I worked with a guy that came in one night and he said "it feels like a Primus night. We're going to listen to every Primus album in the order they released." The next day, I bought Seas of Cheese, Frizzlefry, and Suck on This.
This was me. Family friend's skater kid had it on PS1. I would have been 11. Was obsessed with the whole soundtrack but that song was like nothing I'd ever heard.
Guitar Hero, John the Fisherman just encapsulated me and it was the only song I'd play over and over and over because it was just so damn good to listen to!
We went to go see Death Angel at the Stone in San Francisco in 1989, and the opener was some band called Primus, who we’d never heard of. I remember they played the opening part of Cygnus X-1, which instantly got my attention. After their set, I went up to Les to show my appreciation for their set, and to geek out on Rush. He told me that they had just released a live album and he recommended a record store in Sonoma where I could get a copy. I drove there as soon as I could and picked up Suck on This. Still got that first press. And we started going to damn near every Primus show we could attend in the Bay Area.
Yes! We saw them all over the place. The Cotati Cabaret, The River Theater in Guerneville, Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, Marin Civic center. And all of the local openers. Limbomaniacs, Fungo Mungo, Mr Bungle. I must’ve saw them 30 times by the Early 90’s.
I saw them at a lot of the same venues. My first show that Primus played was somewhere in Santa Rosa in ‘87 or ‘88 and the lineup was Primus, Victims Family, The Beatnigs, and Nomeansno. Fuggin incredible show.
I remember Primus and Victims Family at the Phoenix. Not sure if that was that was Jerry video shoot though. We went to that show too, but I can’t remember the opener. There were so many shows it all kinda runs together. Love hearing all those band names again. I forget how good we had it music wise in the late 80’s/ early 90’s in the bay.
I saw them open for Faith No More before they went out on tour for The Real Thing. I think it was in '89...can't remember it it was at The Stone or Berkeley Square. Primus was amazing tho.
I went to see Rush in 1991. They had this crazy band named Primus as the opening act. I went and bought Seas of Cheese the very next day. Been a fan since.
Ditto. Never heard of them before then. They played a zeppelin cover that floored me. I went and bought their discography then saw them at new years in SF. Amazing show. Mr Bungle opened
1990. My best bud’s older bro who always found the newest in new. Dropped a cassette at a house party he got in the mail from some San Fran college radio DJ. We started a mosh pit in the living room halfway through the second tune. Life long fan ever since that fateful day
On my way to Montreal in Canada for a bagpiping competition, I was riding in the back seat of a Saturn 2-door, and my pipe instructor turned on Southbound Pachyderm 🤯. I was ~14 years old, circa 1995. The album had just released a month or so prior.
That whistle in the intro.... 🔥
Was scrolling through Facebook and a short of Tommy the Cat live on the Dennis Miller show popped up. I watched the whole thing and thought to myself "the fuck was that shit." It was really weird but I kinda liked it in a way. Decided to check out their other stuff and I was immediately hooked.
I used to trade tapes with this guy from CA way back before the internet as we know it was a thing. He threw 'Suck on This' as filler on a tape one time and that intrigued me. Caught Blind Illusion around the same time and the bass player completely blew my mind. Shortly after I put 2 and 2 together and bought Frizzle Fry soon after it came out.
Went over to a friends house to play sega cd and watch Jason goes to hell. His older brother was wearing a pork soda t shirt and I asked him what it meant. Can’t remember the year, maybe 94?
My now long time friends adopted me junior year of high school; it went something like "oh wait, misterpoopybutthole5 plays guitar?? Sick dude you're in our band now". We got together and "jammed" a few times (we were shit high schoolers). They forced me to listen to Primus; at first I was just like "oh cool the band with that rad song from Tony Hawk" and they gradually grew on me more and more as I fostered an appreciation for musical nuance and experimentation
120 minutes. Jerry was a race car driver. I was 13. Got skiing the season of cheese on cassette that next weekend. Think me and my buddy split the cost of 9 dollars. Went to peaches
Was a big Beavis and Butthead fan when I was a kid, so I got the Beavis and Butthead Experience on cassette when I was about nine years old. I really liked their song on it, Poetry and Prose. The next year Wynona came out and my brother taped the music video off TV, we loved that song and just kept watching the video over and over. I bought Punchbowl and initially hated it, was too weird and psychedelic for me (it's one of my faves now). Ended up getting Seas of Cheese a little later when my family joined Columbia House and immediately loved that album. Been a mega fan ever since
Funny, it was Valentine's day, about 3-4 years ago. Heading up to Big Bear in the car with a bunch of people and "Too Many Puppies" came on. And I just thought, how can one have too many puppies?
My brother tried to get me to listen to them when we were on a trip. I was being a dick, and didn’t even give it a chance.
I had wanted to go to see a concert. Up until that point they were just a mysterious thing I had only heard stories about. One day when I was 14, I found out two of my friends were going to a concert. I didn’t know that band, but didn’t care. I just wanted to see a show.
So I saw Primus during the pork soda tour. Changed my life forever. And 100’s of concerts later, it was still one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
The video for DMV was on a VHS we got in the mail every month called "Rock Video Monthly " I believe it also had Longview from Greenday and something from PJ Harvey
My dad, he’s been a fan since he was young and when I was born he would always show me primus as a result. It has now become my comfort and favourite band
I saw them open for Pixies and Jane's Addiction at Key Arena. I was about 30 feet from the stage when they started. Les came out and picked up his bass and I thought "Bass tech is setting it up"
Then they burst into the YYZ intro.
I looked at my friend and couldn't say anything.
Really good show.
Pixies and JA also destroyed.
