Lollapalooza in Atlanta '91 and they and the whole line up kicked ass! Best show EVER!
I saw the Buttholes here in South Oz around this time...91 or 92 at the Old Lion Hotel. We were drinking beer up the back while the support band played, and there a was a bloke crashed out against the wall with his back to us. Was there for ages, totally out. Support act ends. Bloke wakes up, runs past us through crowd ...fuck, was that Gibby?! and disappears backstage. Buttholes come on. Yep, it was Gibby. Played a great show against a screen showing an old army VD film. Those were the days.
I tried to convince my mates to go to that gig..They refused by the band's name alone..I went along anyway,stood alone,Sunday arvo gig.. there was fuck all punters..saw that VD video..couldnt fucking believe it...They were lucky that they didn't go and witness that film.
my girlfriend and I were at this fest! .. this was thee very first Lollapalooza concert, Henry Rollins band, Ice-T, the Banshees, The BH Surfers, ,Living Color, Jane’s Addiction headlining. Well worth the flight over from San Diego.
@@kylemclendon1 That's fucking insane. I saw them live a couple times in the late 80's and early 90's. I saw the shotgun routine in Virginia in 91 or 92 and was too far back from the stage to tell what he was shooting, but that's crazy given the pellets could have gone anywhere in the fairgrounds where the show was set up.
My friend's little boy showed me this the other day and said his dad told him we went to this show together. I told him that, given the time frame, he was swimming around in his dad's balls.
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Probably the strangest band I ever listened to & bought their tapes, vinyl & cd's and sh*t.. ever since the LP 'P.P.A.M.S'.. And I've loved every second of it!! :)
i was there, it was a trip of a show, i think Rollins band opened and Jane's Addiction finished, i seem to remember Public Enemy also, suxie and the banshees also, yah..haha...what a blast from the past and what a trip that show was!
Salt Spring Design I believe the very first Lollapalooza concert. It was in in Chandler Arizona, outside Phoenix. Ice-T/Body Count, buttholes, the Rollins Band, siuoxsie with her Banshees, living color and Janes Addiction. Great great concert. Crap these daze seems so anti septic, comparatively.
I was at this show in Enumclaw. Couldn't believe this guy was singing thru a bullhorn and blasting off a shotgun. At one point a stuffed animal was on stage, he struck it on the shotgun and blasted it into the crowd.
94...got free white blotter....2 vatos need a vehicle to sit in ....for their transaction we ended up with a half blotter on our tounges....most say no taste... but actually you get a tin metallic chemical...taste that goes away.....but you know you're gonna trip....well green day opened up Billy said some shit about beards and woodstock....I had a beard and long hair but a black flag shirt and a ditch witch cap....I'm a Texas punker....L7 came on next and wow flash and tracer...big time....all day off a half ...we had weed but yeah good true ACID....who wants honey...!...patrick
WOOOOHOOOOO !!!!! Mad respect to all involved, thank you for posting !! I was lucky enough to catch the very first Lollapalooza in San Diego, Southwestern College. If I remember correctly the lineup was Ice T w/ Body Count, The Butthole Surfers, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie & the Banshees, with Jane's Addiction closing the show. If I missed a band, I'm sorry but that Tuinal just knocked me the fk out. I was surprised how the lineup was stacked. I know it was Perry's thing, but to see Siouxsie in the daylight outside, just seemed weird, & I love them. All the bands were great, it was a fantastic day, shared with Rick & Shea. I had already seen all these bands before, except the Banshees. And even though it was a blast, I enjoyed the earlier smaller hardcore shows than the bigger outdoor "rock" concert vibe. And the Surfers show in DC opening for the DK was much more amazing back in '84. 2 drummers, Gibby with his bullhorn, Paul playing a tuba. But it was the 1st time I saw them. I guess what is missing is that Do it yourself, who cares if you don't like what we play, Fk off & die attitude we had as early punk rockers. I'm grateful for the internet & the work people are putting into music these days, but don't get hung up on the views, comments, likes, etc. If it comes from the heart & you play your heart out, you'll earn the respect. And if some clowns don't like it, fk them, do what you do & the right people will follow you. Sorry, but this just floods me with such great memories, this beatup old man is just really excited. Thanks again for posting & everyone involved, from the spectators, techs, cool security, & musicians!!
It was truly a blast, awesome stuff to remember. Shouts out to my best friend, who is now in heaven Arturo F. (Toori) my beloved friend. I would always remember the blast we had together.
This is excellent footage!! The very first Lollapalooza concert! Flew from San Diego there to experience it. Worth every cent and every bit of effort!! And, yes Podycheck “drugs WERE highly likely involved”
i am hoping you are being serious, because if you are, i might finally be able to get the story behind their Denver Lollapolooza show chaotic gun incident. during siouxie and the banshees (oh so serious) performance, gibby came out with a little house on the prairie dress and was acting like a zombie and had the shotgun and went on stage and shot the gun off and the security was desperately trying to stop him from doing so, but could not go on stage to intercept him. he got off a few blasts, in the air. it was hilarious.
