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Fri 07 Jul 2008Surfing the sound wave
Grunge pioneers the Butthole Surfers are back after a long retreat. Surfer-in-chief Gibby Haynes tells Kevin Courtneyabout waking up from a rock'n'roll coma
GIBBY Haynes is wandering around Amsterdam in a daze. It's late afternoon, and the leader of the Texan punk-psychedelic noise terrorists Butthole Surfers is trying to get his head together in time for an evening show. It's the first date on the band's first European tour in years, and Haynes is starting to feel the fear creeping up on him.
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