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Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People
''Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People'' is a career-spanning retrospective DVD plus bonus EP by American band Primus, released on October 7, 2003. The title was inspired by a crayon-made story book written by guitarist Larry LaLonde's son,''Blame It on the Fish'' and the cover depicts a sculpture made by long-time Primus collaborator Lance "Link" Montoya. The DVD features all of the band's music videos to date, plus short films and live footage from as far back as 1986, whereas the bonus EP features five new songs written and recorded specifically for this release. When promoting the release, bassist Les Claypool remarked that "It seems of late that bands are adding supplemental DVD material to their album releases to promote record sales. We've done the opposite. We've added a supplemental audio recording of brand new music to an extremely comprehensive DVD of classic visuals." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blame It On The Fish
''Blame It on the Fish: An Abstract Look at the 2003 Primus Tour de Fromage'' is a DVD by Primus that was released on October 17, 2006. It was directed by Matthew J. Powers and produced by Powers Philms and Frizzle Fry Inc. This DVD contains 70 minutes of the movie, 90 minutes of extras and interviews taken from Primus' 2003 Tour de Fromage. It also shows random clips between songs and interviews. The title of the DVD stems from an incident in the film where drummer Tim Alexander successfully performs after getting food poisoning from bad fish at a restaurant. The band requested that the film be abstract, artistic, and that the songs not be shown in their entirety. Track list #" Mr. Krinkle" (from ''Pork Soda'') #"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" (from ''Sailing the Seas of Cheese'') #"Southbound Pachyderm" (from ''Tales from the Punchbowl'') #"De Anza Jig" (from ''Tales from the Punchbowl'') #"Over The Electric Grapevine" (from ''Tales from the Punchbowl'') #"Hello Skinny" (The Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DMV (song)
"DMV" is a song by the American rock band Primus. It was released on their 1993 album ''Pork Soda'' and also as a single. The video was featured in ''Beavis and Butt-head''. It has been played live on Lollapalooza '93 and some concerts of 2003 Tour de Fromage. This song is also featured in ''Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People'' and in the compilation album '' They Can't All Be Zingers''. The song failed to chart. Description This song features bassist Les Claypool soulfully slapping and tapping his bass. In the video about 40 seconds of the outro were removed. It appears to be about the pointlessness of mundane activities such as waiting in line at Department of Motor Vehicles, going to the dentist and sitting on cold toilet seats etc., and seeking relief through marijuana. The lyrics reference the previous album ''Sailing the Seas of Cheese''. Music video The video for "DMV" features live and backstage footage from the 10/1/1993 show at the Greek Theater in Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pork Soda
''Pork Soda'' is the third studio album by the American funk metal band Primus, released April 20, 1993, certified Gold in September 1993 and certified Platinum in May 1997. The 2005 re-issue comes in a digipak and contains a booklet with lyrics printed to nine songs, omitting "Pork Soda" which consists of a series of unintelligible rants. The album was performed in its entirety for the first time at the Fox Oakland Theatre on December 31, 2015. Music and lyrics The album contains darker content than previous Primus efforts, featuring lyrics dealing with murder (" My Name Is Mud"), suicide ("Bob"), and alienation ("Nature Boy"). The band has commented that prior to recording, they had been touring for nearly two solid years and were thus in a somber mood, although in a 2015 interview frontman Les Claypool described the era surrounding the album as "Good times, happy times. It's not like we were reflecting any personal drama or anything." Regarding the song "Wounded Knee" drumm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Name Is Mud
"My Name Is Mud" is a song by the American rock band Primus, released in 1993 as the first single from their third album ''Pork Soda''. In 2010, Primus released a new version of the track sung entirely in Spanish under the title "Me Llamo Mud". Composition and recording In the book ''Primus: Over the Electric Grapevine'', when discussing "My Name Is Mud", bassist Les Claypool explained that "the whole notion of the ... song is basically about a couple of tweekers"—one of whom is the titular Mud—"who are hanging out, and they get in a fight over something stupid, and one of them kills the other one. Kind of a '' River’s Edge''–type vibe."Prato (2014), pp. 163–64. "My Name Is Mud" (like the rest of ''Pork Soda'') was recorded in the band's rehearsal space, which was a series of UltraSound Audio-owned warehouses located in San Rafael. According to Claypool: "We ended up taking over three f UltraSound'sspaces—we stuck uitarist Larry LaLondein one, rummer Tim Alexand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy The Cat
"Tommy the Cat" is a song by the American funk metal band Primus, released on their second album, ''Sailing the Seas of Cheese''. Recording The song contains spoken word portions (as the voice of Tommy the Cat) interspersed with the singing of Les Claypool. In their live performances Claypool does both parts himself, but singer Tom Waits provided the voice of Tommy the Cat on the studio version from ''Sailing the Seas of Cheese''. Release Primus released "Tommy the Cat" following their first major label single, "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver". In concert, Claypool started introducing all of their other songs by saying "This next song is ''not'' Tommy the Cat", apparently due to the popularity the song had gained after a video was released and played on MTV. The song was briefly featured in the 1991 film '' Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey'' during the "Battle of the Bands" portion of the movie, where Primus was shown performing it. The song was also used in the teaser trailers for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
