Released on Alternative Tentacles in July 1983, the resulting EP, Butthole Surfers (also known as Brown Reason to Live and Pee Pee the Sailor ), offered songs with provocatively absurd titles like “The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave” and “Bar-B-Q Pope”, alternately sung by Haynes and Leary. (Haynes would…
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In July 1983 the trio made their debut at the Discothèque Airport in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano, Buenos Aires . The band reminisced on this show:
Released in March 1983, The Final Cut went straight to number one in the UK and number six in the US. Waters wrote all the lyrics, as well as all the music. Rolling Stone gave the album five stars, with Kurt Loder calling it “a superlative achievement … art rock’s…
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The band then went to the studio for the next album, The Revölution by Night (1983), with Bruce Fairbairn as producer. After two albums of a return to a harder rocking sound, the band adopted a more radio-friendly, AOR -oriented sound with Fairbairn providing a 1980s-style production. This approach met…
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Pinera left again, as did Luke, in 1983 and IB worked on some more material in September of that year, with drummer Jerry Sommers playing on some tracks. But once again, nothing ever came of it.
and the 1983 Hal Ashby concert film Let’s Spend the Night Together , filmed at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona and the Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands , New Jersey.
Before leaving Atlantic, the Rolling Stones released Undercover in late 1983. It reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 4 in the US. Despite good reviews and the peak Top 10 position of the title track, the record sold below expectations and there was no tour to support it.…
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Beginning at a pub show for a no-show band, Soda performed constantly; at their third show, Horacio Martinez, a historic Argentine rock producer and “talent hunter”, heard them and invited them to record for CBS Records .
The first show under Soda’s new name occurred in December 1982, at Alfredo Lois’s birthday party. Lois, who was Cerati and Bosio’s university classmate, would go on to become Soda’s video director as well as their visual and stylistic guru; he was later recognised by Cerati himself as “the fourth…
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In early 1981, Grace Slick returned to the band, rejoining in time to sing on one song, “Stranger,” (No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart), on the group’s next album, Modern Times (1981). Modern Times , which also went gold, included the song “Find Your Way Back” (No. 29),…
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