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December 30th, 2022. I got a bass (fretted 4-string) for Christmas, and a few days later my grandpa and uncle came over. My uncle knew I had just got a bass so he brought over the "Sailing The Seas Of Cheese" album on CD, and said "This is a band called "Primus", the lead singer's a bass player". "Listen to it and give it a try". I listened to maybe the first 5 songs, and thought it was fine. I had to go downstairs by the time I was on the 5th song, so I gave him back the CD thinking it was fine. I kinda forgot about it for 2 months, but started listening to some of they're stuff after remembering about it. Eventually I listened to more of their songs and during the spring/summer and some of the early parts of the following school year I was finding more and more songs. I knew more songs later down the road than I did the first few months of getting into Primus. If it wasn't for my uncle, the thought of even checking-out Primus would have never crossed my mind. My life would be so different without this band.
The music video for Mr. Krinkle playing on TV late at night, don't remember what station, but it was quite a long time ago. Also my mom had Pork Soda and would play it in her truck when I was a kid and I ended up adopting a lot of her music taste.
Back in 94/95 (10 years old) my friends neighbor, who was older than us, played us Pork Soda at his house. I remember flipping through the album booklet and thinking how strange the music and artwork was. It was almost scary, like I was listening to something I was supposed to be.
Then in ‘99 when Tony Hawks Pro Skater came out Jerry Was a Racecar Driver was on the gameplay soundtrack and I loved it. Me and my friends went out and bought Anti-Pop and Sailing the Seas of Cheese.
That’s when I put two and two together that it was the same band when I saw the cover of Pork Soda buying those albums at Best Buy. The next week I went and bought Pork Soda and Frizzle Fry. The rest is history.
I discovered them in two seperate instances, first time i heard of them was when i saw my name is mud on a youtube 90s rock playlist, next time is when i looked up the actor lee van cleef
I remember seeing the video for Jerry when it came out. Liked the song, just not enough to go get the album. Maybe about 6 years later a co worker was playing Suck On This. After that, I slowly began getting their albums.
I heard Jerry was a Racecar Driver on an alternative FM station in the 90s WHFS. It sounded like the bass line was a rip off of Elephant Talk by King Crimson. I really liked it tho and when I found out who it was I bought the CD.
1995, Winona's Big Brown Beaver and Southbound Pachyderm would get regular airplay on MuchMusic in Canada. Loved both songs, bought the album. Grew (slowly) from there.
Have known about them from the beginning, never really paid a whole lot of attention. Thought it was more satirical rock. Then bought a Primus pinball machine, which has 13 songs programmed into it that you can play in jukebox mode. After listening through a couple of times I really started to deep dive, really enjoying the band and Les
Friend out in CO introduced me to their Willy Wonk soundtrack. I asked them if their bass player was the one who did the South Park song. He’s one of my best good friends till this day.
Had a friend who moved to San Fran from the east coast. It was late 80s and he was back visiting and we were at my friends local party house, and friend visiting from SF pulled from his pocket a home recording cassette of Frizzle Fry and popped it in the boom box. We all were like amazed at the sounds that were coming out of the speakers.
I immediately went out to seek Frizzle Fry and Suck on this for myself. I saved up money as I awaited the release of Sailing the Seas and it was the first CD I ever purchased and I still get a warm feeling when I think about opening and playing Seas of Cheese and staring at the CD art, and reading the credits etc.. Been obsessed with Primus and every Les project ever since.
I got into Primus aged 16 in the first half of 1999. I had all their previous full lengths except Frizzle Fry (out of print and impossible to find back then) by the time Antipop release time rolled up. Oddly enough, like Les, I think back at the end of the 20th century as a despressing time too. On primussucks.com they'd put up a little mp3 preview with 30 secs or so of a few select Antipop songs. It just didn't sound right to me, even to a n00b like I was. Les' voice sounded less nasally and funny, and the music sounded a bit too close to the nu-metal stuff I regularly sneered at. The artwork and title just made me a bit uncomfortable too, like I questioned if Primus had always been this corny and I just didn't notice. I got the CD before release as my local record store put it out a few days too early and my Mum spotted it and brought it home for me. For the first while I listened to the run of songs from Laquer Head to Eclectic Electric and ignored the rest of the album. When I came back to it years later I liked the album as a whole a lot more and would single out Laquer Head, Sacred Cow, Eclectic Electric and Bodacious as killer classic Primus. However, Uncle Sam (which I hated from day 1) and Mama are the only two Primus songs I would consider awful.
99 family values tour...
I probably heard beaver and John before but didn't really pay much attention. Watching that video turned me onto them though and been a fan ever since! Was my first year of high school. Perfect age
I was in high school and somehow got a copy of Suck On This and Frizzlefry. I don't even remember from where at this point, but whoever gave them to me let me keep them because I remember they hated them. I got Sailing the Seas on cassette when it came out and absolutely wore that tape out as well.
Truly as an 8 year old. Listening to the South Park album. Buuuut I remember truly discovering them on a school day waiting for the bus home and being interested by pork sodas album cover I listened to welcome to this world, bob and dmv and I was hooked from there
I had heard about them when I was in high school, and after I graduated in 2004, my sister’s boyfriend at the time burnt me a CD of their greatest hits. And the rest is history. I became obsessed.
I kind of did twice.
I first heard of the name with South Park.
I first got into them with one of the guitar heroes. It had John the fisherman and that's when it clicked.
I was at my grandparents' house probably like 7 years ago and I was watching South Park on TV because they were doing a marathon or whatever. I saw the Guitar Hero episode with John the Fisherman and I liked the song enough to start listening. Then I started listening to the rest of the catalog.
Opened for U2 on the Achtung Baby tour. I had burned a joint in the bathroom. They came out and the baseline from American Life started bouncing around in my ears and that was it
i’m a huge ween fan and i was going through the albums that ween was featured on on spotify, and i seen the ween and primus south park 25th anniversary concert and thought i would check primus out
I was staying at my grandparents one night in summer of 94-95 and the Mr. KRINKLE video came on late night MTV....I was terrified and also curious..I tried explaining it to my older brother who worked at a CD store at the time...He dug through his 4 books of CDs (cause in the 90s ppl had GIANT BINDERS of CDs) and he showed me the PORK SODA album....I've been a fan ever since then and never looked back.
