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R.I.P Teresa Taylor
Thank you so much! I love your videos so I really appreciate hearing this :)
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How can I get you to make a video on TOOL or Prog Metal??
@@quinnvols247 you can't
@@quinnvols247 Better make a video about a band worth it like G̈r̈oẗus̈ instead.
I once dreamed I met Gibby in a record store and asked him if he ever listened to the Butthole Surfers, he just smiled and said “no”
Wasnt a dream
I used to live in Austin a few years ago & met pretty much everyone that was in BHS except for Gibby,but I met him earlier this year & he's still a trippy dude
Are you sure that didn't happen in real life, and both of y'all were just faded?
@TruppDriscoll It felt like I was,but nah,I got pics to prove it
@@cwilliams666 he was talking to corinna...
I'm Rollin'
Fred durst
Keep rollin’
He's rollin'
holy shit he's rollin'
holy fuck its fred durst
My friends mom went to a surfers concert once and everyone started throwing up around her because above the surfers was a video of a penis removal surgery 😭
@Novalovesfilm911 I believe they had a film of a penis reconstruction (from a farming accident), but played it in reverse. Glad to be of help!
Yep, saw them with this background video. Really disturbing, we left the concert after that.
Ummm yeth.....,....that ith nathsty
it was a reconstruction surgery on tape, when the tape ran out instead of rewinding it, they would just play it reversed for the next venue haha
Locust Abortion Technician is genuinely one of the best albums ever recorded and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Locust Abortion Technician was their first record I ever bought and listened to probably 12 times in a row before I called it a night. Life changing stuff.
Anyone who disagrees with this are the problem
....and if you see your mother this weekend....make sure to tell her SATAN"!
I support this statement and future statements you make. Thank you for having exquisite music taste
rembrandt pussyhorse is better
Butthole surfers are one of the best bands ever. Hairway To Steven is a top tier album. All of them are, but that one is special to me
You mean THE best band...
@@Hodad3000explain ween…
@@portalbuilder7021 There can be only one.
@@portalbuilder7021Can't get higher than Ween, it's impossible
@@texas_t Ween could never touch the Surfers at their peak
My father saw them live and was apparently the most chaotic live show experience he has ever seen.
I'll second that opinion. I thought I was gonna catch on fire, ringing n pain in my ears for 24hrs, got fired for calling out of my job to go (got last min FREE tickets), & I've never regretted it 100% worth it that memory - literally seared into my brain LOL!
Yup , me too , quite a few times
I've seen them live about 5 times, twice at Lalafalosers and 3 shows at various venues starting in the late 80's. By the mid 90's their live shows were much more tame. The early ones were ABSOLUTE INSANITY. A healthy dose of lsd was basically the cost of admission for the most fun you've ever had at a show in your life.
Nice pfp
I love the BS and saw them play in the 80's. They were great but the MOST chaotic show had to be Crash Worship.
I’m been a huge GWAR fan for a long time and for whatever reason I put off giving the surfers a listen, but when I finally got a copy of Locust Abortion Technician it changed me. Hearing “SATAN SATAN SATAN” followed by a Black Sabbath riff made me have such a visceral reaction my headphones flew off. I absolutely love this band and they are a huge inspiration to me.
Funny how I was just thinking how Gibby reminds me of Dave Brockie
I knew some of the Gwar guys back in college. Very cool, down to earth people.
@@HastenforthedawmDave was a huge loss. I live in Richmond and see his beautiful gravestone at Hollywood cemetery once a year or so.
You should do a video on Hanatarash or maybe Mayhem in the future. Those guys were also absolutely bonkers on stage
Check out my Black Metal video that pretty much covers Mayhem.
Also Gerogerigegege!
@@coolea I was expecting this video to be another Hanatarash essay, as if there weren't enough. Thanks for not doing it.
no he shouldnt
@@murcielagoat 😱😢
If anyone here hasn’t heard of The Jackofficers, the side project formed by Gibby Haynes, I’d recommend giving them a listen. Bizarre one-off IDM/joke project which is totally unlike anything the Surfers ever did.
Always looking for relevant recommendations, thanks
GIBBY HAYNES AND HIS PROBLEM is a really great album , Give a look
Have you heard the albums from Drain (it's a solo project from King Coffey, the Surfers' main drummer)? Both Drain albums ("Pickup Heaven" and "Off Speed and In There") are incredible. I love the BHS, but the Drain albums are better than some Surfers' albums, IMO...very different, though.
@@maskedman1337 Thanks for that ! I havent heard them , always great to find stuff I havent heard ...I'm old and all my friends that used to like good music are gone
I remember my roommate buying that album and I'd listen to it and it would almost always give me a panic attack. It was both hypnotic and utterly revolting at the same time. I think it's safe to say that Gibby Haynes is a semi-psychotic individual and it's no wonder he eventually became a heroin addict. I'm glad he survived to tell the tale. Apparently he was in rehab with Kurt Cobain right before Kurt left against medical advice and went and killed himself shortly thereafter. Maybe that made some kind of impression on him .
