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I’m stuck on Primus lately…

.and I don’t think that’s a bad thing… 🤪

Amazing genesis story about this song:
This song is about this AS SAID BY LES
Claypool: That song is about a trip that I took to Los Angeles with Adam Gates who actually is the artist who did the picture that we're going to use for the record. He's just an old friend of mine and he had a band called Monkey Rhythm a while ago and they were going to shoot this video down in L.A. Some college students that they knew were going to do it as a project so he and I drove down to Los Angeles one night in his Datsun and we were fried on acid. So there were many very interesting things that happened to us on the way down. It was a full on Hunter S. Thompson experience. So I couldn't really tell the whole story in the song because there was just so much shit that went on but there's little references to different things. But I remember, we're driving along and it would be completely dark and every now and then I would lean up and grab the little map light thing that folds out and aim it at my face and click it on and go--like some crazy face and he'd start freaking out because it was the most hilarious thing in the world to us.
And we pulled into some truck stop to get gas and I bought a pack of cigarettes. I hadn't smoked in years. I bought some cigarettes and I stole a lighter and we bought a bunch of candy and, being idiots, bought a bunch of stuff, got back in the car and I started smoking all these cigarettes just to be a bastard filling the car with smoke. We were just fucking with each other the whole way down. I had this gum that when you bite it, the stuff squirts in your mouth, you know? And I didn't realize it was that kind of gum 'cause I hate that stuff. So I had this gum and I took it and I was squeezing out the juice and I was sitting there just squeezing it onto his shoulder while he was driving, the juice from this gum and I ate it. And he's like, what are you doing? And somehow the whole car seemed like it was full of this sticky stuff. It was everywhere. It was like the most horrible feeling.
So we ended up in L.A. and there's references to us flying over the grapevine through the fog and hearing--Faith No More's new song had just come on the radio, from the Introduce Yourself record, which was my favorite Faith No More record. It came on the radio and it was the total perk me up and we go flying over the grapevine. And we get to L.A. and we had been listening to this radio station, I guess Deep Purple was coming to town or something so that whatever heavy metal station down there was playing Deep Purple all the time. And we were going back and forth from that station and this college station where these people were talking on the radio. It was like Howard Stern type stuff. They were bullshitting.
So we're driving along and it was too early for us to show up at this video shoot, but it was late and we were tired and we didn't have a hotel or nothing, we didn't have any money. So Adam goes, "Well, we played the Roxie before." 'Cause I didn't know L.A. at all. He says, "Well, we played the Roxie before. Let's pull in behind the Roxie." So we pull into the parking lot behind the Roxie and we park and I'm lying there and he takes off. And I'm flipping through the channels and some Deep Purple song comes on so I'm listening to it on that station. I'm just lying there kind of half asleep kind of still frying and
the song ends and I flip the radio back to the college station and I hear Adam's voice on the radio and he's all, "Yeah, when you think of acid, think of Monkey Rhythm." Click. "That was Adam calling from a phone booth. His friend is asleep in the car right now behind the Roxie. And they've driven down here..." and I was like whoa. It was like total mindbender, you know. Pretty soon Adam comes walking back around the corner. I told him, I just heard you on the radio. He goes, "No way, they played that over the air? " So that's what that song is about. It was just one of those crazy weekends. Hunter S. Thompson would be proud, I think, of that weekend.


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Primus - Over the Electric Grapevine




They headed southward from San Francisco,
To be with chuckles and the others.
With electric in the air and peroxide in their hair,
They looked like golden brothers.
They drove a Datsun, an automatic,
The radio blaring static,
He made a face into the light and burst out laughing at the sight.
The hysteria ensuing would dominate the night.
From all the candy, the seats were sticky,
As they were drawn into the grapevine.
Then "introduce yourself" came on as they barreled through the fog.
The demon puffing madly on a mentholated log.
They were tired, they were sleepy,
So they parked behind the Roxy.
Adam left to use the phone, so he sat there all alone,
When Adam's voice come beaming through on the radio,
He started laughing...
.~~~



Jayciedubb · 56-60, M
Ah, yes! PRIMUS! The best band to come out of Concord since, .. ...since, . . .. ...wtf, since, ...?
...death angel? Weren't they also from concord?

Anyway, it would be cool to see Claypool and Buckethead collaborating again. I would have liked to have caught some of their live shows. I'm hoping Buckethead comes back through one day. I really want to take my son to see him live. I think they'd both get a kick out of each other
dubkebab · 56-60, M
That's the magic of college radio. Thanks for the backstory,I totally dig it.
I see Les at the flea market from time to time,he lives a few hills over.
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@dubkebab Nor Cal is nice if you can afford it. 😎
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
Nobody sounds like Primus 🤘
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@dubkebab I didn’t know you were from Pennsylvania?? Did I ??
dubkebab · 56-60, M
@2cool4school No,Vermont raised here-but wiley music transcends borders. I was just pondering.
I can easily picture a Phish statue,but kinda hope such a thing never happens. I did have many adventures with that band...they are really nice guys-but their fans irk me.
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@dubkebab I went to a “Phish” and “Grateful Dead” heavily influenced college and I have heard more of their stuff than I care to remember. I can stand Scarlett Begonias” a few times a week but “Bouncing round the room” just isn’t my jam. Fortunately it was also a great school for all kinds of the “golden age of reggae” bootlegs as well and I only wish I could have made more copies but 2 years was too long for me to stand in a town only 2.5 hours from some of the best snow to stand sideways and slide on. So I moved on. But I was actually pretty sure that Ween was from New Hope Pa but maybe Wikipedia is generalizing I just remember that they had a video of them stealing the liberty bell 🔔 because they were from the same state as Philadelphia ?? But I don’t recall what the song was called ?? Anyway always a pleasure to see you around SW 😊☺️ I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed your holidays. And look forward to hearing from you in the new year as well.
Keeper · M
Les is a true musical genius.
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@Keeper Agreed. I’m so glad that he wasn’t accepted into Metallica but in some alternate reality he might’ve changed the sound of that band and who knows what they would be known for??

 
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