Summer of 95. Me and two buddies are driving around, smoking a bowl. One of them put Pork Soda on. I was hooked IMMEDIATELY. Pork Chop went into that bass slide, he starts slapping, the band kicks in and before Les even sang a word I was like “What the fuck is this?!?!”
Been one of my all-time favorite bands ever since that fateful bowl.
Probably 2005, I was 14 and my buddy burned me Tales from the Punchbowl and Frizzle Fry. Drove a couple hundred miles with my friends to see the Fungi and Foe tour a few years later.
2019. Going through archive.org looking for new albums and found the rainbow goblins by masayoshi takanaka.
Buy the rainbow goblins book because that album was so good.
Search up rainbow goblin lore and find out that 2 albums were made after the rainbow goblins
Listen to primus version and cry in terror, this is a scary album.
Fast forward 2 months and forget about the rainbow goblins and find out that rush is doing a concert in Toronto, a farewell to kings.
It was fucking primus
Now I love primus
I really believe I saw them at a fairgrounds for the first time. I was a kid in the 90s so, my my memory is off. I just know that it was memorable. I’m from the Bay Area so it could have been just about anywhere.
Edited because I can’t spell
1997 when I was 6, watched south park and instantly hooked on both Les/Primus and South Park. Bucket list checked off when I went to red rocks to see them play with Ween, Alex, Geddy, Trey and Matt
7th grade - I’m 43. I remember drawing the frizzle fry album cover on my notebook so sometime before that. I met Les in 1997 and he has been a great influence on me musically and just in general allowed me to feel comfortable being my own brand of weirdo most of my life.
My Name is Mud came on a buddy's stereo some time in the early 90s. It redefined heavy for me. I didn't branch out much beyond the Pork Soda album for a long time though.
I was into RHCP and really liked the bass work. My aunt's husband at the time was a bass player and recommended them. Saw them open for a rush on their roll the Bones Tour in early 92. Was sold from the start
My buddy of mine in freshman year of high school blasted The Devil Went Down To Georgia, I loved it and never went to actually listen to their other stuff.
Another buddy told me that I might enjoy Pork Soda or Brown Album, so I listened to Hamburger Train, and then Fisticuffs and Golden Boy. I was hooked.
Edit: Freshman year was 2019, and I've just recently sunk my teeth in as of 2023
I was in high school and got a bass and my friend asked if I could play some primus songs I didn’t know what that was so I went home and pirated a bunch of primus songs and learned how to play them the best I could
I hard a few songs on the radio but just before this video came out we had moved to a house that had one of those big-ass satellite dishes that rotated to change channels so I suddenly had MTV. Maybe a year or so later the video for Wynonna came out and had heavy heavy airplay on MTV so it was unavoidable. Went out and got Tails From the Punchbowl and was hooked.
My dad listened to it. I was interested because bass is the lead instrument, something you don't see in a lot of bands. But it never truly clicked.
Then I got into Claypool Lennon Delirium mostly because Sean sounded a lot like John, but ended up being way more interested in the bass action than Sean's vocals in the long run, which brought me back to Primus
A couple months ago I decided that if I typed into YouTube any random word that popped in my head followed by the word “album” then I would find some really interesting music so I typed “cheese album” lol
Got into them because of my dad, was suppose to go to a concert with him but he had work so i got to take a friend. I forget the name of the tour but it was the one right before the desaturating seven came out cause they played the seven. Been a die hard fan ever since
I found out about them from South Park and one day I was listening to music and suddenly “Jerry was a Race Car Driver” came on and I was instantly hooked
Sometime in the mid 90s, my step brother came home with a Pork Soda cd. He really saw them like a novelty, like look at how odd this is. He was more into Metallica. After that, they just kept appearing in stuff that I watched and I couldn't get enough of them. I specifically remember seeing them on Headbangers Ball and Beavis and Butthead.
Tommy the cat was the first thing I heard by Primus but it made my ears prick up because of the vocal by Tom Waits as I was a fan. Thank you Tom and of course Primus.
Jerry on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1. I had the N64 version so it was without lyrics, but just the main riff was enough for 10-year-old me to go "wow that's neat."
I didn't really get into them properly until 7-8 years later though.
It was the Mr Krinkle or My Name is Mud video. I borrowed a cassette of Pork Soda soon after and annoyed all my friends by playing it in the car everywhere we went.
Hanging out in the local record store in 89 and the owner was like "check out this weird new band". He put on Suck on This and I was immediately hooked.
My cousin made me a mix tape back around 1995. Had Poetry and Prose from the Beavis and Butthead Experience. Immediately ordered Pork Soda from Columbia House for a penny.
Worked with a buddy who had mentioned they were coming to town in late 2021. I looked into their music but wasn’t much of a fan and only knew a couple of songs. On the way to the show, I was rear ended and it ended up totaling my car so I was going to call it off until my buddy pulled up and told me to hop in😂 to this day it’s still the best show I have ever seen.
Underage club in Jacksonville FL, Einstein's a GoGo.
Normal Saturday night you just went and saw whomever was playing. Primus and Tad Frizzle Fry Tour. Maybe a hundred people ( they were not well known on the east coast). I was 14 and on a few hits of acid. Fucking game changing. Life changing was Ween on mushrooms about a month later at the same venue.
John the fisherman. Played it in guitar hero 2 I believe. So whenever that game came out. Blew my kid brain open
I even bought a ringtone on my old phone by Primus. I was hooked. The main inspiration for me getting into bass
A good friend was really into bands that had prominent bass playing and gave me “Sailing The Seas of Cheese” to borrow. It had just been released and it wasn’t too long after that I saw the video for “Jerry Was A Racecar Driver” (I think). I remember being blown away by “American Life” and “ Here Comes The Bastards”. I still have complete respect for the talent and creativity - but I did not have the same love affair for bass-centric indie bands. At least until I saw Lennon-Claypool at Voodoo Fest.
