.claypool_les reflects on primus' debut FrizzleFry at 30
As he preps his return to work in Oysterhead, the art-pop power trio he's in alongside Phish frontman Trey Anastasio and Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Les Claypool admits to letting the 30th anniversary of Primus's classic studio debutYet when he gets to reminiscing on those salad days in the earliest of early '90s, the bass wizard of the Bay Area is happy to reflect on when Primus rode the crest of modern rock's transformative California wave to become one of the bedrocks of...
I've gotten to know Jello Biafra over the years but we were always fans of Dead Kennedys. For us, though, it was more about the North Bay scene. The Victims Family guys were good friends of ours and Mr. Bungle and there was this whole scene with Faith No More and Limbomaniacs and bands like that. Green Day, in fact, used to open up for us in clubs around town..
You know, John Lydon was a huge influence on me. I mean, so was Peter Gabriel, but I could hit those notes. If you listen to me singing, especially onthere's a lot of John Lydon in there. Not necessarily Sex Pistols era, but all the PiL stuff he did like, the generic record. He was a big influence on me, especially in my timbre and my approach. I never thought of myself as a singer.
Well, some of them were based on actual characters that I've known through my life. Some of them are composites of people and some of them are straight up fiction. But even in fiction, you tend to draw from experience. So "Sathington Willoughby" to me was a stereotypical huckster politician guy and "Harold of the Rocks" is almost verbatim to that song.
It must be amazing to see, after all this time, people still go apeshit over that song when you play it in concert...
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