5:00 Saw them live at the one in Mountain View Shoreline, but they were one of the 1st bands to play so there were few people in the audience at the time, but i so remember the shotgun .
This is music that could exist in the universe before 9-11, when there was still enough freedom and anarchy in the U.S. to really wave your freak flag high. Now, with terrorism, race wars, the growing police state, gun hysteria, school shootings, etc., etc., music like this would seem totally out of place. Kids today are terrified. They don't need scary chaotic music to add to the sense of dread and despair.
WONDERFUL! Love all early footage. I almost cried, seeing this again. LOVE IT- they knew exactly what the F was up. So good. I went to Lolla in Los Angeles - great times. Great show. Those of us that got it - got the best band to see live.
"The Surfers were relegated to a midday set in the lineup, but that didn’t stop singer Gibby Haynes from standing out. Haynes sang through anything that could manipulate his voice and incorporated a shotgun as part of the band’s stage show. Haynes would toss toilet paper tubes and other objects into the air above the audience and attempt to shoot at them like skeet. This put a fright into more than a few people."
They were fake as shit and putting on a show nothing more and they probably didn't even do drugs! They weren't even great at what they were doing and i'm sure they were pushed in the underground scene by the higher ups . Gibby Haynes was a business guy and went to school for accounting and his father was a actor ofcourse and uncle was a high ranking military .
king coffee is THE DRUMMER Pinkus really groove Paul Leary is THE GUITAR HERO and Gibby Haynes is one of THE CRAZIEST MEN of rock music this is simply PERFECTION TRHOUGH CHAOS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@cdroid I was also at a show where Gibby was shooting the shotgun and it was salt pellets! I was right in front of the stage in the mosh pit. When the show was over I went back to meet my friends at the car and they said what's that in your hair? And it was little tiny bits of salt all in my hair. This was the Castaic Lake show when StoneTemple Pilots opened. There are some songs taken from this show on the live cd "The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt"
saw this tour in the houston area. along with many other times they played. one of the BEST bands i've ever seen multiple times. since fri the 13th, '87 -- Numbers, Houston
He almost was in 1991. Both KC Sherrifs and Enumclaw police wanted to get him for "Illegal Discharge of Firearms". Fortunately the Lollapalooza staff ran interference and it didn't happen. Weird times indeed.
I was there too, he hit the can on the third shot. The whole show was crazy-Gibby smashing bottles over the drummers head and standing around in that little tiny 3 piece suit and drooling w/ Ice T. I almost got hit by Fishbone's trombone whooooo!! crazy!!
You're the first person round here that's ever heard of the surfers but me! Nice one :) I remember been on acid and listening to kuntz , scared the crap outa me! XD
I love the Buttholes, but never mixed them with acid. The Buttholes are like travelling to India, where it is crazy and you dont need acid. but just for a taster- post crazy punk-i like this from india my tastes have changed- ua-cam.com/video/WRyVnD3OYGY/v-deo.html
I did attend that particular show and maybe 6 others over the years ...At this show I was working a t-shirt stand but it was a good show even from the sidelines! Also had Jane's Addiction, Ice-T, Rollins Band and NIN
Not sure what got me there, but I was able to experience their show at First Avenue (MPLS) around about 1987-89. Had never seen anything like it. The background film was a Michigan State Highway Patrol auto acciddents scare movie. It was an amazing performance. Someone got stabbed up in the restrooms at some point in the evening.
I WAS THERE!!!!! They went first. No one was paying attention. Gibby Haynes had a shotgun loaded with blanks and started casually firing into the crowd, no one noticed. Different times!
Saw them in San Diego for the second ever Lollapalooza (and many other times in the '90s). The Butthole Surfers certainly invented the term, "NO FUCKS GIVEN!" Great god damn band. True originals.
They are actually very good musicians , Paul is a guitar god to me, Gibby could sing, play guitar, bass, saxophone and I've seen him play drums, Pinkus is a bass master and King was always solid on drums.
All I can wish for is… On my deathbed … In my delirium… Paul Leary appears with a John Waters mustache, cross eyed, and whispers to me … “Everythings. OK…”
That looks like the show in Washington state!!! It rained all day!!!!! But what a show it was.... Rollins band, butthole surfers, fishbone, violent femmes, Janes addiction, banshees, and a few others but the act that took the show was....... ICE T he performed with his rap band then came out with as he would call it his heavy metal homeboys BODY COUNT!!!! He put on an amazing show!!!! They all did that rainy day but ice was on fire great show it was the 1st and BEST lollapalooza in my book and I've been to more than a few in my years!!!
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Middle aged METAL guitarist here. I was way younger back then. I got talked into seeing this band with the jacked up name that I had never heard of before. I went to this fly by night bar in Trenton called City Gardens in Spring (sometime between March and May) 1987. Butthole Surfers.
