Butthole Surfers: The Weird History Of The Band Behind "Pepper" & "Who Was In My Room Last Night"
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Today we’re talking about one of the weirdest
acts in Rock N’ Roll - the Butthole Surfers
and I've had a few people ask me to do this
topic and today we are finally going to tackle
it.
The Butthole Surfers started out as a drug-fueled
post-punk band from Texas. After all they
really had nothing to lose to lose. They were
like the bradley cooper of rock n’ roll.
What do I mean? Well they both found major
success much later on in their career.
Their live shows were an assault on the senses
- rumored on-stage sexual antics and disturbing
images projecting above the stage were all
standard. There was also an instance when
full-frontal nudity happened at an all-ages
show. Bassist Jeff Pinkus would tell Classic
Rock Magazine “I think we inspired other
people to be more debauched,”
In an interview with Kerrang online, Guitarist
Paul Leary talked about how frontman Gibby
Haynes went on a bender onstage in Rotterdam
in the Netherlands at a show where the Cult
had just played - he ended up in a dress and
threw chairs at the audience. Ironically though,
this was when the band really started to take
off in Europe! Leary couldn’t take all the
sound equipment back himself so he hid it
under the bushes overnight. At a February
1986 show in New York’s the band used “piss
wands” which were - plastic baseball bats
filled with, well you know, that were waved
around the crowd.
From the get go the band was single minded
in their mission. They wanted to do something
other bands hadn’t with guitarist Paul Leary
explaining to Classic Rock “We’d asked
ourselves what we wanted to see from a rock
band, something that nobody else was doing,”.
“We were influenced by psychedelic bands
so we wanted strobes. Soon we had shotguns,
walls of strobe lights and movies showing
penis reconstruction. It just seemed like
a kick in the ass to do. It helped that there
was no message we were trying to convey. It
was all kinda nihilistic.”
Their onstage behavior soon crossed over to
offstage antics. Leary would explain “It
was just a party every night,” “Gibby
was definitely our ringleader. We would go
into a new town every day, raise as much hell
as we wanted, get to drink beer for free,
act like lunatics, make a big mess and then
move on to the next town" he'd remember
One of their most ridiculous offstage antics
was touching their, uh hmmm, manhood to a
briefcase used by President Jimmy Carter.
And for a band that could be so visceral, they
were actually inspired by some pretty intellectual
philosophies.
Dadism also known as the art of the absurd) and
Fredrick Nietzche’s Nihilism both influenced the group.
Frontman Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary formed
The Butthole Surfers in 1981 in San Antonio,
Texas. Ironically, the band members had pretty
wholesome backgrounds. Hayne’s father hosted
a children’s program in Dallas called Mr.
Peppermint and Leary’s father was the business
school Dean at Trinity College in Dallas.
They were influenced by punk rock bands like
Black Flag, and the Dead Kennedys,
In what should have been a clue for what lay
ahead the pair created a humorous magazine
called Strange V.D., which looked at bizarre
medical problems. Haynes was working at an
accounting firm at the time when he was fired
when his superiors after they found pages from the magazine
in the company printer. And it didn’t really
matter since the Butthole Surfers had already
formed. Leary would paint a funny picture
of what the band’s early rehearsals looked
like saying
“We’d go over to our drummer’s house
in the evening and start rehearsing,. “Gibby
would usually get off work late at the accountancy
firm, stumble into practice in his suit and
tie, and immediately start stripping down
to his boxer shorts while we were playing.
That’s how it got incorporated into our
live show. We’d play until the police came
and turned the power off."
The early to mid eighties were formative years
for the band. In San Francisco in 1981, the
Surfers met the Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra
, who signed them to his Alternative
Tentacles label. King Coffey and Teresa Nervosa
joined the band as percussionists in 1983.
Jeff Pinkus joined in 1986 as bassist.
There was no one label to fit the band’s
music. The band blended elements of punk, metal,
psychedelic rock and just strange noises.
Pepper came out when I was in high school and I remember thinking at the time, "Man, this band is strange!" Little did I know then that THAT was their LEAST strange song!
Pepper speaks to me but Dracula in Houston takes the cake
Right! Their earlier albums; Rembrandt Pussyhorse, Another Man’s Sac, Locust Abortion Technician, really showcase their experimentation.
Hell, I feel like some folks would hear Hairway to Steven and think that’s nuts without even needing to listen to the albums listed above. Love these guys.
Cough syrup and jingle of a dog’s collar are their more “normal” songs I’d say.
And I hate cought syrup dont you
Pepper was kind of a Beck ripoff.
My first concert was Nirvana, and Butthole surfers opened for them. I think I was 14 years old...kind of blew my mind.
ur so lucky !!
Kurt's mind was blown too
My first concert was Nirvana with Breeders and Shonen Knife in Omaha Neb.
I went to 2 nights in Vancouver with Bobcat Goldthwait in between acts doing comedy. It was surreal to say the least!
@@nionxtreme4113 a year or two later it was!
Danny Divito was guest star on Letterman, the night the Surfers played. During his interview he mentioned seeing the band do their sound check/rehearsal.
His comment was perfect, "The Butthole Surfers, man those guys are TIGHT!"
Now that they are older, they are much more loose, as one would expect.
@@mesasavage The Surfers were never "tight". They were sloppy as hell.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 exactly. which makes them great
'Debauched' spelled as 'debotched' honestly made my day.
It’s when I paused the video to find a comment on it. Isn’t it wonderful? Lol. Debotched .
Same, also the little yellow “never mind the the bollocks” signs added in put a smile on my face for some reason
Lol it ruined mine 🤦♀️
@@johannahoneyman697 Mine too.
Yeah this guy can't spell
Fun fact- Paul Leary produced Sublime's self titled breakout album. Also I used to sell weed to him.
