Album: Paul Leary - Born Stupid | reviews, news & interviews Album: Paul Leary - Born Stupid Album: Paul Leary - Born Stupid Butthole Surfer keeps the freak flag flying high by Guy OddySaturday, 06 February 2021 Weird and unhinged “I could have been a doctor or a lawyer, playing golf with my rich friends at the club” bemoans Paul Leary on the title track of his first solo album in 30 years. “I could have been a doctor or a lawyer, playing golf with my rich friends at the club” bemoans Paul Leary on the title track of his first solo album in 30 years. That, however, would have deprived the rest of us of the warped genius of the Butthole Surfers: those insane, heavy psychedelicists who seem to have somehow been relegated to a mere footnote in the history of Grunge, and of whom Leary was guitarist and occasional singer.