November 11, 2025 • 46 mins
Primed By 29 has a fetching title for a Primus fan exploring the solo works of Les Claypool. Although the lyrics don't necessarily refer to anything Primus-related, they're certainly in the wheelhouse of Claypool, who pens another cautionary tale about going too far with recreational drugs in an attempt to create excitement from the mundane. It also happens to be Frankie's favorite track on the album, and we wonder why it didn't make the cut for Duo de Twang a few years later.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Josh Freaky with a couple of dump shits.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello, Primates, you've found Primus Tracks. Congratulations. I'm Josh. I'm
one of the hosts of Primus Tracks.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You can find Primus Tracks at Primus Tracks of all
Things on Instagram and threads and Facebook and Primus Tracks
Pod at gmail dot com is the email address. Primus
Tracks actually has two hosts. I'm one of them. I
do some of the talking. He this week, due to
the nature of the track we're talking about, has moved
down to the twenty ninth floor of Primus Tracks Towers.
(00:51):
I hope the adjustment has gone smoothly for him. It's
Frankie Bearstein. Hey, Josh, good idea to move down to
the twenty ninth floor of Primus Tracks Towers this week
because we are talking about primed by twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But before with prime I believe you have some debris right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Of course, Yes, it's miscellaneous debris time this week. Frankie.
My piece of miscellaneous debris comes from skimming some old
articles about Les Claypool and Primus and I'm going to
(01:30):
toss this out at you because I'm not sure if
you were aware of it. I certainly was not. It's
not on toaster Land. It wasn't mentioned in the Grapevine book.
It was just mentioned in passing in an article on
bass Player Magazine that Lesson Larry sat in with spinal
Tap in nineteen ninety two. Did you know this? It's true.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I know it was just buried in this article about
less in a bass Player magazine from ninety two. It
just casually mentioned that he sat in with spinal tap.
And so I had to look up the information, of course,
and went to the database and found the newspaper database,
that is, and found a San Francisco Chronicle review of
(02:16):
the show. So less and Larry both sat in for
the encore a couple of on core tracks by spinal Tap,
and this I have to say, the San Francisco Chronicle
review of the show is not very charitable in this
(02:37):
sense that they said it's spinal tap, but it just
wasn't that funny. I'm going to quote from that.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, can you read the bit?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah? Absolutely, I'm going to quote from the San Francisco Chronicle,
June third, nineteen ninety two. Joel Selvin wrote this article.
Near the end, there's a paragraph that reads. This follows
bassist Les Claypool, his head freshly shaved and wearing an
aquacolored bathrobe, and guitarist Larry Lalande of Primus supplied the
(03:08):
evening's soul authentic rock thrills with solos on Short and
Sweet during the encores. So the article isn't too jazzed
about the comedy, and they're not too charitable about the
musical performances either. Now, the bass player article mentioned that
Less played the upright bass on Big Bottom, which followed
(03:31):
Short and Sweet on the set list, and that makes
perfect sense. So let's stayed out there for a couple tunes.
Not clear as far as Larry, but he was out
there for at least one. By the way, this article
goes on to say, guitarist Jeff Watson of Night Ranger
joined the band for a number. So what a strange
cavalcade of guests to go from a guy from night
(03:54):
Ranger to two dudes from Primus. I don't know how
they got that arranged, but good for them sharing the
stage with Spinal Tap, and I have to say, Frankie,
that connects to a lot of things we've already talked
about on this podcast. Including Electric Apricot, because that is,
of course a film less made in the same vein
as Spinal Tap, a film he had seen and enjoyed,
(04:15):
and clearly then he got to see how a fictitious
band performs a big rock show. Yes, that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It doesn't it doesn't get more ambitious than stonehenge.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Right. I don't recall Electric Apricot having anything being anything
descending from the ceiling that was the wrong size or malfunctioning,
or that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The UFO on New Year's Eve with Adam Gates.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of course, the Adam Gates UFO and New Year's Eve
for Primus at the Oakland Coliseum, that debacle, I suppose
that killed any gags that they wanted to do from
then on out.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
In that I'm just deeply satisfied and pleased that there
is a Primus Spinal Tap connection.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That is just marvelous.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes, I was just tickled to find that in that
article and then and then read the San Francisco Chronicle
coverage of it. I'm currently on the hunt for pictures
and video. Rudimentary searches have yielded nothing. Jay Blakesburg was
not there. He confirmed that to me, so that avenue
is shut u and actually the Chronicle staff photographer who
(05:29):
took photos at that show passed away earlier this year.
So yes, yes, so we're gonna if if we're going
to find some footage from this show that possibly displays
lesson Larry, we're gonna have to do some digging. If
you were at the show, please email us Primus tracks
(05:50):
Pod at gmail dot com. I need to know more.
Thank you, Frankie, I think you have some miscellaneous debris.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yes, it seems like more sleeks are coming up for
sale soon, so remember to register your interest at Packidarminstruments
dot com if you are willing to transfer the wealth
necessary in order to have one of these hunks of
(06:19):
furniture in your hand, because they do sell out immediately.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's right, they've already done one run, is my understanding? Correct?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
And this is said to be honored and also perform
at the bass Player Magazine Awards next year at the
Observatory in California.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The previous I mean this year he was a presenter,
but the next year he will be performing and he
will also be one of the one of the hon
Earth guests. So it would be really interesting to see
what he'll be performing. I mean, will these be a
Primus song? Will it be Bastard jazz? Will it be frougrigade?
(07:07):
I really have no clue what he'll be performing.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now. Last year, did he not participate in a jam
with Moon? Yeah, so we should watch that because the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Last time around it might be an open jam.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Right, and last time around he jammed with Monoeon. Monoeon
ended up opening for Primus on a significant portion of
their summer tour. So anything can happen as a result
of this performance jam what have you?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
So?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Thank you for bringing that to our attention. Let's talk
about Primed by twenty nine. Today's track up for discussion.
It is track nine on your fung Guy and Foe record.
It checks in at three minutes and twenty six seconds.
Your credits are as follows less clay tool everything.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's a clay tool concoction, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It might have a lap lin spritz, I don't know,
but it's certainly a claypool concoction all the way. This one, Frankie,
has its roots in the faux portion of Fungi and Foe.
Primed By twenty nine, in its finished form, actually appears
in the Pig Hunt film Wow, and It's It plays
(08:21):
about sixteen minutes into the film when our group of
protagonists is cruising by this homestead and a whole bunch
of I guess you would say Beckwood's characters are populating
the front porch, including a guy and a preacher get
up of a sort, and that is indeed Less Claypool.
(08:43):
So it is exactly per album version to my recollection. Yes,
I did watch the film and just took notes on
the musical stings that sounded like Less's work, and they
were all pretty recognizable, although I'm going to have to
go back and watch it again because Less is credited
with four musical numbers in the film, and one is
(09:08):
called what You're Looking at Boy, which I do believe
is primed by twenty nine because it is played during
that scene where the people on the porch are just
staring at the people in the car and the people
in the car just staring right back at him. There's
also a song he's credited called Goblins in the Forest,
as well as Boonville Stomp and Mail Organ Grinder, which
(09:31):
I do believe is pretty little song. So the only
mystery there is Goblins in the forest, which there was
a there was a piece of music somewhere in there
that I either didn't catch or didn't catalog as far
as being a different piece, it's worth revisiting. I suppose
to find it. I've got three out of the.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Four, all right, yeah, please go back when you can
and identify this mysterious number.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We should do an MST three K version of pig
Hunt for the Good People. Probably not gonna happen. We're
getting to the we're getting close to the end here,
Frankie with track nine and this one on the back
half of the record. As we know, none of these
wherever performed live, so this one stays as a studio
(10:21):
track only for now. Now. I don't know what the distorted,
high pitched sound that starts this track is.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I always thought it was like guitar, is it not?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That is what I've always thought. But there's no guitar
in the credits for this track, and so looking at
all the instruments that Less is credited with, I wonder
if it's the penny whistle run through some distortion. Oh interesting,
that's that's my guess. It certainly sounds like guitar feedback
(10:55):
at first, yep, this, I'm just waiting for less to
text confirmation on that.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah. For those of you who are familiar with the
play waiting for gott oh, you know how this ends.