RIP Teresa Taylor
Not a bad video that touches briefly on their history, though it could do with less of the memey editing and more live footage to indicate how insane yet dedicated to their craft these wild texans were.
great vid as always. Hit different coming out today after Teresa Taylor passing
Difference with the Surfers and other crazy bands was they weren't trynna scare you.. their live shows were just scaring you.
I saw them at an all ages space in 1984. They did the paper cockroach confetti. People were tripping balls. They were truly insane. Their music has had staying power.
Their first 4 album + first ep is such an insane run it’s actually unreal
Hairway to steven is a masterpiece written by a guy who was the captain of his highschool basketball team and valedictorian of his highschool. Gibby was high functioning possibly qualifying as a genius ( if you consider the abstract stream of consciousness lyrical content that at times left the listener pondering existentialism versus the mundane experience of witnessing an x ray of a girl passing gas). He at one time told Julio Eglasias what to sing and after cutting off his leg he danced one legged off into the rain. Admittedly he gave no fucks about the CIA or FBI, infact this contemptuous words smith had a complete lack of fucks about anything after he was caught chewing chocolate that a doggy had dropped speaking simultaneously in 69 different languages he knew you never know just how you look through other peoples eyes.
He was also apparently a president of a fraternity and would wake up the entire campus with shotgun shots.
He was clever but also a severely disturbed individual.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 He has a dark sense of humour that only others on his wavelength get. He seems pretty normal in his interviews when he's not tripping.
@@JC-lu4seYeah also age will have that effect. He's mellowed now that he's in his 60's.
I love them so much RIP Teresa Taylor🖤
Super cool you made this video man.
this is the second video i've ever seen by you and you're already one of my favorites on this whole website, this editing style kept me scream laughing the entire way through, love this shit lmfao
The wildest gigs of the 80's! The easiest way to get good acid without having to go to a dead show! Thank you Butty's for surfing the rim!!!!
Probably one of my all time favorite bands. Awesome awesome awesome and awesome video, quite accurate.
I honestly thought this video was gonna be about any of the famous black metal bands from the 90s lol. Some of those guys were legit psychopaths, good music, but psychopaths.
Early Norwegian black metal is what my grandmother thanks metal bands are like
These guys were truly amazing live. If you missed it, you missed out. If you saw it, you know what I mean.
Not insane, just highly creative, shocking, funny and original.
Totally insane tho lol. Gibby got so drunk live one time and threw chairs at the crowd like he was trynna kill them, At the end of the night he was fighting 3 bouncers.
@@NotAnAstronaut2k I wonder if these stories get exaggerated over the years.
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 who knows 🤣 smartphones wasn't around back then and people only knew from the word of mouth.. there's a bunch of insane crazy stories about the surfers but if you actually been following the band since the early 80s it aint even surprising if the stories are true.
@@NotAnAstronaut2k I first saw them in 87 or 88, and they were at their peak weirdness at that point. I heard about the fire at the 9:30 Club in DC that apparently got them banned from that club for life, so there is some truth to the stories for sure. Gibby certainly understood marketing, and he probably went out of his way to create chaos and mayhem because it gave the band more free publicity. This is nothing new of course; the Sex Pistols were possibly the first punk band to use criminal notoriety to gain public attention (well after Elvis and the Rolling Stones I guess).
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Sex Pistols? lmao idk about that, Pistols were a manufactured boy band in comparison.. i'd say the Surfers were one of the only few real Punk rock bands w/ true DIY Punk ethos. They did whatever they want.. Gibby and Paul definitely knew what they were doing but unlike most bands their lunacy wasn't just for show but they lived it
One of the greatest bands in the history of rock music
Good god these edits are pure austimo
They’re one of the greatest bands - fucking love those dudes
Seems like 80% of crazy rock and roll stories involve Gibby Haynes somehow. Like allegedly he gave Daniel Johnston acid at one of their shows, which made Johnston's bipolar disorder wwaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy worse than it already was. (Haynes denies giving Johnston acid, of course, but you never know with him.)
He was also probably the last man Kurt Cobain talked to before he died.
You're slowly becoming one of my favorite channels!! Such good, entertaining stuff
your editing is fine art
0:21 was NOT expecting a Hanatarash clip in this video - well done!
Thank you wizzard man for the new video 🙏🥺
the butthole surfer's part in "our band could be your life" is amazing.
Good stuff man.
The residents next?
Yes please
I second this.
