Picciotto, Janney and Canty formed One Last Wish with Embrace alumnus, guitarist Michael Hampton . They recorded one studio album, entitled 1986 , which was released in 1999 due to the band breaking up after mixing was finished.
The compilation album The Hammer Party , combining Lungs and Bulldozer , was also released through Homestead Records in 1986, but later that year Big Black had a falling out with the label and its distributor, Dutch East India Trading. According to Albini, Dutch East India’s accounting practices were “always…
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Signing to Enigma’s Restless Records division, Wipers released 1986’s Land of the Lost , featuring the song “Let Me Know”, used in the film River’s Edge . It was followed by Follow Blind (1987) and The Circle (1988). All three records were recorded in Sage’s studio 421 Sound .
In late 1984, following the recording of the Racer-X EP, Pezzati amicably left the band due to his increasingly demanding job, the need to devote time to his fiancée, and the increasing popularity and busy schedule of Naked Raygun, of which he was still a member. Durango, meanwhile, opted to…
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Rites of Spring was the band’s first album. Its twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February 1985, produced by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat and Michael Hampton of The Faith and SOA. It was released on vinyl in June of that year as Dischord Records…
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Davidson (who had previously recorded with the Sage-produced Rancid Vat in 1985) played bass on The Jesus and Mary Chain ‘s 1993 EP Sound of Speed .
Soon after the release of Butthole Surfers , the band recruited a second drummer, Teresa Nervosa (born Teresa Taylor), who had played with Coffey in a number of high school marching bands in the Texas’ Fort Worth and Austin areas. She and Coffey would drum in unison on separate, stand-up…
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Reportedly unhappy with life in the band, Malcolm quit in mid-1985. A friend of the band’s from Athens, Juan Molina, was brought in for a brief U.S. tour, but was not interested in becoming a full-time member. Without a permanent bassist and a quickly approaching European tour looming—the band’s first—they…
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Following the European tour, Butthole Surfers experienced more upheaval when Nervosa left around Christmas 1985, as she was tired of the living conditions associated with constant touring and had a desire to be with family. She was replaced by another female drummer, Kytha Gernatt, who was dubbed Cabbage Gomez Jr.…
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Part of Big Black’s local unpopularity stemmed from Albini and the vitriol he regularly directed at Chicago’s rock scene: by 1985, the Metro Chicago was the only club in the city that was booking punk rock shows and was also large enough to accommodate Big Black, but after performing there…
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