Continuing with our loose “Alt-Metal May” theme, this week we’ll spotlight yet another classic and highly influential band from that somewhat niche genre: Primus. Indeed, when they first burst onto the scene with their 1990 debut album Frizzle Fry, no one knew what to make of the band. Were they metal? Were they funk? Were they alternative?
The answer was all of the above, so Primus is broadly considered one of the best and most well-respected bands to emerge from the alternative-metal genre. And the brainchild and driving creative force of their music has of course, always been the incomparable Les Claypool behind the mic, with his impressively eccentric bass serving as the distinctive centerpiece of Primus’s aggressively quirky sound. And that sound was truly clicking on all cylinders in this shit hot performance of the band performing “Those Damn Blue Collar Tweekers” at Woodstock ’94. You almost get a little jealous watching just how much fun the crowd is having bouncing along to this infectious little ditty. Primus in their prime? You be the judge:
