@@ultrasonicpriest They still do. He did leave for awhile, but came back. Then left briefly, and came back again, and has been back in the band for 10 years now. The band right now is the same 3 people it was during their big rise in the 90's. It's currently: Les Claypool, Larry LaLonde, and Tim "Herb" Alexander.
Joe satriani was asked who is favorite student was, and he said Larry, and when asked why, Joe said..because he took everything I taught him and doesn't use any of it...true
Ler said in an interview once that his job as the guitarist in Primus is to fill in the space between the bass and the drums. He is a master of less is more.
i read an interview with him where he said he usually just tries to figure out what key the song is in... and then play all the wrong notes. I'm sure he was being facetious at the time, but I also kinda dig the idea.
Es como Andy Summers en The Police, eso hace que desarrollen más su creatividad musical, ya que deben expandir más su habilidad en la guitarra, en lugar de hacer un simple riff o solo de guitarra.
Yep. Those commercials were everywhere back in the day, but they've long since been forgotten. So a lot of people who discovered this video later don't know the context.
Fun thing about the music video is it was filmed at a slower rate (I think maybe 50 or 60%?) and then played at normal (faster) speed for this effect. Those costumes were way too cumbersome to move normally. There's a behind the scenes of this somewhere.
I’m not 100% sure if I’m correct on this but I believe JS said once that LL, either understood or used his music theory lessons to a much higher degree than any of his students.
I just saw Primus last week (which they didn’t play this song), but Les’ bass in person is absolutely glorious sounding. Him and the drummer were in absolute lock-step the whole show, to the point it was almost hard to distinguish if what you’re hearing/feeling is drums or bass.
Flew to the USA from australia to see them at the sessanta show at Red Rocks and they closed out the night with this :D was so good to see it again live after so many years.
I was a teenager when sailing the seas of cheese made me a fan (American Life more so than the hits), but I won't apologize for being one of the three or five people that recognize the Brown Album was their Zeppelin 4. Pure genius start to finish. Not an ounce of filler. This is a hill I will die on.
You really would like seeing them live. Live, you see how little production goes into the albums. And watching them do what they do is amazing, how they work together/play off of one another...even when getting into a jam...how well they know each other. Very unique.
You forget to add Ween to that mix, with the sporadic genre changes between songs. That show they did for that South Park concert involving members of all 3 bands was awesome.
I have ALWAYS felt this. Like with Rush, the drums and bass are what are most immediately fascinating about the band, but, like with Alex in Rush, you realize the sound would not be so characteristically their own without the very distinct guitar style layered on top of it.
Rush has perfected this combination of talent and boring in my ear that I simply can’t get past. Amazing musicians but I always turn them off when they come on.
I love Primus! Professor Nutbutters House of Treats is one of the best songs on Tales. They have been performing old RUSH albums in their entirety during their recent tours. So much talent!
It’s so crazy how certain bands can take you back in time. I fucking love Primus and whenever I hear this song it reminds me of my old neighbor Bill Skinner who first got me into Primus with a cassette tape he had. Great reaction!
Love that you're giving LaLonde the spotlight and attention he deserves. In some ways, he has the hardest task in a band like this, as he has to find what works in such a full and complicated foundation, between Les and Herb. He's such an incredibly creative and intelligent guitarist, and possibly the only puzzle piece that can fit so seamlessly with Les. It reminds me a little of Robby Krieger from the doors, who always added such interesting and unique guitar parts between the fullness of Ray's keyboards.
So the next two albums take a bit of a left turn, Tim is replace by “Brain” which injects a thrash/funk feel. Both The Brown Album and Antipop are massive shifts in their sound. Shake Hands With Beef is a unique tune and a fan fav off The Brown Album, The Ballad of Bodacious is another fun story and composition off Antipop. If you want to get back to this lineup, Tim comes back briefly in 02 for the release Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People. The Last Superpower aka Rapscallion is in my opinion is an absolute all timer. Thanks for the video, I always enjoy watching you digest Primus. Cheers.
@UnderBarrowBog Tim is back with them now since the Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble album. It's amazing how they have always had a great drummer. I agree that Bryan "Brain" Mantia offered a different style and even Jay Lane on Green Naugahyde was a little different, but they could all play amazing. I think that Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains is one of my favorite side projects with Les, Brain, Buckethead and Bernie Worrell (keyboards).
I caught Primus playing at Hellfest '22 and this song got the crowd PUMPED. In particular, there was one guy in the crowd who had his tiny child (I'd guess younger than 2) on his shoulders - the kid had an impressive set of ear defenders on but was still wearing a crystal-clear expression of 'Oh this is blowing my mind which is still very much in a process of forming'.
I love how they all look like frosted hostess cupcakes! It looks like someone piped their hair on and it hardened like royal icing. It’s so tripped out! Love, love LOVE this band!!!!