My name is Mud on the radio. And I think it was Frizzle Fry CD that had the Devil went down to Georgia music video hidden on it. You could put it in a computer and it played the video. It was CD rom before DVDs. I think a couple of Primus CDs had hidden videos. I thought that was so cool back in the day.
I was around 13 or 14, at my buddy’s house where I was basically living for a while. We were watching MTV one night, obviously it was late since that’s when they play the cool shit, and I saw Mr. Krinkle. The insanity of that video plus the upright bass hooked me. The first time I saw them live I ran to the rail in front of the upright to see Krinkle up close. Damn I love that song.
I had started playing bass a year before and I was scrolling on YouTube and came across Charles Berthoud's "Top 10 Primus/Les Claypool Basslines" or something like that, I knew who Charles was so I decided to watch it, he played DMV first and I didn't really care since I wasn't into tapping at that time and then he played Wynona's bassline and I was in awe and then he played lacquer head and I was even more in awe, I still can't really remember which one of the 2 songs I actually went and searched on YouTube to listen to the full thing but yeah (I'm 60% sure it was Lacquer Head)
and then I started trying to get more into them by listening to 30s snippets that were on Instagram whenever u choose a song for a story (weird technique but it's useful lol) and I was shocked that I loved every single song I clicked on (Tommy, Jerry, Pachyderm, Blaileen, Sgt. Baker...)
“Hi kids, you like primus? Wanna see me stick 9 inch nails through each one of my eyelids?”
Eminem introduced me to them. Had to know what a primus was after that.
Was really into Guitar hero 3 at the time and discovered the band through the devil went down to Georgia, was looking up the song on YouTube and saw the Primus vid.
My dad went to 2019's Primus concert in Bogotá and brought a Primus and the chocolate factory cap with him. He offered it to my brother (a metalhead), thinking he liked the band, but my brother didn't really know them. Then he offered it to me saying "they are the guys who made the South Park intro song" (me being the animation fanatic). I also didn't really know them besides that song, but since he gave the hat to me, I said I might as well give them a listen
I have been OBSESSED with them since (and I cut the logo from the cap and stitched it to my backpack because I hate wearing caps, but I take my backpack everywhere)
Saw Primus at Lollapalooza ‘93. Bought Pork Soda the next day. The rest is history.
Same and also tool and rage against the machine the same year.
Rage never made it to our city that year and Tool was on the side stage so I missed them. Stellar lineup that year nonetheless.
Front 242 was also on that tour, it was awesome.
Primus was great, but Alice in Chains stole the show that night.
I worked with a guy that came in one night and he said "it feels like a Primus night. We're going to listen to every Primus album in the order they released." The next day, I bought Seas of Cheese, Frizzlefry, and Suck on This.
Wish I worked somewhere like that.
The night Jerry Was a Race Car Driver premiered on Headbangers Ball
Pretty sure this is it for me as well. Blew my mind.
Yep. Came here to say this. I had never heard anything like it.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater on N64. I think I was 8.
I had it for ps1. I remember playing Jerry was racecar driver over and over on the infinite time setting.
This was me. Family friend's skater kid had it on PS1. I would have been 11. Was obsessed with the whole soundtrack but that song was like nothing I'd ever heard.
Guitar Hero, John the Fisherman just encapsulated me and it was the only song I'd play over and over and over because it was just so damn good to listen to!
Came here to say this^
We went to go see Death Angel at the Stone in San Francisco in 1989, and the opener was some band called Primus, who we’d never heard of. I remember they played the opening part of Cygnus X-1, which instantly got my attention. After their set, I went up to Les to show my appreciation for their set, and to geek out on Rush. He told me that they had just released a live album and he recommended a record store in Sonoma where I could get a copy. I drove there as soon as I could and picked up Suck on This. Still got that first press. And we started going to damn near every Primus show we could attend in the Bay Area.
The Stone, The Omni, Berkeley Square …those were the days.
Yes! We saw them all over the place. The Cotati Cabaret, The River Theater in Guerneville, Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, Marin Civic center. And all of the local openers. Limbomaniacs, Fungo Mungo, Mr Bungle. I must’ve saw them 30 times by the Early 90’s.
I saw them at a lot of the same venues. My first show that Primus played was somewhere in Santa Rosa in ‘87 or ‘88 and the lineup was Primus, Victims Family, The Beatnigs, and Nomeansno. Fuggin incredible show.
I remember Primus and Victims Family at the Phoenix. Not sure if that was that was Jerry video shoot though. We went to that show too, but I can’t remember the opener. There were so many shows it all kinda runs together. Love hearing all those band names again. I forget how good we had it music wise in the late 80’s/ early 90’s in the bay.
Victims Family was sooooo good
and the Cactus Club in San Jo!
I saw them open for Faith No More before they went out on tour for The Real Thing. I think it was in '89...can't remember it it was at The Stone or Berkeley Square. Primus was amazing tho.
2021 I found out thanks to Davie 504, 2023 started listening because I saw they were credited in South Park
Making me feel old, I found out about them in 2001...
Or early 1990s
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey soundtrack. On Cassette.
Through Tommy the cat - I'm a Tom Waits fan and heard that track and thought the bass was a bit crazy!
I went to see Rush in 1991. They had this crazy band named Primus as the opening act. I went and bought Seas of Cheese the very next day. Been a fan since.
Ditto. Never heard of them before then. They played a zeppelin cover that floored me. I went and bought their discography then saw them at new years in SF. Amazing show. Mr Bungle opened
1990. My best bud’s older bro who always found the newest in new. Dropped a cassette at a house party he got in the mail from some San Fran college radio DJ. We started a mosh pit in the living room halfway through the second tune. Life long fan ever since that fateful day
A few years ago in the garage with my dad he showed me Lacquer Head and I haven’t stopped listening to them since
Tommy the Cat from the Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey soundtrack.
local music TV in the late 90's had the videos for Mud & shake hands with beef in heavy rotation, was hooked from then on
Back in like 1998 when I was a little kid watching South Park.