Judge for yourself. No idea could be guitar, could be
a penny whistle, whatever the case. I mean, I would
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still lean towards a guitar. But then it leads into
this doughbro line Frankie, which is actually, to me one
of the more interesting licks on the record, especially combined
with the vocal delivery we get later. This is intriguing
to me. Interesting Actually, that part with the feedback sounds
(12:02):
more like guitars now, So I interact my idea that
it's a penny whistle to start. This One's pretty interesting
to me, Frankie's It sets up nicely, and you are
on record as this is your favorite track from the
entire album, so have a what is what is speaking
to you here?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
This is my favorite track on the Phone Guy Records,
So I'll go I'll go into a little bit of detail. First,
let's talk about the music. You know that when you're
watching Primus Live and Liz pulls out the upright, you're
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either getting crinkle or Gillie's right usually, but then there
is that very rare occasion where you'll be stumped because
he'll do Eternal Consumption Engine or he'll do glass Sandwich,
(13:05):
and it's just so left field and rare that it
stops you on your tracks. Now he pulls out the
dough bro, you know you're getting a boomble stomp, or
you know you're getting over the Falls, or you're getting
Leve and Cliff, right, But every now and then you
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would get hats off. So what I really like about
this song is that the dobro has a very unconventional
sound in the recording. It doesn't sound anything like Over
the Falls, for instance, or Leve and Cliff. It has
(13:48):
a very unique sound, which correct me, I find wrong.
But it's run through the envelope filter, right.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I think there's a lot of effects on the dough bro, yes,
that you can hear in each channel.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, there are. I mean there are even portions where
it almost sounds like iwe gal right, just the ringing
of the strings.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh sure, yeah, I can. I can hear that. That's resonance.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
So I really appreciate when Les pulls out an instrument
that we are very familiar with and we associate with
recurrent songs, but he uses it for a rare song,
or he runs effects through it and makes it sound
totally different to the other songs. So musically, that's one
(14:39):
of the things I appreciate the most about Prime by
twenty nine, that it's a dobra tune, but it's completely
apart from the other Dobro songs in Lesson's catalog. The
second thing I really love about the track is the
complexity of the bassline. It's so fun to listen to.
(15:00):
It's so bouncy. It's I mean, it has a distinct riff,
but it's very playful in the sense that it has
a lot of variation throughout. It has these little details
here and there that keep you on your toes. And
at the same time, the song is average in length,
(15:20):
so it does not overstay. It's welcome. The riff is
there just long enough to be satisfying. And third third,
I guess the lyrics. I think they are very clever,
very well written, and I really enjoy how they evoke
(15:44):
this imagery that is very less clipple in every verse. Now,
I wanted to ask you if you could sample a
bit of the way hats Off used to be performed
by Primus, because that is a parallel that I make
between the two songs. I think the way that the
(16:06):
Dobro sounds on hats Off is very different to songs
like over the Falls or Leve and Cliff, and I
think it's a little closing sounds to Prime by twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
All right, this is hats Off from Tucson, Arizona, May eighteen,
twenty thirteen. That's Jay laying on drums. I think I'm
(16:50):
hearing that upper register that we get with the Doughboro
on twenty nine here, and that bouncin us as well.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Exactly what it's Yes, instead of being clanky like over
the Falls and Leve and Cleve, it's bouncy.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yes, yeah, I do believe that's a key difference because
we do get a lot of clanginess and clankiness with
the dough Bro and a lot of tracks as you note,
And this one's a this hats off iteration as well
as what we're hearing on Prime. Yes, a bit more bouncy,
lighter on the clankiness exactly, So.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It's like Prime by twenty nine and Boom, Bill Stump.
It's night and day, same instrument, completely different sound.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And we're for sure that's on the dough bro and
not on the bass banjo.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Prime By twenty nine or Hats.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Off twenty nine. It certainly sounds like the doughbro to me,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
We cannot We might be ninety nine hundred percent sure
because it has never been performed live. We've never seen
him play it. But I'm leaning on doughbro just because
I think, because I think it kind of evokes Iowan Gal,
but just a little in some portions. But if it
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if it had been performed on that instrument, I think
it would have been a lot clankier than it is,
and it isn't clanky.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Was Ilon Gal on the bass banjo?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Bass Joe?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, Yeah, Okay, that's right. I'll go with Doughbro until
told otherwise. This is this is us waiting for less
to text us again, tell us all the things we're
getting wrong, because if a track hasn't been performed live,
sometimes you're guessing it. Stuffy point, what.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Do you get? What do you get out of the
song musically?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, you pointed to the vocal delivery, Frankie, but you
also talked about the you know the tone of the
doughbro or bass Joe or whatever's being played here, and
I have I have to say the riff and the
way that it sounds is about as backwoods as we've
ever heard him go. And I do wonder if I'm
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allowing myself to be convinced of that because of the
footage from the film and all the characters that are
on the porch of that that home, but I I
do think it's it's as deep woods as we've ever
heard from him. He you know, he messes around with it,
like you say, on tracks like Lee van Cleef, even
(19:24):
Dean's a jig, he's you know, he's messing with that
with that style. But here it seems like he's going
a whole hog pun intended because of the Pig Hunt movie,
but the it really does seem like he's just going
for it. And in combination with the vocal delivery, with
the forced voice cracks and he just sounds like an
(19:44):
old broken man uh in in this tune with the
vocal delivery. So let's hear a little bit of that
any while it tastes like Blitter and beaver Bride. But
if you fail another time, that's that's pretty good. Like
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he's way up there in his nose too, so he's
he's doing something different there with his vocal delivery that
we haven't necessarily heard before. I think he's really going
way up in the nasal passages for that one, and
I so putting all that together, it certainly has that
(20:37):
feel to it. It's three minutes of twenty six seconds,
doesn't necessarily overstay, it's welcome. There's the the percussive vocal
part as well, bow down there in the lower register,
which happens a few times on this record and still
will again, I believe. So there's, uh, that's a recurring thing.
(20:58):
I guess I'll just call it a motif because recurring
vocal delivery. So there's a few things that are different
on this one. There's a couple of things that it
has in common with the rest of the record, of course,
that that percussive vocal and less doing most of the instrumentation,
and it being of a similar soundscape, although we do
(21:19):
get that high pitched squealing throughout, which is a bit different.
I wouldn't say this is my favorite track on the record,
but I will say I can understand why you're really
into it because it is intriguing. It moves, It moves enough,
I think, and it's it's got an interesting premise with
the lyrics. So yeah, with those lyrics, Frankie, we've got
(21:44):
four variations on a theme. There's four verses and they're
all pretty much the same in terms of theme. This
thing drink food song. Performance stinks, but substances will make
it better. That's that's it, all right. So you know,
I'm living my life. It's not as great as I
(22:05):
wanted to be. But if I do drugs, then I'll
be having a good time.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Here.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I'm thinking about the song right now. I realized that
the percussion goes a long way. But even if the
percussion were not there, it would still be a very
bouncy song because of the nature of the bassline.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, I would think this would be a good candidate
for a do it a Twang track? Yes, absolutely so
that that bassline and the stomp box keyho doing something
over there, you know, playing around with that that feedback
sound and doing a little lick. Interesting that they didn't
choose this one. So I think the lyrics, you know,
(22:48):
as we said, it's it's these four little vignettes of
life isn't as good as I want it to be.
I'm going to enhance it with illicit substances. And then
at the very end we get, Hey, mister spa a dime.
It seems the boy's a broke mind. He took it
to the limit every time, but he's primed by twenty nine.
