Still punk rock.

Were the results as "desastrous" as the spelling in the headline?

shiat like this happened at pretty much every BHS show I went to back in the day...or maybe I just hallucinated it. Woah. I just blew my mind.

Throughout the set, which included performances of such college radio staples as "Cowboy Bob," "Cherub," "Moving to Florida" and the demented Black Sabbath send-up "Sweet Loaf,"

*Ahem* Sweat Loaf," if you please.

/And by the way, If you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her...

I helped Gibby Haynes put clothespins in his hair backstage once back in the 80's.

Now I feel old.

Lionel Mandrake: shiat like this happened at pretty much every BHS show I went to back in the day...or maybe I just hallucinated it. Woah. I just blew my mind.

Throughout the set, which included performances of such college radio staples as "Cowboy Bob," "Cherub," "Moving to Florida" and the demented Black Sabbath send-up "Sweet Loaf,"

*Ahem* Sweat Loaf," if you please.

/And by the way, If you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her...

SATAN!!!!!!


It's a nice touch that it all happened while they were playing "I saw an X-ray of a girl passing gas"...


Didn't realize they were back together. Best band I've ever seen live. Off to find out if they'll be playing around here anytime soon.

The Surfers are my fave band. I strongly recommend the older stuff, such as "Locust Abortion Technician", there is nothing like it

And they used to put up mental shows, strobe lights on top of smoke machine and film projectors playing penis-reconstruction surgery type of reels. Also, dont forget a 300 pound belly dancer with metal teeth

loved one time how they ended a show with Gibby shooting a 12 gauge at the audience (presumebly blanks) while yelling "GO HOME GO HOME GO HOME" while Paul made a wall of feedback



BTW this was Genesis P Orridge , a little while back:




But this is what the audience saw yesterday:

This is NSFW because it is further down his/her "transformation" (new window)

the first album he did with Throbbing Gristle "20 jazz funk greats" is a must, if you're a Skinny Puppy fan

I had no idea they were back together or touring.. They were the soundtrack to many, many twisted memories two decades ago.


/20 years ago?
//fark, I'm old
//off to look for the cassette of "Brown reason to live"

Also, if you're interested, here (new window) is a Seeqpod playlist of some old school Surfers.

I had no idea, but apparently Archive.org has recordings of 34 live shows, too, that can be found here. (new window)

/public service

I read a story on Genesis P Orridge in Radar last month that was seriously one of the most depressing articles I have ever come across. What a sad life he/she has had, sad but very interesting.

Butthole surfing and pegging in the headline, and the thread hasn't gone *poof* yet?

I don't use the word "hero" often. But Gibby Haynes is, without a doubt, the greatest hero in American history.

HappyHarryHardOn: loved one time how they ended a show with Gibby shooting a 12 gauge at the audience (presumebly blanks) while yelling "GO HOME GO HOME GO HOME" while Paul made a wall of feedback

can't...stop...laughing...

About 12 years ago, they were playing a show here in my hometown, when someone threw a watch on stage, and hit Gibby squarely between the eyes. He berated the crowd, and walked offstage. I remember even watching about the incident on MTV News the following day. Just an example as to why we usually have to scrape the bottom of the barrel when it comes to getting a band to play shows here.

Sausages dancing on the hood of a car in a traffic jam

HappyHarryHardOn:

the first third album he did with Throbbing Gristle "20 jazz funk greats" is a must, if you're a Skinny Puppy fan


FTFY

Saw them at the Court Tavern in New Brunswick, NJ, back in the
mid 80's.

Impressive only as noise, but that only means I don't like them,
not that they're bad.

Gibby and Paul stayed with me for a few weeks. An LSD insanity of a few weeks.

/my lawn, off of it
//or else Gibby will get the shotgun
///btw "Second Annual Report" FTW

I plan to march into battle with the song "Lady Sniff" blasting from the speakers.

/Take me back to Detroit, piehole

Sausages dancing on the hood of a car in a traffic jam

Like Ray Bolger?

Thats great news that the Buttholes are back and doing songs from their classic period. When they tried to go pop, Gibby claimed to be embarrassed of the early stuff. Guess he saw the light, huh? Here's hoping for a new album to erase the bad memories of everything they did since pighod

There's only one thing left for me to do, mama. I gotta ding-a-ding-dang my dang-a-long-ling-long.

MCStymie: I plan to march into battle with the song "Lady Sniff" blasting from the speakers.

/Take me back to Detroit, piehole

Best use of hocking a lugie in song ever...

Bleah, Genesis. I was much more impressed with Chris and Cosey's work. Sleazy did quite well with that other lad who liked to eat bars of soap and fall off porches drunk. Too bad he liked to stop his fall with his head. I wish it was Genesis that had met that fate. Falling off the porch into a wood chipper would be more deserving for one of the world's biggest assholes. Anyone know the real story about why he isn't allowed back in England?

