October 27, 2025 • 37 mins
This lounge jazz number is an ode to the dog, in particular, Les Claypool's hound, Kazoo. It's another musical departure for the man, and it sounds like Skerik wasn't available, so Sam Bass filled in on cello. It's not the deepest track, but we don't have to get deep with our dogs, right? They love us, we love them, now let's go for a walk, a run, or a ball toss.
For another great story about a dog, read The Mixer by PG Wodehouse.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Josh Freaky with a couple of dump shits.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Have you met cousin.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
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on the socials. I'll happily read it here. I'm Josh.
I'm one of the hosts of Primus Tracks. He is
on the thirty nine floor of Primus Tracks Towers, chasing
a dog around. It's Frankie. Hey Josh, Hey Frankie. There's
so many ways to support the pod and find Primus Tracks.
You've been having a lot of success on the facebooks lately.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It sounds like yes, it's on fire, and like you said,
there are so many ways to support us. I mean,
you could catch the bus or the train and just
unplug your earphones from your device and play it Louth.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know a lot. You know a lot of municipalities
have ordinances against that. On mass transit. You're encouraging our
listeners to commit petty crimes to promote us, which I
wholeheartedly endorse. Frankie will pay your fine. I'm legally obligated
to tell you that Frankie will not pay your fine. Well,
(02:04):
here we are, Frankie. It's track eight of Fungi and Foe.
It is simply named kazoo. When you hear the word kazoo,
where does your mind.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Go to a musical instrument which is very whimsical and
the very playful.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
As does my mind, Frankie. I've owned a number of
kazoos over my life and they are tons of fun.
It's just a contoured piece of plastic or metal with
a little bit of an opening on the top and
there's just a little piece of paper in there, and
it makes the goofiest sound on earth. It's a wonderful
musical instrument. Anyone can play it, and it does not
(02:52):
cost as much as a wamola. That's like another thing
in the pro kazoo column. They're cheaper than a wamamola
you can make just as wacky as But I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You don't need to worry about finding a drumstick somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's right. But that's not to say you shouldn't also
go to packet arm Instruments dot com and bio Wammola
today because Frankie, you can play the wamola and kazoo simultaneously. Yes, now,
that is something I need to see and hear.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I think, at least currently, it's not easy to produce
a photograph of Kasoo online. But I do recall Kazoo
being shared at one point or another way back, So
I I am.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Sure I've seen a photograph of what she looks like.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Wait are you talking about the musical instrument?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh? About the doc?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh? We didn't reveal that yet to the audience. So
for those unfamiliar, they were confused. Possibly, but that's okay. Yes,
because who was a dog mystery revealed?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Because who was adopted by Liz and his family several
years back, and along with Hannibal.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I understand that.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
They are they were, or are I hope they are
the family pets.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Considering that it's been sixteen years probably safe to say
they're no longer with us, but we can also say
with confidence that they were adopted, likely out of a shelter,
and had really good lives at Rancho or a Laxo.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yes, imagine all the space they had to run around.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh, it's a paradise for a dog. And that's actually
that's the message of today is go adopt a dog.
If you do anything as a result of listening to
this podcast today, don't don't play the podcast out loud
on the bus and get a ticket. Take that money
you would have had to pay for that fine, and
go adopt a dog today. That's the message, and it's
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much more positive for all.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do you recall seeing a photo of Kazou?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I have dim memories from interviews of Less talking about
as dogs. I don't know if those photographs were for
social media or if they made it into publications like
bass Player magazine.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Do you recall I don't recall.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I mean, and it's hard to produce right now these images,
but I'm confident I saw a picture of Kazoo at
one point or another down the line.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So here's what we do. We at a later date,
at a later date, we have a video video. I'll
say that again at a later date. We'll do a
bunch of research and then we'll have an episode titled
the Dogs of Les Claypool.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, and they will have been identified by Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Every single dog will have will have pictures, will have
accounts of their lives, will have their favorite food, will
have the tricks that they learned. I think I've killed
that joke all right. But you know when a guy
writes a song about a dog and you have a
podcast about the guy's songs, I guess you got to
talk about the guy's dog or dogs. We should also
(06:12):
say this is strange territory for Less Claypool lyrics and
song because he's writing a song about his dog, and
that is not something I would expect. I didn't expect
it at the time in two thousand and nine, and
certainly coming back to it, I thought, huh, dude wrote
a song about his dog. And mean he wrote a
(06:33):
song about his wife too, But that makes sense, like, yeah,
he to definitely want to brag on your spouse and
they'll really appreciate it. Now, I sing songs to my
dogs all the time, Frankie, and they don't give a rip. Well,
they're just listening for the keywords like food, treat, walk.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And so on and so forth, and if.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The song does not contain those words, they lose interest
very quickly. There's curiosity and writing a song about one's dog.
And I think we joked about it, you know, in
our making of episode, which was he may have been
just sitting sitting around, looking around and saying, that's my dog.
I'm gonna write a song about that dog.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And that And it's one hundred percent possible because he
confirmed so himself when we have our Bucket of Bernie
Brain's Overview episode, unless said he was just gazing around
the room and writing songs about the things he saw.
(07:32):
So it was like, oh, there's Buckethead right there, BAM
opening track on the record, Buckethead. Yeah, a bowl of
noodles was lying around somewhere, BAM track two Thai Noodles.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So this is familiar territory in that regard. See something,
notice something.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Make a song out of it, make a song out
of it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, I'm writing song but my dog, And I will say,
I think that's a sweet idea. And I also think
that the music really pairs well with a slower, slowed
down footage of a dog trotting around, sniffing, barking, chewing
on stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How would you describe this song musically? I think it's uh,
very refined. I'm very sophisticated, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I wrote in my notes that this is as close
as he's ever come to being the jazz combo at
the winery that's playing too loudly. That's what I where
my fend went. It's like there's that little jazz combo
in the corner. They're there to make background music, but
they're playing really loudly. You can't hear yourself talk to
your friend while you're drinking your wine. But it's but
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it's it's cool jazz, you know. And so he's he's
he's on the side of it where it's not elevator jazz.