''Sailing the Seas of Cheese'' is the second studio album and major-label debut by the American rock music, rock band Primus (band), Primus, released on May 14, 1991. It spawned three singles: "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver", "Tommy the Cat", and "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers". "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" appeared in the video games ''ATV Offroad Fury'', ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater'', ''Rock Band 3'', ''The Bigs'', and as downloadable content for ''Rocksmith 2014'', while "American Life" appears in ''Tony Hawk's Project 8''. Album information * "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" contains a sample from the movie ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2'' in which the character Chop Top exclaims "Dog will hunt!" * "Los Bastardos" contains samples from the BBC television series ''The Young Ones (TV series), The Young Ones'' including Vyvyan shouting, "Shut up, you bastards!", Vyvyan's mother saying, "He is a bastard isn't he?", as well as Rick saying, "You just called me a bastard, didn't you?" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" is a song by the American funk metal band Primus. It was released as the first single from their 1991 album ''Sailing the Seas of Cheese'' and reached number 23 on the U.S. Alternative Songs chart. The song tells the stories of two characters, Jerry, an ill-fated race car driver who collides with a telephone pole while driving intoxicated (hence the use of "was", in the title) and Captain Pearce, a retired fireman. History "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" was the fourth Primus single, after "John the Fisherman", "Too Many Puppies" and " Mr. Knowitall" from the 1989 live album '' Suck on This'' and 1990's debut studio release ''Frizzle Fry''. "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" received heavy airplay on rock radio, and peaked at number 23 on the Modern Rock Tracks in 1991. The song features a sample of Bill Moseley's character Chop Top from the film ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2'', chuckling to himself then remarking: "Dog will hunt!" "Jerry Was a Race Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Kerslake
Kevin Kerslake is an American filmmaker and photographer. He has directed documentaries on Joan Jett ('' Bad Reputation''), DJ AM (''As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM''), The Ramones (''We're Outta Here!''), Nirvana (''Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!''), Bob Marley & the Wailers (''Legend Remixed''), Soundgarden (''Louder Than Live'' and ''Motorvision''), Insomniac (promoter), Insomniac (''Electric Daisy Carnival'', ''Nocturnal Wonderland'' and ''The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience''), among others. Television work includes scripted series on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox (''The Visitor (TV series), The Visitor''), ABC Family (''Fallen (miniseries), Fallen''), and Vevo (Tim Timebomb's ''RockNRoll Theater''), plus segments on the Academy Awards (''Mominees''), Billboard Music Awards (''Billboard Millennium Award - Beyoncé''), and Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics & Life Sciences. Kerslake started his career in film by making surf, skate and ski films throughout his teens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Many Puppies
"Too Many Puppies" is a song by the American rock band Primus, released as the second single from their debut studio album '' Frizzle Fry'' (1990). It was the first Primus song bassist and lead singer Les Claypool ever composed. A reworked version featuring drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia can be found on their ''Rhinoplasty'' EP (1998). Lyrics The song is mostly about the band's reflection on war, and how many soldiers are too young to go off to war, parodying the idea of " the dogs of war" by claiming the dogs are merely puppies. The song was written six years prior to the first Persian Gulf War (despite being released in 1990) and was possibly about violence happening around the region during that time period, such as the Soviet–Afghan War or Iran–Iraq War. Music video A video was in production for "Too Many Puppies", but the project was canceled when Primus was signed to Interscope Records. The video had been a rarity until 2003, when it was released on ''Animals Should No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frizzle Fry
''Frizzle Fry'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Primus. It was released on February 7, 1990, by Caroline Records. Produced by the band and Matt Winegar, the album was recorded at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco in December of 1989. Background Primus self-financed the recording of ''Frizzle Fry'' using proceeds from their preceding album, '' Suck On This''. The completed album was then released in 1990 on Caroline Records. ''Frizzle Fry'' features guitarist Larry LaLonde playing many parts written by previous guitarist Todd Huth who left before the recording of the album. ''Frizzle Fry'' features the band's first single and minor radio hit "John the Fisherman". It was remastered in 2002, after the original had been out of print for years, and was released on Prawn Song Records. The remaster includes an extra track, named "Hello Skinny/Constantinople", a cover of the tracks "Hello Skinny" and "Constantinople" by The Residents. "Too Many Puppies" is the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John The Fisherman
"John the Fisherman" is the debut single by American rock band Primus. It was first released on December 30, 1989 on the live album '' Suck on This'', then re-released a year later on May 17, 1990, this time on their debut studio album ''Frizzle Fry'' as the lead single. The band's frontman Les Claypool said of the song: "John the Fisherman" was written so long ago. I like to write about things I know about so that I don’t sound like a dipshit talking over my head. I fish. Some dads take their kids to football games or baseball games. My dad took me fishing. That’s what we did, almost every weekend. My uncle, my grandfather, that’s what we did. It’s a big part of my history. So, for me, it was always easy to write about. These fishing songs kept popping up, themes about the ocean, and it made it like a chronicle, a subdivision of our body of work. The live version of "John the Fisherman" that appears on ''Suck on This'' contains an intro consisting of the intro to the 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
