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Butthole Surfers
Also Playing: Psychic Ills
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Tue Oct 6
7:30 pm
Butthole Surfers and Psychic Ills at Barrymore Theatre
A nearly unbroken streak of priceless gibberish album titles is about all that's consistent about the Butthole Surfers, who spewed a vicious cosmic tar pit of vocal freakery and sludgy, screechy guitar work from Texas in the early '80s. But like an acid-battered parallel to Ministry, vocalist Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary used a swirl of vengeful sonics to make a lot of different sounds, from metal to noise-rock to goofy sample collages, melt down into something new. Haynes, Leary, and the rest of the band's '80s lineup recently pulled back together for a reunion tour. This show might not prove as notoriously fucked-up as Surfers concerts of old, but the music remains monumentally twisted in hindsight. For a chance to win a pair of tickets to this show, email rsvpmadison@avclub.com with "Butthole Surfers" in the subject line.
Barrymore Theatre 2090 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI
A nearly unbroken streak of priceless gibberish album titles is about all that's consistent about the Butthole Surfers, who spewed a vicious cosmic tar pit of vocal freakery and sludgy, screechy guitar work from Texas in the early '80s. But like an acid-battered parallel to Ministry, vocalist Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary used a swirl of vengeful sonics to make a lot of different sounds, from metal to noise-rock to goofy sample collages, melt down into something new. Haynes, Leary, and the rest of the band's '80s lineup recently pulled back together for a reunion tour. This show might not prove as notoriously fucked-up as Surfers concerts of old, but the music remains monumentally twisted in hindsight. For a chance to win a pair of tickets to this show, email rsvpmadison@avclub.com with "Butthole Surfers" in the subject line.
Updated 10/06/2009
