These people are nuts. Ive heard alot of stories about rock stars acting crazy and doing strange things but this band takes the cake by far. A truly, truly bizarre collection of human beings.
LMAO this is the first time I've actually seen nardwaur struggle to deal with a band and definitely the only time I've seen a band just strongarm the microphone away and play keepaway from an interviewer with it "I'm in control here" I bet that was the scariest thing he's ever heard as a professional. To be fair absolutely no one can cope with the butthole surfers, and Im very happy to live in the time period where they exist. These guys could freak out GG Allin, and I love them
I didnt understand that one, couse he aint playing with Reverend Horton Heat as far as i know and i checked in Internet aswell and nothing came out about Jeff playing with them and if Rubys Carousel Club is a band im not aware and i checked it out aswell and nothing came out so i dont know......
Honestly, I know they poke fun at classic rock but you can clearly tell they really do love the genre, to an extent. The way they speak of ZZ Top and how they actually know who The Moving Sidewalks (the band that was ZZ Top before they where zz top, kinda like The Quarrymen and The Beatles) and Roger Erikson says it all.
I think a lot of bands from this time have a big respect for zz top. the final track on SY's daydream nation , 'eliminator Jr z" is inspired by them. xiu xiu (more recently) also covered ZZ top
This interview was done on January 3, in Vancouver, Canada when the Butthole Surfers were opening for Nirvana as part of a 2 night stand in our city. (January 3 & 4 1994.) The next day Nardwuar interviewed Nirvana. (also available on Nardwuar's channel)
Yeah, could be the best one ever. Nard was taking and giving shit like a champ. BH Surfers were just fucking off on an interview, don't fully blame them.
@ Curtis. Just watched both interviews. Kim was boring as expected and thankfully not present at the second one. The other guys funny. The whole breaking the record thing and the mock ass kicking were funny. They were no more "rude" than he was. He insulted one their videos, they stayed with him and produced comedy scenster gold. Nardwur called Lee a "piece of shit". Fucking hilarious!
that one ary I was watching this on my laptop in my bedroom and my roommate came in and asked what nirvana interview I was watching lmao, he 100% sounds like Kurt. So trippy.
Butthole Surfers rules definitely and forever ! They're one of the wildest bands i ever saw, exception mede of PanSonic, which have now disappeared unfortunately, and also Big Black and Shellac, who took real rock 'n' roll up to a new height...
King Coffey seems like a genuinely nice guy. IMO, band's a shit-ton better than both Nirvana & Sonic Youth in both innovation and attitude. They were just too weird for the mainstream except for a couple of their tracks in the 90's.
The difference between Butthole Surfers and Sonic Youth is the Butthole Surfers knew when to play in key and when to make noise, Sonic Youth just made noise.
3:29 If you're saying "World Record Company of Canada", that was a pressing company not a label. But when you paid them to press your vinyl, they inserted their logo on the album back large enough to look more like the label name. My band Bomb's first album, the "To Elvis In Hell" LP, we only ever pressed 1000 copies, with World Records. It was on our own vanity label, "Boogadigga Records" (an onamonapia named after the sound of a beat Tony used in several songs...BoogadiggaBoogadiggaBoogadigga etc). but World Records, the presser, put their logo on our artwork bigger than where we had our label name. So some online listing list the label of "To Elvis in Hell" as "World Records." (Sleazy company, but catchy name when you think about it.)
I like the butthole surfers but I WOULD NOT trip with those dudes I feel like they would put you in a bad trip on purpose and just laugh about it while you are losing your shit. 😅😅
These people are nuts. Ive heard alot of stories about rock stars acting crazy and doing strange things but this band takes the cake by far. A truly, truly bizarre collection of human beings.
Jello Biafra once said this band thought he was weird lmao
And just to think Gibby was not part of that interview
You should hear about s4x pistols my guy
This why Cobain revered this band so much
@@danieldelarosa7885 more like GG Allin. He's got the pistols and the surfers beat and everyone else
Props to them from peaking during the interview and handling it
I just couldn’t tell what they were peaking on lol...
Is this the King???
it definitely wasn't their first rodeo
"We're on a major label. We're as independent as a Frank Sinatra. We're a codependent band."
"we're corporate rock", heck yeah
His delivery too my god!
Living out of a van for over ten years touring relentlessly yeah so lame to want to make a living as an artist lol
love these old interviews where nardwards totally geeking out
Look at the size of his pupils... it must be really dark in there
Or......drugs
@@dickwwee9366 yah that's the joke
@@dickwwee9366 what a moron you are 3 years later
Pinkus !!!
@@dickwwee9366 Epic fail. 🤦
Reo tardwagon
Unquestionably the greatest interview ever filmed.
Check out Lou Reeds Australian interview
Agree. It might even be better than that.
Check out butthole surfers bedroom interview also
LOL "we aint canadian so we wouldnt be able to read the paper anyway"
i would have liked to see narduwar interviewing gg allin
Nardwuar probably didn't want to get murdered.
Hahaha holy fuck same!! I’ve been thinking that forever! We can only imagine
No thanks
TELIOS i would pay to see that haha
Go watch his interviews with Lil Uzi Vert..... He admits he's GG...... Then tries to play it off....
Best doot doo ever... "massive death"
1:56 “They can’t even say Butthole in San Francisco, you know, I was shocked.” 😂
"What is free speech coming to, I ask you?" lol
LMAO this is the first time I've actually seen nardwaur struggle to deal with a band and definitely the only time I've seen a band just strongarm the microphone away and play keepaway from an interviewer with it "I'm in control here" I bet that was the scariest thing he's ever heard as a professional.
To be fair absolutely no one can cope with the butthole surfers, and Im very happy to live in the time period where they exist. These guys could freak out GG Allin, and I love them
he got straight up assaulted by sonic youth, check that one out sometime
Check out Blur bullying the bejeebers out of him
That's actually a very young Gary Busey in a cowboy hat. Great interview, Butthole Surfers are one of my favorite bands.
No, it's Mahalia Jackson
Jake busey coffee
It's Gary Shandling, Gary, Gary, Gary Shandling.
Definitely one of the best live bands I've ever enjoyed and I've enjoyed many fukin bands
More like Jake Busey, straight outta filming Starship Trooper
Jeff frikin Pinkus. He’s known for playing bass with (the) Melvins now.
Now solo banjo🤙
Omg they are TRIIIIIPPPIN. Look at 3:08 lol!
Lol those pupils are say it all
He’s like “oh yeah that’s my other band thank you” like he was relieved that nardwaur reminded him.
I didnt understand that one, couse he aint playing with Reverend Horton Heat as far as i know and i checked in Internet aswell and nothing came out about Jeff playing with them and if Rubys Carousel Club is a band im not aware and i checked it out aswell and nothing came out so i dont know......
Honestly, I know they poke fun at classic rock but you can clearly tell they really do love the genre, to an extent. The way they speak of ZZ Top and how they actually know who The Moving Sidewalks (the band that was ZZ Top before they where zz top, kinda like The Quarrymen and The Beatles) and Roger Erikson says it all.
I think a lot of bands from this time have a big respect for zz top. the final track on SY's daydream nation , 'eliminator Jr z" is inspired by them. xiu xiu (more recently) also covered ZZ top
Roky
Oh yeah I interviewed a lot of these musicians and most of them were big fans of Humble Pie and the like.
This interview was done on January 3, in Vancouver, Canada when the Butthole Surfers were opening for Nirvana as part of a 2 night stand in our city. (January 3 & 4 1994.) The next day Nardwuar interviewed Nirvana. (also available on Nardwuar's channel)
He also interviewed nirvana that night
I was at the January 3rd show...Gibby got hit with a shoe and walked off the stage
@@jeffbone8475 yep, can confirm.
REO Tardwagon
The bassist gave my parents a cat
Its me, im the cat
@@losethos1734 WOOOOOF!!!!
@@losethos1734how are u cat
the battle of who can out-weird whom
Yeah, could be the best one ever. Nard was taking and giving shit like a champ. BH Surfers were just fucking off on an interview, don't fully blame them.