I used to sell him weed.I still do but I used to as well.
WHAT?! THATS FUCKING AMAZING
@@tacomas9602 don’t believe everything you read online.
@MrCloudseeker yeah thx but stolen joke from Mitch Hedburg rip
@@geraldfriend256, you sound fun!
"May I see your driver's license and registration?"
"Certainly"
"Whatcha doin?"
"Chewin' chocolate"
"Where'd ya get it?"
"Doggy dropped it"
"Carry on"
I was thinking of this yesterday when I saw my dog eating CAT poop!
Doggie dropped it
These aren't the Buttholes you're looking for.
@@sumnerwaite6390
In the sewer;
What's it taste like?
Cow manure
Or my favorite:
Regurgitate regurgitate
Throw up all the food you ate
Barf, barf, barf barf barf barf barf
Huge props to this band for managing to still be a popular band with "butthole" in their name during a time when Beavis and Butthead were also insanely popular.
Butthole Surfers first album-1983, B&B first TV show 1993.
@@amyhayutin1738 but they didn’t really reach the mainstream until the early 90’s. Maybe ‘89 but most people I knew didn’t know them until like ‘91 or ‘92
@@Spooky_515 Lol. They never hit the mainstream.
They had to tame it down to get that popularity. It never would have happened with albums like Rembrandt Pussyhorse. NEVER.
@@augustusbetucius2931The little bits of crayons, the melted pieces, the loving friends. All the things you wish you had. 😂😂
The first Surfers album I'd ever heard was Rembrandt Pussyhorse via a cassette a friend sent me in the mail. I lived in a small town in Wisconsin and she lived in Minneapolis. Every few months she'd send me tapes of stuff I'd never heard before...Meat Puppets, Replacements, Husker Du. She was a really cool chick.
Should have married her. Jk, marriage would suck.
Do you remember the name of that small Wisconsin town?
The Surfers combined LSD, avant-garde, & Punk! In ‘91 they changed my 16 year old life with “ Hairway To Steven “ (A Masterpiece!) Their music showed me anything was possible in music. PLAY LOUD!
Hairway to Steven is one of the best albums ever. Their pinnacle!
@nmlogistics4426
It's great, but my favorite is Locust Abortion Technician.
Cherub is one of the best psychedelic tunes ever.
Hurdy Gurdy Man is one of the best covers ever.
I love that cover. It took me a couple of listens to come around to it, because at first, I thought they were making fun of the song. Then I decided that they were actually being sincere. Then I realized that it didn't matter either way, that it was a great cover, and I often listen to it instead of the original, even though I'm more of a "Donovan" fan than a "Butthole Surfers" fan.
What about American Woman? They killed that cover. I also loved the version of the Underdog song. 💜
It’s a great cover indeed..
Yep!
I concur
I live in Australia, and nearly 30 years ago flew to Toronto, Canada, to visit my cousin and his family who I'd never met before in person. My cousin Arthur was a kool guy and we really got along. A few weeks into my stay, he asked if I wanted to come on a road trip for the weekend to visit the University where he was studying, and I agreed. An hour or two from Toronto, there was a small town whose name slips my mind, where his University was situated. I'd never seen a place like it before or since, in that it was a small town with two large Universities independent of each other. There was a friendly rivalry between them academically and most famously between their Football teams, that culminated after exams at the end of the academic year in an inter-university football game which heralded the end of year post-exams and graduation celebrations that went on day & night over a three day extended weekend. The town had one long & large main street lined with town houses, terraces, and all kinds of accommodations that were rented out exclusively for students to live in, with parties going on in every one. The entire town, it's residential buildings & houses, and all of it's businesses were basically set up to host, house, & service the needs of the students at both campuses. If you lived there, you were either a student, or a resident employed in one of the many businesses providing the products & services for the students, who represented virtually their entire customer base. There were a few hotels & motels that provided some accommodation for visitors, but even most of their customers were persons visiting friends & family studying in the town.
The mayhem began as soon as we arrived, with massive quantities of booze & drugs being provided & consumed without moderation or pause right up until we escaped when the celebrations ended, and the town was left to the customary task of dealing with and cleaning up the mess, devastation, & destruction in the aftermath that inevitably follows the insane, non-stop celebrations of thousands of students concentrated into a small area over three days & nights.
On the last day, we were still partying full-tilt when we ended up at a hotel room in the early hours of the morning, which some of Arthur's friends had rented for the weekend. At some point, I woke up on a bed, laying face down in a box full of pepperoni pizza, mostly naked and covered entirely from head to toe in purple paint, the primary colour of the Football team of Arthur's university, with three hot babes passed out on top of me, completely naked and also covered in purple paint. I was roused from my coma by the sounds of a Butthole Surfers CD playing, echoing through the carnage from a stereo in the room. After studying the hot chicks slumbering on top of me, groping & fondling their amazingly attractive, if purple, girly bits and hoping to god I made it with at least one if not all of them before I passed out, I reluctantly wriggled out from under them and started stumbling around, putting on my T-shirt & jeans as I found them, strewn about the room. I made my way to the bath room to wash my face in the sink, when I looked down and noticed the sink was purple. As were the taps, shower, bath tub....eventually it was apparent that every inch of the bathroom and everything in it was covered in purple paint that matched my purple reflection in the mirror. Shuffling back out into the main room, groaning like an undead purple Zombie, I opened my eyes fully to take in the scene. Like the bathroom, every inch of the rest of the hotel room including every fitting & appliance in it, even the ceiling (how did they do that?!??!!), was completely purple. There were the bodies of numerous purple victims strewn randomly all over the floor & furniture where they'd passed out, along with huge quantities of empty Beer & Spirit bottles and drug paraphernalia. The purple television was smashed in the centre of the room. I found a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in the hands of a purple corpse, which I claimed for myself and lit a smoke. I searched the bodies until I recognised one as my Cousin, and woke him up. As we got our shite together, there was a knock at the door. We answered, and a hotel employee, studying the state of the place over our shoulders, was asking for the person whose name the room was rented in. He informed us that we were liable for the damage that had been done, and that none of us were to leave until payment for said damages had been arranged and the Police had finished dealing with us, as they had been called and were minutes away. We closed the door, tried to open the window overlooking the car park, but found it jammed. So we threw the stereo through it. I remember Hurdy Gurdy Man still eerily emanating from the in-built speakers after it flew through the window in a shower of broken glass, right up until the power lead was eventually disconnected from the stereo mid-air. We cleared away the broken bits of glass in the window frame with a stray shoe on the floor, climbed out from our second story window, and leapt onto the roof of a mini-van parked directly below, interrupting the coital machinations of a stunned couple inside, just in time to see two purple creatures trying to skulk away inconspicuously across the car park. We made our way to Arthur's red 1978 Chevy Camaro, and after a brief scare that we might have left his keys in the room before he thankfully dug them out of a pocket, we got in, started her up, and started rolling out of the car park quietly to make our escape, noticing the patrol car parked at the hotel entrance and one cop trying to communicate with an incoherent purple Zombie from our room.
