Last night the famed Butthole Surfers played NYC’s Webster Hall and wouldn’t you know it, things got out of hand. The band was playing NYC for the first time in about 7 years and after playing for over 90 minutes, head Butthole Gibby Haynes started arguing with a sound guy on the side of the stage.

According to a witness “He then went over to harass the sound guy, and was warned repeatedly by security. The scene erupted when Gibby reportedly threw a punch (or a bottle) at the sound guy, which may or may not have broken his nose. I didn't see the punch thrown, but I certainly saw him get escorted off the stage, which prompted the inevitable bottle throwing from the crowd.”

The remaining Butthole Surfers finished playing the interrupted song and left the stage with “lots of applause and high fives to the front row”. The lights stayed low and the crowd began stuck around and chanted, fully expecting an encore (note to everyone: can we please go back to not expecting an encore and being surprised when we get one? k thx) and growing quite unruly when it appeared they wouldn’t be getting one.

Another witness said “The only people who came back to the stage though, were big security guards, and the occasional School of Rock kid to clean up some gear. Then all of a sudden Genesis P-Orridge saunters on stage and strangely had people shouting louder, but was also telling people to be silent. Security then pulled Genesis off the stage and more and more security filled it up. Finally the video guy came back to grab his laptop and turn off the projections (which by the way had still been running along with background music that whole time). The lights were also still off. I was close to the video guy and he was one who told me the show was over because Gibby got arrested.”

Apparently Haynes was not arrested, he showed up for an afterparty DJ gig at the Beauty Bar. Could this all have been a clever ruse? James Brown like theatrics?

Butthole Surfers Show at Webster Hall Creates Fireworks

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