The core ’80s lineup of the Butthole Surfers — Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor — embarks on its first extensive North American tour in 20 years tonight with an opening-night concert in Houston.
With Pinkus and Taylor back in the lineup together for the first time since 1989, the reunited band got its freak on with some U.S. and European dates last summer, but the 21-date fall trek — which wraps with a pair of Halloween shows in Dallas and Austin, Texas, with Peaches — marks its first extensive U.S. outing since the late-’80s.
An announcement of the tour on the band’s MySpace warns fans to expect vintage Butthole Surfers’ material at these concerts, given the lineup: “Um, so if you want to see the band play ‘Pepper,’ this is not the tour for you.”
Additionally, the group — whose name was famously sanitized as the B.H. Surfers during its early-to-mid-’90s Lollapalooza stint and improbable commercial breakthrough — will be joined at its three California dates by the equally weird Melvins.
Butthole Surfers tour dates:
Sept. 24: House of Blues, Houston, TX
Sept. 25: House of Blues, New Orleans, LA
Sept. 26: Masquerade, Atlanta, GA
Sept. 28: Sonar, Baltimore, MD
Sept. 29: Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 30: Paradise, Boston, MA
Oct. 1: Pop Montreal, Montreal, QC
Oct. 2: Phoenix, Toronto, ON
Oct. 3: Royal Oak, Detroit, MI
Oct. 5: Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
Oct. 6: Barrymore Theatre, Madison, WI
Oct. 7: Metro, Chicago, IL
Oct. 9: Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
Oct. 10: Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
Oct. 12: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
Oct. 13: Showbox, Seattle, WA
Oct. 14: Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
Oct. 16: Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
Oct. 17: Canes, San Diego, CA
Oct. 18: Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 30: Granada Theatre, Dallas, TX
Oct. 31: Stubb’s, Austin, TX
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
Not one state close to Memphis. Fuckers.
The article is from 2009….
I wonder if they’re going down to Florida?
The date on this article is 2009….
I saw this lineup at The Meridian in Houston back in 2008.
Ppfffffttt.
Who’s going from Galveston… ?