Filmmaker Tom J. Stern’s pitch to Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary to make a documentary about the Butthole Surfers, the rock band they founded in San Antonio in the early 1980s, was a simple request.

The Butthole Surfers were formed after singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary met at San Antonio's Trinity University in the late 1970s. Though they shared a love for non-mainstream music ...

From Perry Farrell thinking Green Day was a boy band to Courtney Love throwing punches, here are the festival's wildest moments.

Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes brought a shotgun, loaded with blanks, on stage. “Blanks will still take off your head at like 10 feet,” Beaujour says. “And he would come out and chastise ...

The chaos continued across the country, through 20 tour dates. Gibby Haynes, lead singer of the Butthole Surfers, was known for using props, such as fake Jack Daniels bottles to smash over his head.

What are your favorite over-the-top tales? RB: There are a few! On the ’91 tour, Gibby Haynes would start Butthole Surfers sets by coming on stage with a shotgun, and firing blanks into the air ...

I needed that time. I want to paint a picture for you: I am wearing some red-and-black checkered pajamas that used to belong to Gibby Haynes. Gibby Haynes is the lead singer, the frontman, the ...