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Butthole Surfers: What Does Regret Mean? on paperback

Posted by Loren on March 7, 2022

Butthole Surfers: What Does Regret Mean? on paperback
photo by Loren Green

Melodic Virtue is issuing Butthole Surfers: What Does Regret Mean? on paperback -- out now, as of March 4. By author Aaron Tanner, the book was originally published in 2019.

It includes a reproduction of a long out-of-print zine, Strange VD, authored by Gibby Haynes, as well an introduction by Mickey Melchiondo (Ween) and interviews from Rob Zombie, Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Eric Avery (Jane’s Addiction), Steven Drozd (The Flaming Lips), Al Jourgensen (Ministry), Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age), Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich (Pavement), Neko Case, Dale Crover (Melvins), Eric Wilson (Sublime), Henry Rollins, Daniel Johnston, Cris Kirkwood and Derrick Bostrom (Meat Puppets), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), Berserker Blothar and Balsac The Jaws of Death (GWAR), David Yow (Jesus Lizard), and more.

Butthole Surfers: What Does Regret Mean? on paperback
photo by Loren Green

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