The surreal, slow motion vision of the stereo as it breached the shattered window and soared through the air away from us, carrying the fading sound of the Butthole Surfers with it, stayed with me all the way on the ride back to Toronto, and is still the first thing I recall instantly every time I'm reminded of the band. Good times.
This was legitimately entertaining.
What a wild ride
Whether true or not that's a great tale... Bravo
What does this have to do with the Butthole Surfers?
Legendary. That's the way it's meant to be done. Bravo.
I only saw them once, at Lollapalooza '91. During Siouxsie and the Banshee's set, Gibby came out on stage in a dress and fired off a shotgun. Siouxsie seemed to think it was hilarious. In fact I heard they really got along backstage. She also got along with Ice-T. Go figure.
Which venue? I was at the Enumclaw King County Fairgrounds which was rather fitting for the Butthole Surfers.
Back in the day, I saw Les Paul on the Dennis Miller show, & when Miller asked Paul which guitarists he liked, he said "I can't say the name of the band he's in on television, but the guitarist is Paul Leary."
Fn really???????
@@terrencebarnes9729 Yeah, really.
Have you ever checked out the track on John Paul Jones solo record in which Paul Larry players on it's pretty Kick-Ass. They're a match made in heaven granted it was their biggest crossover commercial 6s recordings but it's still held pretty true to the Butthole Surfers Credo which is f*** everything up and make it weird
I am a huge fan of Dennis Miller I used to own both of his books and I'm going to have to TH-cam that because wow that's f****** cool man thanks
Gibby has said that if he dies first, there'll be a Gibson-less Paul. If Paul dies first, there'll be a Gibson, less Paul.
For those unfamiliar with the surfers, check out these songs. Some of my favorite gems of theirs.
1- I saw an X Ray of a Girl Passing Gas
2- Who Was in my Room Last Night
3- Human Cannonball
4- Hey
5- The Wooden Song
6- Dust Devil
7- Birds
8- Ah Ha
9- Julio Iglesias
10- The Sha Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave
Not a top ten. Just good or at least really interesting songs
Moving To Florida
Boiled Dove
@@sstaners1234 I'm gonna make all the sausages dance like Ray Bolger on the hood of a car in a traffic jam.
"Creep in the Cellar" and his haunting violin!
P.S.Y.
And really more to the point, is that you can't know who the band is from only one song, or even several, as they can diverge wildly and that the real appreciation of band comes with knowing the entire contents of multiple albums, but you have to start somewhere, and those lists above are as good a place as any. Be aware of the release year of songs for period and production context though the Surfers are not of this world.
Seafaring
Creep in the Cellar
John E. Smoke
Graveyard
Kuntz
Two Parter
Ralph
Jingle of a dogs collar
Human Cannonball
I saw an X ray of a girl...
Great video! The word you used is spelled "debauched" just FYI. I used to be a waitress across a parking lot from the Capitol Records building. It was called Nick's Place and it had the best tuna melts in the world. The Surfers used to come in there. Nice dudes.
Saw em 5 times live, always great, Gibby's lyrics hilarious and surreal. Leary's guitar incredibly psychedelics, wrong notes at the right time. Love em !!!
I worked for Rhino records in Claremont. The owner told me a story about the singer coming in for a signing. He told me the guy came in wasted beyond belief and made a mess of the whole signing lol. Said he was uncontrollable. Dude swore to never have any other artist signings after that. He kept his word too. I got a good chuckle out of the story...wish I wouldve seen it go down.
When abouts did this happen? Early in their career I assume?
@@eatmyashes not too sure, this was probably in the mid 90s. Rhino stopped doing artist appearances around 2004 or some time around then. Definitely not recently.
@@TheMldytwkr85 Gibby had a pretty severe heroin and benzo/alcohol addiction that got bad in the 1990s.
Shoutout to the Claremont Village! Go Wolfpack!
Lol I love Rhino
The story behind the recording of Jesus Built My Hotrod is pure Gibby Haynes. If Uncle Al says you're wasted.....
