butthole surfers - blind eye sees all

atsonicpark · 02.27.2008, 08:20 AM

Anyone seen this?

It's really great. Insane... Early Buttholes making tons of acid-fueled noise. And it all sounds really really good. The interviews with the band between the songs are not that interesting and should have been a special feature but they can be skipped pretty easily. But the music -- especially the guitar playing!!! -- is excellent...

Rob Instigator · 02.27.2008, 09:42 AM

I own the original VHS version. I love it so much. It is truly a great record of the buttholes at the height of their insanity
the interviews are fucking GREAT man. shit. They are insane! I love gibby's free association acid trip, they are all dosed on lsd in that, and I love when homeboy pukes and then gibby sucks some up with a turkey baster and eats it
and I love whn he pokes the steaming shit he just took outside in the snow

and I love the extras where they show gibby and paul leary barely making it on stage so wasted on drugs and they truy to play a song and it is pure collapse

and I love when the interviewer gets fed up with their insanity

and I love

an I love
i love

I love

the butthole surfers

batreleaser · 02.27.2008, 10:15 AM

rad, ill check it out

Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski · 02.27.2008, 02:29 PM

Great video. I love love love this. "Take me to that gringo town, so I can buy some of that heroin brown." Also that one song... I don't own it on an album "hey". Man that song is intense. The only thing that I really wish were on that dvd is Ta Da the shit queen.

Rob Instigator · 02.27.2008, 03:43 PM

Mexican caravan, I love that song

atsonicpark · 02.27.2008, 03:57 PM

i smoke elvis's toenails when I want to get high.

pbradley · 02.27.2008, 05:17 PM

The DVD of this actually got me into the Butthole Surfers because I saw a clip from "Cherub" and I was like what the fuck is this fucked up shit! Must have!

But now my copy is broken because one of my former roommate's friends are assholes or something.

uhler · 02.27.2008, 05:18 PM

i will have to check this out. i wonder if it's on netflix.

pbradley · 02.27.2008, 05:21 PM

Butt seriously, I can't get into any 90's BHS because I was introduced to them through it. Psychic Powerless to Locust Abortion Technician, that's all I really care for.

fugazifan · 02.27.2008, 05:44 PM

i have rembrant pussyhorse through undependant worm saloon.
i love all of them except for pighoud which has a few good songs but mostly throwaways. IWS is awesome though. but LAT and HTS are masterpeices
i neeed to see that video

Rob Instigator · 02.27.2008, 05:49 PM

I feel pretty much the same way fugazifan

I love love the pee pee the sailor EP, creamed corn from the socket of davis EP, double live, locust abortion, psychic powereless, hairway to steven, the widowermaker EP.
Pioghed is half suck, too much country influence, although there are some good songs
independent worm sallooon straight up RAWKS. I can put that on anytime.

electriclarryland is 3/4 good for me.

the last one was horrible

fugazifan · 02.27.2008, 06:01 PM

pighoud is worth it if only for revolution2
garry shandling
garry shandling
garry shandling
garry shandling
garry shandling
garry shandling
garry shandling

batreleaser · 02.27.2008, 06:38 PM

the butthole surfers were seriously a breath of fresh air when hardcore was big and everybody was so pissed about everything and being so serious and straight edged, and here these acid friend texans come out of nowhere takingbits of hardcore ledzep and chrome and throwing it in a blender with some shitjokes, blow, acid, heroin, and booze and wallah, welcome to the most fucked up party youll ever come too. they to me are to underground rock what parliament or somethin was to funk. amazing band. and this isnt saying anything against hardcore, just saying something in favor of the buttholes!

Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski · 02.27.2008, 07:36 PM

You can get it on Netflix. More essentially, you should read their section in Michael Azzerod's OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE.

Butthole Surfers fucking rule, people!

batreleaser · 02.27.2008, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski

You can get it on Netflix. More essentially, you should read their section in Michael Azzerod's OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE.

