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Teresa Taylor, a previous drummer for Texas psychedelic sound sellers Butthole Surfers passed away of difficulties from lung illness on Monday at age 60. The team revealed the information in an article in which they composed, “Teresa Taylor passed away peacefully this weekend after a long battle with lung disease. She will live in our hearts forever. RIP, dear friend.”
The information was additionally validated by Taylor’s companion, Cheryl Curtice, that composed, “Teresa passed away clean and sober, peacefully in her sleep, this weekend. She was so brave, even in the face of her horrible disease. We were all fortunate to have her beautiful, strong spirit in our lives. She will be forever missed. We will have a memorial service sometime in the future. I love you, beloved Teresa.”
Taylor was additionally popular for showing up on the poster for supervisor Richard Linklater’s innovation 1990 movie Slacker, in which she was notoriously illustrated standing with her hands in her front pockets, looking right into the range while using a baseball hat as well as sunglasses. She additionally showed up in the movie, playing a personality called “Pap Smear Pusher” that enthusiastically attempts to market a container she asserts consists of Madonna’s pap smear.
The percussionist — that additionally passed the phase name Teresa Nervosa — was birthed in Arlington, TX in 1962 as well as fulfilled future bandmate as well as other Surfers drummer King Coffey when they both played in a secondary school marching band. She later on signed up with the San Antonio-reproduced punk band fronted by Gibby Haynes with the name not risk-free for conventional television as well as radio whose sonic strike blew up followers with waves of disorderly sound, troubling surgical procedure video clips as well as strobe lights.
Taylor played drums along with Coffey from 1983-1985 and afterwards once more from 1986-1989, taking a leave after experiencing seizures she claimed were triggered by a mind aneurysm; she undertook mind surgical procedure in 1993 as well as returned for a quick duration to play deal with the Surfers in 2009. For a band recognized for dumbfounding target markets with their pummeling, occasionally confusing aesthetic as well as audio attack, the view of both percussionists playing their respective stand-up kits alongside each various other ended up being an important part of their theatricalism, as did their long-running fib that they were actually siblings as well as not simply bandmates.
She signed up with the band in the workshop for a run of their precious very early cds, consisting of 1984 unabridged launching, Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac, in addition to 1986’s Rembrandt Pussyhorse, 1987’s Locust Abortion Technician as well as 1988’s Hairway to Steven, to name a few.
In Nov. 2021, Taylor revealed that she had actually been identified with end-stage lung illness in a Facebook message.
See the Surfers’ as well as Curtice’s messages, as well as Taylor’s Slacker scene, listed below.
