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Anyone else listen to these guys?
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[edited by: lawman at 12:54 am (utc) on Jan. 29, 2006]
Memories... thanks, I'll add these guys to the playlist.
what new found interest you have in butthole surfers?
See post 1 of this thread.
;-)
Syzygy
Classic albums:
Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac [towerrecords.com]
This album has the classic Lady Sniff as well as Negro Observer. The entire album is seminal post-punk pre-grunge mind elevating stuff.
Locust Abortion Technician [amazon.com]
Sweat Loaf is a classic song, a total this is your mind on drugs kind of song. The whole album rocks.
This double album is essential,too [amazon.co.uk] as it contains The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave and other essential songs every man and woman should listen to at least once in their lifetime, if not cherish for the rest of their lives.
And if you like songs that a late 80s speed freak would likely adore (like Butthole Surfers), then definitely check out Big Black [towerrecords.com], from Chicago I think.
Added:
More Big Black [towerrecords.com].
[edited by: martinibuster at 12:18 am (utc) on Jan. 29, 2006]
martinibuster, we must have bumped into each other one of those nights at the ibeam. Don't forget cherub, the angel, roll back the hands of time...
pepper was released so that gibby could buy himself a house, he'd blown all his money on hotrods, nitro... that was in their 'let's sell out to capital records to get some cash before it's too late phase'...
<<< Ah, the name of a local group..? >>>
LOL... not quite, best underground band of the 80s, easily. But hard to tell from their records, they were a live band first and foremost.
check out butthole online radio, I won't link to it, they don't have much bandwidth, but it's easy to find. Lot's of streaming shows etc.
Is that true?Bio [vh1.com]
"..formed the Ashtray Baby Heads, later dubbed Nine Foot Worm Makes Home Food; they became Butthole Surfers only after a radio announcer mistakenly took the title of an early song to be the group's name."
Other groups used different names for other reasons. The band Tripping Daisy would often use various names of fishing lures (their favorite pastime is fishing) to keep the masses from overwhelming a small venue.
Back around 1990 Dead Can Dance booked a show in some obscure theater in San Francisco. Not too many people had heard of DCD, as this was a few years before they became well known.
Unfortunately for me the tickets sold out in a day. People in my crowd wanted to go see the show and were really surprised that they'd sold out so fast because, as I said, nobody had ever heard of Dead Can Dance, and they were way outside the mainstream.
Day of the show I heard that most of the audience bolted for the doors in a mass groan when the ethereal goth band finally came on because the Hippies had bought all the tickets thinking it was a secret Grateful Dead show.
lol
Sort of, part of it is true. They didn't get 'lots of media attention' though. They got lots of attention from a wide range of underground music fans, but not very much media attention. I think they just used different names then one day stopped, and that's the name they ended up stopping on. These guys weren't very calculating, they were just into playing and having a good time. When they had two drummers, that was good, and the dancers... and the fire... the fire was good. And the movies... those were good too. It was especially fun when they'd show a film of a live sex change operation and the sound system failed, most of the crowd freaked, that was funny. The whale movies were good too.
Paul Leary had I think one of the best guitar sounds out there for years.
<< hey also have their own bootleg album >>
It's a really bad mix, sound is completely wrong, I tried remixing it but it was too hard, not enough lows, weird mids, just isn't the way the band sounded. Also available on cd and record, or was.
