MAXBRODYWORLD TV pt. 12: PINKUS' PLACE+ back to FRUMUNDA

This episode finds Max sneaking away from the house of Jeff Pinkus (Butthole Surfers, etc) after an all night recording session, heading back to his own Frumunda Studio to work with Jimbo Yongue (Daddy Longhead, etc) and then Brett Bradford (Scratch Acid, etc) on guitar parts...also some footage of Max working on keyboard and sax parts, and a brief cameo by Curt Christensen (Dixie Witch, etc) helping Max with the van. What a guy! All this during a nice break from work, mid-summer of 2007. BACKGROUND INFO: By 2006, I had been out of MINISTRY for 2 years, had gotten married, had a newborn daughter and a new job--installing microwave radio, the type used for cellular communications--which put me back out on the road much of the year. While I was not thrilled to be away from home, I was making way better money, the job was interesting and it had quite a bit of 'down-time'. In other words, there was a lot of traveling, hurrying up and waiting-- almost like like being in a band -- just without the shows. So, it was perfect for me. I still had lots of musician friends and played in a few local Austin bands. I would record them back home and take the raw footage with me on the road, chop it up, edit it into song structures, then layer other instruments on top of that. And I could do that anywhere. Then my buddy Pinkus from the Butthole Surfers (and now Honky and Melvins) invited me to partake in a 'MUSICIANS VIDEO BLOG-THING' being organized. He encouraged me to document what I was doing so I could be a part of it. So, that was the original reason for me taking all the footage. I was supposed to be one of many musicians involved, and I was excited to show how I was able to do my THANG ANYWHERE. I purchased one of those new fangled digital cameras with 2.0 mega pixel resolution. I needed one for work, anyway, but now I could double duty the thing: armed with it, I proceeded to document my travels as I worked and created a number of albums. This is the context of my video series. Sadly, the Blog-thing fell through. Like so much of the entertainment business, it just never happened, I never really learned the reason. But it didn't matter--my life was getting really messed up: In 2008, the financial crisis hit, I got laid off, and... everything got quite complicated. I scraped through some dark times, but by 2010 I had gotten a divorce and full custody. And I was BROKE. By 2012, I had moved up to Seattle to be in the same town as the rest of my family. A year later I began working with Danny Barnes (x-Bad Livers) on a new band TEST APES, and we are slowly getting something really great together. I guess I am still determined... I had not forgotten about the footage, but never got the will to edit that huge, daunting pile into anything...until one day I realized that it was coming up on EXACTLY 10 YEARS AGO! Suddenly I had self imposed a deadline on myself! So, I went ahead and started to dig in. With that said: Its my pleasure to present to you my little 17 part rockumentary-travelog-music video series-thing: MAXBRODYWORLD TV. MISSISSIPPI UVALDE TO EAGLE PASS, 1-3 CHARLESTONED NYC, 1-3 ST. LOUIS, 1-2 PINKUS' PLACE HOUSTON, 1-3 ISA at TYPEWRITER MUSEUM VICTOR IN TX MONTANA while creating the music of MAX BRODY SUFFER ROBOT BRODY-SPASM-TETE ENCOUNTER SH!T SHERLOCK INSECT SEX ACT and AREOLA 51 and also featuring music from FRIED SMILING and TEST APES www.maxbrodyworld.com www.maxbrodyworld.bandcamp.com

Added 7 Sept 2026