Comments on: BUTTHOLE SURFERS IN BROOKLYN

By: mensch

mensch — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:48:50 +0000

Oh onepen, you’re such a wit! Hey, if you’ve ever listened to Locust Abortion Technician and you still think that the Butthole Surfers lack, then you’re a bloodless little twit. If you haven’t listened to that record (or any of the first three,) you might not be a total fag. In short, start the downloads!

By: mrs. roper

mrs. roper — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:48:31 +0000

A butthole surfer is slang for a gay-wad. DOY

By: STREET CLOUD

STREET CLOUD — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:34:16 +0000

it is not about the money at this point, but re-living some of the joy that is the music of butthole surfers.

as for crazy stories about them, my favorite is that they had two hardcore autistic conga players back in 83. and then there was this girl:

http://potionlords.blogspot.com/2007/09/dr-ponder-is-here.html

By: fag

fag — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:20:17 +0000

who gives a shit about a band that hasn’t put out a good record since 1987?

By: Harvey K-Tel

Harvey K-Tel — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:36:10 +0000

Black Dice, interesting choice as an opener for the Butthole Surfers.

I always thought the name referred to ReaganAmerika as crap and that they were just surfing along zen-like over the chunky soup that flowed out.

Will it ever be possible for the younger generation to seperate all of the Grunge era elements out in order to distinguish how far apart these guys were from Alice in Chains or the movie Singles.

$ 37 an hour but at least their fans actually bought the bands music back then.

By: onepen

onepen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:37:50 +0000

Kurt Cobain cited them as on of his favourite bands. Turns out Courtney Love wasn’t his only lapse of taste.

By: guy

guy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:12:07 +0000

yeah but if you’re in the Strokes you get to fuck those rich bitches in the subway. But yeah. If you’re throwing smaller shows you also can’t make any fucking money until the 19th person comes to your show. Then you start splitting half-half with the venue. f.y.i.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:26:59 +0000

I saw the Butthole Surfers in either 92 or 93 at Roseland Ballroom NYC (yes I’m over 40). Gibby started the show by shooting a shotgun right over the audience’s heads. Regardless of the fact that he was shooting blanks it was loud as shit and a total fucking rush. I’m told they do that a lot. Whatever — they were great!

Side note — the warm up band for them was a not yet famous Stone Temple Pilots. I;m not a fan and was much more into the Surfers. STP had attracted a large crowd of fans from Jersey who were basically there to fight. I almost got into it with one of them but thought better, and it’s a good thing because these guys probably would have destroyed me.

There were a lot of these guys and they were taunting the bouncers, looking for mayhem, and in general, being intimidating assholes. Right at the climax of the Buttholes set, as it looked like the crowd was going to explode into violence, the drum player doused his cymbals in lighter fluid and set them on fire. The entire crowd just calmed right down as we all became united in a moment of comradeship, enjoying the sight of burning drums. Fiiirrree… cool.

I guess what I am saying is “I like the Butthole Surfers”

By: zeb.

zeb. — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:14:27 +0000

$37 an hour. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

By: fizzlebottom

fizzlebottom — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:10:54 +0000

Cargo! The Smalls!