Lionel Mandrake: shiat like this...

Shiat like that! (Obscure?)

MCStymie: Take me back to Detroit, piehole

I think it's "Paul", actually, but piehole works good too.

Wait, some crazy shiat went down at a Butthole Surfers show and subby thinks that's stupid?
Maybe subby needs to grow a pair.

/Should have an Obvious tag.

I wish I had been there.

/Saw BHS thrice, loved 'em every single time.

BKITU: Butthole surfing and pegging in the headline, and the thread hasn't gone *poof* yet?

Probably the proximity of the word butthole to the word pegging made me think the beer bottle didn't do what it actually did, too.

WTF is a confrontational high five?

pentachris: There's only one thing left for me to do, mama. I gotta ding-a-ding-dang my dang-a-long-ling-long.

Saw him do that one with ministry before I got too old to appreciate the special kind of insanity that Gibby brings even when he is standing next to Jourgson (sp?)

jigoro: Lionel Mandrake: shiat like this...

Shiat like that! (Obscure?)

MCStymie: Take me back to Detroit, piehole

I think it's "Paul", actually, but piehole works good too.

To be honest, I don't know all the lyrics, but I was to understand it was "piehole". One might try to see which of the two makes more sense, but it's the Butthole Surfers.

Now, to find someone named Paul to ask him to take me back to Detroit.

DrBenway: HappyHarryHardOn:

the first third album he did with Throbbing Gristle "20 jazz funk greats" is a must, if you're a Skinny Puppy fan


FTFY

are the first 2 worth getting? really like "jazz funk" tremendously


chitownmike: pentachris: There's only one thing left for me to do, mama. I gotta ding-a-ding-dang my dang-a-long-ling-long.

Saw him do that one with ministry before I got too old to appreciate the special kind of insanity that Gibby brings even when he is standing next to Jourgson (sp?)

they actually played "jesus built my hotrod"? interesting. I was developing my own theory that they NEVER played this song live, because gibby signs but mostly because i have this feeling that the guitar would be hard to reproduce, since the recorded version is hundreds of guitar layers on top of each other

as an embittered guitarist who's power was unceremoniously cut from stage by a rank arse in the form of a mouthbreathing soundguy at a dive bar, I am getting a kick out of these replies.

Soundguy - if you're reading this, you got off sooooo lightly. A lil' bump on the head and the goons dragged him away before he could go John.E.Smoke on your bones. I know Gibs is one of the OG acid casualty lovable freaks but when his sort get 10 ft tall (WITH A KNIFE!!!) it gets terribly messy, terribly quickly.

Now all of you, go home and listen to anything on Latin Bugger Veil and scream into the void as it engulfs what's left of your psyche, your cosmic fortitude and your moral compactness.

Myself? I will pour myself a large Sandoz and go break into the future and pillage it.

Gibby? Wasn't he the one who was 'tronixing at Reading Festival when Kurt and Courtney met, then was in the same room with Kurt in rehab leading Kurt to abscond both treatment and soon after life itself?

Rumors surround acid casualties.

nope, saw 'em play it in Tulsa, behind the chain-link fence, One of my favorite shows ever!

/ I got ogre sweat on me at that show... yeah I showered...


HappyHarryHardOn: DrBenway: HappyHarryHardOn:

the first third album he did with Throbbing Gristle "20 jazz funk greats" is a must, if you're a Skinny Puppy fan


FTFY

are the first 2 worth getting? really like "jazz funk" tremendously


chitownmike: pentachris: There's only one thing left for me to do, mama. I gotta ding-a-ding-dang my dang-a-long-ling-long.

Saw him do that one with ministry before I got too old to appreciate the special kind of insanity that Gibby brings even when he is standing next to Jourgson (sp?)

they actually played "jesus built my hotrod"? interesting. I was developing my own theory that they NEVER played this song live, because gibby signs but mostly because i have this feeling that the guitar would be hard to reproduce, since the recorded version is hundreds of guitar layers on top of each other

BooBoo23: Also, if you're interested, here (new window) is a Seeqpod playlist of some old school Surfers.

i just listened to all this. even being a former austinite and having pumped gas next to gibby haynes at my old gas station once, i gotta admit-these guys are f*cking terrible. thanks, now i know!

HappyHarryHardOn:

are the first 2 worth getting? really like "jazz funk" tremendously


I like them both a lot (especially The Third And Final Report), but be warned that there's none of the Chris Carter sequencer stuff going on. Most of it's "noisier" and they use a fair amount of found stuff and random recordings, everything from conversations to death threats taken off their answering machine to the audio coming off a computer tape. It's been ages since I've listened to the first one (2nd Annual Report) -- it's the rougher of the two as I recall, though. Also, Heathen Earth is a good live album from around the time of 20 Jazz Funk Greats. And if you're partial to 20 Jazz Funk Greats, you'd probably like some of the Chris & Cosey stuff, too.