(23:08):
He's got a broke mind, as he says, took it
to the limit every time throughout his twenties and he's
already burnt out. Sounds like a party boy lifestyle really
really caught up to this guy. Now you had a
theory you were going to share that this is related
to Bite out of Life.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Oh, yes, Like Bite out of Life is all about
exists and then prime by twenty nine is the aftermath
of the excess.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Right, Yeah, that's an interesting idea. Of course, Bite out
of Life I think is more of a generalized cultural
idium in the sense that you're you're seeking a thrill
or you know, capturing the moment in just about any way,
shape or form, whereas here it's it's mostly limited to
(23:55):
illegal drugs that do damage to your mind, body, and soul.
But yeah, but I think I understand what you're getting
at for this kid who is Primed by twenty nine.
Taking a bite out of life meant wrapping your lips
around a bong, cramming your sinus is full of blow
and making the mundane at least somewhat palatable or exciting.
(24:19):
Now do you so? Do you view them as companion pieces? Uh?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Yeah, I mean in a way. But something that strikes
me about the lyrics on Prime By twenty nine is
that for the first for the first verses, Liz is
speaking in first person, so it seems as if the
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song is about his perception. But then for the final
verse he switches to an observation about someone else. So
it puts the song into question because I'm not sure
if if the song is about life in general, if
it's about first person point of view, or if the
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boy mentioned at the end is the one making the
observations in the verses all along.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yes, that shift in perspective is not entirely clear. I'll
say that again. The first verse says, but if you
fill my glass another time, I'm sure it will begin
to taste just fine. Yeah, So the narrator I is saying,
give me some more, because then I'll be drunk, and
I won't care. It'll taste great. Ben there, Frankie, Yeah,
(25:38):
Mad Dog twenty twenty. I'm interested in that. And I
love the complaints too, the description of the wine butter
and beaver brine, the beef gristlegum beyond belief, and the
horrible song stings like a big wet donkey dong. That's
a great line. And then the snoozer show a shindig,
(26:02):
A snoozer show, a shindig dud. But don't you know,
if you cramer blah blah blah, there's some really nice
imagery in here, as you noted earlier. Uh and he's
got a rhyme for for drugs each time, so good
for him for, you know, having that prior knowledge.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
So if I I mean, if I understand correctly, beaver
Brian refers to making beaver meat or other kind of
unusual meat, more savory.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Beaver's have these specialized sacs that secrete these fluids that
allow them to be waterproof, you know, because they swim
a lot. But that fluid, that viscous fluid that they
secrete and put all over themselves, smells really bad. So
that's what I'm doing. That's my interpretation, so it.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Says, well, what I rid which was a definition provided
a machine, so a recipe for honey Brian bibber Ham.
In this context, bibber Brian refers to a sealine solution,
possibly with honey or other flavorings, to prepare beber meat
(27:15):
for cooking in order to make it more palatable. Grizzled
gum refers to any kind of meat which is chewy.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Right, correct, Yes, So the grizzle on meat is very chewy.
It's it's not pleasant to experience, and so grizzle filled
meat is seen as low quality.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
But if you provide the narrator with another spliff.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Then yeah, just get them stone he'll eat.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It, Yeah, kill it whatever, right, you bet?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
That reminds me of this, uh this screen capture that
I saw on Facebook of a person asking if anyone
had ever tried making edibles without drugs like Version Version edibles,
and then someone replied, bitch, do you mean food?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, right, you mean brownies, regular brownies out of the box.
I wanted to make a connection to this track too, Frankie,
which is we can boil these lyrics down to a
phrase that's on the back cover of your release of
Phonopsychograph disc versus The Filthy Ape from two thousand and Oh.
Oh interesting phonopsychograft disc. Of course, our friend DJ disc
(28:34):
front of the Pod The Filthy Ape Adam Gates, another
friend of the Pod who did a record together in
two thousand and one, and on the back of this
CD release Frankie right in the middle it states, lower
your standards and do more drugs and to catch and
that encapsulates the spirit of the lyrics to prime by
(28:57):
twenty nine. I wish I could take credit for that summary,
but that's clearly an Adam gatesism. Thank you, Adam.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I really like the ambiguity in this song because when
Liz says, geez, what a horrible song, it could be
either referring to any song that the narrator is listening
to in the background, yes, or he could be He'll
be talking about his own song by twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yes, yeah, I wanted to take it as meta commentary.
When I returned to this song for this episode, I.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Thought, which is fabulous.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, I thought that'd be really funny if he was
referring to this song. Yes, you know, he's done that before.
The lyrics and frizzle Fry will play this tune over again,
tweakers as we as we sodomize this song, what do
they say on Yeah, on the album he says, and.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
During fromage and Hell's in the genetics, that's when he
began doing this song, the mice thing. There we go.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And then of course, so dang and pressed, I had
to write this song called fish on. So there's there's
plenty of examples of him doing this, so I wouldn't
put him past him to make meta commentary on his
own song in this regard. Now, I have not fired
up the old bong to test that theory.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
For him, so we'll leave it.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So what is a shindig?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's that's just kind of a country Fried term for
a party or or a concert. But to call it
a dud means it's not it's not very good. It's
not a lively party. Nobody's having a good time. But
go in the bathroom, take a little bump here and
there you're gonna it's gonna be a it's gonna be
a rager. Okay, I'm glad you're asking these or are
(30:45):
bringing up these lines, because of course I'm taking for
granted my knowledge of the English language and some of
the references he's making, uh, and some of these idioms,
and so it certainly might seem byzantine to someone who's
not from earlier.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Yeah, these are certainly very interesting idioms and expressions.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, a lot of great.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So when he says stinks like what donkey donk, I
can only assume what that means.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I cannot speak from personal experience in that regard, Frankie,
I wish I could share with you what that smells like.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
But the description.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
To the listeners imagination, yes, I'm gonna I'm gonna err
on the side of it's unpleasant at the least. So, yeah,
those are those are pretty fun lyrics. I think he
was having fun writing these and just finding those rhymes,
uh to you know, to get to the second part,
which is do these drugs and it'll be fine. Well, Frankie,
we've talked about it enough. If you would like to
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talk about this track up for discussion no matter the episode,
all you have to do is go to Patreon dot
com fort slash Primes tracks, and one of the universal
constants over there is Primates Takes. With Primates Takes, I
post a thread about the tune you sound off and
I read your takes opinions once enjoys right here on
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the podcast. For example, John Shreeve Frankie says, Frankie Knows
What's Up. Best track on the album. As someone who
grew up somewhat of a hillbilly, gristlegum was a very welcome,
was very welcome on campouts. In the kitchen, well, if
you cook, it's lubricant because the fat part renders down.
(32:38):
Whoever the subject of this song of pontification is authored by,
they seem to be a master of turning around situations.
Thank you. John Mickey Waters says, great song seemingly about
boredom and the things people do just to get by.
But in typical play that messed up. But in typical
Claypool fashion and similar sex in every horror movie you
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pay the ultimate price when dealing with excess. That's a
great comparison.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Many a treatise has been written about what happens to
people who engage in sexual activity and horror Moviesal Eric
in Australia says no artificial stimulation required for this track.
All the pig Hunt tracks on this album channel the
jovial darkness of Claypool via Tom Waits that I love
so dearly. There is even a scene in pig Hunt
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that is so reminiscent of the My Name is Mud
film clip. I spent a lot of time enhancing my
life in the ways primed to describes, so I feel
the electric grapevine joy and Eric adds, as a further afterthought,
this might be My Friend Fats Chronicles Part two. What
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do you think of that, Frankie, Wow?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Interesting, interesting proposal.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, it is. It is familiar territory, these lyrics, and
so I think you could conceivably connect them to a
lot of Claypool tunes.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, some of it, I mean yes, some of it
is quintessential clay Tool imagery. Indeed, when when one of
the listeners, who was the second review from Mickey, Yeah,
when Micky said that the song relates to boredom and
the lengths people go to when they are bored, it
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instantly reminded me of this really fun song called Mope
by the Blockhand Gang. Have you ever heard that song?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes, I've heard that song.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
So it's like all the all the things they would
do just to kill time at King of Prussia in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yes, Uh, I remember that tune tape the Weather channel
so I can watch it later. Great, Paul, Frankie, it's
a funny one. Let's shuffle off to the unemployment line
for a moment. Brooks breaks it down as follows, It's
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a shame that this never got played live. Maybe Claypool
was too embarrassed to say big wet donkey dong in public.