This is a cool jazz song.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And although.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The lyrics don't come to my mind that often, the
motif play by Sam Bass, I think it's quite compelling.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That does get.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Some some space, yeah, some space in my mind, particularly
if I've just heard the record, and it will Sam
Bass's part will.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Linger for a bait in my mind. After I listened
to the song.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know, listening to this, you know, just yesterday in
terms of our recording of this for the first time
in sixteen years, when Sam's part came in, I had
to double check the credits because I thought it was scack.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
On sax exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, So I wonder if this was initially conceived for
a sex part and Skak wasn't available, or if Less said, hey,
can you can you mimic that way breathy, breathy sax
sound on the cello, and Sam, being as good as
he is, was able to do that, and it's like
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breathy saxophone, so it's got that quality to it. And
so I certainly did a double take and that Yeah,
this track is pretty interesting. It it's four minutes and
twelve seconds, and we should mention once again no live
versions of this never been performed.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's never been performed live. Nope.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And we've got Less on bassin vocals and percussion, Sam
basson cello, Mike Dion via baraphone, and he gives us
a pretty nice solo through much of the last half
of the track, if I remember correctly. And the other
thing that I wrote my notes that I wanted to
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mention was there's that false ending at about two minutes
and twenty seconds. I was listening to it, eyes closed,
just letting my thoughts come to me as I listened
to it, and that false ending occurred, and I opened
my eyes, thinking, shit, it's done already. I thought it
was over. It wasn't. It continued, and I thought, and
(11:07):
there was a moment of disappointment, I will be honest,
But then Mike saves it in the second half. It
was worth it. It's pretty groovy in that regard. But
you know, we talked about it on the first side
of this record. A lot of down tempo, a lot
of instrumentation that's not in your face, a lot of
very laid back tunes. And then Bite out of Life
(11:30):
last week kicked us in the can a bit, and
so I'm awake and I'm going, all right, what else
does the second half of this record have for us?
And we get the cool jazz combo. So Bite out
of Life is sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb
at this point. Frankie, what do you.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Think about the way the I mean, because now we
have a Bite out of Life George Martin and Errol
I mean, we're on.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
The Fence with Errol.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We don't know if it's so Fungui lore or not,
but we have so many songs lately removed from the
fung Guy theme that it does post the interesting question
whether you consider that the album, I mean, if you
think about it, munchrom Men Amanitas Buo, mill Stump is
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not related to fung Guy, and there's the title track
near the end. So that's not really that much of
a Fungui record, is it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well, we also have plenty of Foe. We still have
a couple of tracks coming up that are that are
associated with Pig Hunt. We have a smattering of each,
and then we have four or five tracks that have
nothing to do with either.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
The video exactly or the movie exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
This one is one of those. It stands alone as
far as its composition and origins. And I certainly hope,
I hope to the highest power that Kazoo is not Foe,
because he sounds like she sounds like a sweet dog.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
She sounds friend shaped.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yes, very much so, even if she pitdles on the
floor out of excitement, which good dogs do.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Going going, going through the songs as we're doing with
these episodes, that's a thought that just struck me that
this record is a collection of songs, it's not really
something unified by a particular theme.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, some of the tracks are in subgroups, but as
an overall umbrella, not necessarily exactly. Yeah, and this one
certainly stands apart thematically. Of course, it's a song about
the guy's dog. But it also I think stands apart
a bit instrumentally too, because the presentation is even though
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the instrumentation is similar, the presentation is different from what
we've already heard on the front half of the record. Yes,
we should sample a little bit you met not there,
I'm gonna move forward a bit.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
He's even doing the jazz guy vocals down there in
that low have you met kazoo?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And that once again that cello line. Yes, very reminiscent
of a sax part uh and.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Very very yeah, very easy to to hum and to remember.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yes, it actually reminds me a bit of a portion
of a Clutch tune called Who's been Talking. These two
tunes are not at all related, but they each have
a little sing songy part like that that reminds me
one of the other. And that's just my own association
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but it's just got that little lick is really great,
and it's certainly evocative of something I've heard before somewhere
that just sounds like that cool jazz which I keep saying,
but it's what I'm stuck on at this moment. Per
My recollection, we get a lot of similar stuff through
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the first couple of minutes, and then in the back
half Mike d takes over, so that upright isn't as
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dirty as it is on something like Red Stek Girl,
but it's nice and low register, so it's rumbling, there's
a bit of resonance to the percussion. Sam's doing some
cool stuff around what around Mike's solo excuse me?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Great job by Mike Dean.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, he really brought it on the viabraphone there. Of course,
if if you give Mike a word, he will find
the right notes for it exactly. You know what I mean.
You know, if you say gimme grunge, he'll give you grunge.
If you say give me pop, he'll give you pop.
If you say give me prints, he'll give you prints.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I think he can. I think he's just that attuned
that he can do it at a moment's notice, yes,
so give me smokey, you know, give me cigar bar.
That's what this sounds like to me. There it is.
It's cigar bar music, for sure. That's what's happening here.
It's it's a curious number though, because it's so chill
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and laid back and it's it's a bit of exploration,
I'd say, on uh on Less's part, because you wouldn't
normally hear this from him on any kind of release,
yet here it is. So I know that this one
from what I recall, as far as the reception to
this record, I don't think Kazoo was held aloft as
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a shining example of the potential of this record. But
I think there's something.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
There I'm finding myself. I mean, a newfound appreciation for Kazoo.