@@danbardos3498 The faces and stuff are all more or less make up/HEAVY prosthetics. And the suits are not all one piece. Like, the arms are separate pieces from the torso for instance. They were reportedly VERY difficult to move in, especially for Tim, which is one of the reasons they opted to record the miming of the instrument playing, significantly slower than the actual speed of the song., which a few people have mentioned on here. I HIGHLY recommend Videoplasty. It has all kinds of tasty stuff like the “the Devil Went Down to Georgia” claymation video/cover, as well as a live performance of one of the best renditions of “Tommy the Cat”, EVER, which features a truly mind altering drum solo from Brian “Brain” Mantia! GOOD stuff!!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Those three are all so outstanding. It's crazy. Tim's drums are fucking nuts. Also, Fizzle Fry is an incredible album. I strongly recommend "To Defy the Laws of Tradition."
Just saw Primus a couple weeks ago, and they went deep with the Punchbowl material this particular show, and was glad they included Wynona too! Great show, and ready to see them again 😎
If I had to describe Primus to people, I'd say that it's "a Zappa-flavored alt-redneck funk experience... oh, and they suck. 🙂" It was a favorite band among the sobriety-deficient young dudes I worked and lived around back in the day. All those years ago, I thought it was just quirky music that catered to their psychedelic mindsets. It took some time to realize that it was actually amazing and very bold, especially when considering what was popular at the time (grunge, rap, hip hop, hair rock). People say Primus was "ahead of its time", but that's not really accurate. In a broad sense, there never was a time for Primus, there still isn't, and there never truly will be. Claypool & crew simply said, "Screw it, we're gonna MAKE the time, force the universe to accept it, and bless those who are ready for it." ... which is the very mindset shared among all of the greatest innovators.
You need to watch this song on YT on the David Letterman Show 1995. There is a sweet drum part that is done differently than the studio version. It's just different altogether.
Seeing them perform Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble has me putting them high on my favorite shows ever. This is an album to listen in it's entirety.
Over the Electric Grapevine is mind blowing. How they all created their individual parts and how the melded them together I'd a complete mystery to me.
I first heard this on The Beavis and Butthead Experience album. Been a Primus fan for a long time now, glad to watch you react to them! I've got a couple of interesting suggestions for you - Catch 22/Streetlight Manifesto - Point/Counterpoint (Catch 22 is better imo), Area-7 - Nobody Likes a Bogan, and I think you might enjoy Chase - Get It On.
Nice comment! I've done both Catch 22 and Streetlight on the channel recently, and Bill Chase's "Get It On" was in HEAVY rotation when I was younger. Being both a trumpet player and a bass player, I wore that song out. It's been probably a decade since I've heard it, could still be fun to revisit for an episode.
My favorite band of all time! Love me some sweet Primus! You should do a full album thing on Tales From the Punchbowl. It's a weird, bizarre but utterly amazing album!
10:55 "Nobody even close comes to their individuality and weirdness." It would seem to me that you've never listened to Frank Zappa. That rabbit hole runs deep.
Primus used to open for Rush in the olden days, it was quite the double bill. If you have Paramount+, you can see Geddy Lee visiting Les Claypool at his ranch & winery. Geddy also visits other bass players in his little mini series.
Ive been to a bajillion concerts in my life. Seen some incredible playing, for sure. Travis barker on drums twice. Buckethead playing guitar. Laufey singing. They've all been immaculate. But les was the most impressive live. Not to take away from the others, but les playing bass and singing was (i know the word is overused) LITERALLY the craziest, most impressive thing I've ever witnessed.
Never had much interest in Primus growing up apart from a couple songs. Got to see them open for Tool some years ago and it changed my view on them completely. Seen them multiple times since then and they always impress.
I saw Primus on a festival tour with Blues Traveler at the end of the 90's and both those lead musicians/ singers were other-worldly as far as talent! The live performances were somehow better. Probably because they all *actually* had the talent the records were made with!
Having lived in El Sobrante for several years, I can get the sense this East Bay hamlet made an influence on how Primus sounds. So weird. When this song came out, it instantly grabbed me. Thanks for doing this.
Brother... that phrase "El Sobrente Fortnight" (an indeterminate period of time between two weeks... and a decade) Has tormented me since my teens when I first heard it! I think it was on "High Ball with the Devil"
@@ericingersoll7243 But, as a 4yr resident, the REAL query here IS: th-cam.com/video/9mWF7vUEYvU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Fkg3ojyHPH1ItDM_ Does the song capture the real world feel of El Sobrente co?!
After Primus caught their full stride, Les went back and did some work with the original members of Primus from the first demo album. They put out an album as Sausage called Riddles Are Abound Tonight. Definitely check out the title track. Its video was on an episode of Beavis and Butthead, where Butthead called them "Superfluous Tubloidial Buttsnoits".
Nobody ever notices the name on the kick drum, “Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys” 👀. I really like the second guitar solo near the end. I think you’d find this easier to play on a 4 string like he does here.