I'm standing there arms folded waiting for these people to do something. I had seen RUSH, AC/DC, VAN HALEN etc...at the Capital Centre in Landover MD so I knew my way around a concert (or so I thought).
The lights went out. The band came on. Never saw two full drumkits used in such a way.
The 2 drummers were literally pummeling the kits. The bass was MOGWAI levels of loud.
It started to hurt my chest about 3 songs in. Gibby Haynes began throwing photocopies of cockroaches into the audience.
Just follow me. It hurt to stand as close as I was standing to this band but I wasn't backing down. They have this super cute Juliette Lewis type stripper up on stage wrapped in saran wrap and dancing with flip flops on. I feel like I'm tripping. Gibby Haynes got the mega📣phone into the microphone thing working overtime. Guitars bass and drums are crushing. Saran wrap girl still dancing. Gibby Haynes starts messing with a can of Ronsonol lighter fluid, dropping some of it on the drum riser and on the cymbals.
I'm about 4 and a half songs in (I think) when someone in the audience, maybe the club owners Randy Now and/or Tut (I have no idea what his real name was) called the Trenton Cops. By the time the dust settled, The Surfers had been physically manhandled and removed (while they were still performing) from the stage at City Gardens, I had managed to attend (and survive) my first "Alternative" show in New Jersey, and had a life altering experience I will never forget.
I still love Metal. I always will.
But those crazy BHSurfers really taught me something about Rock N Roll. They lived their performance right on the edge (OK probably both feet way over the edge).
ROCK ON SURFERS.
AND R I P TERESA NERVOSA.
You all made a lasting impression on me.
Damn that's a crazy sight dude
Everybody knows the old City Gardens.
that might be the best and sweetest review of The Butthole Surfers i've ever read. nice one
That story its fucking crazy, hope i can experience the same
I love to hear show experiences, bc I'm a huge fan but never caught a show. A little before my time. Thank god for UA-cam. A blind eye sees all is a great video of the surfers performances and an interview. The Portland '91 show is great, too.
-Im on a band
-What instrument do you play?
-The shotgun
At one point apparently Siouxsie Sue from Siouxsie and the Banshees was rolling around on the floor with Gibby, trying to wrestle the shotgun out of his hands. Anyone who'd met Gibby couldn't be certain it wasn't loaded with live ammo. As it was it was just extra-loud blanks called "poppers".
I was on a "substance" and Gibby comes on stage, shirtless, with a shotgun, his belly hanging out, and fires the shotgun into the air a few times while the band played Sweat Loaf or something...that is the thing I will always remember...and Perry Farrell talking about ripping yuppies eyes out with fishhooks...and seeing fractals...
That was my exact experience seeing BHS for the first time...on a substance and a shirtless hippy looking dude (Gibby) comes on stage firing off a shotgun and then the band starts playing Helicopter and the crowd just explodes!
I've seen fractals before...
Nice. I wish I was born a bit earlier. I would have loved to seen them live.
Helicopter live ...I was an instant fan then and there....
😂😂😂 you too?!! 😉😎✌☝🤘💖💣💥
This song should get played at every wedding.
and every circumcision.
No the fuck it shouldn't
right
Shotgun included.
And funeral.
I am honored to have been at this concert. I painted the album cover of PCP PEP on my van. The clown flipping the bird. Cops pulled me over and gave me crap about it. I told them it was the BUTTHOLE SURFERS and they left me alone. They looked at me like I was a leper. Couldn't get away fast enough from me. 😂 Butthole surfers save the day🙏
I saw this tour at Sandstone. I was laying in the sun, peaking as the Surfers came on. What a day. Ice-T was walking around w/o security. I got a high five off him. Damnit that was a good day.
Felt like that with Ween '97, possibly '98, I was only 5, but that concert would make up my entire life lol
I saw it in Raleigh, NC. 16 years old. That day changed my life. So many fucking incredible bands at their prime! a real game changer for me!
I wonder how many bad trips were caused by them
Saw them at lola in Orlando
@Mac Jones me too. It was hot AF bu a defining moment for me as well. A true Gen X moment.
Gibby Haynes must have some supernatural powers to make it out alive, after all these years of constant touring and terrorizing crowds just like this one!! I made it to one Butthole Surfers show back in 89/90 , and not even twenty minutes into the show there were fireworks going off inside the small venue. Gibby nearly burned down the club with everyone in it by pulling a torch and a can of hairspray from behind stage, skipping around like a maniac while dodging security. What a beautiful freak!
Don't leave Paul Leary out of that... he's 110% the crazy Gibby is. I don't believe Paul is 100% human - but he's alive and well and surprisingly normal these days.
To bring a shotgun on stage and no one runs! We were in good times back then!
God, I want those times back! I'm in my 30s now and I want them! Seen some wild shows but nothing like this!