One take then Gibby passed out
Makes me almost want to go get the same tattoo of a needle and a crack pipe cross like bones. Incredible collaboration. At least Ministry still kicking ass to this day
Per Uncle Al's book, Gibby and Jello Biafra are the two craziest people he knows. Said Biafra is crazy as in a work whore, but Gibby is from another universe crazy
I don't know I've never had the opportunity to read it I just know Ministry from when my high school girlfriend love them back when they were techno fluff or they put out a mind is a terrible thing to taste. I've never read it but I would have to agree with you a lot of people put a lot of bulshit into their stories and take Liberty with s*** that they never did I'm sure. The one thing that I will say I think is absolutely on the level is the Butthole Surfers portion of this band could be your life I don't think they have anything to hide I think they are out there and they're on the level perhaps I'm wrong I hope not because that would blow my whole perception of them
@@terrencebarnes9729 Just get some heroin and crack instead. Not that hard to figure out. You don't even need to go all the way to Mexico to score for smack anymore, it's available in everyone's local neighborhood now. That's progress!
I’m so glad that Dan Mintz has time to make these videos when he’s not busy voicing Tina for Bob’s Burgers.
When I was in 7th grade this was around 86, an older girl on the bus took a liking to me and gave me a couple of their cassettes along with some other stuff. Before that I was a Statler Brothers and Bocephus man. That changed my trajectory forever. I still know the girl and still love the Statler brothers.
Love "Who Was in My Room Last Night." Reminds me of that Beavis and Butthead episode, "Its Flea! Flea!"
Thats where I first heard that song was that episode.
They also used that song for a street fighter 2 snes commercial
@@danielmcmahan4393
I hope they used it without Capcom knowing where they had taken it from.
Nothing quite as subversive as nonchalantly putting a butthole surfers song into something as mainstream as a Street fighter commercial.
" Psychic, powerless, another man sac" was my first Surfers album. By the time pepper came out I had stopped really following their new stuff.
Bevis and Butthead are brought to my mind whenever I see footage of Gaetz and Jordan standing in the same frame.
My favorite band of all time. Unbridled unabashed musical brilliance. Every thing. Start to finish.
I remember some one telling me to listen to this great catchy song on FM and I was like wtf do you know who this is. They dont belong on the radio. They belong underground for fanatics like us.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!! I remember seeing them open for the DK in Washington, DC. No bass guitar, but a tuba. Two drummers. Gibby sang through a bullhorn into a mike the whole set. It would have been 83-84. Unreal show. I remember climbing up a curtain to a 2nd story opera box & diving into the crowd. Nobody caught me, HAHAHA !!!! Fk, I'm lucky I made it out of that show alive. Sorry, but you've got this old man excited. You hit the nail on the head.
Ouch
No mention of their first album, which was an absolute classic.
Yeah, my favorite one.
Brown Reason To Live? Yeah,the early uhnnuhh umm.....standards like "Something","The Shah Sleeps.....,"Hey",and not forgetting "Suicide"( "I got a stiff upper lip because I'm half dead!") What was not to LOVE from the very beginning,folks? They touched my heart and soul or something.....??? from day one! I seem to remember they made an album with Roky Erickson in the 90s?
Most spaz album, the cover itself just makes it sinister in a way that can't be compared to anything else. Its not metal but its grimier than metal, weirder and more off kilter than most punk at the time. Truly mesmerizing stuff!
That didn't surprise me he left it out. The video was less than 10 minutes. There is so much more to this band.
Interesting fact: Gibby was in rehab with Kurt Cobain at Exodus in Los Angeles in early April 1994 prior to Kurt's death. Gibby joked about some other patient who climbed the wall and escaped rehab but just had to walk out the front door. Kurt took this to heart and did the same.
he also got scott weiland into heroin (Allegedly)
@@davehoward22 I heard that before too.
and Duff from Guns and Roses was on the same plane back to Seattle and sat next to Cobain
Al jourgensen allegedly turned layne from alice in chains onto hypos....it happens though we are all adults in the end....
I like hippos
The Butthole Surfers are simply the Best.
Absolutely Legendary. Many, many tried to Duplicate, but Never touched the same level.
there were many other bands at the time that achieved that "level" of weirdness ... MANY others ... but they didnt get signed to capitol records, so that MAY be why u never heard of them (i.e. crash worship, the milk cult, the dwarves, foreskin 500 etc)
No where close
I'm sure you're right, just curious for some examples if you would.
@@davidperez5089 Definitely! A few off the top would be: Rob Zombie, Mike Patton, Marilyn Manson & System of a Down too!
+Cheers! -from CO. 🍻👍🇺🇸🌬️🏔️
@@mickyv4538 right on, MP and MM i can see that. The other two i don't know enough. I thought system was just heavy stlye.
Fan of the Surfers since high school. The music was strange yes but technically very well done. The haunting guitar of Negro Observer is hard to forget, and the INTENSE crunching assault of Jimi off Hairway to Steven (which was a great remix of Flame Grape from the the Texas Trip LP) still hit me hard to this day. Too many great songs to mention without a text wall.
What’s an awesome yet wonderful juxtaposition is Teresa now uses her past with drugs to help other people get clean. I met her and her girlfriend super early into my sobriety back in 2014 and they’re both incredibly kind people. And Teresa has some of the best stories to tell, lol.
Also a totally random fact about Gibby: He used to call into our local alternative station here in Austin fucked up out of his head going on crazy rants. It started a feud between him and the station which they referenced for years. Man, I’d love to find that audio cause I was too young to remember. I just remember them talking about it after the fact.
Teresa is an amazing woman. I get to see her alot because shes my cousin lol. But yea she's just the best
@@mingebag3702 sorry for your loss
Alternative Tentacles, they put out so much shit that was ahead of it's time, they could be called time travellers.
People that are into philosophy usually understand cultural trends.
Wasnt the surfers on SST Records?
Butthole Surfers were unique. They were not just another juvenile, ADD, violent, nihilistic neighborhood act. They were strange, intelligent, sobering, and excellent exploratory musicians of sounds and melody mixed with mixed media performances often using crude or out-moded technology of the day. Imo, Butthole Surfers were the preeminent alternative punk-psych band of the 1980's to mid-90's and one of the scariest, most unpredictable live acts during this time.
