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King Coffey
(August 2005 Issue)
Sparking The
Weird Revolution Here's one for truth in advertising. On the Butthole Surfers' latest album, Weird Revolution,
precise
digital editing replaces the band's famous idiot-savant studio
trickery, and sophisticated beat architecture holds sway
where
gut-wrenching tom-thuggery once ruled. Somehow, the beautifully skewed
Surfers spirit remains.
"Loops
can be hypnotic," explains drummer King Coffey, who, as any
long-time Surfers fan will testify, knows a thing or two
about
trance-inducement. "I find them soothing. It's also nice to be in a
situation where you have to find your part within
the musical scheme,
rather than dictate what the rhythm should be. As a drummer it's
liberating too, because you know
that you can go off on a tangent and
you won't sabotage the groove if you come back in a little
off."
Coffey's move to sampling and sequencing is more accurately an evolution,
rather than an
abrupt about-face. "Several years ago I began my solo
project Drain as a way to start working with computers," King
explains.
"But the Surfers started doing the same thing on our albums, which sort
of made Drain obsolete. So for the next
Drain record," Coffey adds with
a laugh, "I think I'll just be like the drummer in a psychedelic
band - completely
analog!"
Adam Budofsky
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