Generally, my memories of IRC revolved around chatting about emulators and how awesome Quake was. This is basically the only memory I have of IRC being mainstream in any way, shape, or form. (My memory of the chat, which, again, I have no record of: I asked them what their next video would look like, and they told me “a long, warm tunnel.” There was no next video for that album.) So MTV moved the chat with the Butthole Surfers to IRC at the last minute, meaning that if you were in the mood to talk to Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, and King Coffey about their hit major-label album that featured a graphic drawing of a pencil stabbing someone’s ear, you were hopping into the open internet to converse. One day, MTV hosted an online chat featuring the Butthole Surfers, then riding high on the success of their one mainstream hit, “Pepper.” This was a weird time in American history, when a band named Butthole Surfers could find itself featured in your local newspaper, and the band could feature Erik Estrada in its music videos.Īnyway, the chat was supposed to be on AOL, but this was roughly around the point when AOL was peaking, either just before or just after it had introduced its unlimited pricing tier, so it was facing some infrastructure issues, making AOL’s chatroom a no-go that night.
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