Here is a review of the Toadies, Butthole Surfers show in Dallas Texas. BUTTHOLE SURFERS TOADIES The Reverend Horton Supersuckers Friday June 14, 1996 The Dallas Morning News pg. 35A by Thor Christensen Texas bands serve up all-out alt-rock - raw There's no such thing as one definitive "style" of Texas rock. But the Butthole Surfers, the Toadies, and the Reverend Horton Heat staged an impressive rally under a single flag Friday night at Artist Square: Each band played brooding guitar-based rock at full-throttle intensity. The Dallas-based Reverend (singer-guitarist Jim Heath) and his clergy (bassist Jimbo Wallace, drummer Scott Churilla) came up just as the sun was going down and the rain was subsiding. Gazing across the muddy throng, Mr. Heath paid homage to Woodstock by cranking out the guitar overture from Santana's Black Magic Woman. But this was by no means some long-winded '60s-rock jam. The band played a series of taut thrashabilly tunes before moving into twisted country turf: The Rev'.s upcoming album might be titled It's Martini Time, but the kinetic title track sounded more like Chet Atkins on steroids than breezy cocktail music. Another fine new tune, Cowboy Love, is without question the first honky-tonk song about interracial gay dating. Mr. Heath showed up again at the end of the Toadies' set to present them with a gold album for thier Rubberneck disc ("Congratulations for being rock stars," he teased), and to help steer the band through an atomic version of his song 400 Bucks. But the Toadies weren't in need of any guest-starpower. The Fort Worth quartet played with a crazed gusto that put to shame the memory of its last Dallas show (New Year's Eve at the Bomb Factory). Singer Todd Lewis snarled like a mountain lion in Tyler and I Burn while Darrel Herbert roughed up his guitar and bassist Lisa Umbarger bounced and headbanged with more abandon than usual. Success definitely hasn't turned the Toadies soft: New songs, such as Una ttractive (from The Cable Guy soundtrack) and the unreleased Waterfall, were as raw and menacing as the band's older tunes. The crowd, meanwhile, rocked as hard as the group, mud-moshing and leaping in unison during Away and Possum Kingdom. The Butthole Surfers' esoteric show-closing was almost anticlimactic by comparison. While the Toadies roared and raged, head Surfer Gibby Haynes fiddled with his sound-effects machines with a minimum of motion. Occasionally, he uncorked a mad laugh or a drug reference to keep the crowd on its toes, but he mostly put the showmanship in the hands of the lights-and-smoke crew. The Surfers' music, however, was as delightfully manic as ever - from the new opening tune (the rap-a-delic Pepper) to the classic Dadaist set-closer, The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave.