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Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse (Standard Black Vinyl Vinyl)
Matador Records reissue key catalogue titles by legendary Texas band, The Butthole Surfers, including classic albums and EPs recorded during the band’s strange, grotesque, and ultimately unparalleled first decade.
All of the records have been remastered under supervision from the group.
4AD present remastered audio of the first three releases in the series - ‘PCPPEP’, ‘Psychic…. Powerless…. Another Man’s Sac’ and ‘Rembrandt Pussyhorse’. Further titles will follow in Autumn.
The Butthole Surfers were formed in 1981 by vocalist Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary. Drummer King Coffey joined in 1983.
Together, they have remained the band’s three constant members across various recording sessions and touring incarnations.
Butthole Surfers formed at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas during the late 1970s, when students Gibson "Gibby" Haynes and Paul Leary Walthall (later just Paul Leary) met for the first time. Though it was their overall strangeness and shared taste in non-mainstream music that caused them to become friends, both appeared to be headed for very conventional careers. Haynes, as captain of Trinity's basketball team, as well as the school's "Accountant of the Year", soon graduated to a position with a respected Texas accounting firm, while Leary remained in school working on his MBA degree.
The band did not begin as Butthole Surfers, although they did have a song of that title, possibly an early version of 1984's "Butthole Surfer". This changed at their first paid concert, when an announcer forgot what the band was called and used the song title for the group's name. They decided to keep the moniker, and have largely been billed as such ever since.
