Some early reports mentioned that Gibby Haynes had been arrested. I was one of the first to report that this rumor was patently untrue. Gibby had been scheduled to DJ at a nearby bar for an afterparty, and when I showed up there at roughly midnight, no one knew whether Gibby would show up. I talked to Paul Leary about the incidently (he looked merely amused on stage when it had happened), and he went on some spiel about the moon being a U.F.O. Serves me right for searching for a straight answer out of a man who hangs out with a Green Lady.
Gibby showed up at 2 a..m to much fanfare, and immediately proceeded to the DJ set. I talked to him as he got a smoke as the night was winding down, when there was virtually no discussion of the incident. He instead talked with MC Trachiotomy’s bassist about New Orleans and other attendees about music gear. He seemed like the punk rocker you’d want to have a beer with, not the one that scared you to pieces. In my exceedingly awkward state, I managed to ask him about what he expected the reaction to be. He took a puff, and said “it will be a binary response — 1 or 0.” Earlier in the night, one 0 was registered by the Webster Hall bartender, who told me he’s never seen a worse behaved band for all the time he’s worked there. I don’t think anyone with an appreciation of the Butthole Surfers would have it any other way.
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