It strictly was for Present Future Space Rocket Metaphorical First Lolla ever purposes
100% owed to the fact that America was almost completely White.
Yup! Even predates Columbine the musical
Could be MK Ultra, but "they" promised The World that it stopped immediately, in 1973, when the word got out that it was happening. Possible 😊
i never thought i would see footage from a show i was at in 91. youtube rulz. man we were all packed in that crowd so tight you could barely move. what a great time in music history when bands with talent that didn't fit in mainstream culture could rise to a decent level of popularity. And a band like the Buttholes no less. The happiest band I've ever heard in all my years.
they were shit
They certainly were wild, but I don't know about happy. Their songs were about drug addled monkeys, housewives, nightmares, hallucinations, and fictional political conspiracies. Not exactly flowers and puppydogs.
@Anon O’Mous I was
Agreed! I was security in front of the stage. I remember throwing water on the crowd trying to keep people from overheating, and giant plumes of steam coming off the crowd.
Were you told he was going to be shooting a gun off over the crowd? Seems like that would end in instant arrest nowadays.@00boscopops
if only lolla had bands like these guys nowadays
patrick's broken glute for real!
you can only wish
They’ll never be a band like this again!
@@chadsatomicdustbin9516 Agreed.
Viagra Boys is close enough
Imagine being this high and making cohesive music
Id be shitting my pants if that dude was on that cocktail of drugs he was on and picked up a shotgun
Id be shitting my pants if that dude was on that cocktail of drugs he was on and picked up a shotgun
Cohesive?
I wouldn't exactly call this cohesive haha
Posers.
Can you imagine a band doing this live on stage today? Oh man lmao. Gibby is a god.
Lol
Do you, all, know a liite about grindcore or something? Cmon, Zappa at the end?
I seen 5 times in Texass Houston every time I was on acid or ex met Gibby smogged out with them.
I am trying to figure out if he was really shooting bird shot or whatever out of that shotgun? If he was then that's amazing!
@@bertroost1675 i believe it, those shows back then just let everything slide since low security/
More than a punk band, they're the true heirs of Captain Beefheart.
They were much better than beefheart
@@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec Not even close, not even close.
@@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700 Beefheart was garbage
@@sheepdavis lol no.
Possibly the two most insane sounding rock acts ever. It’s impossible to say who’s better. I think the Butthole Surfers were more outright insane and nilhistic but Beefheart’s music was farther out there.
This is the greatest live performance I've ever seen
It's dogshit
@@ConnorMcCartney95 Eat shit you dork
You mean worst?
you dont get out much
Your standards are so lame
Holy shit. I was at this show. Just a few minutes ago I randomly thought of the Butthole Surfers, was trying to figure out who was the original artist they took "Kuntz" from (knew it was Thai!) and then remembered this show and googled "butthole surfers shotgun Lollapalooza". I am somewhat relieved and disturbed to know that Gibby shooting into the air really happened and I didn't hallucinate it.
It’s like NOBODY is looking this band up. I miss them. They are my favorite. Somebody stole all my records a decade ago and I do t have them anymore.
One of my all time favorite shows was at a campground outside Cincy with Flaming Lips, STP and Butthole Surfers. $15 bucks, bring in your own poisons, camp out, and Gibby's shotgun. All 3 bands were killing it that night.
J R Ray yeah Gibby called them the Stone Pimple Toliets! Hahaha!
i saw them at bogarts in the early 90's
J R Ray I was at a show at valdue lakes somewhere in MI. Same line up same shotgun. The front as all benches in rows and you had to stand on them. Greatest show ever
Aww man that's so Rad dude I'm jealous! I saw Butthole Surfers at Lollapalooza in Atlanta '91 and they and the whole line up kicked ass! Best show EVER!
I'm from Oklahoma. The Lips were sorta the rival freaks against BHS lol. Chainsaw Kittens were in there as well along with Tripping Daisy
Too brave to live, too mad to die
Long live the Surfers
If you never saw them.
Too late, you lose
Just saw Gibby Haynes with Paul Green's School of Rock 3 weeks ago.
Even had a chat and photo op. He was quite gracious!
Lots of fun
I had the chance one day, but I was all dressed up for Sunday.
I saw the Buttholes here in South Oz around this time...91 or 92 at the Old Lion Hotel. We were drinking beer up the back while the support band played, and there a was a bloke crashed out against the wall with his back to us. Was there for ages, totally out. Support act ends. Bloke wakes up, runs past us through crowd ...fuck, was that Gibby?! and disappears backstage. Buttholes come on. Yep, it was Gibby. Played a great show against a screen showing an old army VD film. Those were the days.
killerbunyip I nearly pissed myself laughing at this!
I tried to convince my mates to go to that gig..They refused by the band's name alone..I went along anyway,stood alone,Sunday arvo gig.. there was fuck all punters..saw that VD video..couldnt fucking believe it...They were lucky that they didn't go and witness that film.
