Here Come The Bastards: A Primus Thread

[Peeps]

funny primus story

it was my cousins 13th birthday party and she wanted to play some white zombie at the pool party. her parents wouldnt let her because it was some questionable lyrics apparently for the 13 year old crowd. However they had no problem with Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver.

[liebzz]

funny primus story

it was my cousins 13th birthday party and she wanted to play some white zombie at the pool party. her parents wouldnt let her because it was some questionable lyrics apparently for the 13 year old crowd. However they had no problem with Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver.

Sometimes it’s not what you say but how you say it.

Crash Into Me is a song about lusty fantasies and stalking, but Dave sings it so wistfully that it’s one of the biggest hits of the 90s.

Don’t Stand So Close to Me is a song about basically the same thing except Sting’s not singing this character from a distance. One of the biggest hits of the 80s.

[Self]

shoulda went with every breath you take

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shoulda went with every breath you take

Sting had problems.

[wease]

Just finished Suck on This. Very cool introduction to the band being a live album. They sure seemed to have fun with it. They don’t seem to take themselves seriously at all, but there’s some absolutely serious fucking playing going on. Prog/funk/metal? Shit I don’t know. I did enjoy most of it and where I didn’t care for something, it was only a piece of a tune where I liked the rest of it.

Very excited to hit their studio work next.

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Just finished Suck on This. Very cool introduction to the band being a live album. They sure seemed to have fun with it. They don’t seem to take themselves seriously at all, but there’s some absolutely serious fucking playing going on. Prog/funk/metal? Shit I don’t know. I did enjoy most of it and where I didn’t care for something, it was only a piece of a tune where I liked the rest of it.

Very excited to hit their studio work next.

The role reversal of the bass versus LaLonde’s lead guitar always gets me. Harold of the Rocks, John the Fisherman, and Groundhog’s Day are Primus all timers from this. They are also amazing on Frizzle Fry.

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Just finished Suck on This. Very cool introduction to the band being a live album. They sure seemed to have fun with it. They don’t seem to take themselves seriously at all, but there’s some absolutely serious fucking playing going on. Prog/funk/metal? Shit I don’t know. I did enjoy most of it and where I didn’t care for something, it was only a piece of a tune where I liked the rest of it.

Very excited to hit their studio work next.

The role reversal of the bass versus LaLonde’s lead guitar always gets me. Harold of the Rocks, John the Fisherman, and Groundhog’s Day are Primus all timers from this. They are also amazing on Frizzle Fry.

Those were my top 3 as well.

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Just finished Suck on This. Very cool introduction to the band being a live album. They sure seemed to have fun with it. They don’t seem to take themselves seriously at all, but there’s some absolutely serious fucking playing going on. Prog/funk/metal? Shit I don’t know. I did enjoy most of it and where I didn’t care for something, it was only a piece of a tune where I liked the rest of it.

Very excited to hit their studio work next.

The role reversal of the bass versus LaLonde’s lead guitar always gets me. Harold of the Rocks, John the Fisherman, and Groundhog’s Day are Primus all timers from this. They are also amazing on Frizzle Fry.

Those were my top 3 as well.

I went through a very long Primus phase from about 1994-maybe 2004? I lived in Suck On This, Frizzle Fry, and Sailing…, and also really loved Tales from the Punchbowl (a hot mess but a good one), and the Brown Album.

Don’t forget in your deep dive both Miscellaneous Debris (EP), and Rhinoplasty. Both are essential to me.

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Just finished Suck on This. Very cool introduction to the band being a live album. They sure seemed to have fun with it. They don’t seem to take themselves seriously at all, but there’s some absolutely serious fucking playing going on. Prog/funk/metal? Shit I don’t know. I did enjoy most of it and where I didn’t care for something, it was only a piece of a tune where I liked the rest of it.

Very excited to hit their studio work next.

The role reversal of the bass versus LaLonde’s lead guitar always gets me. Harold of the Rocks, John the Fisherman, and Groundhog’s Day are Primus all timers from this. They are also amazing on Frizzle Fry.

Those were my top 3 as well.

I went through a very long Primus phase from about 1994-maybe 2004? I lived in Suck On This, Frizzle Fry, and Sailing…, and also really loved Tales from the Punchbowl (a hot mess but a good one), and the Brown Album.

Don’t forget in your deep dive both Miscellaneous Debris (EP), and Rhinoplasty. Both are essential to me.

They’re both in there. The only one I don’t have is Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People.

[Ello Sailor]

Pork Soda shits all over everything that came after. Weird omission, Lie.

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Pork Soda shits all over everything that came after. Weird omission, Lie.

I took Pork Soda as a given. But even then, I never held that album in as high regard as the first few. Pork Soda gets really weird, and that’s a good thing, but when I listened to them non-stop it might have been a little too weird for me. It’s on my 1993 list already in the albums thread so retcon on that coming in a few months.

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Ok. I’ve made it thru Pork Soda. While there have been tunes I haven’t liked as well as others, there hasn’t been one I just didn’t like. And that’s saying a lot. Three albums, an EP and a live album and not one track? Insane. Certainly, there have been highlights. Harold of the Rocks. John the Fisherman. Groundhog’s Day. Pudding Time. Mr Knowitall. Here Come the Bastards. Eleven. Fish On. Tommy the Cat. American Life. My Name Is Mud. The Ol’ Diamondback Sturgeon. Just so much good music. I wish I had given them a chance back in the day but I’m not sure I would’ve liked them back then. My tastes 30 years ago were quite different than they are now. If I was half as cool as I thought I was then, I’d have been heavily into them, tho.

A few of the grooves put me in the mind of Rage and that made me wonder what a Claypool/ Morello collaboration would be like.

Also, I know they were on the HORDE tour and while wouldn’t classify them as a jam band, I can easily see how that scene would get into the Primus groove and how they would fit with those other bands.

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Jerry Was a Race Car Driver!

I actually saw them on the HORDE tour, but it was a year they were trying to move on from the jam scene. The lineup was Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Beck, Primus, Soul Coughing, Ben Folds, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and some other bands. I went specifically for Primus but remember being shocked at how great Beck was live. And Neil was Neil.

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The Ol’ Diamondback Sturgeon really reminded me of A Thousand Days Before from King Animal. Not the same music or anything, just that headspace and vibe. I love the whole Fish Trilogy and the fact these guys have enough fun to do something like that.

[wease]

Jerry Was a Race Car Driver!

I actually saw them on the HORDE tour, but it was a year they were trying to move on from the jam scene. The lineup was Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Beck, Primus, Soul Coughing, Ben Folds, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and some other bands. I went specifically for Primus but remember being shocked at how great Beck was live. And Neil was Neil.

Yes. Love Jerry too. I just didn’t want you guys to think I was only interested in the singles or “hits.”

When you saw the HORDE tour, did anyone get up an sit in/jam with anyone else?

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Jerry Was a Race Car Driver!

I actually saw them on the HORDE tour, but it was a year they were trying to move on from the jam scene. The lineup was Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Beck, Primus, Soul Coughing, Ben Folds, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and some other bands. I went specifically for Primus but remember being shocked at how great Beck was live. And Neil was Neil.

Yes. Love Jerry too. I just didn’t want you guys to think I was only interested in the singles or “hits.”

When you saw the HORDE tour, did anyone get up a sit in/jam with anyone else?

No, not at all.

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Also, outside of My Name Is Mud and Winona’s Big Brown Beaver, not sure they have much in the way of hits, though for them, Jerry is top level classic with Tommy the Cat and the songs you mentioned.