PRIMUS drummer TIM ALEXANDER is recovering after heart bypass surgery after surviving a heart attack last month.
PRIMUS are set to unleash "The Chocolate Factory and the Fungi Ensemble", due to be unleashed 0/21/2014 on ATO RECORDS.
PRIMUS have announced a fall 2014 U.S. tour.
PRIMUS unleashed "Green Naugahyde" 9/12/2011 via ATO RECORDS/PRAWN SONG.
FROM PRIMUS:
Danny Carey to join Primus at Riot Fest
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tools-danny-carey-to-play-with-primus-in-september-20140814
JUST ANNOUNCED Saturday September 13th 10pm PRIMUS at the Concord Music Hall in Chicago IL. Get your tickets FAST
http://primusville.com/tickets/?event=42920
Prepare to enter a world of pure imagination this October, as veteran thrash-funk eccentrics Primus release their eighth studio album, a wall to (lickable) wall tribute to the 1971 musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The clanging, ill-angled LP, titled Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble, will be released on October 21st on ATO, but a pre-order is currently available. It will be the first album-length release from the classic, multi-platinum lineup — leader Les Claypool, guitarist Larry Lalonde and drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander — since 1995.
"I don't think it was until Jaws came along that I was more obsessed with a film," Claypool tells Rolling Stone, "when I started drawing sharks all over my binders and notebooks. Prior to that it was everything Wonka." This tribute — fleshed out with help from Critters Buggin percussionist Mike Dillon and Frog Brigade cellist Sam Bass — is a logical extension ofPrimus' Wonka-themed performance in Oakland last New Year's Eve.
"As we started putting it together, especially with the expanded soundscape of having string and vibraphone and marimba, it started sounding to me like one of the early Peter Gabriel records meets Dark Side of the Moon meets the Residents," says Claypool. "That's what I get out of it. Obviously that's some big-ass horn-tooting to be doing."
The album clatters and spurts unlike any Primus record thanks to Alexander's percussion set-up — instead of a drumkit, he's in the center of what Claypool describes as "a giant circle, or a pile of things to bang on."
"He's so musical at what he does, and he can be very orchestral when he wants to be, and taking him off a traditional kit just brought forth these sounds that we've just never gotten from him before," says Claypool. "If you saw this kit, you'd laugh your ass off. He couldn't get in and out of it. We'd open up a portion of it and shove him in there and then lock him in with other pieces of things."
Alexander rejoins Primus after last touring with them in 2008. He started a family in Northern Washington and, as Claypool heard, had quit playing drums altogether. A long phone call spurred a studio reunion nearly two decades in the making, but was recently sidelined after Alexander suffered a heart attack. He's currently working on what should be a speedy recovery before Primus launches a Chocolate Factory tour in October. "He was very adamant, before he went under the knife, that we not change anything that has to do with scheduling of Wonka," says Claypool. "So he's all about it."
Claypool suspects the tour will mirror the New Year Eve performance, a "stripped down, old school, nightclub Primus set" before opening the curtain to reveal the chocolate room for a full run-through of the Wonka material. "We're also talking about doing a matinee stage production of it, for kids," he says. "We're gonna do an early show that's only the Wonka thing — and it'll be a short show 'cause kids have a short attention span."
In addition, fans may be able to looks forward to the return of the Primus candy bars made by Pennslyvania's Asher's Chocolates — a hot sell at the Oakland show — including Mr. Krinkle (crisped rice), Professor Nutbutter (peanuts) and Bastard Bar (dark chocolate).
"The tour and the album are solely a marketing tool just so we can sell candy bars," jokes Claypool. "That's the whole impetus of this entire project. Because the fucking recording industry rolled over and let this Internet shit all over us. So we had to come up with another income stream, so we're making chocolate bars because you can't digitize a chocolate bar — yet."
The album will also be available on chocolate-colored vinyl and feature, naturally, five golden ones appropriately scattered about at random. "We need to make sure that kids in the future watch the original Willy Wonka and not the horrendous, horrible remake that came along and left the taste of feces in our mouths," says Claypool. "There are a lot of very talented people on the planet. And Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are two of those very talented people. But like all human beings, every now and then, we crap in our pants."
September 13- Chicago, Illinois @ Concord Music Hall
October 22 - Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theater
October 24 - Albany, NY @ Palace Theater
October 25 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theater
October 26 - Burlington, VT @ Flynn Center
October 28 - Waterbury, CT @ Palace Theater
October 29 - Baltimore, MD @ Hippodrome
October 31 - Manhattan, NY @ Beacon Theater
November 1 - New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theater
November 2 - Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory
November 3 - Detroit, MI @ Fillmore
November 5 - St. Louis, MO @ Peabody Opera House
November 7 - Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theater
November 8 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
November 9 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
November 11 - Miami Beach, FL @ Fillmore
November 12 - Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall
November 14 - Biloxi, MS @ Hard Rock Live
November 15 - Austin, TX @ Moody Theater
November 16 - Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theater
November 17 - San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theater
November 19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theater
November 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theater
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
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