In any case, I'll certainly agree with Frankie about it
being the best track on the album. Guys, they're all
on your side.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Frankie, it's so incredibly validating.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I'm just I'm somewhat puzzled that the now it's a
small sample size, but I am somewhat puzzled at the
sheer number of people that are citing this as their
top track on the record.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
So just because it's so good.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Obviously, opinions are varied and wide ranging on this kind
of topic, but it's still I'm it just makes gives
me pause. Final thoughts on Primed By twenty nine. Your
favorite track from the record, Frankie.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I'll never tired of it. I always look forward to
listening to it when the record comes up, but it's
also part of my playlist so it's on heavy rotation
and it has not worn thing after all these years.
I think it's a really fantastic song.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Okay, so you have this on your curated Claypole Primus
playlist to work out? Yeah, okay, so this gets a
lot of play. Are there any other Fungi and Fox
tracks on that list?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
My got a pretty little song Amanita's mushroom Man, and
I believe that's it.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
This is by far then one of the most played
tracks from this record for you. Absolutely, as observant listeners
have noted. Up to this point, nine tracks on the
record are tied for the most listened by me with two.
I have a feeling the final three tracks on the
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record will catch up. Well, I guess I can say
this twenty nine is a prime number. Man, it's been
tracked next time, Frankie, It's just a little It's just
a pretty little song.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I have a feeling will be a wash in Irony
next week. Before we take off today, we should thank
our patrons or patrons or primatrons if you will, over
at patreon dot com forward slash Primus Tracks. They help
keep the lights on here at Primus Tracks, and they
support Josh and Frankie, who are you know? Two dudes,
(37:33):
Let's get some background music while we thank our primatrons. Frankie,
I'm gonna pull from the tribute to King's tour and
in honor of Rush reforming and going out on the road,
let's hear Primus play some Xanadu underneath our patron shout outs.
(37:55):
All right, there is quite a list of prime matrons, Frankie.
These people have been supporting us for quite some time
and endless thanks to them, really enjoying the hangouts and
bonus pods over there and just interacting with all of
you on the on the yes on the Patreon chat there.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Too, and we are always thinking about ways to give
something back because we really appreciate the support that we
get from you guys on the platform. So I am
pleased to announce details will not be revealed yet, but
I am pleased to announce that there will be a
Ruffle very soon exclusively for you Patreons. And he's going
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to be a really cool item which will be Ruffled.
That's all I can say.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
For now, That's all he could say. I also can't
say much because Frankie never tells me anything, so I
don't know what he's talking about. All right, let's thank
our wonderful prime matrons who are are now screwing over
to patreon dot com for slash primus tracks to anticipate
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the Raffle of the Century by Frankie Eerstein. Let's thank
Ethan from Kentucky. Thank you Ethan. Joined recently Bradford Gatesington,
Thank you as well. Man. That's a landed gentry name
if I've ever heard one. Edwin might have to move
over a little bit there. Marcus Mayol, Thank you so much.
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Gene Meyer, friend of the pod. Thanks Gene. Don't have
to do that, buddy. Also thanks to Harry could be
it could be Harry Waters. We don't know, it could
be Harry of the Rocks. Also thanks to Robbie McCrory,
Joe T. Thank you, Joe T. Also thanks to Zach
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m Zaxxaphon Hank. We had a bonus pod with Zach
a little while ago. Brian Bargie, Thank you, Bergie. Audrey Myers,
Thank you so.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Much, Audrey Myers.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Audrey Meyer's beautiful names standing. Bryce Surel as well, Thank
you Bryce.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Bryce. Wow.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Indeed, uh Cam Covington is next on the list. Thank
you cam cam is that cat kat cap cap cam?
What what catches? Catch can? What are we doing right now?
Weird c words cam with the.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Cap that reads cat but in Spanish Gatto, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Sure, yeah we'll go. I have no idea what you're
talking about. Let's move on to uh the previously mentioned
Mickey Waters. Thank you Mickey uh I d k Buye
possibly the best name on this list. Also thanks to
Lance Halterman, uh Sachko, Thanks Sochko. Thanks Tom Dastick, Britney Ray.
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Also thanks to Wamola seventeen and our original landed Gentry
Edwin Allen Richards the Fourth. I really hope Edwin and
Bradford don't start some kind of land war in Asia because,
as you know, you're not supposed to do that. Matt Ray,
thank you so much. Our resident fish expert and massive
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Rush fan Jordan Kahn. Thank you Jordan for your support.
Jordan helped facilitate something that is forthcoming next month, so special.
Thanks to Jordan for that too. Matt Craikley, thank you
for your support as well as Trish.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Trish Trish and.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
We have Trish.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah I don't well, she was.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Not tagged because I guess Jordan doesn't know who she is.
But Trish features in two photographs the Jordan Krabit's recently
posted on Instagram. So Trish and Sachiko are dancing at
the front rail.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Oh Rippin' awesome.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Yeah, and the photos are really cool. So I messaged
Jordan and I said, oh, those are my friends, Sashiko
and Trish and he's and Jordan said that it was
refreshing to see ladies at the front row.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
It's happening more and more. It's it's great things are
balancing out in the briness crab. This our next person
to thank is has been around for a while, but
they changed their Patreon name to back of the Envelope Filter.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
It's pretty fack help the envelope filter.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah, like back of the Envelope, but back of the
envelop Filter pretty funny. Nicely done, Eric and Australia, thank
you so much. Sir As comes to an end, he'll
become more curmudgeingly and angry. Thanks to Brooks Delight as always,
as well as Ryan Rashon, Joseph Pebbler, Nick the Duchy,
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that's Nick in the Netherlands, Hi Nick Travis in Alaska
number two. He's for some reason above other Travis on
the list. We also have Stephanie Wolfgang, King, Wow, Rench
are spent poets and Beanpole expert.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Yes, I hope we see Carl on New Receive again.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I do hope the same. And there's Travis in Alaska
number one. Thanks pal. Also thanks to our pal Mike Chillian,
Sarah Markham and once again Sarah has the distinction excuse
me of being the first Bonus Pot participant.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
I remember that. Yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, and she killed it. She said a high standard.
Thank you so much for your long Thank you for Sarah,
Jesse Carlton as well, Thank you for your support. Buddy.
We're all crashing on your cout at New Year's Uh. Porter,
thanks Porter.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
We haven't seen in a while.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
That's right. He pops in every every so often, but
it's fleeting. Uh he's he's a busy kid. Anthony del Pre,
thank you, sir, go Bill you bet Frankie's catching on.
John Shreeve, thank you, sir. Jihani Coho, thank you as well.
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Speaker 4 (44:34):
The Phantom Primtron.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yeah that's a pretty good one.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah, I like it a lot. Now I'm not gonna
sing it like the song, but it's pretty good. I
might start next time I listen to that song. Uh.
Simon Altman, also in Australia, thank you so much for
your support. Mike tuckermansid hacker. Simon is our resident hacker.
Yes I'm not accusing Mike Tuckerman of being our resident,
(44:58):
but thank you Mike for your support. If you're a hacker,
let us know. Also thanks to Skulligan, Val, Chris Gentile, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Hey Kevin, and wait to see you buddy.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
That's right, we'll see Kevin in New Year's, Adrian Porter
and of course El Patron, Newborrowho Carlos Audismandi. Thank you
all so much for your support. It means a lot.