Never thought of them as “sobering” but, yeah, in the top 10 ever bands
Nah they just homos
Sobering is not the right word here
I understand how I like this band so bad I sometimes fall asleep in the mists of they butthole surferness!❤
Winterville, Georgia. Sounded like you said “Wintergreen”, but I’ve lived in Athens essentially my whole life (32 years) and never heard of Wintergreen. Winterville is a small town on the Eastside of Clarke County that chose to remain independent when Athens instituted a unified government to become Athens-Clarke County.
The albums ''Electric Larryland'' and ''Independant Worm Saloon'' are so good to listen to, I mean every song is good, catchy and original ! I love the Butthole Surfers !!!
The Annoying Song
Please check out The Widowermaker ep
And Hairway to Steven
..early gem is Rembrandt Pussyhorse.
All very good...crazy pychedelic punk...
Personally, I think hairway to Steven was the pinnacle, but yeah they’re all genius
I’m just gonna say it: I love all BHS albums, including Weird Revolution. It’s different, but it’s still pretty awesome IMO, I particularly love S___ Like That, Intelligent Guy, and They Came In (especially the version from After The Astronaut and the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack)
Debauched, not debotched.
No
Is da botch?
@@rnrtruestories lol yes
@@rnrtruestories debotched isn't even a word.
If you botch something by messing it up, do you debotch it by setting things right again?
Okay, you need to find a copy editor. "Debotched," "Dadism," "drummers house"...
Also, that first live photo is of Scratch Acid, not Butthole Surfers.
And he said Sweet Loaf when referring to Black Sabbath's song, Sweet Leaf. 🤦♂️🤣
@@vamountainman2512 Well, the Butthole Surfers version _is_ called "Sweet loaf." And it's awesome, you should totally check it out!
@@ursaminorjim for real? Learn something new every day. Thank you
@@vamountainman2512 Actually, I mis-typed. The Buttholes' take is properly titled "Sweat Loaf." Ha!
Its youtube like. You aren't paying this guy for his content.
"Psychic, Powerless...another man's sack" is one of the most fabulous Surfer records ever made.
Agreed. I can get lost in Cherub for days on end
butthole surfers is one of the most underrated bands they had so many different types of music all conglomerated, from metal songs( human-cannonball locust abortion tecnition) , to country music ( tv star, electriclaryland ) more like hip hop ( shame of life ), they literally made there own genre !
One of my alltime favs, all of their 80's stuff is genius.
Couldn’t agree more!
Eaglebauer
I got to see the Buttholes at Gauvaween festival in Ybor City, Florida in around ‘96ish. BlueOysterCult was there that year too.
I'm agreeing more!
My favorite band ever, to this day best live band I've ever seen
Fun fact from Paul on line conversation. I asked him about the samples from 22 going on 23, he said they had just got done with a gig and everyone was passed out at the hotel. He was still up and they had a crappy radio in the room. He turned it on and out came this weird late night talk show. He had a portable recorder and recorded it. The rest is history. One of my fave BHS tracks!!!
PLEASE KEEP ON KEEPING ON BHSers!!!!!!
How did you talk to him online?
"Two sinister looking clowns" aka two clowns
Yes, redundant to say sinister looking clowns, all clowns are sinister!
“IMA SURFER!” -Todd Flanders
Good reference I remember that episode.
Looking good, Rod.
Looking good, Todd.
Look daddy..
"Todd is stupid, and I'm with him."
@@ElectricBoogaloo007 And Now Mommy's stupid!!!!!
Satan is a waiter in a café down the street. He likes to convince people to try an espresso with chilli.
They Came In is such a hard song. Get blazed and blast that into your ear holes
Locust Abortion Technician is highly underrated
Paul Leary's masterpiece
not popular as nevermind or julio iglesias but is mentioned by critics and articles over and over.
Human cannonball is amazing
Don't forget creamed corn... th-cam.com/video/CFbdYRVGzR4/w-d-xo.html
I think it’s a bit overrated, honestly. Seems to be the fan favorite and highest rated/best reviewed of their catalog. “Human Cannonball” is really fucking good though. I always like Psychic Powerless and Rembrandt Pussyhorse a little better because of songs like “Cherub” and “Whirling Hall of Knives”. Cream Corn From the Socket of Davis is easily their best EP and probably my favorite BS record of them all. “To Parter” is their best track.
Electriclarryland is a freaking masterpiece. Every song on that album is great. It's a staple of my catalog.
I’m more of a locust abortion technician kinda guy
@@hunterdavis3003 that album is freaking gold too.
I didn’t get into em until worm saloon. Personally I think everything they’ve done up through Electriclarryland is excellent. I even got to finally see them touring that album and the show DEFINITELY met any expectations, I never wanted it to end!!!- However the show was at the super trendy Universal studios amphitheater and there’s no doubt that album feels like the beginning of them “selling out”...but The fact that the Buttholes even could sell out is mind baffling...well I guess these days we got skate companies called “fucking awesome” (making a killing) so they were just about 10-20 years ahead of their time.But being, 16 and just getting my license my buddy Peter and I would drive all around LA, the South Bay, Palos verdes just blasting Rembrandt Pussyhorse, and Phsychic powerless...
Wishing we were just a few years older so we could have been a part of those acid-induced hair-raising scenes that we’d seen at their earlier shows. + Daddy what does regret mean??.
“Well son, A Funny thing about regret is, is that it’s better to regret something you have done, than something you haven’t done. By the way if you see your mom this weekend can you be sure and tell her ?????”
Lol! Much love to you guys! !Viva Paul and Gibby!
You like to talk about cars?
Good record, but nowhere near as good as they stuff they did in the 80s. My personal favorites are the first EP, Psychic and Rembrandt Pussyhorse.