Insane yet AMAZING
I first saw them in the fall of '85, and then saw them four times in '86 (which I consider their peak year) it was truly an experience! At one show at Irving Plaza Rick Rubin's band HOSE opened up for them - that was a fantastic double bill.
regarding the video title, I have only one word: Hanatarash
(a Japanese noise band formed in 1983, who turned the live insanity up to 11 - their shows were dangerous to themselves, the audience, and sometimes the structure of the building itself)
I know, I knew them before plus it's been commented many times.
bulldoser goes vroooom
Bunghole surfers are fucking amazing man. One of my favorites.
These mfs were crazy as hell and i somehow respect them for it, they're music is great in the most unconventional way and i also have a bit of a Personal emotional conection to this band cause they were my deadbeat dead fathers favorite band, makes me feel conected to him even though i barely knew him
I'm sorry to hear your dad let you down. As an old school fan of the BHS with a dead father, I can relate. The BHS was clearly music made by disturbed individuals for disturbed individuals. It represents a certain paranoia/anxiety and depression that is common among the misfits of society. As Jim Morrison said, "People are strange, when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone.."
The Whole Truth and Nothing Butt, and Hairway to Steven were the soundtrack to my high for a couple years after I dropped out of high school.
It's really sad that weird revolution is so hated. It was a great album before capitol records pulled the plug and it had to be released with a few really bad tracks on a different label. I actually love their last album and feel bad that it wasn't ever properly released how it should've been (as the last astronaut). Anyway, they recently reissued the vinyl of that album and this time it's not only in mono lol.
So this video reminds me of the European meme videoes that had memes that I’ve never saw that confused the shit out of me. The way you edited this is how they edit theirs.
Easily the BEST band I’ve ever heard and have been a fan of
Saw them in Berkeley back in the early 90s - great show and the surgery videos that they played on a screen behind the band was definitely unsettling.
I almost thought it was gonna be about GG Allin but it’s still an interesting video. Hopefully there can be a video about GG coming up
Gibby is a scary dude. My band opened for them in the mid-80s. After the show Gibby got into an argument with the club owner and spit in his face for not paying them enough.
This band imo is truly one of the best bands of all time
I wonder do you have one of these,about no trend? That band is still kind of a question mark. Nice vid :D
Cant wait fucking killer videos
The early stuff on Touch and Go records are their best stuff.
You failed to mention he used to ding a ding dang his dang a long ling long.
The Pitbull dog was called Mark Farner, named after the Grand Funk Railroad frontman. The Pitbull even got to perform lead vocals on the song 'Mark Says Alright'
Damn, I used to listen to these guys all the time and just started listening to them again. holly shit I could never guess they were fucking insane
I was at that show at City Gardens, that was a great show. Although the whole 'trying to set the bouncers on fire' thing was blown way out of proportion.
Perhaps not unlike G.I.S.M. supposedly attacking their audience with a flamethrower. I mean, the frontman is certainly on video chasing people around with a lighter and a can of hairspray or something, but I think it's a bit overblown (sames goes for him supposedly trying to kill people with a chainsaw). I also suspect people have been a bit misleading with the claim that Eye, of the band Hanatarash, tried to throw a molotov cocktail at an audience, considering the differences in reports I've seen. Hell, even the infamous excavator incident when he drove it through the wall of the venue and supposedly went after the audience with it, in pictures it seems like he never actually gets that close to anyone there. All above examples are incredibly reckless, but not attempted murder like the way people always talk about these events.
Sounds epic
Common Coolea vid W
Saw them at The Ritz in NYC in 88? That show was mental. I have never seen anything like it since.
recommendation for you guys - Will Wood and the Tapeworms
What you doing? Chewing chocolate.
Where'd you get it?
Doggy dropped it...
carry on.
Idc if they sold out, I’m getting that bike and painting it blue regardless
I've only seen them once, opened for Nirvana. Both were great.
Moving To Florida is probably my favourite song.
The 80s and 90s were great for creative music.
Nowhere near as mental, but another great band both live and recorded are Trumans Water.
Because I'm now an old git I don't keep up with new bands, so I'm wondering if any are as inventive these days?
Now and then some new noise rock bands pop out but most are altleast 10 years old , some that come to mind like Bugs and rats, Leather slave, Lighting bolt and Pissed jeans. Not really BHS contemporaries but anyways noisy.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard come to mind.
Thanks for your replies. I've actually heard of all of them, surprisingly, and I quite like them.
The fact that these dudes have a hit is so exuberant to me
The fact that they onced topped the top 40 modern rock charts 😂
They made Daniel Johnston go insane
Gibby's father had a childrens show called Peppermint Place. Very popular in 70s Texas.He would show up to their shows sometimes.🤘🤠🤘
Fantastic. You should do one on Kettle Cadaver. Ed Borsheim was a real nut.
still remember 2yrs ago tripping acid my first time listening to mark says alright
You’re one of the best channels rn. My father brought me up on the Surfers later records, but after listening to their early stuff, I found possibly my favorite band ever. Thank you for bringing such great bands to what I can guess is a younger audience.