You know what, I changed my mind. I think it's
a good song.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Wait a minute, that indicates that you didn't think that.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
At some point, I will say that I find the
music fanatic. Whether I mean it's a controversial point, but
I mean, whether we discuss if Les was scraping for
subjects by these point in the record. Regardless of that,
the music is fantastic. It's a very well executed song.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, it's fun, it's it's fairly simple. It's not you know,
over the top complex and once.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And once again less is very strategical. Look at the
look at the placement on the record.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh yeah, put it on the back half, you know,
just let it ride.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
No, yeah, but I mean it's coming after a very
chaotic and very loud song.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh yes, of course, the study in contrast to Bite
Out of Life and Kazoo are certainly present and fairly
self evident. Yeah, we come way down after Bite out
of Life and the track following Frankie Prime By twenty nine,
which I haven't listened to yet, my favorite. Oh that's rights,
(19:02):
your favorite track. Probably a bit more upbeat and noisy
than Kazoo, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, it's very different to Kazoo.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, so this it is strategically placed in terms of
between two more catchy tunes, not necessarily catching, as to say,
strategically placed between a couple of tunes that will catch
people's attention, I suppose, and I think Kazoo's inn attention
get her go in a different way. It's very loungy,
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very different. The lyrics all about Kazoo, I do want
to meet this dog by the way. Don't know how
I'm gonna do it in twenty twenty five. But she's
a beautiful girl. She came from the depths of the
greasy underbelly of this big brown world. Frankie, so sounds
like a rescue animal to me. It makes me happy,
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dainty little thing. Give her liver crackers and a rub
on the belly and her heart will sing. That's one
of the sweetest things. Less Claypoole ever wrote beautiful long,
it's really interesting, got long, luxurious nails. And if there's
a spark as you're throwing strolling through the park, she'll
be shaking her tail so she gets you know, she
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catches that scent. She's into it. I think my favorite
couple it is when she gets excited. You may find
it overwhelming. If she peees on the tile. And I've
had dogs that when they get excited or over stimulated,
they pitdle. It's cute, it's easy to clean up, no
big deal, as long as it's on hardwood floor or tile. Yeah, no, biggie.
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And that's about the extent of the lyrics. Little ode
to the dog here. Now, there are a lot of
songs out there about dogs, Frankie, and I'm not gonna
list them all, but I think it's great when somebody
writes a song about their dog, because that means that
dog means something to them. It's it's endearing. I'll say
that one of my favorite pieces of literature about a
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dog is called The Mixer by Pehouse, readily available online.
Short story about a mutt who, through a series of misunderstandings,
helps to solve a string of crimes. It's pretty well done,
so the Mixer pg Wodehouse fun little read about a dog.
(21:23):
If I'm going into short story territory, Frankie, that means
we've talked about it enough. It's time for Primemates Takes.
(21:46):
If you want your take read on the podcast, all
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track up for discussion right here on this very podcast.
(22:07):
Our pal, the landed Gentry Edwin Allen Richards the fourth
Frankie says the following Kazoo is amazing and I love it.
I forgot it existed, so I gave it a re listen,
and it sounds like something out of a dark noir
murder mystery movie mixed with Looney Tunes. The instrumentation is
amazing and the tune is just as sultry as hell,
(22:28):
with the goofy as vocals that tell you to stop
taking anything in life so seriously. Ten out of ten?
What do you make of that? Frankie?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I find myself wondering about what could have been of
this song in terms of the music strictly with a
different subject matter.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, this could have been a bob Cock in the
Yellow Sock without a question.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yes, just yes, because I mean, like you mentioned it,
it's nice, it's a lovely little number.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's great and all.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But personally, I don't know if this happens to a
lot of other people, but when an artist gets too
too personal with a song in terms of something that
is so I mean too personal in the context like
(23:30):
this one, for me at least, there's a point where
the song becomes kind of unrelatable and as a consequence,
less enjoyable. Not and it's it's complex, right, because I mean,
the rest of the record is not relatable either. However,
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because it's fantasy or literary resources are made of characters.
It's fine, it's enjoyable, but knowing that there is a
real dog out there which is being a song about
kind of makes it sometimes too specific to be enjoyed.
Like the rest of the songs, at least for me.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That stands to reason, I'm picking up what you're putting down.
It's it's so specific, and I want to pet that dog.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But I can't exactly right. It's frustrating, give me that dog.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's it's akin to when an artist said, you know,
when an artist says, this is a song I wrote
the day my daughter was born. Oh man, Skip, I
understand absolutely. By the way Edwin, when you say dark noir, murder,
mystery movie mixed with Looney Tunes, you're just talking about
(24:45):
who framed Roger rabbit Man. That's that's exactly what this is.
Good call our pal. Brooks breaks it down as follows.
At first, I didn't really care for this one, honestly though.
It really did grow on me over time. Super mellow
and chill, not Claypool as usual, But I still enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Brooks breaks a bell.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And maybe and maybe Frankie, this is what makes it
a fun guy tune because over time it grows on
you exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think Lez's going for something there.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah the slow burn Yeah, possibly could be.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Could this be his slowest burning record ever?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I would put it on the mantle for slow burns,
absolutely bar none. This this takes takes that award without
any competition. And I'm not saying that pejoratively. I'm saying
it's just the one that has that feel to it
more than any other one. There's there's much more immediacy,
I think too, just about every other record he's done.
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John shree Wow, this is like our longest Primates takes ever.
John Shreeves says, Kazoo is the song that reminds you
to change your bomb water. Why, well, you got to
change it out every once in a while. Frank gets
rancid and nasty and you get missed.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The dogs drink.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, no, don't give the dogs your bong water?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
No, what what is bong water?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
In this episode of Primus Tracks, Frankie learns about water
pipes used for ingesting cannabis and cannabis products. Oh a
bong Yes, you should also change out war Dog yes,
you should also change less right just like that. Yes, okay,
you should also change out your dog's water regularly, but
(26:36):
bong water as well. H Eric in Australia wraps it
up as follows. Let's see if he keeps his streak intact.