It's really fun hanging with you guys on the Patreon
and at the shows. New Year's is going to be
a party, man. There's a lot of Primetrons showing up. Yes,
(45:35):
it'll be great. Thank you all, and once again, if
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people of Earth don't be primed by twenty nine. Wait,
wait a few years. We'll see you next time later days.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
Will a Mace
It's Josh Freaky with a couple of dump shits.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello, Primates, you've found Primus Tracks. Congratulations. I'm Josh. I'm
one of the hosts of Primus Tracks.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You can find Primus Tracks at Primus Tracks of all
Things on Instagram and threads and Facebook and Primus Tracks
Pod at gmail dot com is the email address. Primus
Tracks actually has two hosts. I'm one of them. I
do some of the talking. He this week, due to
the nature of the track we're talking about, has moved
down to the twenty ninth floor of Primus Tracks Towers.
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I hope the adjustment has gone smoothly for him. It's
Frankie Bearstein. Hey, Josh, good idea to move down to
the twenty ninth floor of Primus Tracks Towers this week
because we are talking about primed by twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But before with prime I believe you have some debris right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Of course, Yes, it's miscellaneous debris time this week. Frankie.
My piece of miscellaneous debris comes from skimming some old
articles about Les Claypool and Primus and I'm going to
(01:30):
toss this out at you because I'm not sure if
you were aware of it. I certainly was not. It's
not on toaster Land. It wasn't mentioned in the Grapevine book.
It was just mentioned in passing in an article on
bass Player Magazine that Lesson Larry sat in with spinal
Tap in nineteen ninety two. Did you know this? It's true.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I know it was just buried in this article about
less in a bass Player magazine from ninety two. It
just casually mentioned that he sat in with spinal tap.
And so I had to look up the information, of course,
and went to the database and found the newspaper database,
that is, and found a San Francisco Chronicle review of
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the show. So less and Larry both sat in for
the encore a couple of on core tracks by spinal Tap,
and this I have to say, the San Francisco Chronicle
review of the show is not very charitable in this
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sense that they said it's spinal tap, but it just
wasn't that funny. I'm going to quote from that.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, can you read the bit?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah? Absolutely, I'm going to quote from the San Francisco Chronicle,
June third, nineteen ninety two. Joel Selvin wrote this article.
Near the end, there's a paragraph that reads. This follows
bassist Les Claypool, his head freshly shaved and wearing an
aquacolored bathrobe, and guitarist Larry Lalande of Primus supplied the
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evening's soul authentic rock thrills with solos on Short and
Sweet during the encores. So the article isn't too jazzed
about the comedy, and they're not too charitable about the
musical performances either. Now, the bass player article mentioned that
Less played the upright bass on Big Bottom, which followed
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Short and Sweet on the set list, and that makes
perfect sense. So let's stayed out there for a couple tunes.
Not clear as far as Larry, but he was out
there for at least one. By the way, this article
goes on to say, guitarist Jeff Watson of Night Ranger
joined the band for a number. So what a strange
cavalcade of guests to go from a guy from night
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Ranger to two dudes from Primus. I don't know how
they got that arranged, but good for them sharing the
stage with Spinal Tap, and I have to say, Frankie,
that connects to a lot of things we've already talked
about on this podcast. Including Electric Apricot, because that is,
of course a film less made in the same vein
as Spinal Tap, a film he had seen and enjoyed,
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and clearly then he got to see how a fictitious
band performs a big rock show. Yes, that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It doesn't it doesn't get more ambitious than stonehenge.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Right. I don't recall Electric Apricot having anything being anything
descending from the ceiling that was the wrong size or malfunctioning,
or that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The UFO on New Year's Eve with Adam Gates.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of course, the Adam Gates UFO and New Year's Eve
for Primus at the Oakland Coliseum, that debacle, I suppose
that killed any gags that they wanted to do from
then on out.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
In that I'm just deeply satisfied and pleased that there
is a Primus Spinal Tap connection.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That is just marvelous.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes, I was just tickled to find that in that
article and then and then read the San Francisco Chronicle
coverage of it. I'm currently on the hunt for pictures
and video. Rudimentary searches have yielded nothing. Jay Blakesburg was
not there. He confirmed that to me, so that avenue
is shut u and actually the Chronicle staff photographer who
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took photos at that show passed away earlier this year.
So yes, yes, so we're gonna if if we're going
to find some footage from this show that possibly displays
lesson Larry, we're gonna have to do some digging. If
you were at the show, please email us Primus tracks
(05:50):
Pod at gmail dot com. I need to know more.
Thank you, Frankie, I think you have some miscellaneous debris.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yes, it seems like more sleeks are coming up for
sale soon, so remember to register your interest at Packidarminstruments
dot com if you are willing to transfer the wealth
necessary in order to have one of these hunks of
(06:19):
furniture in your hand, because they do sell out immediately.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's right, they've already done one run, is my understanding? Correct?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
And this is said to be honored and also perform
at the bass Player Magazine Awards next year at the
Observatory in California.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The previous I mean this year he was a presenter,
but the next year he will be performing and he
will also be one of the one of the hon
Earth guests. So it would be really interesting to see
what he'll be performing. I mean, will these be a
Primus song? Will it be Bastard jazz? Will it be frougrigade?
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I really have no clue what he'll be performing.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now. Last year, did he not participate in a jam
with Moon? Yeah, so we should watch that because the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Last time around it might be an open jam.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Right, and last time around he jammed with Monoeon. Monoeon
ended up opening for Primus on a significant portion of
their summer tour. So anything can happen as a result
of this performance jam what have you?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
So?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Thank you for bringing that to our attention. Let's talk
about Primed by twenty nine. Today's track up for discussion.
It is track nine on your fung Guy and Foe record.
It checks in at three minutes and twenty six seconds.
Your credits are as follows less clay tool everything.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's a clay tool concoction, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It might have a lap lin spritz, I don't know,
but it's certainly a claypool concoction all the way. This one, Frankie,
has its roots in the faux portion of Fungi and Foe.
Primed By twenty nine, in its finished form, actually appears
in the Pig Hunt film Wow, and It's It plays
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about sixteen minutes into the film when our group of
protagonists is cruising by this homestead and a whole bunch
of I guess you would say Beckwood's characters are populating
the front porch, including a guy and a preacher get
up of a sort, and that is indeed Less Claypool.
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So it is exactly per album version to my recollection. Yes,
I did watch the film and just took notes on
the musical stings that sounded like Less's work, and they
were all pretty recognizable, although I'm going to have to
go back and watch it again because Less is credited
with four musical numbers in the film, and one is
(09:08):
called what You're Looking at Boy, which I do believe
is primed by twenty nine because it is played during
that scene where the people on the porch are just
staring at the people in the car and the people
in the car just staring right back at him. There's
also a song he's credited called Goblins in the Forest,
as well as Boonville Stomp and Mail Organ Grinder, which
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I do believe is pretty little song. So the only
mystery there is Goblins in the forest, which there was
a there was a piece of music somewhere in there
that I either didn't catch or didn't catalog as far
as being a different piece, it's worth revisiting. I suppose
to find it. I've got three out of the.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Four, all right, yeah, please go back when you can
and identify this mysterious number.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We should do an MST three K version of pig
Hunt for the Good People. Probably not gonna happen. We're
getting to the we're getting close to the end here,
Frankie with track nine and this one on the back
half of the record. As we know, none of these
wherever performed live, so this one stays as a studio
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track only for now. Now. I don't know what the distorted,
high pitched sound that starts this track is.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I always thought it was like guitar, is it not?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That is what I've always thought. But there's no guitar
in the credits for this track, and so looking at
all the instruments that Less is credited with, I wonder
if it's the penny whistle run through some distortion. Oh interesting,
that's that's my guess. It certainly sounds like guitar feedback
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at first, yep, this, I'm just waiting for less to
text confirmation on that.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah. For those of you who are familiar with the
play waiting for gott oh, you know how this ends.
