Longhead Takes Control

Being signed to a major label often means relinquishing control and surrendering to the decisions of the record label.

Such as touring as the opening band for Motley Crue.

“Touring with Motley Crue wasn’t exactly the direction I thought we needed to go into,” bassist Jeff Pinkus said about the Butthole Surfers, his former band. “That was my last straw with the band. It made the Stone Temple Pilots tour seem like a good idea.

“It was record company decisions that kind of dwarfed whatever the band wanted to do.”

Although the Butthole Surfers turned down the tour, Pinkus left the band and made his side-project, Daddy Longhead, a full-time endeavor. Daddy Longhead plays Ichabod’s North on Wednesday with Acid Bath.

Now Pinkus and his band - guitarist-fiddler-vocalist Jimbo Yongue and drummer Troy Baldridge - don’t have to answer to anybody. They released their new album, “Supermasonic,” themselves and they book their tours.

The deep-fried, Southern-tinged trio, which originally formed in 1990, is promoting “Supermasonic” in clubs throughout the country. The band also has a 10-inch EP out on Man’s Ruin, the label owned by poster-artist Frank Kozik.

Opener Acid Bath hasn’t gotten as much attention for its syrupy, bleak-spirited metallic grind as they have for courting serial killers to do album art work.

Killer-clown artist John Wayne Gacy painted the cover of the band’s debut album. “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez produced some scriblings for an EP. For the new album, Jack Kevorkian, the doctor who has helped patients commit suicide, painted the band’s cover.

Music starts at 9:30 p.m. The cover is $3.

, DataTimes