That $100 is prob what they paid the whole band lol
😢
At this point the band was making at least 15-16k per gig.
They're opening up on a arena tour for a band who loved them. I'm sure they did fine
These guys are quick witted man 🤣
Still think Butthole Surfers were cooler than Nirvana
s staners ok.
apples and oranges but yeah they were
@@pl0y Even Nirvana would agree with that.
But the music wasn't.
@@captainpungent i wasnt disagreeing at all. lol
The Buttholes were cool and made Blur/Sonic Youth look like decayed water melons.
Early Sonic Youth slams brother!
Paul L
Yeah, I'll buy that.
These guys suing Touch and Go was way more of a dick move than Thurston Moore acting like a shithead in an interview.
Giving this a like purely for use of the phrase "decayed watermelons" as an insult
@ Curtis. Just watched both interviews. Kim was boring as expected and thankfully not present at the second one. The other guys funny. The whole breaking the record thing and the mock ass kicking were funny. They were no more "rude" than he was. He insulted one their videos, they stayed with him and produced comedy scenster gold. Nardwur called Lee a "piece of shit". Fucking hilarious!
if only gibby haynes was in this interview. it would be funny as hell.
Does anyone know what happened to Norman? I've watched this video like 40 times now and I wonder that every time.
Ask Teresa taylor I guess
I’m 24 and Nardwuar interviewed Nirvana at around the same age it’s ridiculous. That was one of his goals so just goes to show his persistence
Big country's poundcake I’m 76 and love the nard
A piece of american history right here
Jeff Pinkus aged 50 years in 25 years after this interview
Lol. Sad but true. 😂
Damn
More like 50 years in about six years.
@@MrOctober44 That happens when you're forced to learn Beatles covers with the Melvins...
More like dingus (I'm sorry I don't know who is that)
Nard: "BT?"
Him: "REO Tardwagon"
He sounds exactly like Kurt Cobain
+Road House He's probably on heroin here.
Except he doesn't fucking suck.
that one ary I was watching this on my laptop in my bedroom and my roommate came in and asked what nirvana interview I was watching lmao, he 100% sounds like Kurt. So trippy.
lol, "Probably"
Its was the 90s vibe.
1:40 such a perfect 90’s stoner voice
"Canadian metric 5 minutes"
if these guys were like this, imagine what paul and gibby were like at that time.
The Surfers played along and took it somewhere cool.
These guys have to be tripping on Acid
Well, it IS the Butthole Surfers.....
Lol, 3:08 you can see a close up of his eyes. He is INDEED on LSD or something similar.
If they were tripping, they'd be tripping.
I don’t think so man, anyone but the Surfers
That's my name
Butthole Surfers are fun as HELL! Good interview Nard.
Butthole Surfers with Frank Zappa would have been the best concert ever!
“I got a little dawg”
FUCKING DEAD
i guess people in 1994 made pipes out of cans the same as people did in 2004
Looks like a rock pipe
and in 1989
gel DALIN good Old pop can pipes.available anywhere, day or night
1984
1993
3:08 check out dem pupils!
Oh damn. That's MDMA right there
"who? uh... i dont read much"
haha, im gonna answer anything with that now
I needed a good laugh this morning 🤣🤣🤣👍
this is my favorite interview ever
"They're all blind, too...ya know, we're all blind in a way" lol
Pinkus has hardcore chaotic Kurt energy. He even sounds like him. It’s kinda creepy.
Death rockers
These guys were one of Cobain's favorites, almost like he might have taken inspiration from them or something
@@lordrathut he sure did
"Unfortunately, they faked the Moon Landings though Disney!"
we are as independent as the Frank Sinatra
Awesome! They mentioned Sister Double Happiness!
guy wih glasses looks like my former step dad
Great drummer
He looks like everybody's former step dad
I never thought I would see anyone out of the Butthole Surfers in my life Nardwuar did the best thing I’ve ever seen cheers cheers cheers
Hahahaha I'm fucking dead these guys are hilarious
this is the best interview
so good at putting on their act. i love them
Jeff talks IDENTICAL to Kurt cobain
Yea
Except he's cool
It’s 2024.. and I still think this is all time one of the weirdest interviews he’s done lol 😂
And Gibby wasn't even on this interview lol
this guy kind of sounds like kurt. or vice versa. but these guys are hilarious!