100%, Ive heard people, including the band write it off as sub average but I love that album. Larry really dialed his playing back on alot of that album, but everything he does is just perfect. The guitar riff on the secret song is on my top 5 of all time list, and the groove in Liquid Sky where he manages to create utter chaos just injecting a couple notes here and there... stuff nobody besides Larry could ever pull off.
Sgt Baker, Too Many Puppies, or Groundhogs day should be next.... well maybe Mr Krinkle... Or The Air is getting slippery... WAIT! I know... Laquer Head... or One better ... or....
Crazy how early in the video you said that they ''normalize dissonance'' and you did something with the instrument and immediatly i thought of south park. that's so fucking cool
Les grew up in El Sobrante in the east bay. Wynona Ryder grew up in my hometown of petaluma. The joke was les hooked up with Wynona, and this song is about her beaver 😅 You have no idea what you are doing to yourself. You will not understand how important primus is until you see them live. Now go check out the other 5 or 10 bands les leads, they are all the best bands ever.
even their first album had some extremely intricate and progressive tracks. Groundhog Day off frizzle fry is my favorite. hope once you go through the later albums you circle back, there's more to appreciate in the early to mid albums
With guitar, it is Dave Mustaine that makes me wonder how he played and did the vocals at the same time on many songs. Some people seem to have two or more brains when it comes to music, lol.
I actually think the best description I've heard so far of Primus is they're TOOL with a sense of humor. They're definitely outstanding musicians but they sound like they are playing the same exact song contrary to what the other commenter had said. They are definitely an acquired taste and Rush being my favorite band 420 years for I first listened to Primus I was already conditioned so to speak for incredible odd time signatures as well as strange tempos all of which this band brings to the table. Les claypool is an incredible musician who has reinvented the bass and how it can sound. He plays four, five,and six string.Slap,flamingo,and lightning finger styles with avid use of power chords he is the only bass player in the same league as Geddy lee, who he happens to be great friends with mutual admiration for both their playing.When Geddy Lee and Alex lifeson inducted the band Yes to the Rock and roll Hall of Fame the only other bass player they invited was Les claypool from Primus to join the stage with the late Chris squire. Imagine that, the best three bass players in the world PERIOD!!!
This was the first song my older brother showed me from Primus when I was younger.....Early on learning bass I spent months and months learning Les Claypool bass parts (including this song)....Learned how to play slap bass from watching him and Victor Wooten. Les is such an incredible bassist and he will always be a huge inspiration to me. Primus as a whole is just a band full of immense talent both playing wise and compositionally. Side note: Your harmonic jamming at 15:47 was beautiful man! That was pure vibessss
Dude Larry absolutely shreds.. he just doesn't have very much room to showcase it Primus.. but when he does.. it's ALWAYS unreal and otherworldly.. love it 🤘
How many times do you think it took until saying "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" didn't even get a chuckle? I don't really remember how many of the early Lollapoluza shows I went to. I kept up for awhile. Funniest Rock n' Roll story I remember is from a early Lolla. Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum was dating Wynonna Ryder, He asked Primus to not play this song (their biggest hit) at Lolla. Obviously they said 'no', but holy crap what an ask. "Hey Rush, would you not play 'Tom Sawyer', that'd be great! Thanks". Fame is a hel of a drug. PS. "Nobody comes close to originality"... Um... I feel exposed all of the sudden. "They Might Be Giants" I think equal "Primus" in originality, but I'm not even sure there's much bass to talk about.
You know, that makes me wonder if Les and Patton have ever done anything together? I can't think of anything but that seems like a match made in heaven.
Control of dynamics. You hit the nail on the head there. I think that speaks to the whole [Punchbowl] album: intense control of dynamics. 'Year of the Parrot' has a really understated bass part, giving Larry the space to spit fire across the whole track, and yet they are always playing off one another.
I have a lot of love for Primus and Les. Thanks for spotlighting this song. Request for your next video: Nightingale by Haken. I can never get the timing right in the beginning bass. It's also a great song, so I think it's worthy of your attention.
A friend of mine was at a concert in LA and during the intermission the curtain was closed and they were playing music through the sound system! When they started playing Quahogs Anyone by Stuart Hamm and then the curtain opened and it was Les Claypool playing it! He said that the crowd went crazy!
Hey Mark, i don't think I've seen you do a video on Phish yet but you may want to check them out! Mike Gordon does some really interesting stuff. The "You Enjoy Myself" in their recent NPR Tiny Desk concert would be a good place to start with them
The best (and funniest) description of Primus I ever heard: "3 outstanding musicians, each playing a different song, while a hobo talks in your ear."
Oh my!
That's perfect 😂
Even more so when they had Herb on drums
@@ultrasonicpriest They still do. He did leave for awhile, but came back. Then left briefly, and came back again, and has been back in the band for 10 years now. The band right now is the same 3 people it was during their big rise in the 90's. It's currently: Les Claypool, Larry LaLonde, and Tim "Herb" Alexander.