He says, Kazoo stinks like a big wet donkey dog
streak broken. Frankie sounds like something from an old time
mystery movie matinee. Well, okay, so we had two observations
about noir mystery type movie music, which I think is valid. Uh,
(27:00):
but the evaluation of the quality of that movie mystery
music is up for debate. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Eric's mama didn't raise no fool that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's the nature of the record for him. Also happens
to be track eight, just like mama. Imagine that. Wow,
the parallels we draw sometimes Poor Eric's back to his
old curmudgeonly oh man. Well that's the primates takes. Thank
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you guys for your support and your wise words. Once again,
we're on the back half of hung Guy and Foe,
which means zero live cuts, but.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
As we could aspire to, would be someone covering the
song at some point, which has never happened either.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That's right with a kazoo. Yes, so you can do
breathy kazoo. Absolutely, I think somebody could do it. This
is me issuing a challenge to you, go home, do
a multi track recording of you performing kazoo solely on
a kazoo. Thank you. I really hope we get dozens
(28:18):
of entries for kazoo on kazoo. All right, Frankie, I
think we've changed both our own minds about kazoo. I
think we're into it at this point.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yes, not in my top five from Fungi and Foe
by a long shot, but a song I can appreciate
more now.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Or I think that's commendable. I'll tell you what. I'm
going to go out on a limb and I'm going
to put it in my top twelve on the record.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Top twelve is more reasonable.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, okay, excellent. Maybe we can whittle it down from there.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Just want to reinforce what you said, because I find
myself in full agreement. Artists, band singers, whomever, please don't
write songs about your your daughters, sons or pets that much.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So for me, the songs about sons and daughters automatic
skip the songs about dogs. I'll listen to them because
I love dogs, but I, as you stated, I'll probably
also be frustrated because I don't get a pet that dog.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Something that I find really commendable about David Burns's solo
catalog is that we're talking about a guy who had
a daughter and subsequently a grandson, and he's been through
a divorce and then a split, and then he got
(29:54):
married again, and absolutely none of that found its way
to his rec which I find fabulous.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
No angsty breakup songs for David Byrne is what you're saying. Yeah,
you know, okay, good to know. No, there's plenty of
other people who have that territory covered.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
We don't need another one, so exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, any any David byrd songs about dogs.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Ah, there's Duck's mind on America and Utopia.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
There's a start.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Oh and you know what was just when you said
songs about baby's being born? It's an automatic skip. I
think the ultimate transgressor in that sense is with arms
wide open.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right, Oh my goodness. Yeah, you can't top that one. Yeah, yeah,
the ultimate sin is with arms open. Let it be known.
The primus tracks does not in any way endorse with
arms wide open.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
We could certainly say that with confidence. But if you
want to listen to songs about dogs or that have
dog in the title, the first two I would recommend
to anybody are atomic dog that goes without question. Uh,
and I want to be your dog by the Stooges,
which are pal Mike Dylan has covered on his records.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
All right, quick fire, you've got several pets at home.
It's true your dogs, your dogs are fabulous. So quick
a quick rundown of funny things your dogs do.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
In my case, our dog, he'll just be lying on
his bed, and if I look at him, he'll start
smiling and wiggling his tail.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
He'll always be running, running and jumping about. But if
I pull out my phone, he'll stop and pose for
a photograph.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He'll also be lying in bed. And if I if
I put my shoes on for whatever reason, then he'll
already have.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What is then? Uh, what is the name of the
thing to walk your dog out on the street?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Oh yeah, he'll have he'll have the leash on his
mouth ready if if he if he listens to me, putting.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
My shoes on. Yeah, he'll Yeah, he'll.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
React to key key words as well, I think the
same as yours, mainly walk, booth, oh and the bath
as well.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, he knows what that means.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now, and here's math. Does he approach or run away?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
He'll get really stiff and yeah, and he'll he'll try
to hang on to onto the ground for dear life.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Oh wow, So he doesn't fight, he doesn't fly.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
He freezes exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Should I should mention that we're doing the thing that
frustrates you right now as you're talking about your dog
and nobody gets to pet your dog.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Nobody gets to pet him. That's right, it's true.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Oh my god, it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It's so easy. It's so easy to fall there.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, it's so easy to kazuo someone. You just consue everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Before you realize if you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
So I yeah, I will not victimize everybody. But I
will say one thing about Pearl the Beagle, which is
we we tend to watch the same show right before
bedtime for the dogs, and she gets to know the
closing musical number for the TV show that we choose,
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and then she knows it's time for bed so, for
for example, lately we've been watching The Dick Van Dyke
Show right before bedtime. Brilliant sitcom by the way, funny
as hell, and that that music sting comes on at
the end and she jumps up, looks at us, and
starts heading for her room.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
She's pretty sharp. Yeah, so she learns the theme songs
pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
And I understand she also has a very good set
of table manners, right, oh very much. So.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yes, the one time of year we sat are at
the table for her birthday burger.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yes, she's a remarkable pup.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
She's great. Uh and yes, we're sick people for doing
that and now and now I'm doing everybody. So it's
oh no, before you realize, I forgive you less. I
understand now, Yes, it's.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's it because it suddenly, suddenly it becomes relatable.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah perhaps, I mean, I imagine there's there's a group
of people out there who have a child and then
they love with arms wide open.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Right, it becomes it becomes her theme song.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
So yeah, yeah, you know's in a world with seven
eight billion people, there's bounty one.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yes, so I guess we can kind of relate to Kasu. Now,
we never met her, we never pet her, but we
can relate to the song a bit more.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Now, yeah, in the sense that this guy really wanted
to tell you about his dog because his dog's great.
And we would tell people about our dogs too, but uh,
flip side, I don't want to hear about people's dogs. Wow,
I do if I can pet them. But if I can't,
you know.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
What about what about looking at pictures?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh? Absolutely, show show me pictures of your dogs. Please,
everybody send me pictures of your dogs right now. Absolutely.
I check out dogs when I'm out driving, and people
probably think I'm leering at them, but no, I'm checking
out their dogs. They're cute. I should probably stop talking.
(35:46):
I should say this. Frankie Kazoo, come here, sit, shake down, good, rollover,
Oh good dog, here's a treat you been tracked next time.
Frankie twenty nine is a prime number.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
My favorite track, my favorite, not number, yeah, math favorite.
I'm gonna I'm gonna put this out there for listeners
to ponder until the next week, and then they can
get back to us with their conclusion. My personal theory
is that this song is connected to Bite Out of Life,
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so on Bite out of Life list, it's encouraging the
boy to leave life to the fullest and just go
for that big, juicy bite right on Prime by twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
He presents the aftermath of that behavior.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
So it's a companion piece.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
It's a companion piece, yes, Or is.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It a trilogy where the guy takes the bite out
of life and then takes his dog for a walk
and then.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
He and then deals with the aftermath. Yes, that well
could be, very well could be.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I adopted this dog, named it Kazoo, and it ruined me.
That's the story. This is Less's twenty one twelve. We're
through the looking glass here. We've found we figured it out,
all right. We've been talking about dogs for fifteen minutes.
Probably time to go Primates, Primetrons, people of Earth, dog
lovers everywhere. Please actually do send pictures of your dogs
(37:21):
to Primus trackspot at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
We would love to see them. Please. It's been a while.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's been a while since you do the last photoshoot
with records and dogs.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yes, I need to do that again. Those those beagles
need to pose with more of my Primus records later days.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Willy Mays
It's Josh Freaky with a couple of dump shits.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Have you met cousin.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Up Bowie Brown World, Hello Primates, you found Primus Tracks. Congratulations.