@4:46 "We're a *co*-dependent band."
Nardwuar is the best interviewer ever! I could watch Nardwuar interviews all day long :)
hahaha!! He DOES look a bit like him!!! (reverend horton heat!!)
At first he was annoying, then i realized he was the best interviewer ever!
"Canadian metric five minute scale" That made me laugh
Norman if your out there... please call home.
I tried
Nirvana for adults.
Butthole Surfers rules definitely and forever ! They're one of the wildest bands i ever saw, exception mede of PanSonic, which have now disappeared unfortunately, and also Big Black and Shellac, who took real rock 'n' roll up to a new height...
Pansonic must be wild live
3:02 Woooooooooooow. Nard actually let go of the microphone and let the other person hold it.
And the whole end of the interview without choice lmao.
Nardwuar should interview Nardwuar
King Coffey cracks me the fuck up
'Uhhh, how far is Tijuana from here?'
That was funny as hell for some reason
I wanted to give this an upvote, but it was at 666 upvotes and I didn't want to ruin it.
Jason Brown i do the opposite
This is performance art
coffey makes your breath smell
“What is free speech coming to, I ask you”
A troll trying to troll trolls
King Coffey seems like a genuinely nice guy. IMO, band's a shit-ton better than both Nirvana & Sonic Youth in both innovation and attitude. They were just too weird for the mainstream except for a couple of their tracks in the 90's.
Nirvana and Sonic Youth were trying hard to be cool wannabe punk rockers, Butthole Surfers make them look like little kids
The difference between Butthole Surfers and Sonic Youth is the Butthole Surfers knew when to play in key and when to make noise, Sonic Youth just made noise.
ACTUALLY best interview. - 1994 (2024). nah .. just best. iykyk
These guys are just great!
I was looking at something else while I listened to this and I thought Kurt had showed up! lol
He knows things that would put these guys in jail.
“Doot doodle doot doo!-
“Massive death”
Funniest interview ever! Thanks Nardwuar!
Doot Doola Doot Doo....
*Massive death*
Insightful, informative and educational.
they're so fucking likeable
3:29 If you're saying "World Record Company of Canada", that was a pressing company not a label. But when you paid them to press your vinyl, they inserted their logo on the album back large enough to look more like the label name.
My band Bomb's first album, the "To Elvis In Hell" LP, we only ever pressed 1000 copies, with World Records. It was on our own vanity label, "Boogadigga Records" (an onamonapia named after the sound of a beat Tony used in several songs...BoogadiggaBoogadiggaBoogadigga etc).
but World Records, the presser, put their logo on our artwork bigger than where we had our label name. So some online listing list the label of "To Elvis in Hell" as "World Records." (Sleazy company, but catchy name when you think about it.)
Top Nard interview. Mayhem!
Pinkus has always been solid
King Coffey is such a goober. I love him.
Who Was in My Room Last Night one of the best Butthole Surfers songs
i was hoping for Gibby and Paul to be interviewed
Massive death.
Just chewing some chocolate...
Where'd you get it?
Carry on...
doggy dropped it
@@eleanorfleming8137 ... Carry on
I like the butthole surfers but I WOULD NOT trip with those dudes I feel like they would put you in a bad trip on purpose and just laugh about it while you are losing your shit. 😅😅
No such thing as a bad trip
Thanks bro.
Damn, Nardwuar's been doing this for a long time!
Every once in a while i return here just to hear "Massive death" 🙃
"hey hey hey, I am in control here" bad assery here.
M A S S I V E D E A T H
probably ran off with our female drummer 3:18
"Just a hunch they tried everything else" 😒
jeff pinkus got coke eyes (sung to blue eyes)