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Joe satriani was asked who is favorite student was, and he said Larry, and when asked why, Joe said..because he took everything I taught him and doesn't use any of it...true
😂
The line is "he ain't pissed for a week." MTV was sensitive, so they changed it to "egg pressed" which of course makes no sense.
Ahh! I read "egg pissed" 😅
I have never noticed that it was changed for MTV, because I always sing along to that line, like an involuntary reaction. 😂😂😂
Ain't pissed for a week (and a half).
MTV objected only to that line, and nothing else from the song?!
"Egg Pressed" would be a good name for a Primus tribute band.
Ler said in an interview once that his job as the guitarist in Primus is to fill in the space between the bass and the drums. He is a master of less is more.
i read an interview with him where he said he usually just tries to figure out what key the song is in... and then play all the wrong notes. I'm sure he was being facetious at the time, but I also kinda dig the idea.
Ler, stylistically, is in my top 10 guitar players. Not many players understand their "space" in a band as well as Ler does with Primus.
i watch an interview....that his job as a guitarist in primus....was to play guitar in primus
Ler is criminally underrated
Es como Andy Summers en The Police, eso hace que desarrollen más su creatividad musical, ya que deben expandir más su habilidad en la guitarra, en lugar de hacer un simple riff o solo de guitarra.
Anyone old enough to remember that those type of costumes were in a creepy Duracell commercials?😅
Yeeeeesssss!!! 😅
Yep.
Yep. Those commercials were everywhere back in the day, but they've long since been forgotten. So a lot of people who discovered this video later don't know the context.
Jepp! 😂😂
Don't forget Dog Boy from MTV's Liquid Television. Same kinds of plasticky costumes.
Les, Ler, and Tim are insanely talented and it's still mind-blowing that those 3 unique talents are in the same band.
Tim dropped out after TFTP and Brain came in for Antipop and Brown Album. We can't forget Jay pulling awesomeness on GN.
Agree with @stephendavis5481, but am glad that Timmy returned in 2014 when they did the Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble album.
Brain rules. C2B3 was awesome.
@@kmelugin Saw them on that tour for my birthday. F'ing fantastic.
Fun thing about the music video is it was filmed at a slower rate (I think maybe 50 or 60%?) and then played at normal (faster) speed for this effect. Those costumes were way too cumbersome to move normally. There's a behind the scenes of this somewhere.
It really gives them the feel of action figures with their slightly jerky movements. Cool stuff
I wonder if anyone had to pay a fee to Duracell for the suits...
It's always been sort of wild to me, how much this looks like LazyTown. Which is wild, because I think this pre-dates that by quite a while.
@@platypuspracticus2Videoplasty box set has all that bts stuff. It’s Awesome!
If I rememeber correctly, the final video is sped up 1.5 times.
Larry was taught guitar by Joe Satriani. He was part of that crew like Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett (amongst others) that he taught.
I didn't know that but it makes a lot of sense. Nice factoid.
I’m not 100% sure if I’m correct on this but I believe JS said once that LL, either understood or used his music theory lessons to a much higher degree than any of his students.
He was also a guitarist for possessed
@@danbardos3498 Yea I didnt know that either. Thats petty badass
Even Skolnick?
I just saw Primus last week (which they didn’t play this song), but Les’ bass in person is absolutely glorious sounding. Him and the drummer were in absolute lock-step the whole show, to the point it was almost hard to distinguish if what you’re hearing/feeling is drums or bass.
Where were they playing? what state? Ain't gonna ask you how they were caz they suck anyhow.
Saw them in Memphis last week, great damn show
@@DamagedButManaging Nice!! They always put on a good show..
Flew to the USA from australia to see them at the sessanta show at Red Rocks and they closed out the night with this :D was so good to see it again live after so many years.
@@TroublesomeOwl That's dedication!
Both of Larry's solos in this song make me think of someone laughing in response to the lyrics.
I am obsessed with this
I was a teenager when sailing the seas of cheese made me a fan (American Life more so than the hits), but I won't apologize for being one of the three or five people that recognize the Brown Album was their Zeppelin 4. Pure genius start to finish. Not an ounce of filler. This is a hill I will die on.
I'll join you on that hill. Brown Album has always been my favorite of theirs as well.
Dude, I admire you but I don´t envy you. Brown Album is...special.
First album I bought was Sailing the Seas of Cheese for Jerry was a Racecar Driver. Sgt. Baker and Tommy the Cat still get played at my watering hole.
Brown album is their best. It just never stops
Whoa... did Claypool know about America's Cheese Caves?!?!
I love the way the drums sound in this recording.