Judge for yourself. No idea could be guitar, could be
a penny whistle, whatever the case. I mean, I would
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still lean towards a guitar. But then it leads into
this doughbro line Frankie, which is actually, to me one
of the more interesting licks on the record, especially combined
with the vocal delivery we get later. This is intriguing
to me. Interesting Actually, that part with the feedback sounds
(12:02):
more like guitars now, So I interact my idea that
it's a penny whistle to start. This One's pretty interesting
to me, Frankie's It sets up nicely, and you are
on record as this is your favorite track from the
entire album, so have a what is what is speaking
to you here?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
This is my favorite track on the Phone Guy Records,
So I'll go I'll go into a little bit of detail. First,
let's talk about the music. You know that when you're
watching Primus Live and Liz pulls out the upright, you're
(12:44):
either getting crinkle or Gillie's right usually, but then there
is that very rare occasion where you'll be stumped because
he'll do Eternal Consumption Engine or he'll do glass Sandwich,
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and it's just so left field and rare that it
stops you on your tracks. Now he pulls out the
dough bro, you know you're getting a boomble stomp, or
you know you're getting over the Falls, or you're getting
Leve and Cliff, right, But every now and then you
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would get hats off. So what I really like about
this song is that the dobro has a very unconventional
sound in the recording. It doesn't sound anything like Over
the Falls, for instance, or Leve and Cliff. It has
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a very unique sound, which correct me, I find wrong.
But it's run through the envelope filter, right.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I think there's a lot of effects on the dough bro, yes,
that you can hear in each channel.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, there are. I mean there are even portions where
it almost sounds like iwe gal right, just the ringing
of the strings.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh sure, yeah, I can. I can hear that. That's resonance.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
So I really appreciate when Les pulls out an instrument
that we are very familiar with and we associate with
recurrent songs, but he uses it for a rare song,
or he runs effects through it and makes it sound
totally different to the other songs. So musically, that's one
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of the things I appreciate the most about Prime by
twenty nine, that it's a dobra tune, but it's completely
apart from the other Dobro songs in Lesson's catalog. The
second thing I really love about the track is the
complexity of the bassline. It's so fun to listen to.
(15:00):
It's so bouncy. It's I mean, it has a distinct riff,
but it's very playful in the sense that it has
a lot of variation throughout. It has these little details
here and there that keep you on your toes. And
at the same time, the song is average in length,
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so it does not overstay. It's welcome. The riff is
there just long enough to be satisfying. And third third,
I guess the lyrics. I think they are very clever,
very well written, and I really enjoy how they evoke
(15:44):
this imagery that is very less clipple in every verse. Now,
I wanted to ask you if you could sample a
bit of the way hats Off used to be performed
by Primus, because that is a parallel that I make
between the two songs. I think the way that the
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Dobro sounds on hats Off is very different to songs
like over the Falls or Leve and Cliff, and I
think it's a little closing sounds to Prime by twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
All right, this is hats Off from Tucson, Arizona, May eighteen,
twenty thirteen. That's Jay laying on drums. I think I'm
(16:50):
hearing that upper register that we get with the Doughboro
on twenty nine here, and that bouncin us as well.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Exactly what it's Yes, instead of being clanky like over
the Falls and Leve and Cleve, it's bouncy.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yes, yeah, I do believe that's a key difference because
we do get a lot of clanginess and clankiness with
the dough Bro and a lot of tracks as you note,
And this one's a this hats off iteration as well
as what we're hearing on Prime. Yes, a bit more bouncy,
lighter on the clankiness exactly, So.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It's like Prime by twenty nine and Boom, Bill Stump.
It's night and day, same instrument, completely different sound.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And we're for sure that's on the dough bro and
not on the bass banjo.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Prime By twenty nine or Hats.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Off twenty nine. It certainly sounds like the doughbro to me,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
We cannot We might be ninety nine hundred percent sure
because it has never been performed live. We've never seen
him play it. But I'm leaning on doughbro just because
I think, because I think it kind of evokes Iowan Gal,
but just a little in some portions. But if it
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if it had been performed on that instrument, I think
it would have been a lot clankier than it is,
and it isn't clanky.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Was Ilon Gal on the bass banjo?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Bass Joe?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, Yeah, Okay, that's right. I'll go with Doughbro until
told otherwise. This is this is us waiting for less
to text us again, tell us all the things we're
getting wrong, because if a track hasn't been performed live,
sometimes you're guessing it. Stuffy point, what.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Do you get? What do you get out of the
song musically?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, you pointed to the vocal delivery, Frankie, but you
also talked about the you know the tone of the
doughbro or bass Joe or whatever's being played here, and
I have I have to say the riff and the
way that it sounds is about as backwoods as we've
ever heard him go. And I do wonder if I'm
(19:01):
allowing myself to be convinced of that because of the
footage from the film and all the characters that are
on the porch of that that home, but I I
do think it's it's as deep woods as we've ever
heard from him. He you know, he messes around with it,
like you say, on tracks like Lee van Cleef, even
(19:24):
Dean's a jig, he's you know, he's messing with that
with that style. But here it seems like he's going
a whole hog pun intended because of the Pig Hunt movie,
but the it really does seem like he's just going
for it. And in combination with the vocal delivery, with
the forced voice cracks and he just sounds like an
(19:44):
old broken man uh in in this tune with the
vocal delivery. So let's hear a little bit of that
any while it tastes like Blitter and beaver Bride. But
if you fail another time, that's that's pretty good. Like
(20:15):
he's way up there in his nose too, so he's
he's doing something different there with his vocal delivery that
we haven't necessarily heard before. I think he's really going
way up in the nasal passages for that one, and
I so putting all that together, it certainly has that
(20:37):
feel to it. It's three minutes of twenty six seconds,
doesn't necessarily overstay, it's welcome. There's the the percussive vocal
part as well, bow down there in the lower register,
which happens a few times on this record and still
will again, I believe. So there's, uh, that's a recurring thing.
(20:58):
I guess I'll just call it a motif because recurring
vocal delivery. So there's a few things that are different
on this one. There's a couple of things that it
has in common with the rest of the record, of course,
that that percussive vocal and less doing most of the instrumentation,
and it being of a similar soundscape, although we do
(21:19):
get that high pitched squealing throughout, which is a bit different.
I wouldn't say this is my favorite track on the record,
but I will say I can understand why you're really
into it because it is intriguing. It moves, It moves enough,
I think, and it's it's got an interesting premise with
the lyrics. So yeah, with those lyrics, Frankie, we've got
(21:44):
four variations on a theme. There's four verses and they're
all pretty much the same in terms of theme. This
thing drink food song. Performance stinks, but substances will make
it better. That's that's it, all right. So you know,
I'm living my life. It's not as great as I
(22:05):
wanted to be. But if I do drugs, then I'll
be having a good time.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Here.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I'm thinking about the song right now. I realized that
the percussion goes a long way. But even if the
percussion were not there, it would still be a very
bouncy song because of the nature of the bassline.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, I would think this would be a good candidate
for a do it a Twang track? Yes, absolutely so
that that bassline and the stomp box keyho doing something
over there, you know, playing around with that that feedback
sound and doing a little lick. Interesting that they didn't
choose this one. So I think the lyrics, you know,
(22:48):
as we said, it's it's these four little vignettes of
life isn't as good as I want it to be.
I'm going to enhance it with illicit substances. And then
at the very end we get, Hey, mister spa a dime.
It seems the boy's a broke mind. He took it
to the limit every time, but he's primed by twenty nine.
(23:08):
He's got a broke mind, as he says, took it
to the limit every time throughout his twenties and he's
already burnt out. Sounds like a party boy lifestyle really
really caught up to this guy. Now you had a
theory you were going to share that this is related
to Bite out of Life.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Oh, yes, Like Bite out of Life is all about
exists and then prime by twenty nine is the aftermath
of the excess.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Right, Yeah, that's an interesting idea. Of course, Bite out
of Life I think is more of a generalized cultural
idium in the sense that you're you're seeking a thrill
or you know, capturing the moment in just about any way,
shape or form, whereas here it's it's mostly limited to
(23:55):
illegal drugs that do damage to your mind, body, and soul.