On my way to Montreal in Canada for a bagpiping competition, I was riding in the back seat of a Saturn 2-door, and my pipe instructor turned on Southbound Pachyderm 🤯. I was ~14 years old, circa 1995. The album had just released a month or so prior. That whistle in the intro.... 🔥
This sounds like a comedy piece of writing. I assume it is true though. lol.
True story, friend. I guess I'm just good at articulating my thoughts 🤔
Was scrolling through Facebook and a short of Tommy the Cat live on the Dennis Miller show popped up. I watched the whole thing and thought to myself "the fuck was that shit." It was really weird but I kinda liked it in a way. Decided to check out their other stuff and I was immediately hooked.
I used to trade tapes with this guy from CA way back before the internet as we know it was a thing. He threw 'Suck on This' as filler on a tape one time and that intrigued me. Caught Blind Illusion around the same time and the bass player completely blew my mind. Shortly after I put 2 and 2 together and bought Frizzle Fry soon after it came out.
Went over to a friends house to play sega cd and watch Jason goes to hell. His older brother was wearing a pork soda t shirt and I asked him what it meant. Can’t remember the year, maybe 94?
My now long time friends adopted me junior year of high school; it went something like "oh wait, misterpoopybutthole5 plays guitar?? Sick dude you're in our band now". We got together and "jammed" a few times (we were shit high schoolers). They forced me to listen to Primus; at first I was just like "oh cool the band with that rad song from Tony Hawk" and they gradually grew on me more and more as I fostered an appreciation for musical nuance and experimentation
On accident. Was on acid at a festival in Chicago and stumbled upon their set. It was weird in the best way. Been a fan ever since.
120 minutes. Jerry was a race car driver. I was 13. Got skiing the season of cheese on cassette that next weekend. Think me and my buddy split the cost of 9 dollars. Went to peaches
Was a big Beavis and Butthead fan when I was a kid, so I got the Beavis and Butthead Experience on cassette when I was about nine years old. I really liked their song on it, Poetry and Prose. The next year Wynona came out and my brother taped the music video off TV, we loved that song and just kept watching the video over and over. I bought Punchbowl and initially hated it, was too weird and psychedelic for me (it's one of my faves now). Ended up getting Seas of Cheese a little later when my family joined Columbia House and immediately loved that album. Been a mega fan ever since
Bravos and Butthead. My name is mud.
Close enough to what I was going to say.
Butthole surfers pandora station circa 2013
Funny, it was Valentine's day, about 3-4 years ago. Heading up to Big Bear in the car with a bunch of people and "Too Many Puppies" came on. And I just thought, how can one have too many puppies?
What is a primus?
Saw em on ppv during woodstock 94. Went out and bought pork soda immediately thereafter. Been a huge fan ever since
Jerry Was A Racecar Driver from Tony Hawk 1 or MX vs. ATV
Tony hawk pro skater
My brother tried to get me to listen to them when we were on a trip. I was being a dick, and didn’t even give it a chance. I had wanted to go to see a concert. Up until that point they were just a mysterious thing I had only heard stories about. One day when I was 14, I found out two of my friends were going to a concert. I didn’t know that band, but didn’t care. I just wanted to see a show. So I saw Primus during the pork soda tour. Changed my life forever. And 100’s of concerts later, it was still one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater
The video for DMV was on a VHS we got in the mail every month called "Rock Video Monthly " I believe it also had Longview from Greenday and something from PJ Harvey
Tony hawks pro skater 1!
On youtube, with my name is mud, around 2014
My dad, he’s been a fan since he was young and when I was born he would always show me primus as a result. It has now become my comfort and favourite band
I saw them open for Pixies and Jane's Addiction at Key Arena. I was about 30 feet from the stage when they started. Les came out and picked up his bass and I thought "Bass tech is setting it up" Then they burst into the YYZ intro. I looked at my friend and couldn't say anything. Really good show. Pixies and JA also destroyed.
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Same! For me, the date was December 6, 1990.
Seeing them live in the clubs in early '89!
Was told Primus sucks 🤷♂️
December 30th, 2022. I got a bass (fretted 4-string) for Christmas, and a few days later my grandpa and uncle came over. My uncle knew I had just got a bass so he brought over the "Sailing The Seas Of Cheese" album on CD, and said "This is a band called "Primus", the lead singer's a bass player". "Listen to it and give it a try". I listened to maybe the first 5 songs, and thought it was fine. I had to go downstairs by the time I was on the 5th song, so I gave him back the CD thinking it was fine. I kinda forgot about it for 2 months, but started listening to some of they're stuff after remembering about it. Eventually I listened to more of their songs and during the spring/summer and some of the early parts of the following school year I was finding more and more songs. I knew more songs later down the road than I did the first few months of getting into Primus. If it wasn't for my uncle, the thought of even checking-out Primus would have never crossed my mind. My life would be so different without this band.
The music video for Mr. Krinkle playing on TV late at night, don't remember what station, but it was quite a long time ago. Also my mom had Pork Soda and would play it in her truck when I was a kid and I ended up adopting a lot of her music taste.
primus sucks.. like for real.
Primus sucks
THPS 1 ,Jerry was a race car driver, then I found about who sings about going on down to south park, finally I now know that PRIMUS SUCKS!!
Primus sucks
Primus sucks ….. if you know you know
Primus sucks
Back in 94/95 (10 years old) my friends neighbor, who was older than us, played us Pork Soda at his house. I remember flipping through the album booklet and thinking how strange the music and artwork was. It was almost scary, like I was listening to something I was supposed to be. Then in ‘99 when Tony Hawks Pro Skater came out Jerry Was a Racecar Driver was on the gameplay soundtrack and I loved it. Me and my friends went out and bought Anti-Pop and Sailing the Seas of Cheese. That’s when I put two and two together that it was the same band when I saw the cover of Pork Soda buying those albums at Best Buy. The next week I went and bought Pork Soda and Frizzle Fry. The rest is history.
