He would go out to the fields in the middle of the night and sometimes the neighbours would call the police on him. We had a bass player living with us for a while who also played tuba.
There was a pen which had a bunch of cows in it, so we bought a tape recorder so we could record the cows. That was the only neighbour we really had any interaction with. We always had egg plant and peppers to eat. Eventually he started bringing us vegetables to eat, so that was really nice. We used to try to sneak into his garden and pick up the vegetables that he had left on the ground. Our closest neighbour was a retired air force guy who had a garden. I don’t know, the houses were kinda spaced out. There were two bedrooms between the five of us. It was interesting just having a place of our own, and a kitchen and a bathroom of our own. King would spend his time in the yard with a pair of scissors, trying to cut the grass enough to keep the landlord happy. It would be a four-hour walk to Athens, Georgia if we wanted to get food and a four-hour walk back. We were then out in Winterville, Georgia, which was a town of about 20 people and we were without transportation.
The smoke that came out the back of it was horrendous. We were buying oil by the multiple crate load. It required massive amounts of oil to be put into it, so we’d have to stop every 20 minutes to put in oil. We had a van that we had bought in Queens, New York that had a six cylinder engine that ran on four of the six cylinders. Well, we didn’t have transportation for a while. WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE DAY LIKE IN THAT HOUSE? PRIOR TO RENTING THAT HOUSE YOU WERE BASICALLY ALL HOMELESS, LIVING ON THE ROAD AND TOURING WITH THE BAND. That’s what we had to make an album with. We bought two microphones, so we had a tape machine and two microphones. It was tube electronics and it had the pre amps built in. We bought a one-inch, analogue, Ampex tape machine. Locust was recorded in our house in Winterville, Georgia. The album before and the album after were both made in recording studios. It was something that we didn’t think out while we were doing it, we just kinda turned on the mic, recorded stuff and released an album. Well, it’s probably the worst sounding of our records, but it’s also the one that many people choose as their favourite. HI PAUL! HOW DO YOU THINK LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN STANDS UP TO THE OTHER STUDIO ALBUMS YOU RECORDED?
Kerrang! caught up with Leary to delve into his hazy memories of the band’s wildest days and to ask him about the release.īutthole Surfers Pandora’s Music Box 1985 He is, however, still a member of Butthole Surfers. He creates music in his home studio, produces for others, looks after his cat and watches Star Trek. These days Paul Leary lives a much quieter existence in comparison.
All of these were adorned with the effects laden vocals of frontman Gibby Haynes, and the expert guitar mangling of fellow founder Paul Leary. The classic spoken word intro of its opening Black Sabbath cover, Sweat Loaf, was alone enough to assure its place in history, but the mind-bending ride would wind its way into many unexpected directions from there relentless, pre-Ministry industrial sounds, the same song played twice (at different speeds) and samples of radio public phone ins. In 1987 they released what, for many, would be their greatest album, the recently re-released Locust Abortion Technician. It was easy to assume they might be the most drug-fucked band around, and stories of their infamous (although often actually alcohol-fuelled) behaviour assisted this myth. Their recordings were similarly off-kilter deeply psychedelic and nihilistic, to a point that suggested their minds were seriously unhinged. At times backed by a barrage of two drummers, smoke machines, strobe lights and disturbing videos of things like penis reconstruction and dolphin vivisection displayed on a screen behind them, their equally warped music was a sideways take of the wildest punk and heavy rock. In their early days, Nirvana even opened for them, and Kurt was quick to return the favour following the overwhelming success of his own band.īutthole Surfers live shows were an audiovisual assault from which few emerged unscathed. Kurt Cobain wore their T‑shirts and met his future wife at one of their shows. As precursors to grunge, their impact was legendary. Over three and a half decades since they formed, Texas freaks Butthole Surfers remain one of the most exciting, fucked up and infamous of all guitar bands.
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