Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes, a Texas music legend, settled in Brooklyn. He's fine with it.

Gibby Haynes, frontman of the Butthole Surfers, has moved past earlier decades of extreme onstage behavior and is now mostly sober, living with his wife and high school-aged son in Red Hook. He has continued working creatively, including publishing a young adult novel about a supernatural dog and being featured in a documentary. A previously lost 1998 album, After The Astronaut, is scheduled for release. He will play Union Pool in Williamsburg every Wednesday in August with a yet-unnamed band. Haynes plans to announce a band name right before each set, stop the first song midway, and change the band name repeatedly, potentially using many names during one show. He also shared a temporary band name and explained how a missing front tooth resulted from a baseball-related accident with his son.

"“We're probably gonna announce the name right before the set, and then stop the first song midway and change our band name and do that every song so that we will be two different band names,” he explained in a recent phone interview. “Theoretically, then, we might play under 22 band names with an 11-song set.”"

"This vague plan has deeply stressed out the booking agent, who is anxious to lock in information for promotional materials, Haynes said. When pressed, Haynes offered him a temporary name for the band: the Dope-Headed Stranger. This was inspired by a missing-tooth selfie Haynes took of his bloody mouth, which he sent to the agent when pushed for an image to be used on a flyer."

"“I [was] playing catch with my son, and - he's gotten a little better at baseball and basketball - but his little fastball tailed off and it came off my glove and knocked my front tooth out,” Haynes said. “So I've got this cool look nowadays.”"

"Today, Haynes is pushing 70 and mostly sober, living with his wife and high school-aged son in Red Hook. But his freak flag still flies. In recent years, he's published a young adult novel about a supernatural dog and was the subject of the documentary “ The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt” by director Tom Stern. The Butthole Surfers' lost 1998 album “ After The Astronaut” is set to be released next month."

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