He nailed that Michael Keaton impression at the beginning, dam
I was thinking he reminded me of Beetlejuice! I can see them liking that movie.
Butt hole suffers are and will always stand as great and unique!😊
my girlfriend and I were at this fest! .. this was thee very first Lollapalooza concert, Henry Rollins band, Ice-T, the Banshees, The BH Surfers, ,Living Color, Jane’s Addiction headlining. Well worth the flight over from San Diego.
the one i saw had body count as well
He shot that off right over my head in a small club in Orlando back in 93. I couldn't hear out of one ear for over a week.
Was he shooting blanks or what? I can't believe the promoters let him do that.
Not shooting blanks he used to aim for beach balls especially. Even crazier to see nowadays.
@@kylemclendon1 That's fucking insane. I saw them live a couple times in the late 80's and early 90's. I saw the shotgun routine in Virginia in 91 or 92 and was too far back from the stage to tell what he was shooting, but that's crazy given the pellets could have gone anywhere in the fairgrounds where the show was set up.
That was actually a shotgun? Legend
I'm in this crowd somewhere.
My friend's little boy showed me this the other day and said his dad told him we went to this show together. I told him that, given the time frame, he was swimming around in his dad's balls.
Peter L I'm in there somewhere, bugging out, unwisely wearing a canvas duster that would freeze like ice as the day wore on...ah, I loved that show
What, right now?!
lucky
me too
paul my look like a lunatic but he is one of the most underrated guitarist ever. this guy is a genius.
Hell yeah, only the truth
He reminds me of Rick Nielsen.
1000000% agree… to be able to exactly replicate every song every time is nuts, when that song is a buttholes song the achievement goes up to god tier
did a great solo on stp's song lounge fly
One of my primary influences on guitar. Many inspire me, but Leary impacted how I play and sound.
The most original band ever. Perfection.
That's what made them special to me, kickass crazy fkin band that doesn't sound like most bands at the time.
Just another acid/psychedelic noise rock band
Locust Abortion Technician is one of the best albums of all time!
Butthole Surfers are one of the greatest bands of all time. Never afraid to push the envelope. My 2 fav bands are Surfers and Melvins.
Right up there with their self titled EP.
. Smells like teen spirit is a rip off “Godzilla - The smashing pumpkins” 1990 (ua-cam.com/video/ozs-KJS-7QQ/v-deo.html ). Billy and Kurt hated each other, which is not surprising. Therefore, the members of nirvana didn’t like their hit and did not want to play it, because they stole it completely from the Pumpkins, like all other songs lol.
2. Come as you are is a rip off of “22 faces - Garden of Delight 1984” (ua-cam.com/video/bdazIpDDrO8/v-deo.html).
3. Polly is a rip off of The 4 skins on the streets 1983 (ua-cam.com/video/Yp82IxMmbEg/v-deo.html)
4. Heart shaped box is a rip off of (ua-cam.com/video/bcRY_aMXzWk/v-deo.html). 1983 Butthole surfers Bar b q. They even copied the vocal part «HEY WAIT”
5. About a girl is a rip off of ua-cam.com/video/80-ekOM9XXk/v-deo.html It’s a croatian band. Krist Novoselic is from Croatia 1979
6. Been a son is a rip off of ua-cam.com/video/w-dkkxhD6V0/v-deo.html 1983 Zebra don’t walk away
7. Aneurysm is a rip off of ua-cam.com/video/6SC1bwWcido/v-deo.html Fang an invitation 1989
8. Breed - wipes potential suicide ua-cam.com/video/V6SFFpTpC74/v-deo.html 1980
9. Mr moustache riff is a rip off of ua-cam.com/video/j3akJkD-6E4/v-deo.html on 0:55 min 1966
10. Spank thru is a rip off of El clavo, TV show
11. Rape me - mudhoney need. ua-cam.com/video/PIMyf8PSIUQ/v-deo.html 1988
12. Milk it 1993 - “Melvins it’s shoved 1991” ua-cam.com/video/sedrRo6YeW4/v-deo.html .
13. Endless nameless 1991 - “Butthole surfers 1987” ua-cam.com/video/d8MpCIebBVc/v-deo.html .
14. Big long now - “Sister europe psychedelic furs 1980” ua-cam.com/video/-R96oxrDHWs/v-deo.html .
15. Scentless aprentice - “The cult in the clouds” ua-cam.com/video/7EosjRvc-h0/v-deo.html .
@@Без_трусиков-ф1ф Strikes me you've just got a pathological problem with Nirvana!
Yes!!
I never understood how the Surfers didn't become the biggest band in the world. They were in my world in the 90s.
Uh because their name is butthole surfers. Key word butthole
Maybe for the name ? 😌
The Name didnt help ......
The system said "NO"
they were the greatest thing ever in the 90's. then they took a turn for a more mainstream sound.
