Lucky.

One of my greatest regrets is not having been old enough to see them in their prime. I started listening to them intensely around 11 when a local stoner gave me cassette dubs of Brown Reason to Live, Locust Abortion Technician and Psychic.. Powerless... Another Man's Sac, but by the time I was old enough to even have a chance at going to a show they had been terrible for years.

The guy who gave me the tapes actually followed them on tour like a Deadhead during the Hairway to Steven tour, he was REALLY in to the Butthole Surfers. Giving me those tapes was one of the best favors anyone ever did for me.

I mean in terms of long term positive effects on my life. Because listening to a lot of prime Butthole Surfers in middle school made me a better person.

This is the Butthole Surfers that someone was trying to tell me was great in concert and had comparable light shows to Hawkwind; told me in 1999 and I only had heard one studio album from 1992 or 3.

Also they have a blue oyster cult symbol iggy on a piece of equipment. That means something, man.

I missed the original living room, but I actually played closing night at the second Living Room.

It was as underwhelming as it sounds.

the golden days for me were when the original Living Room, the original Lupo's and The Rocket/Babyhead were all going

Six finger satellite w/ Smashing Pumpkins at the Rocket (or babyhead I can't remember which name it had then) I think may be my #1 show ever.

Mine's probably a toss up between Sun City Girls playing for 3 hours at The Knitting Factory in NYC to an audience full of drunks who stumbled in from the poetry slam downstairs and didn't know what they were seeing, Nik Turner at Dusk in Providence a few years ago (as much because I hung out with him for about an hour before the show as for the show itself), or Spinal Tap at Great Woods in 1993.


Honorable mentions are Scratch Acid reunion tour, Link Wray on the Shadowman tour and Burt Jansch on his last solo tour.

Oh, and the Ricky Powell surprise DJ set at some bar in Boston in 2005 or 2006 was great, too.

That punk shit belongs on fucking mars.

hmmm BUT you . . . just posted punk . . . ?

yeah, that video fuckin delivers, Shah or no Shah