When messers Claypool, LaLonde and Lane of the experimental rock band Primus announce that they’re releasing a new video, you know that you’re in for a treat. And the accompanying film for Tragedy’s A Comin’, the first single from the band’s 2011 album Green Naugahyde is no exception.
While there hasn’t been a new Primus video for around 11 years, you’d find it strange to think that the band ever went away when watching the promo that deals specifically with the misadventures of... lobsters.
The video is a co-direct between bassist/vocalist Les Claypool and Mark Kohr and features the band’s front man in a giant lobster suit lamenting the fate of the edible crustaceans. While it seems like a typically bonkers premise from the band, the song itself is about a far darker subject matter than the video suggests, as Claypool revealed in an interview with IFC.com:
"Musically, it's upbeat... but lyrically, the song is all about impending doom. This last year has been a trying time in my world, with my mother fading away, my brother's baby boy getting diagnosed with leukaemia, and other people having various ailments. So the song is about a storm coming, the rain must fall. But to depict that would have been the cliché thing to do, so we've got lobsters."
Although the video might seem like an animal cruelty statement, It’s important to remember that Claypool’s tongue is firmly in his cheek. A keen fisherman, he had the following statement to offer on the video’s moral message about lobster boiling:
"PETA would probably hate me for this... but I think it's kind of like going to sleep in a hot tub. Or like having too much wine and going to sleep."
Classic Primus!!!
...and before it starts, do we really have to have the "Primus Sucks!" discussion on every thread about them? Yes, those of us who love Primus understand and those that aren't into the band don't. It's cool...no need to explain it on every thread.
Classic Primus!!!
...and before it starts, do we really have to have the "Primus Sucks!" discussion on every thread about them? Yes, those of us who love Primus understand and those that aren't into the band don't. It's cool...no need to explain it on every thread.
The last Primus concert I went to when the crowd said "Primus Sucks" Claypool walked up to the mic and said "No we don't" So I don't think they like it anymore. To bad though cause Primus sucks!!
The last Primus concert I went to when the crowd said "Primus Sucks" Claypool walked up to the mic and said "No we don't" So I don't think they like it anymore. To bad though cause Primus sucks!!
I think even if it was a joke, I wouldn't want a whole crowd of people telling me my band sucks, lol. So I can kind of understand. It is fun to say though.
lol...went to see The Flying Frog Brigade a few years back, started yelling Primus Sucks...with in minutes it turned into a druidic chant with Bucket Head leading the cadence of the chant and Les spouting off very fast about all the reasons primus sucks...lol classic
Ooops...that was Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, not the brigade...lol funny how all those show run together and who is with which Claypool Group...hahaha
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