Butthole Surfers fucking rule, people!

yeah theyre section is my favorite in the book, with black flag and sonic youth tied for second

dazedcola · 02.27.2008, 09:38 PM

On the topic of the Butthole Surfers could someone reccomend/post some butthole surfer shows from the 80s? The crazier the better !!!!

atsonicpark · 02.27.2008, 10:25 PM

Yeah I saw it through netflix.

My favorite buttholes is hairway to steven followed closely by independant worm saloon, which may be one of the best guitar records ever (check out "dust devil"). But really, they all have something good on them.

batreleaser · 02.27.2008, 11:38 PM

hairway to steven tied with locust... for me

does anyone else find it hilarious that gibby was a fraternity president? i cant even imagine the type of hell that he put those pledges through!

Chris Lawrence · 02.28.2008, 12:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Anyone seen this?

It's really great. Insane... Early Buttholes making tons of acid-fueled noise. And it all sounds really really good. The interviews with the band between the songs are not that interesting and should have been a special feature but they can be skipped pretty easily. But the music -- especially the guitar playing!!! -- is excellent...

For all the things you hate, I'm glad you have the common sense to love this.

This used to be EXTREMELY rare, before it was thankfully re-issued on DVD a few years back. I had a generated VHS dub but it literally changed my life the first time I saw it, I was a big Butthole Surfers fan (after the release of Independent Worm Saloon, which I'll also agree is an incredible guitar record) and there was practically NO readily available footage (literally pictures or video) of their 80s existance, which fascinated me as much as those records haunted me -- finally seeing the band actually PLAYING these songs, on Blind Eye Sees All, was one of those really monumental moments in my life as a music fan, and particularly a Butthole Surfers fan. It's great that it's out on DVD.

That said, the "interview" segments work beautifully interstitially and obviously as an original "VHS" release, there were no 'bonus features'... though I guess there was that additional EARLIER footage after the credits on the original VHS, which is an (extended!) easter egg on the DVD.

Paul Leary is one of my all-time top 3 guitar influences. Hell, I even have a Butthole Surfers tab site: http://members.shaw.ca/silvercircle/1401/

Rob Instigator · 02.28.2008, 09:53 AM

I too rocked the VHS for the longest. when I finally got my hands on a copy I freaked the fuck OUT!