But yeah, but I think I understand what you're getting
at for this kid who is Primed by twenty nine.
Taking a bite out of life meant wrapping your lips
around a bong, cramming your sinus is full of blow
and making the mundane at least somewhat palatable or exciting.
(24:19):
Now do you so? Do you view them as companion pieces? Uh?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Yeah, I mean in a way. But something that strikes
me about the lyrics on Prime By twenty nine is
that for the first for the first verses, Liz is
speaking in first person, so it seems as if the
(24:45):
song is about his perception. But then for the final
verse he switches to an observation about someone else. So
it puts the song into question because I'm not sure
if if the song is about life in general, if
it's about first person point of view, or if the
(25:08):
boy mentioned at the end is the one making the
observations in the verses all along.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yes, that shift in perspective is not entirely clear. I'll
say that again. The first verse says, but if you
fill my glass another time, I'm sure it will begin
to taste just fine. Yeah, So the narrator I is saying,
give me some more, because then I'll be drunk, and
I won't care. It'll taste great. Ben there, Frankie, Yeah,
(25:38):
Mad Dog twenty twenty. I'm interested in that. And I
love the complaints too, the description of the wine butter
and beaver brine, the beef gristlegum beyond belief, and the
horrible song stings like a big wet donkey dong. That's
a great line. And then the snoozer show a shindig,
(26:02):
A snoozer show, a shindig dud. But don't you know,
if you cramer blah blah blah, there's some really nice
imagery in here, as you noted earlier. Uh and he's
got a rhyme for for drugs each time, so good
for him for, you know, having that prior knowledge.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
So if I I mean, if I understand correctly, beaver
Brian refers to making beaver meat or other kind of
unusual meat, more savory.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Beaver's have these specialized sacs that secrete these fluids that
allow them to be waterproof, you know, because they swim
a lot. But that fluid, that viscous fluid that they
secrete and put all over themselves, smells really bad. So
that's what I'm doing. That's my interpretation, so it.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Says, well, what I rid which was a definition provided
a machine, so a recipe for honey Brian bibber Ham.
In this context, bibber Brian refers to a sealine solution,
possibly with honey or other flavorings, to prepare beber meat
(27:15):
for cooking in order to make it more palatable. Grizzled
gum refers to any kind of meat which is chewy.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Right, correct, Yes, So the grizzle on meat is very chewy.
It's it's not pleasant to experience, and so grizzle filled
meat is seen as low quality.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
But if you provide the narrator with another spliff.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Then yeah, just get them stone he'll eat.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It, Yeah, kill it whatever, right, you bet?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
That reminds me of this, uh this screen capture that
I saw on Facebook of a person asking if anyone
had ever tried making edibles without drugs like Version Version edibles,
and then someone replied, bitch, do you mean food?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, right, you mean brownies, regular brownies out of the box.
I wanted to make a connection to this track too, Frankie,
which is we can boil these lyrics down to a
phrase that's on the back cover of your release of
Phonopsychograph disc versus The Filthy Ape from two thousand and Oh.
Oh interesting phonopsychograft disc. Of course, our friend DJ disc
(28:34):
front of the Pod The Filthy Ape Adam Gates, another
friend of the Pod who did a record together in
two thousand and one, and on the back of this
CD release Frankie right in the middle it states, lower
your standards and do more drugs and to catch and
that encapsulates the spirit of the lyrics to prime by
(28:57):
twenty nine. I wish I could take credit for that summary,
but that's clearly an Adam gatesism. Thank you, Adam.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I really like the ambiguity in this song because when
Liz says, geez, what a horrible song, it could be
either referring to any song that the narrator is listening
to in the background, yes, or he could be He'll
be talking about his own song by twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yes, yeah, I wanted to take it as meta commentary.
When I returned to this song for this episode, I.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Thought, which is fabulous.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, I thought that'd be really funny if he was
referring to this song. Yes, you know, he's done that before.
The lyrics and frizzle Fry will play this tune over again,
tweakers as we as we sodomize this song, what do
they say on Yeah, on the album he says, and.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
During fromage and Hell's in the genetics, that's when he
began doing this song, the mice thing. There we go.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And then of course, so dang and pressed, I had
to write this song called fish on. So there's there's
plenty of examples of him doing this, so I wouldn't
put him past him to make meta commentary on his
own song in this regard. Now, I have not fired
up the old bong to test that theory.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
For him, so we'll leave it.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So what is a shindig?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's that's just kind of a country Fried term for
a party or or a concert. But to call it
a dud means it's not it's not very good. It's
not a lively party. Nobody's having a good time. But
go in the bathroom, take a little bump here and
there you're gonna it's gonna be a it's gonna be
a rager. Okay, I'm glad you're asking these or are
(30:45):
bringing up these lines, because of course I'm taking for
granted my knowledge of the English language and some of
the references he's making, uh, and some of these idioms,
and so it certainly might seem byzantine to someone who's
not from earlier.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Yeah, these are certainly very interesting idioms and expressions.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, a lot of great.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So when he says stinks like what donkey donk, I
can only assume what that means.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I cannot speak from personal experience in that regard, Frankie,
I wish I could share with you what that smells like.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
But the description.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
To the listeners imagination, yes, I'm gonna I'm gonna err
on the side of it's unpleasant at the least. So, yeah,
those are those are pretty fun lyrics. I think he
was having fun writing these and just finding those rhymes,
uh to you know, to get to the second part,
which is do these drugs and it'll be fine. Well, Frankie,
we've talked about it enough. If you would like to
(31:51):
talk about this track up for discussion no matter the episode,
all you have to do is go to Patreon dot
com fort slash Primes tracks, and one of the universal
constants over there is Primates Takes. With Primates Takes, I
post a thread about the tune you sound off and
I read your takes opinions once enjoys right here on
(32:14):
the podcast. For example, John Shreeve Frankie says, Frankie Knows
What's Up. Best track on the album. As someone who
grew up somewhat of a hillbilly, gristlegum was a very welcome,
was very welcome on campouts. In the kitchen, well, if
you cook, it's lubricant because the fat part renders down.
(32:38):
Whoever the subject of this song of pontification is authored by,
they seem to be a master of turning around situations.
Thank you. John Mickey Waters says, great song seemingly about
boredom and the things people do just to get by.
But in typical play that messed up. But in typical
Claypool fashion and similar sex in every horror movie you
(33:01):
pay the ultimate price when dealing with excess. That's a
great comparison.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Many a treatise has been written about what happens to
people who engage in sexual activity and horror Moviesal Eric
in Australia says no artificial stimulation required for this track.
All the pig Hunt tracks on this album channel the
jovial darkness of Claypool via Tom Waits that I love
so dearly. There is even a scene in pig Hunt
(33:29):
that is so reminiscent of the My Name is Mud
film clip. I spent a lot of time enhancing my
life in the ways primed to describes, so I feel
the electric grapevine joy and Eric adds, as a further afterthought,
this might be My Friend Fats Chronicles Part two. What
(33:51):
do you think of that, Frankie, Wow?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Interesting, interesting proposal.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, it is. It is familiar territory, these lyrics, and
so I think you could conceivably connect them to a
lot of Claypool tunes.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, some of it, I mean yes, some of it
is quintessential clay Tool imagery. Indeed, when when one of
the listeners, who was the second review from Mickey, Yeah,
when Micky said that the song relates to boredom and
the lengths people go to when they are bored, it
(34:25):
instantly reminded me of this really fun song called Mope
by the Blockhand Gang. Have you ever heard that song?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes, I've heard that song.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
So it's like all the all the things they would
do just to kill time at King of Prussia in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yes, Uh, I remember that tune tape the Weather channel
so I can watch it later. Great, Paul, Frankie, it's
a funny one. Let's shuffle off to the unemployment line
for a moment. Brooks breaks it down as follows, It's
(35:05):
a shame that this never got played live. Maybe Claypool
was too embarrassed to say big wet donkey dong in public.