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on the socials. I'll happily read it here. I'm Josh.
I'm one of the hosts of Primus Tracks. He is
on the thirty nine floor of Primus Tracks Towers, chasing
a dog around. It's Frankie. Hey Josh, Hey Frankie. There's
so many ways to support the pod and find Primus Tracks.
You've been having a lot of success on the facebooks lately.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It sounds like yes, it's on fire, and like you said,
there are so many ways to support us. I mean,
you could catch the bus or the train and just
unplug your earphones from your device and play it Louth.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know a lot. You know a lot of municipalities
have ordinances against that. On mass transit. You're encouraging our
listeners to commit petty crimes to promote us, which I
wholeheartedly endorse. Frankie will pay your fine. I'm legally obligated
to tell you that Frankie will not pay your fine. Well,
(02:04):
here we are, Frankie. It's track eight of Fungi and Foe.
It is simply named kazoo. When you hear the word kazoo,
where does your mind.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Go to a musical instrument which is very whimsical and
the very playful.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
As does my mind, Frankie. I've owned a number of
kazoos over my life and they are tons of fun.
It's just a contoured piece of plastic or metal with
a little bit of an opening on the top and
there's just a little piece of paper in there, and
it makes the goofiest sound on earth. It's a wonderful
musical instrument. Anyone can play it, and it does not
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cost as much as a wamola. That's like another thing
in the pro kazoo column. They're cheaper than a wamamola
you can make just as wacky as But I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You don't need to worry about finding a drumstick somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's right. But that's not to say you shouldn't also
go to packet arm Instruments dot com and bio Wammola
today because Frankie, you can play the wamola and kazoo simultaneously. Yes, now,
that is something I need to see and hear.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I think, at least currently, it's not easy to produce
a photograph of Kasoo online. But I do recall Kazoo
being shared at one point or another way back, So
I I am.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Sure I've seen a photograph of what she looks like.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Wait are you talking about the musical instrument?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh? About the doc?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh? We didn't reveal that yet to the audience. So
for those unfamiliar, they were confused. Possibly, but that's okay. Yes,
because who was a dog mystery revealed?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Because who was adopted by Liz and his family several
years back, and along with Hannibal.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I understand that.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
They are they were, or are I hope they are
the family pets.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Considering that it's been sixteen years probably safe to say
they're no longer with us, but we can also say
with confidence that they were adopted, likely out of a shelter,
and had really good lives at Rancho or a Laxo.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yes, imagine all the space they had to run around.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh, it's a paradise for a dog. And that's actually
that's the message of today is go adopt a dog.
If you do anything as a result of listening to
this podcast today, don't don't play the podcast out loud
on the bus and get a ticket. Take that money
you would have had to pay for that fine, and
go adopt a dog today. That's the message, and it's
(05:00):
much more positive for all.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do you recall seeing a photo of Kazou?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I have dim memories from interviews of Less talking about
as dogs. I don't know if those photographs were for
social media or if they made it into publications like
bass Player magazine.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Do you recall I don't recall.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I mean, and it's hard to produce right now these images,
but I'm confident I saw a picture of Kazoo at
one point or another down the line.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So here's what we do. We at a later date,
at a later date, we have a video video. I'll
say that again at a later date. We'll do a
bunch of research and then we'll have an episode titled
the Dogs of Les Claypool.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, and they will have been identified by Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Every single dog will have will have pictures, will have
accounts of their lives, will have their favorite food, will
have the tricks that they learned. I think I've killed
that joke all right. But you know when a guy
writes a song about a dog and you have a
podcast about the guy's songs, I guess you got to
talk about the guy's dog or dogs. We should also
(06:12):
say this is strange territory for Less Claypool lyrics and
song because he's writing a song about his dog, and
that is not something I would expect. I didn't expect
it at the time in two thousand and nine, and
certainly coming back to it, I thought, huh, dude wrote
a song about his dog. And mean he wrote a
(06:33):
song about his wife too, But that makes sense, like, yeah,
he to definitely want to brag on your spouse and
they'll really appreciate it. Now, I sing songs to my
dogs all the time, Frankie, and they don't give a rip. Well,
they're just listening for the keywords like food, treat, walk.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And so on and so forth, and if.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The song does not contain those words, they lose interest
very quickly. There's curiosity and writing a song about one's dog.
And I think we joked about it, you know, in
our making of episode, which was he may have been
just sitting sitting around, looking around and saying, that's my dog.
I'm gonna write a song about that dog.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And that And it's one hundred percent possible because he
confirmed so himself when we have our Bucket of Bernie
Brain's Overview episode, unless said he was just gazing around
the room and writing songs about the things he saw.
(07:32):
So it was like, oh, there's Buckethead right there, BAM
opening track on the record, Buckethead. Yeah, a bowl of
noodles was lying around somewhere, BAM track two Thai Noodles.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So this is familiar territory in that regard. See something,
notice something.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Make a song out of it, make a song out
of it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, I'm writing song but my dog, And I will say,
I think that's a sweet idea. And I also think
that the music really pairs well with a slower, slowed
down footage of a dog trotting around, sniffing, barking, chewing
on stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How would you describe this song musically? I think it's uh,
very refined. I'm very sophisticated, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I wrote in my notes that this is as close
as he's ever come to being the jazz combo at
the winery that's playing too loudly. That's what I where
my fend went. It's like there's that little jazz combo
in the corner. They're there to make background music, but
they're playing really loudly. You can't hear yourself talk to
your friend while you're drinking your wine. But it's but
(08:44):
it's it's cool jazz, you know. And so he's he's
he's on the side of it where it's not elevator jazz.