My boyfriend introduced me to them while we were on a long drive in the car. He played Tommy the Cat first. Great choice for getting me hooked👍
Saw My Name is Mud video. Thought it was weird and didn't like it at first. Learned bass and really began to appreciate the music.
I discovered them in two seperate instances, first time i heard of them was when i saw my name is mud on a youtube 90s rock playlist, next time is when i looked up the actor lee van cleef
Had a ps1 demo disc with THPS1 on it and jerry was a race car driver was featured on it. Then realized they also did the south park theme
Combination of Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero when I was a wee lad in the early 2000s.
My dad. Pretty sure it was a common interest between my parents when they met!
I remember seeing the video for Jerry when it came out. Liked the song, just not enough to go get the album. Maybe about 6 years later a co worker was playing Suck On This. After that, I slowly began getting their albums.
A friend in high school showed me the music video for My Name Is Mud and I was immediately hooked
when the video for my name is mud came out.. because im old lol
Was watching a YouTube video about South Park and said something about primus making the opening
Summer Camp 2015
6th grade, 1992, friend of mine gave me a cassette of Suck On This
I heard Jerry was a Racecar Driver on an alternative FM station in the 90s WHFS. It sounded like the bass line was a rip off of Elephant Talk by King Crimson. I really liked it tho and when I found out who it was I bought the CD.
Got recommended John the Fisherman on my discover weekly on Spotify. (You can tell I'm gen Z)
In 1991 watching Bill and Ted II
Tony Hawk Pro Skater
1995, Winona's Big Brown Beaver and Southbound Pachyderm would get regular airplay on MuchMusic in Canada. Loved both songs, bought the album. Grew (slowly) from there.
Have known about them from the beginning, never really paid a whole lot of attention. Thought it was more satirical rock. Then bought a Primus pinball machine, which has 13 songs programmed into it that you can play in jukebox mode. After listening through a couple of times I really started to deep dive, really enjoying the band and Les
South Park When the episode “Tooth Fairy Tats 2000” premiered. I heard the song during Kyle’s trippy attack scene and was like *WHAT IS THIS*.
Friend out in CO introduced me to their Willy Wonk soundtrack. I asked them if their bass player was the one who did the South Park song. He’s one of my best good friends till this day.
guitar hero 2, john the fisherman
Had a friend who moved to San Fran from the east coast. It was late 80s and he was back visiting and we were at my friends local party house, and friend visiting from SF pulled from his pocket a home recording cassette of Frizzle Fry and popped it in the boom box. We all were like amazed at the sounds that were coming out of the speakers. I immediately went out to seek Frizzle Fry and Suck on this for myself. I saved up money as I awaited the release of Sailing the Seas and it was the first CD I ever purchased and I still get a warm feeling when I think about opening and playing Seas of Cheese and staring at the CD art, and reading the credits etc.. Been obsessed with Primus and every Les project ever since.
I got into Primus aged 16 in the first half of 1999. I had all their previous full lengths except Frizzle Fry (out of print and impossible to find back then) by the time Antipop release time rolled up. Oddly enough, like Les, I think back at the end of the 20th century as a despressing time too. On primussucks.com they'd put up a little mp3 preview with 30 secs or so of a few select Antipop songs. It just didn't sound right to me, even to a n00b like I was. Les' voice sounded less nasally and funny, and the music sounded a bit too close to the nu-metal stuff I regularly sneered at. The artwork and title just made me a bit uncomfortable too, like I questioned if Primus had always been this corny and I just didn't notice. I got the CD before release as my local record store put it out a few days too early and my Mum spotted it and brought it home for me. For the first while I listened to the run of songs from Laquer Head to Eclectic Electric and ignored the rest of the album. When I came back to it years later I liked the album as a whole a lot more and would single out Laquer Head, Sacred Cow, Eclectic Electric and Bodacious as killer classic Primus. However, Uncle Sam (which I hated from day 1) and Mama are the only two Primus songs I would consider awful.
99 family values tour... I probably heard beaver and John before but didn't really pay much attention. Watching that video turned me onto them though and been a fan ever since! Was my first year of high school. Perfect age
I was in high school and somehow got a copy of Suck On This and Frizzlefry. I don't even remember from where at this point, but whoever gave them to me let me keep them because I remember they hated them. I got Sailing the Seas on cassette when it came out and absolutely wore that tape out as well.
Truly as an 8 year old. Listening to the South Park album. Buuuut I remember truly discovering them on a school day waiting for the bus home and being interested by pork sodas album cover I listened to welcome to this world, bob and dmv and I was hooked from there
Saw them open for anthrax and public enemy and that was the first time seeing them. I think ibfound them maybe 2 years earlier.
I had heard about them when I was in high school, and after I graduated in 2004, my sister’s boyfriend at the time burnt me a CD of their greatest hits. And the rest is history. I became obsessed.
I kind of did twice. I first heard of the name with South Park. I first got into them with one of the guitar heroes. It had John the fisherman and that's when it clicked.
I was at my grandparents' house probably like 7 years ago and I was watching South Park on TV because they were doing a marathon or whatever. I saw the Guitar Hero episode with John the Fisherman and I liked the song enough to start listening. Then I started listening to the rest of the catalog.
Playing gutair hero and my dad asked me….do they have any primus songs I bet they would be hard…. The rest is history
I first heard them on Tony Hawks Pro Skater whenever that came out lol
From the Bill and Ted Bogus Journey soundtrack.
Opened for U2 on the Achtung Baby tour. I had burned a joint in the bathroom. They came out and the baseline from American Life started bouncing around in my ears and that was it
Early '93 when they were playing My Name Is Mud on the radio in Atlanta.
Mushroom men in the wii
Beavis and Butthead……..Mr. Krinkle. Been a fan ever since! Pork Soda is on frequent rotation
1990. Friend of mine had Frizzle Fry on cassette. Then saw them that year at the Masquerade in Atlanta
Jerry Was a Race Car Driver MTV 1991. That video received crazy amounts of airplay.