Pinkus is one of my Buddies!!! love em to death!!! he is absolutely the truest of true and nicest person I know!!!! check out his band Honky and his banjo solo act too.
His interview with nardwuar is legendary
I saw the Butthole Surfers at The Mean Fiddler in February '88...an amazing gig! Gibby was smacked in the head by a glass thrown by some arserhole from the balcony, and blood gushed from a cut in his head as he staggered off stage right. A few minutes later he's back on stage with a blood red white towel wrapped round his head and carried on as if nothing had happened!
Rock 'n Roll madness at its very best!!
It reminded me of Iggy's exploits with The Stooges, I was so glad I'd made the effort to get to that gig! (..and that's another story...)
I recorded it all on my Sony Pro Walkman, and it still sound great all these years later!
Peppermint Place was the shit.
Aired for decades on Saturday mornings in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area.
If you know, you know.
I remember being a freshman in high school and my boyfriend at the time was obsessed with Butthole Surfers. All we would do was listen to them and smoke pot in his room. It was 1993
Lolol
Sounds like a great time.
They didn't attract much of a female crowd a lot like Black Flag back in the day.
Sounds like a fun time
Good times
I saw them in the early 80's in Dallas at the Theater Gallery in Deep Ellum. I remember that they had an autopsy playing on a big screen behind them. I was intrigued and appalled at the same time!
If one of these legends would just write a book about the band and stories from their tours. It would be epic.
Hairway to Steven was their best album imo a very close 2nd would be Locust
Let’s Talk About Cars ....very underrated and hypnotic.Listening to two people speak French while a great beat is driving it.
When I was in high school, a local record store was giving away promo stickers that just said BUTTHOLE on them in fluorescent pink. A friend put one over the "MSG" part of a Chinese restaurant sign which now read "Contains no BUTTHOLE".
“Cinnamon & sugar and softly spoken lies, you never know just how you look in other people’s eyes.”
"Debauched". Not "debotched".
Sweat Loaf, not Sweet Loaf
It wasn’t Fruit Loops, it was a cereal called Kaboom! Had a strange looking clown on the box, right up their alley
Any he didn't even show fruit loops. He showed trixs
He also shows a pic of Scratch Acid and says it's the Butthole Surfers and he calls Sweat Loaf sweet loaf.
@@dewyell6956 He also pronounced Dadaism as Dadism.
I was born in 89 so I didnt see them in the 80s or 90s, but I did see their reunion show in the early 2010s at sonar in Baltimore. All the og members were there. The mosh pit was pure lunacy. Everyone was smiling and laughing, arms around strangers shoulders rather than pushing and shoving....or maybe that was just the 5 hits I ate😉🤯. They were so tight and gibby's mysterious vocal effects box was pure unadulterated psychedelia. What a ride.
I was able to see one of their reunion shows in San Francisco with Melvins opening. Gibby kept asking the crowd if anyone had any painkillers "for this muffin-topped rockstar" as he rubbed his belly on stage. Great show.
I went to a concert, on the strength of Rembrandt PussyHorse. I thought they were going to play some songs... they didn't. It started out well enough, but not long after that, Gibby had twisted so many dials on his FX it was no longer possible to understand a thing, which didn't seem to phase the crowd at all, since they seemed to be gesticulating to their own music. The aforementioned strobelights and gorefest films were going on, then the drummer had the brilliant idea to pour lighter fliud into his inverted cybals, light it and proceed to smash the fuck out of them, strafing the low ceiling venue with flames.
Fun times... but not for me, i didn't do drugs, at the time, and i had no clue WTF was going on.
That was pretty much their standard show for the early years. I saw them 6-7 times over the years starting in '86. Much weirdness. Very expanding.
@@2Chickaboom2 At least i was spared the naked, deformed dancers. They weren't at the show i saw.
@@MegaRudeBoy69 - She wasn't deformed (that live album cover was altered to look like that). She was (and is) a physically normal young lady. She just had issues with keeping clothes on. First time I saw her onstage with the band, she had stripped down to some see-through panties. A venue manager kept trying to get her to keep clothes on, including his jacket, but nothing stuck, lol. - -
Here is some biography on her. Very colorful lady. dangerousminds.net/comments/god_inside_by_the_beme_seed
@@2Chickaboom2 Well that's good, still, healthy or not, i don't think my young virgin brain could have handled any more that i got that night, in some grungy hole, somewhere in downtown Manhattan
I saw them twice during that era, I did do drugs (haha), amazing shows I’ll never forget.
Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac is genius
Mexican caravan is my 1
Aye calipso
Yes i was disappointed that he did not even mention it
Gonna shoot of gunssssss. Whatever became of Gary Floyd and sister Double Happiness I know part of his band joined with Roddy from Faith No More and they're a great band as well but what happened to Gary Floyd is he still shooting off guns? Adidas makes me happy that there's people out there that appreciate their music as much as I do and have throughout the years they're f****** One in a Million
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"SWEAT Loaf" not "Sweet Loaf".
I think I finally got this song out of my head in 2006.
Sometime in 2013, while crossing through the sands of the Sonoran Desert while on the run from the Los Gueros Cartel, my colleague, Dr. Robert C. Chesterfield, and I were near death, searching desperately for any source of water we could find. As morning grew near, the rays of heat began to swelter, and exasperated, I exclaimed, “Here comes the sun!” To which Chesterfield responded, “I don’t mind the sun, sometimes.”
Suddenly, as if I had been yanked back in time, my mind began to flash images in my mind: Marky and Sharon, Sharon and Sherice, Mikey and his facial scar, Bobby that racist! Tommy playing piano, later losing his leg in the train accident. All these thoughts. All these long forgotten memories.
I knew then why I needed to survive, my reason for living. I narrowed my eyes, my gaze hardened with a steely determination, as I looked toward the cresting sun. I had but one name on my mind: Pepper.