1:01 this footage is from an interview they did while they were all on acid. It might be on RUclips somewhere. It’s amazing. Gibby also does an interview while in the dentist’s chair, getting his teeth drilled in the movie ‘The Devil and Daniel Johnston”. A creative genius 👍
oooh boy not enough people talk about the greorggrgegegegergeg or whatever they're called
gerogerigegege
Coolea is like the MaXor of music
Im a little bit saddened that i already listen to the most insane band in history. Where do i go from here?
I Thought you were gonna talk about white house, btw nice video nwn
The Gerogerigegege in my opinion was even more henerally stupid on stage and in recording as well, one of the members on stage did something with a vacuum… all I’ll say
I feel the song pepper in my heart, there’s alot of people who just love death in Tx
less than a week ago I was chatting about music with my English teacher and she recommended me to listen to Butthole Surfers
I was spending time in Athens Ga about the same time the Surfers were located in nearby Winterville Ga. It was local gossip that the house they rented had to be condemned after the band moved back to Tx. Michael Stipe had moved to NC I think, so the plans to stalk REM didn’t really work out
So are you saying it wasn't their van that Gibby scrawled "Michael Stipe despite the hype I want to suck your big long pipe" across the side of?
Michael Stipe lives in Athens now & he needs to cut his grass.
Got to see Gibby with the SCHOOL OF ROCK kids ...that was fun !
Seen them 7 times,partied with them in Toronto
I thought it was going to be Merzbow. But, I love the surfers. They lived near me when they were in Winterville, although I didn't know who they were at the time.
I remember being at the 1st or 2nd Lolapalooza and watching the Butthole Surfers. Gibby was drinking beers during the set and every time he finished a beer he would huck his empty beer bottle like 20 feet in the air and let them shatter on the top of his head when they came back down. He did it like 4 times. It was bananas.
is this a sign for me to start actually listening to this band? because i think i will.
YES.
People need to talk about scratch acid more, and all of David yow’s projects, he and Steve albini are the god damn unsung hero’s of the alternative music scene
Check out JD Pinkus's solo work. His banjo playing coupled with guitar effects and singing is freaking awesome!
Well done.
At 1:15 the kid that take around a year to learn to do the are mushroom circle I key part of the pummel horse in mens gymnastics
oh yeah they rock man.
I really love Butthole Surfers, but they never held a candle to the insanity of GG Allin. Nobody did, or does.
Hanatarash from Japan. GG might have flung shit at people but it's a miracle Hanatarash didn't kill themselves or any audience members
Well the Surfers actually had talent and great experimental music along with the lunacy.. gg allin was just trash lol
gg allin wasnt that crazy in the GSOT tbh
Gg was crazy as hell in real life, but his music was bottom-of-the-barrel punk rock. The murder junkies were the only good band he’s ever had
The most underrated ever
need to listen to more surfers stuff… only heard the ep and locust abortion technician, and that was ages ago
When i was a young one my fathers boss was the dad of i think bb at a print shop in fort worth tx. I vaguely remember watching them practice. Know wonder i have probs. I thought it was because I am a milinoil
OoOoooOOOHhHh anybody that mentions Scratch Acid is an immediate friend :)
I've seen the Butthole Surfers live twice: first time was in Berkeley on the 4th of July '93 - it was absolutely mind-bendingly wild, and one of my most cherished concert experiences. And as a bonus, I met East Bay Ray of the Dead Kennedys, he was there as just another concert-goer. The second time was sometime in the late '90s at a festival in Belgium, and by that time they seemed spent, tired and unremarkable: just another quirky band in a roster filled with other quirky bands.
It's not a bad narrative but the amount of random images makes it indigestible, greetings
Lmao I saw these guys in the Belgian Ardennes back in like 2013-2014 ish by complete accident. My girlfriend at the time and I were living in the UK and went to visit my parents, staying in the Ardennes for a week with them cus they rented a cabin or some shit and we went out drinking together one night, saw the poster and having no idea who they are we thought it was a great idea to go catch a show. It was a pretty fucking small and random venue, like literally some random ass café in the middle of rural Belgium. The show was pretty fucking good from what I remember!
There actually weren't that many line-up changes at all. The only person that left the band was Teresa nervosa. They have had a couple of bass guitarists since 82 but that's about it. They were one of the best shows I've ever seen
I can't be the only person who just knew the Butthole Surfers for that "cinnamon and sugary" song and the song about the rubber band. Interesting.
I survived it and did not return but still love their music