The intro of YYZ teases the listener as if to say that this band is a child fed in the magical belly of the Rush legacy, the new band that takes over the mantle of the previous rock gods. Type PRIMUS. A soothing bass guitar gently serenades the listener. What is it? Why is Ler, the guitarist! Her guitar feedback adds a sense of beauty. And the soft rumble of a rubbed bass suggests the quality of raw power under the softness. But then the soft bass receives a slight dissonance. Something`s wrong. Which dæmon crawled out of the fiery pits of Hades to create such an explosive guitar sound? Thus begins the funky thrash jamming of Primus` early days. Never before has a bass guitar been beaten so savagely and beaten in such dominant simultaneous action! But wait, this isn`t just a funk-rock-jam session of anti-traditionalism.
Heavy rock has stopped and we are getting to know a different face of the new band. The strange spatial side of the group. The bass is typed in a non-Van Halen way? What kind of madness is this? It looks like little goblins tapping on the key. Click clackity drums amplify these visuals. And then…. LER SUMMONS THE GREAT OUTER GODS WITH AN UNHOLY BLACK SONG OF GUITAR CACOPHONY! Seriously, this solo is absolutely malicious. After a brief reference to the Beatles, funky jam rock returns. Wanders them absurdly, and we return to the strange part with the goblins. A very good song, not my favorite Primus tune, but a fun piece of music to listen to. Artist Lance Montoya was the little brother – and I say little, but he`s actually huge – but he was 19 when he started working with us.
I was working for this audio company called ADA and one of the technicians was a good friend of mine who is actually in some of our songs – CG the Mexicans – and his little brother was probably about 280 pounds. He wasn`t big, just big. And we called him Lance Link because of the old Lancelot Link TV show, Secret Chimp, and he`s always been an artist who made these clay sculptures. So I asked him to do Suck On This Baby because I was drawing this baby all the time and he was doing this 3D sculpture of it. When it was time to do the next one, I asked him, “Hey, do you have any new sculptures?” And he told us about this new thing he did, which became the head in the pan, so he finished it and I painted it. The writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album`s liner notes. [15] Song: To Defy The Laws Of TraditionAlbum: Frizzle Fry It must be amazing that after all this time, people still ape this song when you play it live. Don`t have an account yet? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It`s super easy, I promise! The battery is really great. It`s a fun song to play like hell. Great hi-hat job.
How much of the Frank Zappa element of the band was present in the band`s language during this period? Many of the songs on Frizzle Fry are character-based; Is it from Zappa? But when he remembers those salad days in the early `90s, the Bay Area bass wizard likes to think about how Primus surfed the crest of California`s transformative wave of modern rock to become one of the foundations of Interscope Records` growing dominance of the alternative rock market (their list has grown to include Nine Inch Nails, Helmet and cop shoot the cop). The album was played live in its entirety during the band`s Hallucino-Genetics Tour in 2004 and a few more times in 2010. During the Hallucino-Genetics tour, “You Can`t Kill Michael Malloy” was presented in its entirety as a short break, as opposed to just the single that appears on the album.[4] Well, it`s funny because I always get credit for being that big fan of Zappa. And I love Zappa, of course, but Larry LaLonde is the band`s big Zappa fan. He has all the recordings, he calls him his favorite guitarist. I love listening to Zappa through Ler, but to be honest, I don`t think I own a single Zappa record. I was more of a tough guy, but even that, I only have a few of his records. In fact, as a Zappa fan, I didn`t really fall in love with Zappa because I didn`t want people to think I would rip him off (laughs).
But when I was hanging out with Larry LaLonde, I was exposed to a lot of Zappa. He actually had a Frank Zappa cover band called Poop which was amazing and I did the lights for them. Ned Raggett reviewed the album for AllMusic and noted, “It`s pretty easy to see in retrospect how much mixing went into the band`s work. Nodding, but thankfully, few fly everything directly, from Frank Zappa`s humor and Funkadelic`s urban sprawl to the early and frugal effectiveness of the police, and indeed a lot of Metallica. He says that “something about Frizzle Fry is ultimately perfect of his time and place.” Robert Christgau described the album simply as “Don Knotts Jr. join the Minutemen”.[5] [13] Sign up now to tell us what you think this song means. Are there any influences that invaded the creation of Frizzle Fry that some people may not immediately grasp? Another interesting aspect of Frizzle Fry is that most of the guitar parts were written by your original guitarist Todd Huth, but played by Larry LaLende. How did this transition go? Primus financed Frizzle Fry`s recordings with proceeds from their previous album Suck On This. The finished album was released in 1990 on Caroline Records.[2] In Frizzle Fry, guitarist Larry LaLonde plays many parts written by Todd Huth, who left the album before recording.[2] [2] Well, of course, we were big fans of Bad Brains. We were courted by a few different labels, but they were mostly metal labels and I didn`t want to be a metal band.
And we weren`t, and we`re still the band that can play with anyone. It`s a little weird, even recently, to ride that rainbow unicorn with Wayne Coyne in my pig mask at a Flaming Lips show and be on the road with Slayer and Ministry two weeks later. You were in good company at Caroline Records with people like Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and Bad Brains. It`s funny because I wrote it myself in the bedroom of my apartment on a little four-track Fostex, then I crossed the street and sang it in a church because my boyfriend who was my roommate went out with the pastor`s daughter and I didn`t want to scream and scream in the apartment, So he gave me the keys to the church.