[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twG46K1wbLQ[/youtube]
excellent. i’ve been at a primus reunion lately so i’ll talk about the mastermind behind that band; les claypool. you will find absolutely nothing even remotely similar to the sound of primus from the decade of the 90s and beyond. you couldn’t call the sound explicitly ‘grunge’ or ‘metal’ or ‘rock’ or even ‘pop’, and you’ll find none of the standard formulas for commercial song writing present anywhere in the music. these guys were a power trio (like rush) of very talented musicians with very unique style. the music is heavily bass driven… the bass guitar being the lead instrument… which was almost unheard of in bands from the 90s which were primarily guitar bands. claypool - vocalist, bassist and band leader - drives the bass like it’s a fucking bulldozer, and his drummer ‘herb’ was probably the best drummer to come out of the 90s. the music is elementally strange and aggressive, but with comedic properties that sets the band aside from the typical stereotypes other bands fall under. remember, the 90s was the decade when the glamour rock of the 80s was changing into something more masculine (make-up and big hair was out), but the bands still retained that over exaggerated, histrionic image of trying to be ‘cool’ with all the posing and microphone love-making that went on in the videos and on stage. with primus (and any of the other claypool projects) you see none of this. in fact, you’d find something diametrically opposed to this; claypool dressed in overalls, stomping around the stage in work boots, popping his bass and singing in some strange cartoonish redneck voice. there’s really nothing like it anywhere… and this is what i have an eye and ear for; the truly unique, the truly exceptional, the truly original. stone temple pilots, alice in chains, nirvana, pearl jam, sound garden, et al., are great… but they are not on the same plane as primus. i’ll give you a tour in the next several days… but you have to promise to listen, man. it’s an acquired taste… something that requires a certain kind of personality (which you might have), and that’s what we’re going to find out. okay, so here’s one from ‘sausage’, which was a side project by claypool. similar sound as primus, but slightly nuanced due to a different drummer and guitarist…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w1MIiE8ZhM[/youtube]
lol, great description. here’s one from 'frizzle fry", the album prior to ‘sailing the seas of cheese’. ever hear chords strummed like that on a bass? and that break at 3:50 is tight as fuck, man.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXKNwo5ik8[/youtube]
‘lingering taste of toothpaste made the milk go down a but funny, but ya know…’
I like this.
Nice.
I appreciate your music more, more I listen to it. Thanks for sharing. It is sad that it has such a low hits.
nice. you’re in, bahman. there are a few essentials you’ll need to hear before you complete your initiation. here are two of them. btw, they do an outstanding cover of pink floyd’s ‘have a cigar’ on that same album you just linked to, if you haven’t already listened to it.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OhIU-PmB8[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQ2305fLeA[/youtube]
this one is absolutely brilliant, bahman. a warning though; once you enter into the mind of les claypool, you’ll never be the same. it’s music from some parallel universe that shouldn’t be here on our earth.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRD0hLm9-ro[/youtube]
Sam Fender (born 25 April 1996) is an English singer-songwriter who was named one of the BBC’s Sound of 2018 alongside other emerging artists including Sigrid, Lewis Capaldi, and Khalid. His single “Play God” was featured in the FIFA 19 video game. He won the Brit Awards Critics’ Choice for 2019
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVbq95McOBA[/youtube]
Nice. I love this.