I went to every Lollapalooza in the early 90s. Best times ever in existence. I would go back if I could.
Probably the strangest band I ever listened to & bought their tapes, vinyl & cd's and sh*t.. ever since the LP 'P.P.A.M.S'.. And I've loved every second of it!! :)
C'mon, "Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac".
A title that good you never abbreviate.
This is the song my mother used to sing to me when I was a baby.
God I love this band! I've been listening to these guys since the 80s. There is no other band like them
i was there, it was a trip of a show, i think Rollins band opened and Jane's Addiction finished, i seem to remember Public Enemy also, suxie and the banshees also, yah..haha...what a blast from the past and what a trip that show was!
Salt Spring Design I believe the very first Lollapalooza concert. It was in in Chandler Arizona, outside Phoenix. Ice-T/Body Count, buttholes, the Rollins Band, siuoxsie with her Banshees, living color and Janes Addiction. Great great concert. Crap these daze seems so anti septic, comparatively.
HA... Thank you for reminding me that I did see Souxie and the banshees play... Shoreline 91 first leg of the tour...
I was at this show in Enumclaw. Couldn't believe this guy was singing thru a bullhorn and blasting off a shotgun. At one point a stuffed animal was on stage, he struck it on the shotgun and blasted it into the crowd.
This video just gave me a happiness boost.
I like how Gibby cleaned up, picking up those cans, before leaving the stage.
Texans don't litter 🤘
And his shotgun😂
Hey I was there! Great show we had the best time. Drove up from Portland. I'm just finding this damn IT FuCk
and on this day not a fuck was to be given
Obviously! Gibby was skeetshooting over thousands of people at a concert festival. Those were the good ol days
They were still a cool band to see live in 1991. As the 1990s got weirder the Butthole Surfers seemed more normal.
yes the acid was good that day ....
94...got free white blotter....2 vatos need a vehicle to sit in ....for their transaction we ended up with a half blotter on our tounges....most say no taste... but actually you get a tin metallic chemical...taste that goes away.....but you know you're gonna trip....well green day opened up Billy said some shit about beards and woodstock....I had a beard and long hair but a black flag shirt and a ditch witch cap....I'm a Texas punker....L7 came on next and wow flash and tracer...big time....all day off a half ...we had weed but yeah good true ACID....who wants honey...!...patrick
@@alfinflikt6689 Wut.
@@alfinflikt6689 sounds like a great trip.😁👍
White on white blotter....
I was under the impression the coffee was decaf.
Definitely one of my top five favorite bands in the 1980s they'd have naked girls dancing on stage and they would set all of their equipment on fire
So amazing!! Look at those Lollapaloosers eatin it up!! Truly one of the best live bands ever!!! Makes me proud to be an Austinite!!
Wouldn't you be a....Austonian?
* just funnin' , I would never fuck around anybody from TEXAS * .
Did he really bring out a shotgun, and fuckin fire it over the crowd?! Holy shit! 😂
how can I not love them?!
WOOOOHOOOOO !!!!! Mad respect to all involved, thank you for posting !! I was lucky enough to catch the very first Lollapalooza in San Diego, Southwestern College. If I remember correctly the lineup was Ice T w/ Body Count, The Butthole Surfers, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie & the Banshees, with Jane's Addiction closing the show. If I missed a band, I'm sorry but that Tuinal just knocked me the fk out.
I was surprised how the lineup was stacked. I know it was Perry's thing, but to see Siouxsie in the daylight outside, just seemed weird, & I love them. All the bands were great, it was a fantastic day, shared with Rick & Shea. I had already seen all these bands before, except the Banshees. And even though it was a blast, I enjoyed the earlier smaller hardcore shows than the bigger outdoor "rock" concert vibe. And the Surfers show in DC opening for the DK was much more amazing back in '84. 2 drummers, Gibby with his bullhorn, Paul playing a tuba. But it was the 1st time I saw them. I guess what is missing is that Do it yourself, who cares if you don't like what we play, Fk off & die attitude we had as early punk rockers.
I'm grateful for the internet & the work people are putting into music these days, but don't get hung up on the views, comments, likes, etc. If it comes from the heart & you play your heart out, you'll earn the respect. And if some clowns don't like it, fk them, do what you do & the right people will follow you. Sorry, but this just floods me with such great memories, this beatup old man is just really excited. Thanks again for posting & everyone involved, from the spectators, techs, cool security, & musicians!!
The Rollins band also. In Michigan anyways
One of the greatest live performances ever recorded on video.
It was truly a blast, awesome stuff to remember. Shouts out to my best friend, who is now in heaven Arturo F. (Toori) my beloved friend. I would always remember the blast we had together.
This is excellent footage!! The very first Lollapalooza concert! Flew from San Diego there to experience it. Worth every cent and every bit of effort!! And, yes Podycheck “drugs WERE highly likely involved”
I was Gibby's gun tech on this tour.
