Pat Blashill
A really younger lineup of the Butthole Surfers puckers up for a 1984 promo shot.
Butthole Surfers, the San Antonio-born band that continues to reign as considered one of Texas’ weirdest musical exports, will reissue key recordings on vinyl by means of Matador Data.
The reissue collection will embrace materials recorded in the course of the Surfers’ “unusual, grotesque and in the end unparalleled first decade,” in accordance with Matador’s on-line announcement. The primary three within the collection will drop March 22 and embrace the albums Psychic… Powerless… One other Man’s Sac (1985) and Rembrandt Pussyhorse (1986) in addition to the dwell EP PCPPEP (1984).
All of the information had been remastered underneath the Surfers’ supervision, in accordance with Matador, which additionally launched a brand new video for the track “Butthole Surfer,” that includes photographs by Gail Butensky.
Vocalist Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary, each college students at Trinity College, shaped Butthole Surfers in 1981. They had been later joined by members together with drummer King Coffey, who’s remained a part of a core trio that also sometimes reunites for performances.
From their punk-inspired roots, the Surfers developed right into a key participant the ’80s and ’90s rock underground. The group was generally known as a lot for its acid-drenched recorded output because it was for chaotic dwell exhibits involving hearth, strobe lights and grotesque movie montages.
San Antonio Present author Invoice Baird chronicled the band’s San Antonio years in a 2022 cowl story.
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