Tim Alexander is one of my favorite drummers of all time, his style/sound is so unique
I was in a Primus coverband for about 3 months . It really makes you understand the group
You really would like seeing them live. Live, you see how little production goes into the albums. And watching them do what they do is amazing, how they work together/play off of one another...even when getting into a jam...how well they know each other. Very unique.
and the bastard tried to bite me.....we've all been there, am I'm right fellows?
Well, a hungry beaver will take to a juicy pice of wood to plug its dam.
Fo sho
I’ve literally been watching every reaction I could find to this video over the last 24 hours, and then you just happen to make this video… haha
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Primus is Rush with an extroverted sense of humor. Tim Alexander and Les Claypool are just magic together.
You forget to add Ween to that mix, with the sporadic genre changes between songs. That show they did for that South Park concert involving members of all 3 bands was awesome.
I have ALWAYS felt this. Like with Rush, the drums and bass are what are most immediately fascinating about the band, but, like with Alex in Rush, you realize the sound would not be so characteristically their own without the very distinct guitar style layered on top of it.
they opened for rush
Rush has perfected this combination of talent and boring in my ear that I simply can’t get past.
Amazing musicians but I always turn them off when they come on.
Many words come to mind when I think of Rush but "boring" is definitely not one of them...
I love Primus! Professor Nutbutters House of Treats is one of the best songs on Tales.
They have been performing old RUSH albums in their entirety during their recent tours. So much talent!
They did 2112! Very brave! I think Gedd & Lerxt were good with it.
Holy crap I forgot about Professor Nutbutters. I need to go back to that album
It’s so crazy how certain bands can take you back in time. I fucking love Primus and whenever I hear this song it reminds me of my old neighbor Bill Skinner who first got me into Primus with a cassette tape he had. Great reaction!
Saw this music video as a child. Gave me nightmares. I'm 32 now and I still occasionally have nightmares about this video. 10/10
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You want a nightmare: Lacquerhead!
Land of confusion by Genesis did the same to me as a kid. Had nightmares about creepy Reagan
Nightmares are just free scary movies... love them!
@@hideoutdodge01 and they’re 100% scarier than any horror movie.
Their cover of Black Sabbath’s “NIB” is a must. A must.
Les playing Geezer 🤟
I second!
YES
And “Making plans for Nigel.”
Please!! That open run is absolutely masterful!
To be fair, no one knows what to expect from Primus the first time they hear a song.
'Captivating.' - exactly! This is high voltage holy madness that just don't get made no more like this
My absolute favorite of their songs. Thank you for its praise. I couldn’t agree more with everything you said.
Appreciate you! 🙏🏼
Please, please, please do their Mr. Krinkle video, it's so awesome! Les plays the stand up bass in it!
Ler's country solo might be my favorite guitar solo ever.
Love that you're giving LaLonde the spotlight and attention he deserves. In some ways, he has the hardest task in a band like this, as he has to find what works in such a full and complicated foundation, between Les and Herb. He's such an incredibly creative and intelligent guitarist, and possibly the only puzzle piece that can fit so seamlessly with Les. It reminds me a little of Robby Krieger from the doors, who always added such interesting and unique guitar parts between the fullness of Ray's keyboards.
So the next two albums take a bit of a left turn, Tim is replace by “Brain” which injects a thrash/funk feel. Both The Brown Album and Antipop are massive shifts in their sound. Shake Hands With Beef is a unique tune and a fan fav off The Brown Album, The Ballad of Bodacious is another fun story and composition off Antipop. If you want to get back to this lineup, Tim comes back briefly in 02 for the release Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People. The Last Superpower aka Rapscallion is in my opinion is an absolute all timer. Thanks for the video, I always enjoy watching you digest Primus. Cheers.
Lacquer Head off of Antipop is probably my favorite Primus song
Just somethin' about it
@@perryborn2777 Les sounds so unhinged on the chorus, even by Primus standards. It's my favorite too.
I used to not love antipop but now I love it. It’s got some absolute bangers
@@perryborn2777Lacquer Head's kaka-chika-kaka-chika bassline is so percussive and fun to play!
@UnderBarrowBog Tim is back with them now since the Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble album. It's amazing how they have always had a great drummer. I agree that Bryan "Brain" Mantia offered a different style and even Jay Lane on Green Naugahyde was a little different, but they could all play amazing. I think that Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains is one of my favorite side projects with Les, Brain, Buckethead and Bernie Worrell (keyboards).
I really enjoy this guy’s breakdowns!! He’s fantastic at this
I caught Primus playing at Hellfest '22 and this song got the crowd PUMPED. In particular, there was one guy in the crowd who had his tiny child (I'd guess younger than 2) on his shoulders - the kid had an impressive set of ear defenders on but was still wearing a crystal-clear expression of 'Oh this is blowing my mind which is still very much in a process of forming'.
I love how they all look like frosted hostess cupcakes! It looks like someone piped their hair on and it hardened like royal icing. It’s so tripped out! Love, love LOVE this band!!!!