This is a cool jazz song.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And although.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The lyrics don't come to my mind that often, the
motif play by Sam Bass, I think it's quite compelling.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That does get.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Some some space, yeah, some space in my mind, particularly
if I've just heard the record, and it will Sam
Bass's part will.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Linger for a bait in my mind. After I listened
to the song.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know, listening to this, you know, just yesterday in
terms of our recording of this for the first time
in sixteen years, when Sam's part came in, I had
to double check the credits because I thought it was scack.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
On sax exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, So I wonder if this was initially conceived for
a sex part and Skak wasn't available, or if Less said, hey,
can you can you mimic that way breathy, breathy sax
sound on the cello, and Sam, being as good as
he is, was able to do that, and it's like
(10:01):
breathy saxophone, so it's got that quality to it. And
so I certainly did a double take and that Yeah,
this track is pretty interesting. It it's four minutes and
twelve seconds, and we should mention once again no live
versions of this never been performed.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's never been performed live. Nope.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And we've got Less on bassin vocals and percussion, Sam
basson cello, Mike Dion via baraphone, and he gives us
a pretty nice solo through much of the last half
of the track, if I remember correctly. And the other
thing that I wrote my notes that I wanted to
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mention was there's that false ending at about two minutes
and twenty seconds. I was listening to it, eyes closed,
just letting my thoughts come to me as I listened
to it, and that false ending occurred, and I opened
my eyes, thinking, shit, it's done already. I thought it
was over. It wasn't. It continued, and I thought, and
(11:07):
there was a moment of disappointment, I will be honest,
But then Mike saves it in the second half. It
was worth it. It's pretty groovy in that regard. But
you know, we talked about it on the first side
of this record. A lot of down tempo, a lot
of instrumentation that's not in your face, a lot of
very laid back tunes. And then Bite out of Life
(11:30):
last week kicked us in the can a bit, and
so I'm awake and I'm going, all right, what else
does the second half of this record have for us?
And we get the cool jazz combo. So Bite out
of Life is sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb
at this point. Frankie, what do you.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Think about the way the I mean, because now we
have a Bite out of Life George Martin and Errol
I mean, we're on.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
The Fence with Errol.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We don't know if it's so Fungui lore or not,
but we have so many songs lately removed from the
fung Guy theme that it does post the interesting question
whether you consider that the album, I mean, if you
think about it, munchrom Men Amanitas Buo, mill Stump is
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not related to fung Guy, and there's the title track
near the end. So that's not really that much of
a Fungui record, is it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well, we also have plenty of Foe. We still have
a couple of tracks coming up that are that are
associated with Pig Hunt. We have a smattering of each,
and then we have four or five tracks that have
nothing to do with either.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
The video exactly or the movie exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
This one is one of those. It stands alone as
far as its composition and origins. And I certainly hope,
I hope to the highest power that Kazoo is not Foe,
because he sounds like she sounds like a sweet dog.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
She sounds friend shaped.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yes, very much so, even if she pitdles on the
floor out of excitement, which good dogs do.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Going going, going through the songs as we're doing with
these episodes, that's a thought that just struck me that
this record is a collection of songs, it's not really
something unified by a particular theme.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, some of the tracks are in subgroups, but as
an overall umbrella, not necessarily exactly. Yeah, and this one
certainly stands apart thematically. Of course, it's a song about
the guy's dog. But it also I think stands apart
a bit instrumentally too, because the presentation is even though
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the instrumentation is similar, the presentation is different from what
we've already heard on the front half of the record. Yes,
we should sample a little bit you met not there,
I'm gonna move forward a bit.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
He's even doing the jazz guy vocals down there in
that low have you met kazoo?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And that once again that cello line. Yes, very reminiscent
of a sax part uh and.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Very very yeah, very easy to to hum and to remember.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yes, it actually reminds me a bit of a portion
of a Clutch tune called Who's been Talking. These two
tunes are not at all related, but they each have
a little sing songy part like that that reminds me
one of the other. And that's just my own association
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but it's just got that little lick is really great,
and it's certainly evocative of something I've heard before somewhere
that just sounds like that cool jazz which I keep saying,
but it's what I'm stuck on at this moment. Per
My recollection, we get a lot of similar stuff through
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the first couple of minutes, and then in the back
half Mike d takes over, so that upright isn't as
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dirty as it is on something like Red Stek Girl,
but it's nice and low register, so it's rumbling, there's
a bit of resonance to the percussion. Sam's doing some
cool stuff around what around Mike's solo excuse me?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Great job by Mike Dean.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, he really brought it on the viabraphone there. Of course,
if if you give Mike a word, he will find
the right notes for it exactly. You know what I mean.
You know, if you say gimme grunge, he'll give you grunge.
If you say give me pop, he'll give you pop.
If you say give me prints, he'll give you prints.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I think he can. I think he's just that attuned
that he can do it at a moment's notice, yes,
so give me smokey, you know, give me cigar bar.
That's what this sounds like to me. There it is.
It's cigar bar music, for sure. That's what's happening here.
It's it's a curious number though, because it's so chill
(17:11):
and laid back and it's it's a bit of exploration,
I'd say, on uh on Less's part, because you wouldn't
normally hear this from him on any kind of release,
yet here it is. So I know that this one
from what I recall, as far as the reception to
this record, I don't think Kazoo was held aloft as
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a shining example of the potential of this record. But
I think there's something.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
There I'm finding myself. I mean, a newfound appreciation for Kazoo.
You know what, I changed my mind. I think it's
a good song.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Wait a minute, that indicates that you didn't think that.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
At some point, I will say that I find the
music fanatic. Whether I mean it's a controversial point, but
I mean, whether we discuss if Les was scraping for
subjects by these point in the record. Regardless of that,
the music is fantastic. It's a very well executed song.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, it's fun, it's it's fairly simple. It's not you know,
over the top complex and once.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And once again less is very strategical. Look at the
look at the placement on the record.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh yeah, put it on the back half, you know,
just let it ride.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
No, yeah, but I mean it's coming after a very
chaotic and very loud song.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh yes, of course, the study in contrast to Bite
Out of Life and Kazoo are certainly present and fairly
self evident. Yeah, we come way down after Bite out
of Life and the track following Frankie Prime By twenty nine,
which I haven't listened to yet, my favorite. Oh that's rights,
(19:02):
your favorite track. Probably a bit more upbeat and noisy
than Kazoo, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, it's very different to Kazoo.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, so this it is strategically placed in terms of
between two more catchy tunes, not necessarily catching, as to say,
strategically placed between a couple of tunes that will catch
people's attention, I suppose, and I think Kazoo's inn attention
get her go in a different way. It's very loungy,
(19:30):
very different. The lyrics all about Kazoo, I do want
to meet this dog by the way. Don't know how
I'm gonna do it in twenty twenty five. But she's
a beautiful girl. She came from the depths of the
greasy underbelly of this big brown world. Frankie, so sounds
like a rescue animal to me. It makes me happy,
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dainty little thing. Give her liver crackers and a rub
on the belly and her heart will sing. That's one
of the sweetest things. Less Claypoole ever wrote beautiful long,
it's really interesting, got long, luxurious nails. And if there's
a spark as you're throwing strolling through the park, she'll
be shaking her tail so she gets you know, she
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catches that scent. She's into it. I think my favorite
couple it is when she gets excited. You may find
it overwhelming. If she peees on the tile. And I've
had dogs that when they get excited or over stimulated,
they pitdle. It's cute, it's easy to clean up, no
big deal, as long as it's on hardwood floor or tile. Yeah, no, biggie.
