“Double Live is a live double album by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released on vinyl and cassette tape in 1989. An expanded CD edition followed in 1990. All songs were written by the Butthole Surfers, except: “The One I Love,” written by R.E.M.; “Paranoid,” written by Grand Funk Railroad; “No Rule,” written by Leather Nun; and “Kuntz,” written by an unknown Thai artist.
This was the first album released on the band’s own label, Latino Buggerveil. It was limited to 10,000 vinyl printings, 7,500 cassettes, and 4,750 CDs, U.S. and U.K. combined. All three are out of print, though MP3s of the entire CD edition are available as free downloads from the Butthole Surfers’ official website.
Double Live is a comprehensive live document of the Butthole Surfers’ then-current lineup – a group that had been playing together non-stop for five years (with the exception of bass player Jeff Pinkus).
In addition to showcasing and, for the first time, officially naming nearly every track from 1988’s Hairway to Steven, the album includes live performances of songs from all of the Surfers’ previous studio releases, including Butthole Surfers, Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac, Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis, Rembrandt Pussyhorse, and Locust Abortion Technician. It also features “Psychedelic Jam,” an instrumental that had been a staple of the band’s live set since 1984, and “Strawberry.” “Psychedelic Jam” eventually appeared with the addition of vocals and in slightly rearranged form as “P.S.Y.” on 1991’s piouhgd, while “Strawberry” eventually appeared on 1993’s Independent Worm Saloon.
The Surfers released Double Live in response to widespread, for-profit bootlegging of their live performances. It boasted mildly better sound quality than that available on true bootlegs. Ric Wallace, the band’s sound engineer used a portable DAT recorder and a stereo microphone at the “Front of House” mix position to tape the songs during concerts in the winter of 1988 while touring to support their Hairway to Steven studio album.
The Mark Farner-written Grand Funk Railroad cover, “Paranoid,” was a bit of an inside joke, as the Surfers owned a female pit bull named Mark Farner.” – Wikipedia
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Tracklist:
01. Too Parter
02. Psychedelic Jam
03. Ricky
04. Rocky
05. Gary Floyd
06. Florida
07. John E. Smoke
08. Tornadoes
09. Pittsburgh To Lebanon
10. The One I Love
11. Hey
12. Dum Dum
13. No Rule
14. U.S.S.A.
15. Comb
16. Graveyard
17. Sweatloaf
18. Backass
19. Paranoid
20. Fast
21. I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas
22. Strawberry
23. Jimi
24. Lou Reed
25. Kuntz
26. 22 Going On 23
27. Creep In The Cellar
28. Suicide
29. Something