I honestly want to see how they did the costumes. It's so good and unique.
@@danbardos3498 The faces and stuff are all more or less make up/HEAVY prosthetics. And the suits are not all one piece. Like, the arms are separate pieces from the torso for instance. They were reportedly VERY difficult to move in, especially for Tim, which is one of the reasons they opted to record the miming of the instrument playing, significantly slower than the actual speed of the song., which a few people have mentioned on here. I HIGHLY recommend Videoplasty. It has all kinds of tasty stuff like the “the Devil Went Down to Georgia” claymation video/cover, as well as a live performance of one of the best renditions of “Tommy the Cat”, EVER, which features a truly mind altering drum solo from Brian “Brain” Mantia! GOOD stuff!!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Those three are all so outstanding. It's crazy. Tim's drums are fucking nuts.
Also, Fizzle Fry is an incredible album. I strongly recommend "To Defy the Laws of Tradition."
He for sure needs to check out Frizzle Fry, my vote would be John The Fisherman
Primus really created an utterly unique sound. Hard to think any band will ever sound like them again.
"Tails from the Punch Bowl" = a masterpiece.
*Tales, but yeah 🙂
Just saw Primus a couple weeks ago, and they went deep with the Punchbowl material this particular show, and was glad they included Wynona too! Great show, and ready to see them again 😎
If I had to describe Primus to people, I'd say that it's "a Zappa-flavored alt-redneck funk experience... oh, and they suck. 🙂"
It was a favorite band among the sobriety-deficient young dudes I worked and lived around back in the day. All those years ago, I thought it was just quirky music that catered to their psychedelic mindsets. It took some time to realize that it was actually amazing and very bold, especially when considering what was popular at the time (grunge, rap, hip hop, hair rock).
People say Primus was "ahead of its time", but that's not really accurate. In a broad sense, there never was a time for Primus, there still isn't, and there never truly will be. Claypool & crew simply said, "Screw it, we're gonna MAKE the time, force the universe to accept it, and bless those who are ready for it." ... which is the very mindset shared among all of the greatest innovators.
You need to watch this song on YT on the David Letterman Show 1995. There is a sweet drum part that is done differently than the studio version. It's just different altogether.
And they did it in these costumes
Great channel! Clear, sharp, professional but still fun! Great music and instrument playing as well! 🔥🔥🔥
Seeing them perform Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble has me putting them high on my favorite shows ever. This is an album to listen in it's entirety.
Sausage is a les side project that should be heard
Over the Electric Grapevine is mind blowing. How they all created their individual parts and how the melded them together I'd a complete mystery to me.
might be my favourite Primus song
It was so fun watching you start to “get” Primus, man! “that’s a vibe…” had me nodding and smiling
I first heard this on The Beavis and Butthead Experience album. Been a Primus fan for a long time now, glad to watch you react to them! I've got a couple of interesting suggestions for you - Catch 22/Streetlight Manifesto - Point/Counterpoint (Catch 22 is better imo), Area-7 - Nobody Likes a Bogan, and I think you might enjoy Chase - Get It On.
Nice comment! I've done both Catch 22 and Streetlight on the channel recently, and Bill Chase's "Get It On" was in HEAVY rotation when I was younger. Being both a trumpet player and a bass player, I wore that song out. It's been probably a decade since I've heard it, could still be fun to revisit for an episode.
My favorite band of all time! Love me some sweet Primus! You should do a full album thing on Tales From the Punchbowl. It's a weird, bizarre but utterly amazing album!
10:55 "Nobody even close comes to their individuality and weirdness." It would seem to me that you've never listened to Frank Zappa. That rabbit hole runs deep.
Yes don't eat the yellow snow
The guy that made the "freak" movement of expression a thing... "let yer freak flag fly", as they'd say.
No drugs, that guy! Total shocker to me!
Or the Residents, who heavily inspired Les
Primus used to open for Rush in the olden days, it was quite the double bill. If you have Paramount+, you can see Geddy Lee visiting Les Claypool at his ranch & winery. Geddy also visits other bass players in his little mini series.
What's it called
@@AllofJudea Geddy Lee asks: ”Are Bass Players Human Too?
@@ZIG4ZAG20 thank you
@@AllofJudea It's a quick series. Only 3 episodes.
I saw Primus open for Rush.
Ive been to a bajillion concerts in my life. Seen some incredible playing, for sure. Travis barker on drums twice. Buckethead playing guitar. Laufey singing. They've all been immaculate.
But les was the most impressive live. Not to take away from the others, but les playing bass and singing was (i know the word is overused) LITERALLY the craziest, most impressive thing I've ever witnessed.
Never had much interest in Primus growing up apart from a couple songs. Got to see them open for Tool some years ago and it changed my view on them completely. Seen them multiple times since then and they always impress.
I saw Primus on a festival tour with Blues Traveler at the end of the 90's and both those lead musicians/ singers were other-worldly as far as talent!