(20:33):
And that's about the extent of the lyrics. Little ode
to the dog here. Now, there are a lot of
songs out there about dogs, Frankie, and I'm not gonna
list them all, but I think it's great when somebody
writes a song about their dog, because that means that
dog means something to them. It's it's endearing. I'll say
that one of my favorite pieces of literature about a
(20:57):
dog is called The Mixer by Pehouse, readily available online.
Short story about a mutt who, through a series of misunderstandings,
helps to solve a string of crimes. It's pretty well done,
so the Mixer pg Wodehouse fun little read about a dog.
(21:23):
If I'm going into short story territory, Frankie, that means
we've talked about it enough. It's time for Primemates Takes.
(21:46):
If you want your take read on the podcast, all
you have to do is go to Patreon dot com,
forward slash Primus tracks, and there, among all the literature
and all the material that we offer, the versal constant
his Primates Takes, I will read your take on the
track up for discussion right here on this very podcast.
(22:07):
Our pal, the landed Gentry Edwin Allen Richards the fourth
Frankie says the following Kazoo is amazing and I love it.
I forgot it existed, so I gave it a re listen,
and it sounds like something out of a dark noir
murder mystery movie mixed with Looney Tunes. The instrumentation is
amazing and the tune is just as sultry as hell,
(22:28):
with the goofy as vocals that tell you to stop
taking anything in life so seriously. Ten out of ten?
What do you make of that? Frankie?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I find myself wondering about what could have been of
this song in terms of the music strictly with a
different subject matter.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, this could have been a bob Cock in the
Yellow Sock without a question.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yes, just yes, because I mean, like you mentioned it,
it's nice, it's a lovely little number.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's great and all.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But personally, I don't know if this happens to a
lot of other people, but when an artist gets too
too personal with a song in terms of something that
is so I mean too personal in the context like
(23:30):
this one, for me at least, there's a point where
the song becomes kind of unrelatable and as a consequence,
less enjoyable. Not and it's it's complex, right, because I mean,
the rest of the record is not relatable either. However,
(23:51):
because it's fantasy or literary resources are made of characters.
It's fine, it's enjoyable, but knowing that there is a
real dog out there which is being a song about
kind of makes it sometimes too specific to be enjoyed.
Like the rest of the songs, at least for me.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That stands to reason, I'm picking up what you're putting down.
It's it's so specific, and I want to pet that dog.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But I can't exactly right. It's frustrating, give me that dog.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's it's akin to when an artist said, you know,
when an artist says, this is a song I wrote
the day my daughter was born. Oh man, Skip, I
understand absolutely. By the way Edwin, when you say dark noir, murder,
mystery movie mixed with Looney Tunes, you're just talking about
(24:45):
who framed Roger rabbit Man. That's that's exactly what this is.
Good call our pal. Brooks breaks it down as follows.
At first, I didn't really care for this one, honestly though.
It really did grow on me over time. Super mellow
and chill, not Claypool as usual, But I still enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Brooks breaks a bell.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And maybe and maybe Frankie, this is what makes it
a fun guy tune because over time it grows on
you exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think Lez's going for something there.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah the slow burn Yeah, possibly could be.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Could this be his slowest burning record ever?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I would put it on the mantle for slow burns,
absolutely bar none. This this takes takes that award without
any competition. And I'm not saying that pejoratively. I'm saying
it's just the one that has that feel to it
more than any other one. There's there's much more immediacy,
I think too, just about every other record he's done.
(25:52):
John shree Wow, this is like our longest Primates takes ever.
John Shreeves says, Kazoo is the song that reminds you
to change your bomb water. Why, well, you got to
change it out every once in a while. Frank gets
rancid and nasty and you get missed.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The dogs drink.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, no, don't give the dogs your bong water?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
No, what what is bong water?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
In this episode of Primus Tracks, Frankie learns about water
pipes used for ingesting cannabis and cannabis products. Oh a
bong Yes, you should also change out war Dog yes,
you should also change less right just like that. Yes, okay,
you should also change out your dog's water regularly, but
(26:36):
bong water as well. H Eric in Australia wraps it
up as follows. Let's see if he keeps his streak intact.
