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The Cooters History
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THE COOTERS
Newt Rayburn aka Neuter,
Gentry Webb aka Raw &
Mike Namorato aka Judas Cooter
August 1994 to the present...
The Cooters trio was born when Neuter and Raw teamed up with drummer extrodinare Judas Cooter in August of 1994. Cooter Headquarters was known as "The Funny Farm" back then and was near Abbeville, Mississippi. A psychic bond was formed between the trio and the unit began to formulate songs of world domination under the spell of The Supreme Cooter.
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The Cooters Collabortions
TOMAS CHAOS and the COOTERS
Tom Queyja aka Tomas Chaos
The Cooters played shows in 2003 and 2004 with longtime friend and producer Tom Queyja. Tom has been recording and producing songs with the Cooters for the last several years. Recently Tom stepped out front and began singing lead vocals!
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MAX HIPP
and the COOTERS
Max Hipp aka Kin Cooter
November 1998 to December 2001
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Soon after The Cooters recorded sessions at Ardent Studios in October 1998, we teamed up with metal guitar madman Max Hipp, aka Kin Cooter, who has also played with Kincain. Max Hipp and the Cooters toured all over the South opening up for bands like Nashville Pussy, Total Chaos, Syrup, Men of Porn and the Lewds! Max is currently rocking with the eclectic hard rock band Morphist.
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BRAD BOATRIGHT and the COOTERS
Brad Boatright aka Bomber Cooter
March 1995 to June 1996
In 1995, The Cooters teamed up with our crusty punk brother from Mississippi, Brad Boatright (aka Bomber Cooter). Together we recorded a set of crustified Cooter songs dealing with topics like William Faulkner worship, intergalatic zombies, fucking shit up and creating chaos. Some of the songs are on our "Invasion of The Cooters" CD. Others will be released within time.
Bomber moved to Nashville, Tennessee in June of 1996. He is now in the hardcore punk band, From Ashes Rise, who released records on Skuld, Jade Tree, and Havoc Records, and are currelntly living in Portland, Oregon.
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From Ashes Rise in Nashville. That's Bomber on the far left! Photo by Newt Rayburn
Brad Boatright and The Cooters, Fall 2002. Photo by Sandi Carson
THE COOTERS
with Reverend Eloy Alfaro
September 1996 to December 1996
Right after the release of "Invasion of The Cooters" in August of 1996 a strange man started preaching at local shows in Oxford.
Reverend Eloy was his name and he gave sermons to the kids about the virtues of chaos and psychotic anarchy.
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Of course, The Cooters hit it off great with the soulful man and Eloy hit it off with big with The Supreme Cooter. We played several shows together until some men in white showed up in Oxford with Eloy's biological parents. They had credentials to take the Reverend back to the Detriot schizophrenia clinic that he had escaped from! And we're not kidding about that either! No one has seen or heard from Rev. Eloy since!
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THE COOTER FAMILY
CHAOS ENSEMBLE
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featuring Newt Rayburn (aka Neuter Cooter),
Gentry Webb (aka Raw Cooter)
Jeff Allen (aka Linguini Buttafuoco),
Jeff Lawrence (aka Tikk Rikkets),
and Al Cotten (aka Father Raven Madd)
October, 1993 to July, 1994
The Cooter Family Chaos Ensemble played shows all over Lafayette County in homes, barns, and makeshift concert halls. At a typical Chaos Ensemble show we would play a hardcore song, a 70's style rock jam, a reggae tune, some supercharged hyper country and even some improv muzak. And all the while the holy Father Raven Mad would keep the audience at bay with a sermon on "Junior Cooter and the UFO."
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Most of the time, the cops came and busted up Cooters Chaos Ensemble gigs, but we manage to record a few cool shows at Oxford's underground infamous 1994 show place, "The Padded Cell". The Chaos Ensemble played shows with bands like DDT (now known as the North Mississippi All-Stars), Grounded Pilots, Bruthafiend, and Plaid Etude. We also made it as far away as Pensecola, Florida when we played during a hurricane with Atomic Jefferson. And another time we played at a noise festival in Little Rock, Arkansas, with Reagan's Pollup.
The Cooter Family Chaos Ensemble lasted from January of 1994 until the first July when the Cooters moved to a farm near Abbeville, Mississippi. |
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THE COOTER
FAMILY ESTATE
Neuter and Raw Cooter
with Tyler Keith
(aka Enrique Jesus Suave del Cooter, Esq.)
and Chris Robertson (aka Skull Rotten)
January, 1993 to September, 1993
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The Cooters began in 1993 under the moniker Raw Cooter & His Tennessee Pride. We ran the infamous Cooter Family Estate in a house on Highway 334 in Lafayette County, where we threw loads of wild parties with all kinds of bands from all over the country. We had about three parties a week, and by the time the year ended, the cops were busting up every single show. The Cooters were even mentioned as "What's Hip" at Ole Miss in the Entertainment Weekly magazine.
We had a shitload of bands play there back in the day including Natural Cause, Destroy!, Unwound, Ne'er-Do-Wells, The Neckbones, The Simpletones, Atomic Jefferson, the Sky Pilots, Before I Hang, Big Ass Truck, Log Jam, BB Rash, Snatch, Plaid Etude, DDT (aka North Mississippi All-Stars), Tim Lee, John Stirratt (now in Wilco), Dead Zendo Street, Stale Fish, Bruthafiend, Grounded Pilots, and a host of others.
The final show at the Cooter Estate was on New Year's Eve 1993/94.
Tyler Keith decided to join the garage-punk band The Neckbones to play guitar. The Neckbones went on to record four great albums (two of which are on Fat Possum/Epitaph) and toured the country with R.L Burnside and T Model Ford. Today, Tyler is the leader of The Preacher's Kids, who have released two great albums and toured the world.
Chris Robertson lives in San Francisco, California.
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The Supreme
Cooter says:
"We just can't make this shit up!"
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