If you ever want to read some great stories about the Butthole Surfers, read "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground" by Michael Azerrad
If you want The Truth, read "Let's Go To Hell" the realest BHS autobiography possible.
@@LAYG0 Absolutely!
Love that damn book
@@michaeldane75 Yes, God bless James Burns and his dedication to facts.
@Dr. Jimmy_Rustle
Talk about nihilistic but yeah that's the problem when musicians get old they can't be their normal debauched selves anymore.
We live in a safe,sanitized time where real music can't exist anymore. Is a terrible reality to confront but it's the truth.
I love "Moving to Florida"
I've never heard a song quite like it
I can't go a week without listening to that song since I first heard it.
@@Gsnyderman5 So much that you are ready to bowl a perfect game, cut off all your legs or make all the sausages dance like Ray Bolger on the hood of a car in traffic jam?
@@boboloko good night!
With the crazy 18 count or whatever it is.
My favorite Gibby Haynes story is the time he and Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd were smoking crack together in a hotel room. Gibby threw his pipe out the window and said, "Fuck this! I'm done! I'm quitting!" He then asked Steven for his pipe. Steven asked, "Aren't you going to throw it out the window too?" Gibby laughed and then started smoking Steven's pipe.
Many dabble
The funny shit I think about PEPPER GUITARIST DEEP DIVE
IN INTERVIEW AT HOME
THAT MENTAL TRIP
TO FIND OUT WAS METH
HE WAS GONE FOR YEARS.#ATILLA THE ARTIST OF GAY SKINS
HIS DOCUMENTARY COMIN HOME
FROM NY IS CLASSIC
TRIPPIN FOR YEARS
WHO KNEW METH BE SO BIG NOW.WHOLE DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER IS GONE
SO MANY YOUNG
BRAINS DEPLETED
did somebody say CrAck?! i freakin luv CRACK!
Saw them with The Flaming Lips in Austin Texas in the late 80's. The reverb almost made me pass out. The naked chick spinning around on stage was pretty cool.
wish I was there :)
@John Vender I was there 😮
Poor Nietzsche. Spent his entire life warning people that without a live god, nihilism is inevitable and tried to make arguments for making meaning away from nihilism. Is upheld by edge lords as a nihilism advocate. smh.
Every Amateur Does Get Better Eventually Incredibly, I was thinking about this minutes ago.
But there is no "live god".
Moral Compass “live god” is a state of mind.
@@everyamateurdoesgetbettere3543 What is the "live god" state of mind?
@@moralcompass3252 in as many worlds as I want to use on a TH-cam rocknroll comment section? It was the point of view that something was always over your shoulder. That something was replaced in the enlightenment with explanation and the illusion of explanation.
If you want references I think there are a few good ones
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant, has a great section on Nietzsche.
Lovecraft's "cosmic horror" is a return to the fear of God our ancestors experienced. Evidence for this is best found in the intro of The Silver Key.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung. best spells out the difference in the state of minds (probably because he is a shrink)
most of these are public domain so you should be able to youtube them or get a pdf.
0:25 im pretty sure thats a picture of Scratch Acid, not BHS
Berserker!
I caught that as well.
Definitely David Yow
LOL Definitely. Saw them in 845/85?, as well as the Surfers . Scratch Acids drummer - Washam played in so many bands - Rapeman, Didgits, Lard, Ministry, Tad, Big Boys, Helios Creed. Pretty sure I saw all of them as well, which is likely why I have tinnitus
@@Francis-rs7zu washam is a truly astounding drummer
Greatest live band I ever saw! Their live shows were something that's hard to describe!
Cortney Love met Kurt at a Nirvana show at the Metro in Chicago,he then took her back to his room in the Day’s Inn at Clark & Diversey.
Seen the Butthole Surfers back in 96 and subsequently met both King Coffey, Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary a few hour’s before the show. Some of the kindest rockers I’ve ever met
Their show at the now defunct Government in Toronto was as expected a loud drug fuelled psyche experience.
Loved every minute of it
Gibby is a regular down to earth guy in person.
I was really hoping you would discuss Gibby Haynes singing on Ministry's "Jesus Built my Hotrod," and how he was so fucked up during the recording process that he did not really speak, more like grunted and howled through the song. I have tried looking up to see what the original lyrics were and still cannot find it.
I talked to Gibby about that session once Justin. He said it was fueled by LSD, and he was surprised at the slow progress in the studio with Ministry.
@Richard Hopkins good research
That was the one, where Al was saying how he pieced it altogether and made into something pretty damn special.
No mention at all of the best record they ever did “Brown Reason to Live”.
Debotched???? I had to pause the video to contain my laughter...that's the best one in a long time, thanks.
Thanks! I've been hoping for this long! Next Nick Cave? Great birthday surprise for me! :D
The Birthday Party...for U!:)
@@Utubesux Hehe exactly!
Ha, I didn't even catch that, but I was thinking of my own birthday exactly one week ago lol
In 1996 the band released their biggest commercial record, with 1996’s Electriclarryland, a 1996 album, for a 1996 crowd, released, in 1996.
1996
But when did it come out???
What YEAR, I mean??
Marilyn Mansons best song
"debotched" lol oh man
greatest band in history
i cried over their song " TURD LOVE"
20 year old me istening to Hairway To Steven on acid... still giggling years later as a 43 year old. Fart song!
I saw an X-ray of a girl passing gas!
@@Safetysweet Soiled doves! I imitated Gibby's Lonesome Bulldog waffle when I had to speak in front of my class, they were baffled. Six months later they wanted the sequel waffle Gibby rant... Bring back the Butthole Surfers in whatever sound!
“Fart song!”
