“TV Star” by Butthole Surfers

"TV Star" is a Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary and Jeff Coffey song from Electriclarryland, the Butthole Surfers' seventh studio album, which Capitol put out in May 1996 under a title that goofs on Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland; the label had already nixed the band's first choice, Oklahoma!, for fear of lawsuits. Steve Thompson produced, Chris Shaw engineered and mixed, Andrew Weiss plays bass and Fooch adds pedal steel guitar, a twang you might not expect on a Butthole Surfers record.

The album's basic tracks were spread across Leary's house and Arlyn Studios in Austin and Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, with mixing and mastering at Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles. It was also the record that handed the band their first Top 40 hit, courtesy of "Pepper".

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