If you're like me and aware of J.D. Pinkus, previously of the Butthole Surfers (and who doesn't love that song "Pepper"?), you might be wondering what's up with the band Honky (featuring the aforementioned Pinkus) who's playing at Jack's tonight. Well, I did my research and here's what I've dug up about J.D.'s new band, Honky.
excerpts from Seattle Weekly during a recent West Coast tour:
The first thing you see on the flyer for the Honky show...is what's in parentheses: "(J.D. Pinkus of Butthole Surfers)." "If people come to see a psychedelic show, they're definitely going to leave having seen something different," says the parenthetical Pinkus of his new band. While "the Butts," as he calls them, incorporated a 17-year-old Pinkus in 1985 on their way to patenting their acid-dipped Southern art-punk freak-out, Honky is straightforward rock and roll.
"We're not trying to be groundbreaking; this is the most timeless music there is," says Pinkus in an Austin drawl, adding that the band's sound is "so basic it's hard to explain." But let's give it a shot: Put an old Molly Hatchet record on the spinner and put your Urban Cowboy tape in the VCR. Turn up the record player, turn down the TV, and hit yourself about the head–hard–with an iron skillet.
What LA Weekly had to say:
"...the arrival of Honky comes as a welcome slap in the face of canned music and its robotic consumers. This messed-up, tore-down Texas trio churns out a marvelously basic, dirty, stoner-rock grind, all industrial-strength riffs and delightfully sleaze-slanted lyrics. Anchored by ex–Butthole Surfer Jeff Pinkus’ ragged, rumbling bass lines, Honky’s stomping debut House of Good Tires (Hall of Records) is an aggressive blast of cro-mag simple, Angus Young–inspired din."
Sounds worth checking out!
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