While the album never broke into Billboard’s “Hot 100,” it qualified the band members to call themselves “recording artists” and helped to establish them as a “cult band” by the late 1980s. “No Go Diggy Die” became the band’s catchphrase and a password for hipness among the West Coast cognoscenti. However, the strain of notoriety took its toll on Billy Bob, who sought solace in the bottle and underaged women. “Goddamn high school sumbitches,” Jon remembers bitterly. To beat a statutory rape charge in Reseda, he pled guilty to a lesser charge of immoral acts with a minor. Upon the recommendation of a court-appointed psychiatrist, he was sentenced to an indeterminate stay at the Antelope Valley Sanitarium for the Criminally Insane until such time as he be deemed no longer a threat to society. Unfortunately, this restrictive environment, coupled with daily dosages of antipsychotic drugs, weakened Billy Bob’s already tenuous grip on reality. When he is not masturbating compulsively, he will share with anyone who will listen his plans, upon release, to recording an all-organ album of mortuary favorites.

Meanwhile, Jon Wayne and the band forged ahead in stops and starts like a mule with a firecracker up its ass. Now on his second liver (a real lifesaver from a Chinese labor camp!), Timmy Turlock rejoined the band to play bass in the early 1990s. “TEXAS FUNERAL” was released on CD by Cargo Records in 1992. Buoyed by a mid-90s wave of troglodyte redneck chic (witness the Jessco phenomenon or the critical acclaim of the Ernest movies), the band reached a new generation of fans, including such Hollywood glitterati as film director Quentin Tarantino, a tireless champion of the band who wanted to include “Texas Funeral” in the soundtrack to his movie “PULP FICTION.” Unfortunately, he was unable to locate anyone with the band in order to license the song for the film (Jon was on a three-month bender, Jimbo and Earnest were involved in “business dealings” involving the importation of medicinal-use marijuana, and Timmy Turlock was doing ninety days in the Orange County workhouse on a charge of bastardy.) However, Tarantino’s persistence paid off and the song was included in the soundtrack of his less successful follow-up film “FROM DUSK TILL DAWN”–albeit to far less exposure.