Butth*** Surfers Signed NOTHING… Then SUED for Everything

ICYMI I did a video on the band’s latest release After the Astronaut that was shelved in the late 90s due to label issues here https://youtu.be/0Kwfi24ZSiE?si=YMmeiM_1KcD7ODg-

Gibby Haynes is Jewish. Case closed.

im going to have to side with the record company on this one, dont artists hire lawyers to look over contracts before they sign?

I’m sure you would have gotten a speech the year before about never going corporate. 🙄

If the Butts and Touch&Go would have updated to 80/20 this wouldn’t be horrible for all parties. Both parties are legit as hell btw

Pe Pe the sailor and Locust Abortion Technician are their best albums.
If you know you know.

The band got greedy and because of that they sacrificed any chance they had at really breaking through in the industry. They released their biggest hit album and then wasted the rest of the decade focused on money instead of trying to keep that spark of creativity alive n' running with it.

I have to side with the band here. if its a handshake deal with no agreement on time limit then eather party can renegotiate at anytime there's changes in the the overall agreements values. because of a hite the band had they changed the volume of sales drastically

Thank you Sidd

You get what you negotiate

I'm with the band. At some point the label needs to understand who made the art. Labels like Victory are a perfect example as to why labels shouldn't be given such control over an artist's IP.

The band wanted an 80/20 split? What? The 50/50 split was already far more generous than the pennies on the dollar rate that major label bands usually made from record sales.

It makes it seem like Butthole Surfers just used the underground DIY community as a convenient stepping stone. As soon as alternative music was mass marketable, the band tried their absolute hardest to sell out as hard as humanly possible. The band had nowhere else to go after their mainstream success dried up, cuz they'd already burned bridges so hard with the underground scene. The band gambled everything on the assumption that they'd have staying power as a mainstream rock band. Delusional.

Love the Surfers and TnG (I’m wearing my TnG shirt right now) I can’t pick a side but I will say it was pretty fucked up of Corey to say that to Paul.

That's dirty af. The Butthole Surfers only EXISTED because Touch n' Go. They would have spun off on their own crazy little orbits if they hadn't sold those records, that's how any of us knew who they were. Yeah, it was legal, but it was sorry. The Touch n' Go stuff is the only stuff worth a shit anyway.