best music video from the 80's EVER

02.27.2008, 08:20 AM	#1
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Anyone seen this? It's really great. Insane... Early Buttholes making tons of acid-fueled noise. And it all sounds really really good. The interviews with the band between the songs are not that interesting and should have been a special feature but they can be skipped pretty easily. But the music -- especially the guitar playing!!! -- is excellent... __________________
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02.27.2008, 09:42 AM	#2
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	I own the original VHS version. I love it so much. It is truly a great record of the buttholes at the height of their insanity the interviews are fucking GREAT man. shit. They are insane! I love gibby's free association acid trip, they are all dosed on lsd in that, and I love when homeboy pukes and then gibby sucks some up with a turkey baster and eats it and I love whn he pokes the steaming shit he just took outside in the snow and I love the extras where they show gibby and paul leary barely making it on stage so wasted on drugs and they truy to play a song and it is pure collapse and I love when the interviewer gets fed up with their insanity and I love an I love i love I love the butthole surfers __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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02.27.2008, 10:15 AM	#3
batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	rad, ill check it out __________________ listen to pink reason
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02.27.2008, 02:29 PM	#4
Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski children of satan Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Japan Posts: 345	Great video. I love love love this. "Take me to that gringo town, so I can buy some of that heroin brown." Also that one song... I don't own it on an album "hey". Man that song is intense. The only thing that I really wish were on that dvd is Ta Da the shit queen.
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02.27.2008, 03:43 PM	#5
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	Mexican caravan, I love that song __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	i smoke elvis's toenails when I want to get high. __________________
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02.27.2008, 05:17 PM	#7
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	The DVD of this actually got me into the Butthole Surfers because I saw a clip from "Cherub" and I was like what the fuck is this fucked up shit! Must have! But now my copy is broken because one of my former roommate's friends are assholes or something.
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02.27.2008, 05:18 PM	#8
uhler invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 3,615	i will have to check this out. i wonder if it's on netflix.
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02.27.2008, 05:21 PM	#9
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Butt seriously, I can't get into any 90's BHS because I was introduced to them through it. Psychic Powerless to Locust Abortion Technician, that's all I really care for.
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02.27.2008, 05:44 PM	#10
fugazifan invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,816	i have rembrant pussyhorse through undependant worm saloon. i love all of them except for pighoud which has a few good songs but mostly throwaways. IWS is awesome though. but LAT and HTS are masterpeices i neeed to see that video __________________ If there's been a way to build it, There'll be a way to destroy it, Things are not that out of control www.myspace.com/dellilahtheband www.myspace.com/lecirquedesvampiresmusic
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02.27.2008, 05:49 PM	#11
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	I feel pretty much the same way fugazifan I love love the pee pee the sailor EP, creamed corn from the socket of davis EP, double live, locust abortion, psychic powereless, hairway to steven, the widowermaker EP. Pioghed is half suck, too much country influence, although there are some good songs independent worm sallooon straight up RAWKS. I can put that on anytime. electriclarryland is 3/4 good for me. the last one was horrible __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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02.27.2008, 06:01 PM	#12
fugazifan invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,816	pighoud is worth it if only for revolution2 garry shandling garry shandling garry shandling garry shandling garry shandling garry shandling garry shandling __________________ If there's been a way to build it, There'll be a way to destroy it, Things are not that out of control www.myspace.com/dellilahtheband www.myspace.com/lecirquedesvampiresmusic
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02.27.2008, 06:38 PM	#13
batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	the butthole surfers were seriously a breath of fresh air when hardcore was big and everybody was so pissed about everything and being so serious and straight edged, and here these acid friend texans come out of nowhere takingbits of hardcore ledzep and chrome and throwing it in a blender with some shitjokes, blow, acid, heroin, and booze and wallah, welcome to the most fucked up party youll ever come too. they to me are to underground rock what parliament or somethin was to funk. amazing band. and this isnt saying anything against hardcore, just saying something in favor of the buttholes! __________________ listen to pink reason
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02.27.2008, 07:36 PM	#14
Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski children of satan Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Japan Posts: 345	You can get it on Netflix. More essentially, you should read their section in Michael Azzerod's OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE. Butthole Surfers fucking rule, people!
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02.27.2008, 09:38 PM	#16
dazedcola the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,075	On the topic of the Butthole Surfers could someone reccomend/post some butthole surfer shows from the 80s? The crazier the better !!!! __________________ "I said I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time Ill give it right back one of these days If I dont meet you no more in this world then uh Ill meet ya on the next one And dont be late " -Jimi Hendrix ...And me just another dream theory, lost inside your eye "when my mind's uncertain my body decides what it will do to get through the hell of the night as I trip on the ocean that leads through your eyes well my eyes can't wait til they finally see through you"
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02.27.2008, 10:25 PM	#17
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Yeah I saw it through netflix. My favorite buttholes is hairway to steven followed closely by independant worm saloon, which may be one of the best guitar records ever (check out "dust devil"). But really, they all have something good on them. __________________
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02.27.2008, 11:38 PM	#18
batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	hairway to steven tied with locust... for me does anyone else find it hilarious that gibby was a fraternity president? i cant even imagine the type of hell that he put those pledges through! __________________ listen to pink reason
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02.28.2008, 09:53 AM	#20
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	I too rocked the VHS for the longest. when I finally got my hands on a copy I freaked the fuck OUT! best music video from the 80's EVER __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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