Butthole Surfers Members: Mark Kramer, Josh Klinghoffer, Teresa Taylor, Gibby Haynes, Kathleen Lynch, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey

Chapters: Mark Kramer, Josh Klinghoffer, Teresa Taylor, Gibby Haynes, Kathleen Lynch, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mark Kramer, known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, performer, record producer and founder of the NY record label Shimmy-Disc. He was a member of such diverse musical entities as Butthole Surfers, Shockabilly, B.A.L.L., Bongwater, Ween, Half Japanese, The Fugs (1984 reunion tour), and Dogbowl & Kramer, and he also performed regularly with John Zorn and other improvising musicians of New York City's so-called "downtown scene" of the 1980s. His most notable work as a producer has been with bands such as Galaxie 500 (whose entire oeuvre he produced), Low (whom he discovered and produced), Half Japanese, White Zombie, GWAR, King Missile, The Tinklers, Alice Donut, Danielson Famile, Will Oldham's Palace Songs, Daniel Johnston, and the hit single for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Urge Overkill's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." With Eugene Chadbourne and David Licht, his band Shockabilly toured non-stop from 1982 until 1985. Far ahead of their time, the pressures of living on the road overcame the band, and personal differences between Kramer and Chadbourne soon escalated which caused the band to dissolve while on a US tour early in 1985, that included a brief tour of Texas with the then unknown Butthole Surfers. Forging a close friendship with co-founding Buttholes Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary, Kramer was nearby when their previous bassist took his tuba and walked off their tour midstream. Kramer bought a Hofner Beatle bass and replaced him with one rehearsal. He soon found himself on the Buttholes debut European tour in 1985, which is noted in the underground history books as one ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=285575 View Less