Butthole Surfers - Live London 1989 HD

[@ScottishTeeVee]

1 of almost 2000 music videos on this channel, all taken from my videotape collection, click on the following link to see more www.youtube.com/@ScottishTeeVee/videos and scroll down for a few hours to see all of my videos😆

[@tomyoung6639]

Honestly, this made me smile really big today. That gets harder to come by these days. Thanks for sharing!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

So glad you enjoyed this Tom and than you for taking the time to comment@@tomyoung6639

[@november31]

im 45 been listening 2u guyz for bout 30yrs thnx for the trips n goodtimez

[@curtis866]

God I love these guys. Best band in the world

[@morganfitzp]

The first song that the Buttholes “play” is a recording of the late Alemayehu Eshete singing “Love Is Love,” likely from the Africa Dances compilation LP released in 1973. Ironically, the MTV host titled it “Nigerian Elvis,” and Eshete was in fact known as the Ethiopian Elvis. The Buttholes pulled a similar stunt in 1987 with the song called “Kunitz” on their Locust Abortion Technician LP, ripped directly from a cassette they heard at a Thai restaurant.

[@gargantuk]

Except the song was called 'Kuntz'. Good, but no ceegar! I had wondered about this for ages - this amazing Butthole Surfers clip was on MTV Europe in 1990 and showed them playing 'Revolution', 'Lonesome Bulldog' from the forthcoming 'Pioughd' LP and the curiously excellent, 'Nigerian Elvis' which is actually 'Feqer Feqer New' by Alemayehu Eshete, indeed titled 'Love is Love' from the 1973 Africa Dances LP as @morganfitzp mentions above. Now then....the 'Ethiopiques' series of comps didn't appear until the later 90s so the Buttholes either had a copy of 73 LP or picked up a cd reissue that came out in 1988, which is probably more likely. They obviously found it suitably amusing to sing/play over the top....and yes, as @morganfitzp correctly states, similar amusements had appeared with them sonically manipulating a song by a Thai artist (the name and original track title have been revealed before on forum threads) as the chorus sounded like the word c***, thus the excellent and sinister track 'Kuntz' on Locust Abortion Technician. Nerdy fact fans around the world will be thrilled by these sleuthing developments

[@gargantuk]

​@baiseduezcke2295 You are very welcome. Being a total music trivia nerd, I revel in stuff like this and am always pleased if it amuses somebody else for two minutes.....thankyou!!! 😂

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Best jazz band ever

[@OldSethOnetooth]

Hearing Locust Abortion Technician when it came out was an inspiration to me during my immpresionable and vulnerable teenage years to continue making questionable life choices.

[@Buffalohump77]

Better to regret what you have done... than what you haven't done.

[@SubPablum]

I have seen this before butt poorer quality and incomplete so I am thrilled with this great archiving job. Thank you, ScottishTeeVee!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting Robert🙂

[@in3rcia218]

this channel is one of a kind channel, thanks for all this wonderful material Scottish

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Glad you found and enjoy it

[@wyntonexisting]

Best version of Lonesome Bulldog, absolute classic.

[@sorearm]

Holy shit this is gold, been a fan of the buttholes since the 90s too, these are absolute loon merchants

[@xray323]

So glad you posted this I only saw the nigerian elvis song before.

[@barryls]

Absolutely amazing. Thanks! 👍

[@terrypussypower]

I saw the Buttholes twice in 1988…the first one in the Mean Fiddler on Feb 11th, and then at the Brixton Academy on Sept. 23rd! And twice in ‘89….at London’s Subterania and 3 days later at Reading Festival! I bootlegged the 4 of them, but the best one was the Mean Fiddler!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

I hope you still have the tapes

[@terrypussypower]

@@ScottishTeeVee Sure do! I’ve got hundreds of them from all these gigs I went to in the 80’s! Mostly “underground” and post punk bands. Just audio bootlegs, no videos, for my own listening pleasure….and the fun of getting away with it. A lot more dangerous back then than it is today. Could easily get a kicking if the bouncers caught you! Keep meaning to upload them before I drop dead and they all end up in a skip!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

@@terrypussypower Oh yeah dangerous times. I hope you have arranged for the tapes to be saved incase anything happens to you? I only put these videos on YT, because I'm at the age where friends are passing faster than ever and if I go, my kids would dump all the videotapes, so I thought I better share them before I go😆

[@gargantuk]

​@terrypussypower Hey - were you part of the Acid Techno 'Tehnical Support' crew in Prague in the mid to late 90s?

[@RKStrikerJK5]

Dan Quayle jokes. Always fresh. :p

[@christophersmay4508]

Thank you for posting this!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching and commenting Christopher

[@bababooey7315]

been waiting for this tape forever!!!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting

[@terrypussypower]

5:42 The “Cleaver Pocket”?? I was sure Gibby was gibbering his usual load of acid-inspired gibberish at this bit….Pants designed by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver with a “pocket” in front to hold his “man handle”??? Obviously nonsense….right? Only it’s true! Look it up online! It’s hilarious!

[@goldenhog]

i'm in love with a new lifestyle

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@UnauthorisedService]

This is the first time Ive checked em out I think, even though Im aware they are quite an influence on some 90s “bands” I was/am into. Anyway checked out some more live stuff now .. woof great psychedelic punk ? 👍

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting

[@Malpractice2003]

This vídeo is GOLD! 😃

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Well I am glad you found it and enjoyed it

[@joshbeer414]

This is awesome

[@FreeDanielLarson2025]

Every lonesome bulldog eventually starves thereselves to death

[@lancashirebomber9744]

i love you

[@Samantabhadra]

Gibbys the original hawk tuah gurl

[@axehound3718]

The media is the message.

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

Any Al jourgensen / MINISTRY interviews and/or footage? 80's or 90's?

[@nic-ci_66-77]

Texas bands..

[@ACABSTUDIOS]

garry shandling died shortly after listening to this

[@MrOctober44]

The interviewer might be the most annoying person ever. Bravo.

[@Composingstick]

“Turned to Transvavestisism.” Hysterical!

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

👍

[@andrew182matches]

Goddamn this is so bad. And obviously it's also kickass at the same time.

[@axehound3718]

Psych out man