The live performances were somehow better. Probably because they all *actually* had the talent the records were made with!
Yeah man I saw the Flying Frog Brigade last year with my son and I was blown away by that show. Les is such an insanely talented guy.
I saw Primus open for Rush. Hard to beat that.
Having lived in El Sobrante for several years, I can get the sense this East Bay hamlet made an influence on how Primus sounds. So weird. When this song came out, it instantly grabbed me. Thanks for doing this.
West County certainly has a flavor
Brother... that phrase "El Sobrente Fortnight" (an indeterminate period of time between two weeks... and a decade)
Has tormented me since my teens when I first heard it! I think it was on "High Ball with the Devil"
@@mile3018 Ha, love it. I lived there for four years. AKA an El Sobrante fortnight.
@@ericingersoll7243 I'd drink to that: cheers, Brother!
@@ericingersoll7243 But, as a 4yr resident, the REAL query here IS:
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Does the song capture the real world feel of El Sobrente co?!
I don't know how far you've went down the Les Claypool rabbit hole but there is so much to explore.
Watching you watch a Primus video is entertaining on it's own.
😅
‘They have normalized dissonance.’ So true.
One of my favorite Primus songs.
Definitely the most over played.
After Primus caught their full stride, Les went back and did some work with the original members of Primus from the first demo album. They put out an album as Sausage called Riddles Are Abound Tonight. Definitely check out the title track. Its video was on an episode of Beavis and Butthead, where Butthead called them "Superfluous Tubloidial Buttsnoits".
Nobody ever notices the name on the kick drum, “Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys” 👀. I really like the second guitar solo near the end. I think you’d find this easier to play on a 4 string like he does here.
I can't remember exactly but I think it was a tribute to someone Tim knew.
its an old sf rockabilly band primus was friends with. that kick drum skin is on the cover of their album
This was my introduction to Primus when I was a kid, and it's still my favorite song from them.
The anti-pop album is phenomenal from front to back.
100%, Ive heard people, including the band write it off as sub average but I love that album. Larry really dialed his playing back on alot of that album, but everything he does is just perfect. The guitar riff on the secret song is on my top 5 of all time list, and the groove in Liquid Sky where he manages to create utter chaos just injecting a couple notes here and there... stuff nobody besides Larry could ever pull off.
Electric Uncle Sam👍🏼
@@bushleague3472 for a very long time greet the sacred cow is my alarm clock song and it will be again starting tomorrow
Lacquer Head, Mama didn't raise no fool... oh yesss.
I will ALWAYS immediately watch a Primus review.
The greatest music video ever made.
I mean it's no thriller but it's damn good.
Yes. It's also the only music video ever that doesn't completely suck.
@@noyfb4769 Forever by throwdown is pretty good.
Tommy the cat would like a word
@@AlexanderAddams Pfffffft!
Every time I hear this song, all my brain hears is the theme song to South Park lol.
Unfortunately, Taco Bell doesn't sell the 7-Layer Burrito, so we may never know what Wynona's Big Brown Beaver smells like.
Huge props for nailing the look at 2:29.
15:47 Ah! I noticed you playing a snippet of Evergreen. Loved your work with Scale The Summit!
He did this song with duo the twang live. Great video aswel
That's a great song and video. Good job man.
Sgt Baker, Too Many Puppies, or Groundhogs day should be next.... well maybe Mr Krinkle... Or The Air is getting slippery... WAIT! I know... Laquer Head... or One better ... or....
I would love to see his reaction to the Mr Krinkle video
Crazy how early in the video you said that they ''normalize dissonance'' and you did something with the instrument and immediatly i thought of south park. that's so fucking cool
Les grew up in El Sobrante in the east bay. Wynona Ryder grew up in my hometown of petaluma. The joke was les hooked up with Wynona, and this song is about her beaver 😅
You have no idea what you are doing to yourself. You will not understand how important primus is until you see them live.
Now go check out the other 5 or 10 bands les leads, they are all the best bands ever.
I will never tire of this song. Such a great band.
Have you done DMV or Welcome to this world? Two incredible songs with insane basslines that are just so so intricate and unique.
Not yet! So many to choose from! 😇
You know you're an amazing band when you have a theme song for a TV show too. I love primus and never knew it. #SouthPark
even their first album had some extremely intricate and progressive tracks. Groundhog Day off frizzle fry is my favorite. hope once you go through the later albums you circle back, there's more to appreciate in the early to mid albums
With guitar, it is Dave Mustaine that makes me wonder how he played and did the vocals at the same time on many songs. Some people seem to have two or more brains when it comes to music, lol.
