Fourteen years after the release of John Stagliano's The Adventures of Buttman, the video that helped launch the gonzo revolution has been remastered for a special edition DVD that was released last week.
The August 2001 issue of AVN lists The Adventures of Buttman as #35 on its list of the 101 top porns ever made.
Originally released in 1989, The Adventures of Buttman featured many performers that have since achieved legendary status within the adult industry - Bionca (now better known as Bionca Seven), Champagne, Tracy Adams (who won the inaugural AVN Award for Best Tease Performance for her work on this tape), Sasha Strange, Heather Torrance, Tanja De Vries, Tom Byron, Randy Spears, Jamie Gillis, Rick Daniels, Marc De Bruin, and John Stagliano all appear in the video.
"It was basically the first gonzo movie. You'll see in the Behind-the-Scene's footage where John tells Randy Spears to look right into the camera to say something and Randy says 'Look into the lens? Are you serious?' It just shows how gonzo started," Tricia Devereaux, DVD manager for Evil Angel, told AVN.com.
Jamie Gillis and Tianna turned in a hot scene to launch the tape off, with extra footage that was never used before showing up on the DVD. "It was amazing - their scene was really, really, rough. I would have never imagined that in 1989 a movie would have a scene like that. It's really good," said Devereaux.
As part of their transfer to DVD, Evil Angels remastered both the video and sound of the video. In addition, twenty minutes of extra footage were added to the video (including the Gillis/Tianna scene and the Champagne scene) with additional footage including extra sex and behind-the-scenes documentary footage.
"We went into the original BetaCam and we completely redigitized the movie. The edits are smoother, the audio flows into each other better. The music is layed down better and mixed better," Devereaux.
Stagliano had over forty videos under his belt when he shot The Adventures of Buttman.
