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Watch footage from first live performance in eight years from Texan noise-rock legends Butthole Surfers

Last year the Butthole Surfers said they'd turned down "six-figure offers" to reunite

“Buzz Osborne said to me, ‘You’re both great bass players – but you’re just really weird, and I gotta go with normal.’ I said, ‘I get that’”: Butthole Surfers bassist Jeff Pinkus was too out there for the Melvins – now he’s switched to banjo

“Buzz Osborne said to me, ‘You’re both great bass players – but you’re just really weird, and I gotta go with normal.’ I said, ‘I get that’”: Butthole Surfers bassist Jeff Pinkus was too out there for the Melvins – now he’s switched to banjo

The veteran reflects on his lifelong pursuit of a Grand Funk Railroad tone, the gear he’s taking on his solo tour, and why you’re out of luck if you want the career he’s had

“It was alive and exciting and subversive.” Why Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones chose to work with Texan noise-punk weirdos Butthole Surfers, and what he found the two bands had in common

“It was alive and exciting and subversive.” Why Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones chose to work with Texan noise-punk weirdos Butthole Surfers, and what he found the two bands had in common

“I was expecting someone with mutton-chop sideburns and bellbottoms.” Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary on Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

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"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best

The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers

The surviving members of the Texan psychedelic art rock noise band recall the drugs, fires, fights, scabies, dumpster-diving, naked dancing and primal screaming of their early days

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The early work of the Butthole Surfers: grotesque, distended, acid-fried, phlegm-powered, hallucinatory and brilliant

The first three albums from Texan weirdos the Butthole Surfers have been remastered so that a whole new generation of fans be both disgusted and delighted

“Robin Trower’s guitar sound was the loudest I’ve ever heard. He had two Fender Twins, and he smoked both by the end of the night”: Buzz Osborne names the 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Melvins main man picks the jazz, funk and metal players who made him who he is today, recalls the time he heard Jeff Beck’s warm-up routine, and names the unsung ’70s hero who deserves more recognition: “Why aren’t more people talking about him? It makes no sense”

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"You may feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas": The Butthole Surfers' fabulously freaky early albums are being reissued

"You may feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas": The Butthole Surfers' fabulously freaky early albums are being reissued

If you've ever craved a fix of truly alternative rock, Gibby Haynes' noise-rock experimentalists had you covered from day one

Bob Dylan's Scottish mansion on the market for £3million

Bob Dylan's Scottish mansion on the market for £3million

Bob Dylan is selling his Scottish home for £3m – while the Butthole Surfers' Texas ranch is also up for grabs

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