Gibby Haynes & His Problem

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GIBBY HAYNES & HIS PROBLEM

Haynes - named by SPIN magazine as one of the 50 greatest frontmen of all time!!

Brash 6ft 5 singer Gibby Haynes, who as anarchic and enigmatic frontman for the Butthole Surfers created a dazzling and unsettling psychedelia meets the avant-garde and punk rock template that's unmatched to this day, has finished work on a solo album 'Gibby Haynes & His Problem,' out now on Surfdog Records.

The album collects 11 new Haynes songs performed by a coterie of like-minded Texas music iconoclasts: His Problem bandmates guitarist Kyle Ellison, drummer Shandon Sahm (the late Doug Sahm's son) and bassist Nathan Calhoun plus keyboard legend Augie Meyers and Hayne's Butthole Surfers bandmate Paul Leary, who mixed half the tracks and guests on keyboard.

From opener "Kaiser" to the last of the 11 songs, "Redneck Sex," the album displays Hayne's provocative, absurdist lyrics, his famous "Gibbytronix" bullhorn voice manipulator and an acid-drenched heaping dose of heavy duty rock and roll.

'Gibby Haynes & His Problem' also features art and packaging by Haynes, who created most of the visuals and album covers for the Butthole Surfers' recordings.

Beginning in the early 1980's with a string of albums and EPs and literally incendiary live shows that are the stuff of legends (Haynes was wont to spark a flaming pyre of lighter fluid using upturned cymbals), Texas' Butthole Surfers promulgated a sound that was "jagged, brutal, loud and nasty", according to Michael Azerrad in his chapter on the band in 2001's "Our Band Could Be Your Life". As Azerrad wrote, their shows were "depraved acid hallucinations of transgression and horrors that were often physically dangerous to band and audience alike."

In the 1990s, the Butthole Surfers - startlingly - broke through to the mainstream with a mainstage slot on the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991, and in the wake of Nirvana, a pair of radio hits mid-decade alongside other unlikely Southwestern alt-rock chart compadres Meat Puppets and Flaming Lips.

Haynes has recently moved back to New York's Lower East Side. After a mythical stint there in the mid-1980s, Haynes says it's a neighborhood he hardly recognizes.

Surfdog also released a 12" remix single of 'Redneck Sex' by club queen Peaches! Out Now!!

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