Primus Premieres First New Video in 11 Years

If you’re like us, your first exposure to Primus came through one of the group’s now legendary videos for Wynonna’s Got a Big Brown Beaver, Tommy The Cat or Jerry Was a Race Car Driver. Primus front man Les Claypool has teamed up with the director of the Tommy and Jerry videos, Mark Kohr, to create a video for the Green Naugahyde track Tragedy’s A’Comin.

In the clip, Claypool appears dressed up as a lobster who dreams of running on a white sand beach instead of meeting his true fate – someone’s dinner at a fancy restaurant. While this is Primus’s first video in over 11 years, The Tragedy’s A’Comin clip continues the band’s trend of deliciously bizarre adaptions of their music. Take a look…

Primus – Tragedy’s A’Comin