Tell us all about it! Was that real buckshot or rock salt? Blanks?
Something tells me that even Gibby wasn't stupid enough to put real buckshot in that gun.
i am hoping you are being serious, because if you are, i might finally be able to get the story behind their Denver Lollapolooza show chaotic gun incident. during siouxie and the banshees (oh so serious) performance, gibby came out with a little house on the prairie dress and was acting like a zombie and had the shotgun and went on stage and shot the gun off and the security was desperately trying to stop him from doing so, but could not go on stage to intercept him. he got off a few blasts, in the air. it was hilarious.
Hired gun
I was at the Dallas show and Ginny was shooting skeet on stage while the band played. Insanity.
This is the coolest thing that I have ever seen.
Butthole Surfers # 1 , a total breath of fresh air in a stale music scene !!!
5:00 Saw them live at the one in Mountain View Shoreline, but they were one of the 1st bands to play so there were few people in the audience at the time, but i so remember the shotgun .
Same!
this is a musical 9/11
Well put Billy
This is music that could exist in the universe before 9-11, when there was still enough freedom and anarchy in the U.S. to really wave your freak flag high. Now, with terrorism, race wars, the growing police state, gun hysteria, school shootings, etc., etc., music like this would seem totally out of place. Kids today are terrified. They don't need scary chaotic music to add to the sense of dread and despair.
Describe to me what a musical false flag is.
Papa Disco riffs strong enough to melt steel beams.
How bout you go fuck yourself these people are musical angels sent by god.
WONDERFUL! Love all early footage. I almost cried, seeing this again. LOVE IT- they knew exactly what the F was up. So good. I went to Lolla in Los Angeles - great times. Great show. Those of us that got it - got the best band to see live.
"The Surfers were relegated to a midday set in the lineup, but that didn’t stop singer Gibby Haynes from standing out. Haynes sang through anything that could manipulate his voice and incorporated a shotgun as part of the band’s stage show. Haynes would toss toilet paper tubes and other objects into the air above the audience and attempt to shoot at them like skeet. This put a fright into more than a few people."
They were fake as shit and putting on a show nothing more and they probably didn't even do drugs! They weren't even great at what they were doing and i'm sure they were pushed in the underground scene by the higher ups . Gibby Haynes was a business guy and went to school for accounting and his father was a actor ofcourse and uncle was a high ranking military .
It's still cool 30 years later
king coffee is THE DRUMMER Pinkus really groove Paul Leary is THE GUITAR HERO and Gibby Haynes is one of THE CRAZIEST MEN of rock music this is simply PERFECTION TRHOUGH CHAOS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This video is absolutely why I love this band so much
This tune-less piece of noise is why I love 90's alternative
brings a tear to a glass eye. beautiful.
0:30 that’s Richard Patrick, back then he was Nine Inch Nails’ guitar player and now he’s the band Filter.
He was so fucked up that he looked like Les Claypool
i feel so much better about my life after a dose of this
1 of the greatest live bands ever, w/ the Boredoms & the Ex &.......
woah yes the Ex!
The Ex!! Saw them countless times (which is easy for me because I live only 20km from where they live and work) 🤗
Definitely grooving thank you for sharing this
@cdroid
I was also at a show where Gibby was shooting the shotgun and it was salt pellets! I was right in front of the stage in the mosh pit. When the show was over I went back to meet my friends at the car and they said what's that in your hair? And it was little tiny bits of salt all in my hair. This was the Castaic Lake show when StoneTemple Pilots opened. There are some songs taken from this show on the live cd "The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt"
saw this tour in the houston area. along with many other times they played. one of the BEST bands i've ever seen multiple times.
since fri the 13th, '87 -- Numbers, Houston
They played Dallas twice. There was no tour in Houston this year (not until '92).
@@jpotx113 ahh, then it was 92 i was thinking of...
We drove up from Huntsville in '91. The '92 Lollapalooza tour was at Fort Bend County Fairground.
I was at this Lollapalooza, but in Phoenix AZ!!!
I'm one of the CSC event staff in front of the stage. The two biggest guys in front of the stage are Robert, and Ricky Nelson. Good memories.
If Gibby used that gun on stage today he would have most definitely been arrested!
He almost was in 1991. Both KC Sherrifs and Enumclaw police wanted to get him for "Illegal Discharge of Firearms". Fortunately the Lollapalooza staff ran interference and it didn't happen. Weird times indeed.
He would blast beach balls with rock salt ?? And break stunt bottles of heinkan and jack Daniels... Dallas 91 Lollapalooza.
@@patdisaster8543 I was there for the second show (6th row). Gibby shooting that shotgun was wild...
@@jpotx113 do remember the fetish fashion show....on a small stage near the art and merch tables...I met Phil Anselmo that afternoon....