BooBoo23: Also, if you're interested, here (new window) is a Seeqpod playlist of some old school Surfers.

I had no idea, but apparently Archive.org has recordings of 34 live shows, too, that can be found here. (new window)

/public service

OH yeah, that reminds me. Thanks for that AWESOME link, had fun with it last night. Lots of good stuff there... there was so many, I actually got excited at the prospect of maybe there being one I was in, but no

HappyHarryHardOn

And they used to put up mental shows, strobe lights on top of smoke machine and film projectors playing penis-reconstruction surgery type of reels. Also, dont forget a 300 pound belly dancer with metal teeth.


You were right up until the point you laid that last part down. Kathleen, or "TaDa the Bullshiat Lady" was quite demure, and never had metal teeth. I've seen BHS 17 times since 1988, and seen them with her dancing with them 4 out of those times. 300 pound belly dancer with metal teeth doesn't even come close to describing her. Even with heavy photo manipulation, you can't possibly make her look anything near 300 lbs.




Just take a look at her pics with her band "Beme Seed". She's a semi-cute chick.

Of course, 2 of those shows I saw with Kathleen were during "Oh fark, am I gonna be ok?" acid trips. I thought she was a boy until I saw her cooch. I guess I can't discount what you saw.

/fark Gibby
//Paul Leary is God.
///Next to cEvin Key, that is.

momentous
as an embittered guitarist who's power was unceremoniously cut from stage by a rank arse in the form of a mouthbreathing soundguy at a dive bar, I am getting a kick out of these replies.

I'm just curious what led up to the power being cut off? I've been doing sound in clubs for the better part of five years now and of the three times I've had to cut off power to the stage every single time has been because a self obsessed douche of a guitarist wouldn't stfu and get off the stage when his band was done. All musicians should have the courtesy to get their shiat on stage, setup and torn down quickly when there are other bands on the bill.

/don't fark with the soundguy.
//we're a creatively vindictive group
///Gibby still rocks, though.

Pegging the soundman? (#1)

I saw the Butthole Surfers back in the mid-80's at a place called Danceteria in NYC. Gibby was completely naked for most of the show and the band had apparently become disgruntled over some kind of dispute with the club. The result was they barely played any songs, just banged on shiat and let the guitars feedback while Gibby took a bullhorn and shoved it into a mic causing a loud shrieking noise. At one point Gibby leapt into the audience (naked) and started screaming and pointing at a girl who was completely in shock.

Oh, and I saw Pyschic TV that year too. They weren't especially good, but I do remember Genesis' performance pretty well. Very. Odd. Guy/Girl.

/lawn

syrynxx: Pegging the soundman? (#1)

Well, he is a butthole sufer.

dirkadirkadoo: /don't fark with the soundguy.
//we're a creatively vindictive group

DeepDownHounds: HappyHarryHardOn

And they used to put up mental shows, strobe lights on top of smoke machine and film projectors playing penis-reconstruction surgery type of reels. Also, dont forget a 300 pound belly dancer with metal teeth.


You were right up until the point you laid that last part down. Kathleen, or "TaDa the Bullshiat Lady" was quite demure, and never had metal teeth. I've seen BHS 17 times since 1988, and seen them with her dancing with them 4 out of those times. 300 pound belly dancer with metal teeth doesn't even come close to describing her. Even with heavy photo manipulation, you can't possibly make her look anything near 300 lbs.

Just take a look at her pics with her band "Beme Seed". She's a semi-cute chick.

Of course, 2 of those shows I saw with Kathleen were during "Oh fark, am I gonna be ok?" acid trips. I thought she was a boy until I saw her cooch. I guess I can't discount what you saw.

/fark Gibby
//Paul Leary is God.
///Next to cEvin Key, that is.


thanks, and I certainly believe you, but Im sure you heard these metal teeth rumour as much as I did, I wonder where they come from
also the fact that she refused to speak for about a year, that I think I read in the book |"this band can mean your life" (or some title like that)

but unfortunately, I missed (not by much tho) the whole double-drum era and the dancer phase by a year or 2 ... they were still awesome by the time I did, I mean we were still somewhere in the 80s, but the band already shed their 2nd drummer, which is the surfers show I always wished I saw

the smoke machine and the penis movie were still terrifying tho

FeedTheCollapse: dirkadirkadoo: /don't fark with the soundguy.
//we're a creatively vindictive group

That's the least of your worries. one band that the guitarist flicked a lit cigarette at me ended up unable to book a show in Long Beach (where I live/work) or Costa Mesa, Anaheim, Orange, Silver Lake, Echo Park, essentially all of the places that do live music in southern California that's not "pay-to-play."

/also they had the tires of their trailer slashed.
//I swear I've got an alibi.
///Just don't ask what it is.