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04-05 Primus Album Re-release
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Primus is an American rock band formed in California in the mid-1980s. Les Claypool (vocals and bass guitar) has been the only
constantmember. They have had two guitar players(although Larry LaLonde has held onto the role for over 16 years) and many
different drummers (although Tim Alexander and Bryan Mantia werethe only ones who recorded with theband, and Jay Lane, the
only other one who had creative impact) in the past.
Their music has proven difficult to define; while usually considered by critics to be funk metal or alternative metal, Primus has
been calledeverything fro ...read more
Primus is an American rock band formed in California in the mid-1980s. Les Claypool (vocals and bass guitar) has been the only
constantmember. They have had two guitar players(although Larry LaLonde has held onto the role for over 16 years) and many
different drummers (although Tim Alexander and Bryan Mantia werethe only ones who recorded with theband, and Jay Lane, the
only other one who had creative impact) in the past.
Their music has proven difficult to define; while usually considered by critics to be funk metal or alternative metal, Primus has
been calledeverything from "thrash funk" (as the bandblends funk-style bass technique with thrash influenced guitar riffs and
songs tempos), to "alternative rock" to "the Freak Brothers set tomusic." Les Claypool himself once describedtheir music as
"psychedelic polka." Thanks to the diversity of their sound they have been able to gain a modest segment of rabid fans
fromnearly all rock subgenres. They arecharacterized by their irreverent approach to music — they release their records on
Claypool's Prawn Song Records label, a parody of LedZeppelin's Swan Song, and their catchphrasewas, for several years,
"Primus Sucks!". In 2003 the band dropped that catchphrase, as well as Tim Alexander's nickname "Herb". « hide |
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