In any case, I'll certainly agree with Frankie about it
being the best track on the album. Guys, they're all
on your side.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Frankie, it's so incredibly validating.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I'm just I'm somewhat puzzled that the now it's a
small sample size, but I am somewhat puzzled at the
sheer number of people that are citing this as their
top track on the record.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
So just because it's so good.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Obviously, opinions are varied and wide ranging on this kind
of topic, but it's still I'm it just makes gives
me pause. Final thoughts on Primed By twenty nine. Your
favorite track from the record, Frankie.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I'll never tired of it. I always look forward to
listening to it when the record comes up, but it's
also part of my playlist so it's on heavy rotation
and it has not worn thing after all these years.
I think it's a really fantastic song.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Okay, so you have this on your curated Claypole Primus
playlist to work out? Yeah, okay, so this gets a
lot of play. Are there any other Fungi and Fox
tracks on that list?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
My got a pretty little song Amanita's mushroom Man, and
I believe that's it.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
This is by far then one of the most played
tracks from this record for you. Absolutely, as observant listeners
have noted. Up to this point, nine tracks on the
record are tied for the most listened by me with two.
I have a feeling the final three tracks on the
(36:55):
record will catch up. Well, I guess I can say
this twenty nine is a prime number. Man, it's been
tracked next time, Frankie, It's just a little It's just
a pretty little song.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I have a feeling will be a wash in Irony
next week. Before we take off today, we should thank
our patrons or patrons or primatrons if you will, over
at patreon dot com forward slash Primus Tracks. They help
keep the lights on here at Primus Tracks, and they
support Josh and Frankie, who are you know? Two dudes,
(37:33):
Let's get some background music while we thank our primatrons. Frankie,
I'm gonna pull from the tribute to King's tour and
in honor of Rush reforming and going out on the road,
let's hear Primus play some Xanadu underneath our patron shout outs.
(37:55):
All right, there is quite a list of prime matrons, Frankie.
These people have been supporting us for quite some time
and endless thanks to them, really enjoying the hangouts and
bonus pods over there and just interacting with all of
you on the on the yes on the Patreon chat there.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Too, and we are always thinking about ways to give
something back because we really appreciate the support that we
get from you guys on the platform. So I am
pleased to announce details will not be revealed yet, but
I am pleased to announce that there will be a
Ruffle very soon exclusively for you Patreons. And he's going
(38:37):
to be a really cool item which will be Ruffled.
That's all I can say.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
For now, That's all he could say. I also can't
say much because Frankie never tells me anything, so I
don't know what he's talking about. All right, let's thank
our wonderful prime matrons who are are now screwing over
to patreon dot com for slash primus tracks to anticipate
(39:05):
the Raffle of the Century by Frankie Eerstein. Let's thank
Ethan from Kentucky. Thank you Ethan. Joined recently Bradford Gatesington,
Thank you as well. Man. That's a landed gentry name
if I've ever heard one. Edwin might have to move
over a little bit there. Marcus Mayol, Thank you so much.
(39:30):
Gene Meyer, friend of the pod. Thanks Gene. Don't have
to do that, buddy. Also thanks to Harry could be
it could be Harry Waters. We don't know, it could
be Harry of the Rocks. Also thanks to Robbie McCrory,
Joe T. Thank you, Joe T. Also thanks to Zach
(39:55):
m Zaxxaphon Hank. We had a bonus pod with Zach
a little while ago. Brian Bargie, Thank you, Bergie. Audrey Myers,
Thank you so.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Much, Audrey Myers.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Audrey Meyer's beautiful names standing. Bryce Surel as well, Thank
you Bryce.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Bryce. Wow.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Indeed, uh Cam Covington is next on the list. Thank
you cam cam is that cat kat cap cap cam?
What what catches? Catch can? What are we doing right now?
Weird c words cam with the.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Cap that reads cat but in Spanish Gatto, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Sure, yeah we'll go. I have no idea what you're
talking about. Let's move on to uh the previously mentioned
Mickey Waters. Thank you Mickey uh I d k Buye
possibly the best name on this list. Also thanks to
Lance Halterman, uh Sachko, Thanks Sochko. Thanks Tom Dastick, Britney Ray.
(41:05):
Also thanks to Wamola seventeen and our original landed Gentry
Edwin Allen Richards the Fourth. I really hope Edwin and
Bradford don't start some kind of land war in Asia because,
as you know, you're not supposed to do that. Matt Ray,
thank you so much. Our resident fish expert and massive
(41:29):
Rush fan Jordan Kahn. Thank you Jordan for your support.
Jordan helped facilitate something that is forthcoming next month, so special.
Thanks to Jordan for that too. Matt Craikley, thank you
for your support as well as Trish.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Trish Trish and.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
We have Trish.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah I don't well, she was.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Not tagged because I guess Jordan doesn't know who she is.
But Trish features in two photographs the Jordan Krabit's recently
posted on Instagram. So Trish and Sachiko are dancing at
the front rail.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Oh Rippin' awesome.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Yeah, and the photos are really cool. So I messaged
Jordan and I said, oh, those are my friends, Sashiko
and Trish and he's and Jordan said that it was
refreshing to see ladies at the front row.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
It's happening more and more. It's it's great things are
balancing out in the briness crab. This our next person
to thank is has been around for a while, but
they changed their Patreon name to back of the Envelope Filter.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
It's pretty fack help the envelope filter.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah, like back of the Envelope, but back of the
envelop Filter pretty funny. Nicely done, Eric and Australia, thank
you so much. Sir As comes to an end, he'll
become more curmudgeingly and angry. Thanks to Brooks Delight as always,
as well as Ryan Rashon, Joseph Pebbler, Nick the Duchy,
(43:14):
that's Nick in the Netherlands, Hi Nick Travis in Alaska
number two. He's for some reason above other Travis on
the list. We also have Stephanie Wolfgang, King, Wow, Rench
are spent poets and Beanpole expert.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Yes, I hope we see Carl on New Receive again.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I do hope the same. And there's Travis in Alaska
number one. Thanks pal. Also thanks to our pal Mike Chillian,
Sarah Markham and once again Sarah has the distinction excuse
me of being the first Bonus Pot participant.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
I remember that. Yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, and she killed it. She said a high standard.
Thank you so much for your long Thank you for Sarah,
Jesse Carlton as well, Thank you for your support. Buddy.
We're all crashing on your cout at New Year's Uh. Porter,
thanks Porter.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
We haven't seen in a while.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
That's right. He pops in every every so often, but
it's fleeting. Uh he's he's a busy kid. Anthony del Pre,
thank you, sir, go Bill you bet Frankie's catching on.
John Shreeve, thank you, sir. Jihani Coho, thank you as well.
Steven Stang The Phantom pri Matron.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
The Phantom Primtron.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yeah that's a pretty good one.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah, I like it a lot. Now I'm not gonna
sing it like the song, but it's pretty good. I
might start next time I listen to that song. Uh.
Simon Altman, also in Australia, thank you so much for
your support. Mike tuckermansid hacker. Simon is our resident hacker.
Yes I'm not accusing Mike Tuckerman of being our resident,
(44:58):
but thank you Mike for your support. If you're a hacker,
let us know. Also thanks to Skulligan, Val, Chris Gentile, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Hey Kevin, and wait to see you buddy.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
That's right, we'll see Kevin in New Year's, Adrian Porter
and of course El Patron, Newborrowho Carlos Audismandi. Thank you
all so much for your support. It means a lot.
It's really fun hanging with you guys on the Patreon
and at the shows. New Year's is going to be
a party, man. There's a lot of Primetrons showing up. Yes,
(45:35):
it'll be great. Thank you all, and once again, if
you want to join the fun Patreon dot com Ford
slash Primus tracks, that'll do it for us. Primates, pri Matrons,
people of Earth don't be primed by twenty nine. Wait,
wait a few years. We'll see you next time later days.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
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