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Subject(s)

• Primus (Musical group) [Browse]
• Claypool, Les—Interviews [Browse]
• Rock musicians—Interviews [Browse]
• Rock groups—Biography [Browse]
• Rock musicians—Biography [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]
• Interviews [Browse]

Summary note

This fascinating and beautifully curated oral history tells the tale of this truly one-of-a-kind band. Compiled from nearly fifty all-new interviews conducted by journalist/author Greg Prato, including Primus members past and present and many more fellow musicians, this book is sure to appeal to longtime fans of the band, as well as admirers of the musicians interviewed for the book.

Contents

• Welcome to this world
• Dad, what's a primate?
• The gig that should not be
• How to make sausage
• Then along came ler
• Herb the ginseng drummer
• Suck on this
• They call me the frizzle fry
• "C" is for cock
• The magical Mr. Whalley
• Sailing the seas of cheese
• Spreading the cheese
• Grab yourself a can of pork soda
• The prawn remains the same
• Tales from the punchbowl
• Tim has left the building
• Mackerel and the brain
• Lunatics run the asylum
• Rhinoplasty
• I am the antipop
• The wheels fall off
• Oysterhead
• Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
• Return of the bastards
• The onion, the pumpkin, and other adventures
• From pumphouse to festeroo
• Green naugahyde
• Los bastardos
• In glorious hindsight
• The roller coaster continues.

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ISBN

• 9781617753220 ((hbk.))
• 161775322X ((hbk.))
• 9781616287979
• 1616287977

LCCN

2014938698

OCLC

870289170

RCP

N - S

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