He says, Kazoo stinks like a big wet donkey dog
streak broken. Frankie sounds like something from an old time
mystery movie matinee. Well, okay, so we had two observations
about noir mystery type movie music, which I think is valid. Uh,
(27:00):
but the evaluation of the quality of that movie mystery
music is up for debate. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Eric's mama didn't raise no fool that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's the nature of the record for him. Also happens
to be track eight, just like mama. Imagine that. Wow,
the parallels we draw sometimes Poor Eric's back to his
old curmudgeonly oh man. Well that's the primates takes. Thank
(27:39):
you guys for your support and your wise words. Once again,
we're on the back half of hung Guy and Foe,
which means zero live cuts, but.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
As we could aspire to, would be someone covering the
song at some point, which has never happened either.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That's right with a kazoo. Yes, so you can do
breathy kazoo. Absolutely, I think somebody could do it. This
is me issuing a challenge to you, go home, do
a multi track recording of you performing kazoo solely on
a kazoo. Thank you. I really hope we get dozens
(28:18):
of entries for kazoo on kazoo. All right, Frankie, I
think we've changed both our own minds about kazoo. I
think we're into it at this point.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yes, not in my top five from Fungi and Foe
by a long shot, but a song I can appreciate
more now.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Or I think that's commendable. I'll tell you what. I'm
going to go out on a limb and I'm going
to put it in my top twelve on the record.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Top twelve is more reasonable.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, okay, excellent. Maybe we can whittle it down from there.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Just want to reinforce what you said, because I find
myself in full agreement. Artists, band singers, whomever, please don't
write songs about your your daughters, sons or pets that much.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So for me, the songs about sons and daughters automatic
skip the songs about dogs. I'll listen to them because
I love dogs, but I, as you stated, I'll probably
also be frustrated because I don't get a pet that dog.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Something that I find really commendable about David Burns's solo
catalog is that we're talking about a guy who had
a daughter and subsequently a grandson, and he's been through
a divorce and then a split, and then he got
(29:54):
married again, and absolutely none of that found its way
to his rec which I find fabulous.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
No angsty breakup songs for David Byrne is what you're saying. Yeah,
you know, okay, good to know. No, there's plenty of
other people who have that territory covered.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
We don't need another one, so exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, any any David byrd songs about dogs.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Ah, there's Duck's mind on America and Utopia.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
There's a start.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Oh and you know what was just when you said
songs about baby's being born? It's an automatic skip. I
think the ultimate transgressor in that sense is with arms
wide open.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right, Oh my goodness. Yeah, you can't top that one. Yeah, yeah,
the ultimate sin is with arms open. Let it be known.
The primus tracks does not in any way endorse with
arms wide open.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
We could certainly say that with confidence. But if you
want to listen to songs about dogs or that have
dog in the title, the first two I would recommend
to anybody are atomic dog that goes without question. Uh,
and I want to be your dog by the Stooges,
which are pal Mike Dylan has covered on his records.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
All right, quick fire, you've got several pets at home.
It's true your dogs, your dogs are fabulous. So quick
a quick rundown of funny things your dogs do.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
In my case, our dog, he'll just be lying on
his bed, and if I look at him, he'll start
smiling and wiggling his tail.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
He'll always be running, running and jumping about. But if
I pull out my phone, he'll stop and pose for
a photograph.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He'll also be lying in bed. And if I if
I put my shoes on for whatever reason, then he'll
already have.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What is then? Uh, what is the name of the
thing to walk your dog out on the street?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Oh yeah, he'll have he'll have the leash on his
mouth ready if if he if he listens to me, putting.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
My shoes on. Yeah, he'll Yeah, he'll.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
React to key key words as well, I think the
same as yours, mainly walk, booth, oh and the bath
as well.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, he knows what that means.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now, and here's math. Does he approach or run away?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
He'll get really stiff and yeah, and he'll he'll try
to hang on to onto the ground for dear life.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Oh wow, So he doesn't fight, he doesn't fly.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
He freezes exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Should I should mention that we're doing the thing that
frustrates you right now as you're talking about your dog
and nobody gets to pet your dog.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Nobody gets to pet him. That's right, it's true.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Oh my god, it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It's so easy. It's so easy to fall there.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, it's so easy to kazuo someone. You just consue everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Before you realize if you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
So I yeah, I will not victimize everybody. But I
will say one thing about Pearl the Beagle, which is
we we tend to watch the same show right before
bedtime for the dogs, and she gets to know the
closing musical number for the TV show that we choose,
(33:39):
and then she knows it's time for bed so, for
for example, lately we've been watching The Dick Van Dyke
Show right before bedtime. Brilliant sitcom by the way, funny
as hell, and that that music sting comes on at
the end and she jumps up, looks at us, and
starts heading for her room.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
She's pretty sharp. Yeah, so she learns the theme songs
pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
And I understand she also has a very good set
of table manners, right, oh very much. So.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yes, the one time of year we sat are at
the table for her birthday burger.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yes, she's a remarkable pup.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
She's great. Uh and yes, we're sick people for doing
that and now and now I'm doing everybody. So it's
oh no, before you realize, I forgive you less. I
understand now, Yes, it's.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's it because it suddenly, suddenly it becomes relatable.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah perhaps, I mean, I imagine there's there's a group
of people out there who have a child and then
they love with arms wide open.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Right, it becomes it becomes her theme song.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
So yeah, yeah, you know's in a world with seven
eight billion people, there's bounty one.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yes, so I guess we can kind of relate to Kasu. Now,
we never met her, we never pet her, but we
can relate to the song a bit more.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Now, yeah, in the sense that this guy really wanted
to tell you about his dog because his dog's great.
And we would tell people about our dogs too, but uh,
flip side, I don't want to hear about people's dogs. Wow,
I do if I can pet them. But if I can't,
you know.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
What about what about looking at pictures?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh? Absolutely, show show me pictures of your dogs. Please,
everybody send me pictures of your dogs right now. Absolutely.
I check out dogs when I'm out driving, and people
probably think I'm leering at them, but no, I'm checking
out their dogs. They're cute. I should probably stop talking.
(35:46):
I should say this. Frankie Kazoo, come here, sit, shake down, good, rollover,
Oh good dog, here's a treat you been tracked next time.
Frankie twenty nine is a prime number.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
My favorite track, my favorite, not number, yeah, math favorite.
I'm gonna I'm gonna put this out there for listeners
to ponder until the next week, and then they can
get back to us with their conclusion. My personal theory
is that this song is connected to Bite Out of Life,
(36:31):
so on Bite out of Life list, it's encouraging the
boy to leave life to the fullest and just go
for that big, juicy bite right on Prime by twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
He presents the aftermath of that behavior.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
So it's a companion piece.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
It's a companion piece, yes, Or is.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It a trilogy where the guy takes the bite out
of life and then takes his dog for a walk
and then.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
He and then deals with the aftermath. Yes, that well
could be, very well could be.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I adopted this dog, named it Kazoo, and it ruined me.
That's the story. This is Less's twenty one twelve. We're
through the looking glass here. We've found we figured it out,
all right. We've been talking about dogs for fifteen minutes.
Probably time to go Primates, Primetrons, people of Earth, dog
lovers everywhere. Please actually do send pictures of your dogs
(37:21):
to Primus trackspot at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
We would love to see them. Please. It's been a while.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's been a while since you do the last photoshoot
with records and dogs.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yes, I need to do that again. Those those beagles
need to pose with more of my Primus records later days.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
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