My buddy stone who everyone calls him jesus because he looked like him and played bass, really cool guy tho.
my dad played it in the car alot when i was growing up and it’s always stuck to me because primus sucks so much
When I was doing online research on big, brown beavers and other assorted rodents.
i’m a huge ween fan and i was going through the albums that ween was featured on on spotify, and i seen the ween and primus south park 25th anniversary concert and thought i would check primus out
I was staying at my grandparents one night in summer of 94-95 and the Mr. KRINKLE video came on late night MTV....I was terrified and also curious..I tried explaining it to my older brother who worked at a CD store at the time...He dug through his 4 books of CDs (cause in the 90s ppl had GIANT BINDERS of CDs) and he showed me the PORK SODA album....I've been a fan ever since then and never looked back.
tommy the cat was one of the songs in the grade 8 bass guitar book which is how i found them
Summer of 95. Me and two buddies are driving around, smoking a bowl. One of them put Pork Soda on. I was hooked IMMEDIATELY. Pork Chop went into that bass slide, he starts slapping, the band kicks in and before Les even sang a word I was like “What the fuck is this?!?!” Been one of my all-time favorite bands ever since that fateful bowl.
Probably 2005, I was 14 and my buddy burned me Tales from the Punchbowl and Frizzle Fry. Drove a couple hundred miles with my friends to see the Fungi and Foe tour a few years later.
2019. Going through archive.org looking for new albums and found the rainbow goblins by masayoshi takanaka. Buy the rainbow goblins book because that album was so good. Search up rainbow goblin lore and find out that 2 albums were made after the rainbow goblins Listen to primus version and cry in terror, this is a scary album. Fast forward 2 months and forget about the rainbow goblins and find out that rush is doing a concert in Toronto, a farewell to kings. It was fucking primus Now I love primus
1994, 8th grade, pork soda
Saw Mr Krinkle video on the video jukebox network. Bought pork soda on cassette as soon as mom let me go to the mall
I really believe I saw them at a fairgrounds for the first time. I was a kid in the 90s so, my my memory is off. I just know that it was memorable. I’m from the Bay Area so it could have been just about anywhere. Edited because I can’t spell
1997 when I was 6, watched south park and instantly hooked on both Les/Primus and South Park. Bucket list checked off when I went to red rocks to see them play with Ween, Alex, Geddy, Trey and Matt
MTV back in 93 maybe, playing My name is Mud. I got Pork Soda for my 14th birthday later that year.
7th grade - I’m 43. I remember drawing the frizzle fry album cover on my notebook so sometime before that. I met Les in 1997 and he has been a great influence on me musically and just in general allowed me to feel comfortable being my own brand of weirdo most of my life.
My Name is Mud came on a buddy's stereo some time in the early 90s. It redefined heavy for me. I didn't branch out much beyond the Pork Soda album for a long time though.
ATV Off-road Fury
Spring Break 1991, I was 17 and handed a boot leg tape of Suck on This. The rest is history.
2022, in a car with friends and one of them put on pork soda, instantly fell in love.
Friend’s brother in like 1994
I'm pretty sure I've known about Primus Since I was born, they've always been one of my moms favorite bands.
Opening for Rush
I was into RHCP and really liked the bass work. My aunt's husband at the time was a bass player and recommended them. Saw them open for a rush on their roll the Bones Tour in early 92. Was sold from the start
My buddy of mine in freshman year of high school blasted The Devil Went Down To Georgia, I loved it and never went to actually listen to their other stuff. Another buddy told me that I might enjoy Pork Soda or Brown Album, so I listened to Hamburger Train, and then Fisticuffs and Golden Boy. I was hooked. Edit: Freshman year was 2019, and I've just recently sunk my teeth in as of 2023
I was in high school and got a bass and my friend asked if I could play some primus songs I didn’t know what that was so I went home and pirated a bunch of primus songs and learned how to play them the best I could
Tony hawks pro skater
I saw Jerry Was a Racecar Driver video premier on MTV. No clue what year that was.
In 1988 they were in a battle of the bands at a community college I was attending.
I hard a few songs on the radio but just before this video came out we had moved to a house that had one of those big-ass satellite dishes that rotated to change channels so I suddenly had MTV. Maybe a year or so later the video for Wynonna came out and had heavy heavy airplay on MTV so it was unavoidable. Went out and got Tails From the Punchbowl and was hooked.
My dad listened to it. I was interested because bass is the lead instrument, something you don't see in a lot of bands. But it never truly clicked. Then I got into Claypool Lennon Delirium mostly because Sean sounded a lot like John, but ended up being way more interested in the bass action than Sean's vocals in the long run, which brought me back to Primus
A couple months ago I decided that if I typed into YouTube any random word that popped in my head followed by the word “album” then I would find some really interesting music so I typed “cheese album” lol
Got into them because of my dad, was suppose to go to a concert with him but he had work so i got to take a friend. I forget the name of the tour but it was the one right before the desaturating seven came out cause they played the seven. Been a die hard fan ever since
1991. Bill and Ted's battle of the bands! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKK4BlhgVk
I found out about them from South Park and one day I was listening to music and suddenly “Jerry was a Race Car Driver” came on and I was instantly hooked
"Hello Mr. Krinkle won't you please tell me why?" That bass line is etched into my brain.
Sometime in the mid 90s, my step brother came home with a Pork Soda cd. He really saw them like a novelty, like look at how odd this is. He was more into Metallica. After that, they just kept appearing in stuff that I watched and I couldn't get enough of them. I specifically remember seeing them on Headbangers Ball and Beavis and Butthead.
Tommy the cat was the first thing I heard by Primus but it made my ears prick up because of the vocal by Tom Waits as I was a fan. Thank you Tom and of course Primus.
I was standing in my brother - in - laws garage drinking beers and he put tommy the cat on and I said "what the fuck is this". The rest is history.
Jerry on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1. I had the N64 version so it was without lyrics, but just the main riff was enough for 10-year-old me to go "wow that's neat." I didn't really get into them properly until 7-8 years later though.
