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, which was released on VHS tape in 1985 through Touch and Go Video. The package included a 5" clear vinyl single-sided record with a different mix of their cover of

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The single bore no label, titles, or credits, and came packaged between the paper insert of the clamshell case and the plastic sleeve for holding cover artwork, in such a way that the disc itself can be seen as the cornea of the eye featured on the original artwork. The video was re-released on

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in 2002 by Music Video Distributors

The bulk of the video features performances from two concerts at Traxx in Detroit, MI in February and March 1985, woven between rambling interviews with the band relaxing in bed. Also included is footage from an early concert of the band with a fully nude Gibby Haynes.

Track listing

#"The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" #"One Hundred Million People Dead" #"Bar-be-que Pope" #"Cowboy Bob" #"Hey" #"Tornados" #"Dum Dum" #"Mexican Caravan" #"Cherub" #"Lady Sniff" #"Something" #"Mark Says Alright" #"PSY"

DVD Extras

*"Butthole Karaoke" *Audio and Photo Gallery *"Negro Observer" (Live in 1991)

Personnel

Gibby Haynes Gibson Jerome Haynes (born September 30, 1957) is an American musician, radio personality, painter, author and the lead singer of the band Butthole Surfers. Early life and career Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Gibby Haynes is the son of acto ...

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, guitar on "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave", "Mark Says Alright" and "PSY"; bass guitar on "Something" *

Paul Leary Paul Leary Walthall (born May 7, 1957), known as Paul Leary, is an American musician and music producer from Austin, Texas, best known as the lead guitarist and occasional lead vocalist for the rock band Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers ar ...

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, vocals on "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave", "Bar-be-que Pope" and "Something"; bass guitar on "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" *

King Coffey King Coffey (born Jeffrey Coffey; 1964) is an American drummer, known for being the drummer of the Psychedelic rock, psychedelic/noise rock band Butthole Surfers. He began drumming in a Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Hardcore punk, hardcore pun ...

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Teresa Taylor Teresa Taylor (November 10, 1962 – June 18, 2023), also known as Teresa Nervosa, was an American drummer who was a member of the experimental rock band Butthole Surfers. Biography Taylor was born in Arlington, Texas. She began drumming by pl ...

– drums *Trevor Malcolm –

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on "Something"

References

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