First time I ever tripped was to the "piouhgd" album... When the dogs in my neighborhood start barking to the sirens from the nearby fire department it's all I can do to keep from yelling "brothers and sisters" uncontrollably...
Thanks for the little tidbits. Still waiting on a new album from them!!!
Loudest show ever. The Boathouse, Norfolk.. Smashing Pumpkins and BHS that weekend. What a great time in music. Great vid.
My dad was on the drummer, King Coffey's record label Trance Syndicate lmao. He texted him recently and he's doin alright still living in Austin. (The band was Crust btw)
Crust were really cool
Still listen to Crusty Love and Food Eater. Crust is one of the most creative bands to come from Texas and never got their full credit.
@@aracnadei13 Yea man, we still have a bunch of old crusty love promo posters and door springs and stuff it's crazy how my dad (Jerry) was an inspiration to people. If you wanna see some old pictures i have i'm more than happy to show you lol
@@sHevnoraak Yea man it's crazy that my dad (Jerry) was apart of the band, it sucks that that 2012 reunion didn't include him because of some past beef. He's still doing music but just working on some old unreleased stuff at home.
@@crustylove I would absolutely love that if you don't mind sharing. Thank you and have a great weekend.
absolutely awesome video about one of the most ferociously original groups ever. Really enjoying your content as of late!
It's interesting remembering how 'butthold surfers' became known to me in high school, it must have been 'beavis and butthead' showing the video for 'who was in my room last night'. I found the cassette for 'independent worm saloon' and it carried this artistic relevance for me. Very cool that 'dadaism' and 'absurdism' art movements were mentioned, because at the time there as some kind of 'high art' quality to this that I respected. Very interesting to consider what 'butthole surfers' and 'ween' had in common - not sure if there's a modern equivalent.
Ahhhhh. What good days. Bevis and butthead turned me on to ween too! And obviously the Surfers.
What a debt of gratitude I owe to the person responsible for picking the tunes on that show.
Remember the band Whale?
Fun fact, a butthole surfer is another way of saying floating down the river in a tube, its a long-held Texas tradition and a damn good time.
@@ericparker163 I didn't know that! I used to do that in arizona! makes perfect sense. Like the arcade game 'Toobin''.
@@ericparker163 ooooh, I had heard that it was a reference to anal sex, and where you put the long board, Butt your version is more Holesome!
I had also equated Ween with the Surfers, and felt that Beck captured some of that same art weirdness in much of his material.
These TH-cam accounts of bands are so incorrect. (A.) I knew Gibby in the '70s. He hung out with my younger sister's crowd. He gave me a copy of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid." I went on two or three dates with his sister Carla. (B.) The band started in 1979 (not 1981) at Trinity University in San Antonio. My good friend, Scott Matthews (RIP) went there, knew them and told me about them when my band was playing a gig in San Antonio in November of '79. (C.) Trinity is in San Antonio and not Dallas like the video says. (D.) Everything they did was fueled by massive amounts of drugs and alcohol. When Gibby recorded "Jesus Built My Hotrod" they did more drugs than record. I recorded the band members (without Al Jorgensen) in a side project called Blohole and my half brother was part of Ministry's entourage. Lot's of heroin. (E.) "Pepper" is about people who went to my high school, Lake Highlands High School, (they were a few years younger than me.) There are people who can tell you who every character in the song are.
My favorite band of all time eye never get sick of listening to them . They open my eyes to noise to rock
Their live shows are beyond disorientating. Actually really hard to live through!
Wow,awesome
That probably had a lot to do with the acid.
YES MY FAVORITE BAND would've never guessed they'd be on here, Go Gibby
Hey im Teresa's cousin and I'm real happy to see so much love for her and the band even to this day! So yea thank you all so much
I remember when I was in the 4th or 5th grade in the mid 90s and I heard the name Butthole Surfers on MTV in the morning before school. I was like,
” WTF did I just hear?” Funny name.
Met Gibby in the beer section of an Apple Tree grocery store lol. He was great
My very first "real" concert was at Val Du Lakes, Michigan in 1993: Butthole Surfers headlined, while the Flaming Lips and Stone Temple Pilots opened. I still remember the grainy, black and white dental extraction video footage projected behind Butthole Surfers as they played, as well as a wild-eyed Gibby Haynes dousing a cymbal with lighter fluid, igniting it, and frantically bashing the cymbal, causing flames to shoot into the air. Pure magic.
Jonathon I SAW THAT TOUR! The show I was at made MTV News because STP bass player hit a guy over the head with his guitar. Our show also had an Elvis impersonator that got booed off the stage. It was “Elvis”, Flaming Lips, STP, then The Butthole Surfers. During The Butthole Surfers, Gibby Haynes was firing a shotgun while yelling he was going to fuck our daughters. This was at some lake in Massachusetts.
Buttholes are such an amazing band, they have been part of the soundtrack of my life since 7th grade in 1986 lol since then there hasnt been more than 48 hours without hearing them for me. They keep me sane
This whole thing sounds like someone's middle school report where they researched something they know nothing about. The Sabbath cover is SWEAT Loaf. NOT SWEET Loaf. Say it, "SW-EH-T LO-OAF."
"spoken word cover" lmao.
You mean the part where he yells "SATAN-SATAN-SATAN"
@@HenryKrinkle Father..what does regret mean?
thank you
Pretty much all his videos are on this level...
*know
Indy Worm Saloon is absolutely pure gold.
I saw them in SF in the 80s with the Dead Kennedys on Broadway. Good times.
I love how the song called “John E Smoke” is about a guy named John W. Smoke Jr.
Cripple midget lesbian boy stood four foot tall with a knife
Concerts that give people seizures, awesomeness! Lol
I love the band, but I was never a fan of those strobes.
Can I just say, Sweat Loaf is one of the most AMAZING songs. I still listen to it regularly.