Butthole Surfers (Scott & Gary Show 1984) [07]. Cherub 11.12.22 1134am an excellent performance, i concur..... but the greatest band in the world? depends how yer fixed, i suppose. i would say in it's early days - i missed out there - i was late to the buttholes(hahahahahahah ) - circa 1989/90... which means i had missed out on the greater part of the band when it was amusing and angrier. i like this performance as there is a bit of anger tempered within the performance... the type of angst kurdt and co indulged with when nirvana trashed sets and people. it's that aspect i like about rock n roll or punk as they deem it. the peyote kids, i suppose. the hispanic alfalfa and co of little rascals fame? dunno how whigged out the lads and lass were in the early days. the beauty of this noise is that they can cut it live re: all the reverb and pedals used to garner those butthole sounding..............................eeeeeeerr sounds. if you got any gig now featuring pigsx7 or housewives or girlsweat you will see there's a dude fiddling about with a board replete with pedals and mix desk etc - seems the buttholes introduced that aspect of band configuration into the overall texture of music making. i am wondering why these prats do waffle on about music they have no interest in let alone listen to... the point of the game was to indulge with aspects of contemporary and/or antiquated culture you, yourself, were interested in. hence the fact you get bands like the butthole surfers and the fall (yaaaaawn) which melds a myriad aspects of nonsense and serious topics to produce fucked up soundscapes, i suppose... music to make noise to.
Paul Leary can do these whacked out noise things, and just when you think "he's too fried to play" he plays something supertight. Catches me off guard everytime!
@@gorelordzskate-racing-videos That green pedal on top of his amp is probably like a tube screamer and then there's some multi-effect rack unit as well... I think that amp also has a built-in tremolo... Paul is the master of feedback
Leary has been active on FB recently, and you can learn a lil bit about his setups from reading the comments on his posts. I found out he still uses MapQuest, too.
The fact that these guys aren't in the rock n roll HOF is proof that the HOF is irrelevant. These guys set the stage for post(rock, punk, metal) everything. Not sure if they were the 1st, but they gave us a hell of a blueprint. Dissonance and a great build up.
Yeah, living in Texas I had the pleasure of seeing them many times. In fact the first show I ever went to was Dead Kennedys, Butthole Surfers, Really Red and Doomsday Massacre. In like 82ish. I think I was 14. They were just one of many bands that came to inform how I was to be as I got older.
@@chadwicklovell2412that's a hell of a first show, was there ever a show that topped that? IDK the last two bands I'm guessing they were local? But DK and the BHS have been my favorites for a long time. I wish I could have seen them, when they played in Chicago back in 2000 something I was too broke to make it down there. I was born too late in 87 but I don't belong in todays society, i fucking hate it. At least I've seen MDC a couple times, Texas bands are the best, so many good ones.
King Coffey and Theresa Nervosa have both said they never dropped before they played, supposedly. Too hard to keep it together. Gibby and Leary are three sheets to the wind but they seem very much "in their element", whereas the poor bassist (is that Terrence Smart?) is obviously not as much of a psychonaut and has several pie-eyed "Can't stop here, this is bat country!" moments during the show if you watch him. I love the Surfers and there's no way in HELL I'd eat acid in the vicinity of Paul Leary or Gibby Haynes, hahah.
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