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Butthole Surfers (1988)

Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages audio, Spring 1988

What starts off as an interview with Gabby Haynes, Paul Leary, King Coffey, Jeff Pinkus, Teresa Nervosa, and soundman Ric Wallace, talking about their riotous Mean Fiddler show, and their weird fans, and Texas, swiftly evolves into a chaotic conversation involving killer bees, the plague, the firing of TV personality Jimmy the Greek — and is Rick Astley Satan? — via African music, their dancer Kathleen, and the strength of American amphetamines.

File format: mp3; file size: 67.8mb, interview length: 1h 10' 39" sound quality: ***

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Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician (Touch and Go)

Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, July 1987

THE ONLY WAY to analyze a Butthole Surfers record is to separate the good (hard, funny) bullshit from the bad (soft, tedious) bullshit, which ain't ...

Butthole Surfers: Crust Of A Wave

Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001

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Butthole Surfers: Swamp Things

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 2 April 1988

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Sonic Youth and the Blast First axis

Retrospective by David Stubbs, The Wire, February 2013

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Essay by David Stubbs, The Wire, 12 February 2009

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Butthole Surfers: Piouhgd (Rough Trade/All formats)

Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 2 March 1991

PIOUHGD — WHAT A SCORCHER! ...

Butthole Surfers: Rembrandt Pussy Horse (Red Rhino RRE LP2)*****

Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 3 May 1986

CRAZY HORSE ...

Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol) ***

Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1993

IS NOTHING sacred? This alternative thing has definitely spun out of control when the Butthole Surfers — America's worst underground-rock nightmare, a band that began ...

The Butthole Surfers: In Through the Back Door

Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 24 June 1993

The Butthole Surfers are the certified shock jocks of the next wave ...

The Butthole Surfers Ride A New Wave Of Popularity

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 19 July 1996

HAS THE WORLD gone mad? Gibby Haynes, lead singer-songwriter of the Butthole Surfers, thinks it's a distinct possibility — and he spoke with us several ...

Feeding the Fish: An Oral History of the Butthole Surfers

Retrospective and Interview by John Morthland, Joe Nick Patoski, Spin, November 1996

CAST OF CHARACTERS Jim Berry Road sound engineer for the Butthole Surfers, 1985-92. Jello Biafra Lead singer of the Dead Kennedys and self-described "absentee thoughtlord" of Alternative Tentacles, ...

Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1993

WITH THEIR last album, 1991's half-hearted Pioughd, the Butthole Surfers appeared to be relying on a well-cultivated knack for elaborate in-jokes, almost to the exclusion ...

The Butthole Surfers

Guide by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, February 1989

Mark Paytress Unravels the Career of the Cult American Band ...

Butthole Surfers: Riding The Shock Wave

Interview by Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 16 April 1988

IN TEXAS, even daylight isn't ordinary. You can stay indoors and sleep, hide from the noon-time sun that way, but the overlit world outside is ...

Invisible Jukebox: John Paul Jones

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, September 1999

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Someday All the Adults Will Die!

Book Excerpt by Pat Blashill, 'Texas is the Reason' (Bazillion Points), February 2020

THE MISFITS had never been to Texas. They were just four lunkheads from Lodi, New Jersey, who had heard about punk. They had black leather ...

Honey of the 'Core: Ten Years After... and it's Almost Independents Day

Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 16 January 1988

During 1987 the US indie underground began surfacing in much the same way as it had here a full decade earlier. BYRON COLEY, co-editor of ...

Butthole Surfers: Irving Plaza, NY

Live Review by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, May 1986

SORRY, THRILL SEEKERS, unlike the Butthole Surfers’ recent Danceteria appearance, there were no Live Sex Acts Onstage this time around. At Irving Plaza April 26, ...

Butthole Surfers: FU Proof Technology

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 12 January 1991

DEEP IN the heart of Texas, a marriage seemingly made in hell continues to flourish. ...

Noise rock forsakes grunge for art and experimentation

Overview by Simon Reynolds, Details, March 1993

IT'S YEAR two of the post-Nirvana era, and the deluge of Seattle soundalike grunge flows on and on. These days, most hapless record buyers find ...

The Butthole Surfers: Deeper & Down

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 8 December 1990

AFTER OVER A YEAR OF SILENCE, the Butthole Surfers have re-emerged only to suffer the indignity of being topical. With uncanny punctuality, their cover of ...

The Butthole Surfers: Beach Bums

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1985

Taller than Jesus, ferociously noisy, militantly gay and quite probably off their trolleys, THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS are coming to get ya, ready or not. Blubbering ...

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