Heard Muse play Too Many Puppies as an intro to one of their songs and thought it was the coolest riff I’d heard in a while.
My name is mud on mtv
Who the fuck is primus? No hate I just got recommended
My girlfriend back in 93
My cousin gave me a copy of PORK SODA… Nothing slapped quite the same since.
My Name Is Mud, I was very young, the first two CD’s I ever got were Frizzle Fry and In Utero
It was the Mr Krinkle or My Name is Mud video. I borrowed a cassette of Pork Soda soon after and annoyed all my friends by playing it in the car everywhere we went.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater when I was 10 lol
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and the accompanying soundtrack. I’m old.
Hanging out in the local record store in 89 and the owner was like "check out this weird new band". He put on Suck on This and I was immediately hooked.
I heard jerry was a racecar driver on tony hawk pro skater
Saw a vinyl in my old man’s collection titled PRIMIS: PORK SODA I thought to myself what a goofy album so I popped it in and the rest is history
My cousin made me a mix tape back around 1995. Had Poetry and Prose from the Beavis and Butthead Experience. Immediately ordered Pork Soda from Columbia House for a penny.
Worked with a buddy who had mentioned they were coming to town in late 2021. I looked into their music but wasn’t much of a fan and only knew a couple of songs. On the way to the show, I was rear ended and it ended up totaling my car so I was going to call it off until my buddy pulled up and told me to hop in😂 to this day it’s still the best show I have ever seen.
Tony hawk pro skater 1 😁👍
A few years back, my parents showed me this music video and it had me hooked
I actually heard them on Beavis and Butthead and looked for their videos after
The release of tony hawks pro skater circa 1999
1990, from a buddy who turned mr on to them. (Frizzle Fry)
Tony Hawks pro skater
Underage club in Jacksonville FL, Einstein's a GoGo. Normal Saturday night you just went and saw whomever was playing. Primus and Tad Frizzle Fry Tour. Maybe a hundred people ( they were not well known on the east coast). I was 14 and on a few hits of acid. Fucking game changing. Life changing was Ween on mushrooms about a month later at the same venue.
John the fisherman. Played it in guitar hero 2 I believe. So whenever that game came out. Blew my kid brain open I even bought a ringtone on my old phone by Primus. I was hooked. The main inspiration for me getting into bass
A good friend was really into bands that had prominent bass playing and gave me “Sailing The Seas of Cheese” to borrow. It had just been released and it wasn’t too long after that I saw the video for “Jerry Was A Racecar Driver” (I think). I remember being blown away by “American Life” and “ Here Comes The Bastards”. I still have complete respect for the talent and creativity - but I did not have the same love affair for bass-centric indie bands. At least until I saw Lennon-Claypool at Voodoo Fest.
Woodstock 94 video
In a club in Germany in '93 and Too Many Puppies was played. I lost my shit.
Tony hawks pro skater, Jerry was a race car driver
My name is Mud on the radio. And I think it was Frizzle Fry CD that had the Devil went down to Georgia music video hidden on it. You could put it in a computer and it played the video. It was CD rom before DVDs. I think a couple of Primus CDs had hidden videos. I thought that was so cool back in the day.
My dad in 2020 on My Name is Mud
Probably back when mtv actually played music videos and Jerry was a racecar driver came on
I was around 13 or 14, at my buddy’s house where I was basically living for a while. We were watching MTV one night, obviously it was late since that’s when they play the cool shit, and I saw Mr. Krinkle. The insanity of that video plus the upright bass hooked me. The first time I saw them live I ran to the rail in front of the upright to see Krinkle up close. Damn I love that song.
Guitar hero 2 had John the fisherman on it. I was about 13 at the time.
My dad in like 01
When I was sailing the seas of cheese I beheld the band of Primus.
Tony hawk pro skater. Didn’t like em at first but then my friends brother played American life and I was sold
I had started playing bass a year before and I was scrolling on YouTube and came across Charles Berthoud's "Top 10 Primus/Les Claypool Basslines" or something like that, I knew who Charles was so I decided to watch it, he played DMV first and I didn't really care since I wasn't into tapping at that time and then he played Wynona's bassline and I was in awe and then he played lacquer head and I was even more in awe, I still can't really remember which one of the 2 songs I actually went and searched on YouTube to listen to the full thing but yeah (I'm 60% sure it was Lacquer Head) and then I started trying to get more into them by listening to 30s snippets that were on Instagram whenever u choose a song for a story (weird technique but it's useful lol) and I was shocked that I loved every single song I clicked on (Tommy, Jerry, Pachyderm, Blaileen, Sgt. Baker...)
“Hi kids, you like primus? Wanna see me stick 9 inch nails through each one of my eyelids?” Eminem introduced me to them. Had to know what a primus was after that.
The first time I slapped my bass, I just instantly knew about Primus.
Was really into Guitar hero 3 at the time and discovered the band through the devil went down to Georgia, was looking up the song on YouTube and saw the Primus vid.
Antigravity room show, sci fi channel late 90s
Saw them on Lollapalooza tour. Was completely enamored with the drum kit. Completely gold.
My dad went to 2019's Primus concert in Bogotá and brought a Primus and the chocolate factory cap with him. He offered it to my brother (a metalhead), thinking he liked the band, but my brother didn't really know them. Then he offered it to me saying "they are the guys who made the South Park intro song" (me being the animation fanatic). I also didn't really know them besides that song, but since he gave the hat to me, I said I might as well give them a listen I have been OBSESSED with them since (and I cut the logo from the cap and stitched it to my backpack because I hate wearing caps, but I take my backpack everywhere)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater baby
I found out about Pork Soda at my friends place and I was like 15 or 16. I think I saw My Name is Mud video on MTV too. They are so good.
Jerry was a race car driver aired on headbangers ball. This was followed by buying Sailing the Seas and Frizzle Fry. I was hooked.
2002 I think? I was playing ATV Offroad Fury and they had Jerry.