Any Primus fans out there?

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>The original members of Primus have re-grouped. If you are not familiar with this band, I will fill you in. The bass player is one of the best there is. His style is along the lines of Geddy Lee, although the music is quiet different. The drummer is also fantastic. His style is along the lines of Neil Peart. The guitar player is very unique. His style is, well, his. The music, IMO, is more of a slapstick comedy, while being extremely technical.

I have purchased the new double dvd from their website. The cost, including shipping, was $21.99. I will give a review after I receive the dvds. It states to have videos &amp; live performances along with interviews.</font>

 

[Shinerman]

<font color='#000000'>Big fan here. &nbsp;Let us know what you think of the DVD. Is saw it but was a little hesitant to pull the trigger on it. &nbsp;

Shinerman</font>

 

[Guest]

<font color='#000000'>Hi Zumbo, right you are about Primus. Some of the best bass riffs I've heard. Better than Geddy Lee, but then Geddy hits back with his vocals ! Would be very interesting to hear Primus doing some Rush covers - YYZ perhaps ?
Keep us posted on the DVD review.</font>

 

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>On the cd Frizle Fry, they start one song as a Rush song. I can't remember which one, but they do. This is a great cd, but I have not heard it in a while because I had it on tape &amp; the sound quality was not very good, so I never replaced it. I think &quot;Sailing the Seas of Cheese&quot; is the best one. They have the original drummer back, so I am excited to hear the new material! I read, somewhere, that Les Claypools hero was Geddy Lee.</font>

 

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>The dvd is here!

The first dvd in the set has music videos of very high quality, and bootleg concert footage of very poor quality. After viewing second time I realized there were more live performances after each section of very good quality!

The second cd is five new songs that sound more like Oyster Head than Primus!

I love it!</font>

 

[Shinerman]

<font color='#000000'>Awright, &nbsp;I think I will splurge. &nbsp;I've been hankerin for some good new Primus lately. &nbsp;

Sounds like a good addition for the collection.

Shinerman</font>

 

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>I wouldn't say the new stuff is good, unless you liked Oyster Head. But it is cool to see them perform some of their older stuff. No current performances. Extremely LWAF!

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[Unregistered]

primus's 2004 june tour

interesting that you say primus should play YYZ-- their second show they did an encore performance of a song called "YYZ", assuming its rush. im going to see them in st. paul in a week, cant wait. they also did zappa's "Dumb All Over", the entire Frizzle Fry album, and a second set with various songs.

 

[Unregistered]

Don't know if this thread is still alive, but I was at the Primus show in Philly last night and they played La Villa Strangiato in its entirety. It was pretty freakin awesome.

 

[pcefrog]

primus

they do indeed start the 'suck on this' album off with 'YYZ' a rush tune , only for a few seconds.

ps....a friend of mine saw an AWESOME concert once...
....U2 with janes addiction and primus...in Vancouver around 1990 or so
cheers

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I like Primus, but I like some of Claypool's side projects and solo stuff better. Mr Oysterhead, in particular, is awesome.

 

[Bluesmobile]

I've seen Primus live 6 times in the early nineties. i stopeed following them after Pork Soda.

Les Claypool had Geddy Lee as one of his inspirations. He was quoted as saying that once he heard Lee's bass sound from Rush's Moving Pictures (1981), he wanted to get that same sound. Primus sounds nothing like Rush. But Claypool's bass is noticably inspired in part by Geddy Lee's masterful playing.

Primus opened for Rush on their 1992 Roll The Bones tour, and had some opening dates on Rush's 1994 Counterparts tour.

On the live Primus album SUCK ON THIS, the band plays the first 30 or seconds of Rush's YYZ. I've seen a video bootleg of early Primus and they played Rush's Spirit of Radio in it's entirety. When Priumus opened for Rush, they played about a minute of Zeppelin's KASHMIR, and of course, Les Claypool's band played Pink Floyd's ANIMALS in it's entirety.

 

[highfihoney]

I like Primus,I'd l;ike to see them get a bit more technical on their music because they obviously have the ability to write technically proficient music, all in all still an exceptional band.

Primus reminds me of some of the early works from The Mothers Of Invention.