But most of the answers were an odd redneck sort of glossolalia, somewhere between gibberish, drunken-speak, off-center rhetorical questions, and the occasional lucid response. I asked all the usual questions that a curious fan would want to know.
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It was an odd phone exchange, since he and fellow Buttholes were somewhere on the road.
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I also remember interviewing frontman and provocateur Gibby Haynes, a few days before said show. But that seemed enough to blow out a fuse and flood the limited confines of the auditorium with a thick enough haze that you couldn’t see the person next to you. I can’t recall how much of all that made it into the Ackerman show, other than the strobes and fog. And they took up a lot of space and resources to do it. I bring all this up, because Butthole Surfers (or B.H Surfers, which was the mainstream media’s safe name), used to put on a pretty wild show – a wall of strobe lights, crazy amounts of fog, a nude stripper/dancer, costumes, stage dives, fake blood, and a lot of other things that still seem a bit over the top, even by today’s standards.
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There was also a retractable movie screen above it. On the other, was a curtained stage, big enough to house a small act, but probably better suited to a minimal stage production or university choir. The college radio station KLA was located at one end, beneath a projection booth. They were scheduled to perform in Ackerman Ballroom, which was like an extremely dated open-floor high school auditorium … but bigger … and deeper.
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My first proper experience with Texas troublemakers Butthole Surfers was back in 1989, when the San Antonio-based experimental psychedelic noise outfit came to UCLA.