@@erik4-a272 I remember that
I still play this video on date night...so romantic
Boy, that was certainly an example of musical excellence. Nice job boys.
I was there too, he hit the can on the third shot. The whole show was crazy-Gibby smashing bottles over the drummers head and standing around in that little tiny 3 piece suit and drooling w/ Ice T. I almost got hit by Fishbone's trombone whooooo!! crazy!!
Such a great, weird band. Early 80's revolutionaries in post punk especially their first album-" a brown reason... "
You're the first person round here that's ever heard of the surfers but me!
Nice one :)
I remember been on acid and listening to kuntz , scared the crap outa me! XD
Locust abortion tech .. Still got my vinyl from way back
Lol
Had 'human cannonball' on my phone about an hour ago, small world innit? craigmac303
I love the Buttholes, but never mixed them with acid. The Buttholes are like travelling to India, where it is crazy and you dont need acid.
but just for a taster- post crazy punk-i like this from india
my tastes have changed- ua-cam.com/video/WRyVnD3OYGY/v-deo.html
Was in Atlanta in '91 for that Lalapalooza lineup. Life is good. Long live the Buttholes!
I did not attend this show
Boon Doggle I have never been to any of their shows
I failed to realize this gig was actually happening at the time.
I have no prior or future knowledge of this band.
It's ok.. the BHS don't remember playing it either.
I did attend that particular show and maybe 6 others over the years ...At this show I was working a t-shirt stand but it was a good show even from the sidelines! Also had Jane's Addiction, Ice-T, Rollins Band and NIN
This is my favorite thing that’s ever existed.
holy shit. I was there and remember the shotgun.
IMAGINE IF THEY DID THIS TODAY
Not sure what got me there, but I was able to experience their show at First Avenue (MPLS) around about 1987-89. Had never seen anything like it. The background film was a Michigan State Highway Patrol auto acciddents scare movie. It was an amazing performance. Someone got stabbed up in the restrooms at some point in the evening.
saw these guys last night.... blew my mind... front row... i feel grateful
I WAS THERE!!!!! They went first. No one was paying attention. Gibby Haynes had a shotgun loaded with blanks and started casually firing into the crowd, no one noticed. Different times!
Everyone keeps saying blanks but he shoots stuff out of the air so how could it be blanks
@@paytongrisham7619 I mean, I was hoping/assuming they were blanks! :-D
Killer band who took all extremes. Early BHS are so progressive.
So drug fucked but made really incredible music.
I love this band.
Butthole Surfers are a sense of humour as well as a band.
I miss 1991 so much. I'm still happy there.
No other words for it apart from freakin Brilliant...psychadelic punk avant garde weirdness at its best
I was at the second show in San Diego! Inaugural Lollapallooza tour
Sounds precisely like the record. The talent pool of this band is the stuff of legends!!
Saw them in San Diego for the second ever Lollapalooza (and many other times in the '90s). The Butthole Surfers certainly invented the term, "NO FUCKS GIVEN!" Great god damn band. True originals.
Gotta be the greatest rock performance ever... Starts at 1:03
Totally agree
off your guts on acid and whatever else
Butholes rock
Musical scientists...one of the greatest bands in the world.
Still have my ticket stub from seeing this show in Denver. What a experience
Nothing like Yee-hawing and shaking a Winnebago with your friends to make an enjoyable evening memorable.
That's the kinda sound I like!
dude u rool
seriously
best comment ever for most approPIRATE song
YEEEEEEEEHA YEEEEEEEEE YEEEE YEEEEEEEEHAAAAA
I never get tired of this. So Funny!!!!!
Damn, they were tight. The Steely Dan of Texas punk rock.
😂
Fantastic....what a great night
THEY NEED TO MAKE A NEW ALBUM!!!!!1111111
killa kola scary really..im exited though!
Apparently this year.
Pugtato, apparently not indeed.
It's obviously a love song
2:53 the greatest camera movement ever
Also 3:52
Believe it or not, this band are a group of consummate professionals. This is how it is supposed to look and sound, down to every last note.
They are actually very good musicians , Paul is a guitar god to me, Gibby could sing, play guitar, bass, saxophone and I've seen him play drums, Pinkus is a bass master and King was always solid on drums.
Wow these guys must have been so high on so much stuff on stage...
All I can wish for is…
On my deathbed …
In my delirium…
Paul Leary appears with a John Waters mustache, cross eyed, and whispers to me …
“Everythings. OK…”
These guys are higher than the quality.
That looks like the show in Washington state!!! It rained all day!!!!! But what a show it was.... Rollins band, butthole surfers, fishbone, violent femmes, Janes addiction, banshees, and a few others but the act that took the show was....... ICE T he performed with his rap band then came out with as he would call it his heavy metal homeboys BODY COUNT!!!! He put on an amazing show!!!! They all did that rainy day but ice was on fire great show it was the 1st and BEST lollapalooza in my book and I've been to more than a few in my years!!!