Ever listened to Opeth? Mikael Akerfeldt is another one
I actually think the best description I've heard so far of Primus is they're TOOL with a sense of humor. They're definitely outstanding musicians but they sound like they are playing the same exact song contrary to what the other commenter had said. They are definitely an acquired taste and Rush being my favorite band 420 years for I first listened to Primus I was already conditioned so to speak for incredible odd time signatures as well as strange tempos all of which this band brings to the table. Les claypool is an incredible musician who has reinvented the bass and how it can sound. He plays four, five,and six string.Slap,flamingo,and lightning finger styles with avid use of power chords he is the only bass player in the same league as Geddy lee, who he happens to be great friends with mutual admiration for both their playing.When Geddy Lee and Alex lifeson inducted the band Yes to the Rock and roll Hall of Fame the only other bass player they invited was Les claypool from Primus to join the stage with the late Chris squire. Imagine that, the best three bass players in the world PERIOD!!!
It's supposed to be "and he ain't pissed for a week (and a half)". weird that the official video gets the lyrics wrong.
Probably not to offend people
@@bryel6383I’m more offended about the egg
This was the first song my older brother showed me from Primus when I was younger.....Early on learning bass I spent months and months learning Les Claypool bass parts (including this song)....Learned how to play slap bass from watching him and Victor Wooten. Les is such an incredible bassist and he will always be a huge inspiration to me. Primus as a whole is just a band full of immense talent both playing wise and compositionally.
Side note: Your harmonic jamming at 15:47 was beautiful man! That was pure vibessss
you got the censored or some weird version. The line on the album @ 8:10 of your video is He ain't pissed for a week and a half.
Not censored, but not the right lyric
That will happen when you get grabbed by the kiwis 😅
I believe it had to be changed for MTV. But you are correct.
Dude Larry absolutely shreds.. he just doesn't have very much room to showcase it Primus.. but when he does.. it's ALWAYS unreal and otherworldly.. love it 🤘
How many times do you think it took until saying "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" didn't even get a chuckle?
I don't really remember how many of the early Lollapoluza shows I went to. I kept up for awhile. Funniest Rock n' Roll story I remember is from a early Lolla. Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum was dating Wynonna Ryder, He asked Primus to not play this song (their biggest hit) at Lolla. Obviously they said 'no', but holy crap what an ask. "Hey Rush, would you not play 'Tom Sawyer', that'd be great! Thanks". Fame is a hel of a drug.
PS. "Nobody comes close to originality"... Um... I feel exposed all of the sudden. "They Might Be Giants" I think equal "Primus" in originality, but I'm not even sure there's much bass to talk about.
They might be giants are definitely creative and wildly original, but I can't say I think of them when it comes to bass. I agree
Then there's Ween
Les and Mike Patton are both in so many damn bands and are so amazing it's ridiculous.
You know, that makes me wonder if Les and Patton have ever done anything together? I can't think of anything but that seems like a match made in heaven.
@@wingracer1614 I don't think that they have done anything together but they should. I know Les likes early Faith no More before they had Mike.
Control of dynamics. You hit the nail on the head there. I think that speaks to the whole [Punchbowl] album: intense control of dynamics. 'Year of the Parrot' has a really understated bass part, giving Larry the space to spit fire across the whole track, and yet they are always playing off one another.
It's 7 Layers like Taco Bell.
i agree one of my alltime favorite videos . the whole concept is a vivid experiance !
You gotta check out some “Antipop” stuff, like “Dirty drowning man” and “Greet the sacred cow”!
Gangster!!!🤘🏻
Listening to this in 1995 was fricken mind blowing. It hurt to listen to, but it felt so good.
Dont miss Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel
You ought to see a live version of this song. Claypool's bass playing is phenomenal . . .
Digging deep in Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver and seeing if one can penetrate this mystery.
See what you did there
I like how you're just working out one bass part and Les has played two more rhythms/fills/flurries by the time you've worked the first one out.
I have a lot of love for Primus and Les. Thanks for spotlighting this song. Request for your next video: Nightingale by Haken. I can never get the timing right in the beginning bass. It's also a great song, so I think it's worthy of your attention.
anything by Haken
Tommy the cat
I love the guitar work in this. Played it earlier today and just enjoyed the guitars.
primus sucks!!!
A friend of mine was at a concert in LA and during the intermission the curtain was closed and they were playing music through the sound system! When they started playing Quahogs Anyone by Stuart Hamm and then the curtain opened and it was Les Claypool playing it! He said that the crowd went crazy!
Primus sucks!
Oh hell yeah! Primus as a whole, is fucking amazing!
Hey Mark, i don't think I've seen you do a video on Phish yet but you may want to check them out! Mike Gordon does some really interesting stuff. The "You Enjoy Myself" in their recent NPR Tiny Desk concert would be a good place to start with them
He should start at the beginning, Junta
Such a good F in song. So good. Great video.
primus is an enigma wrapped in a riddle! plus. the name of this song. lol
I love bass with this tone because you can hear it without headphones.
Also - the live version of this from David letterman’s show is incredible.
They dangle pure f’in chaos in your ear and laugh while they do it.