The vocal delivery on "Cheer up Charlie" might sound sincere on first listen but on further listens they are anything but. At times it is completely sinister in delivery, as evident on "Candy Man". However given time the magic and intention of the album filters through. On the first couple of listens this album just sounds all wrong and you begin to wonder has Les Claypool finally gone too far but it would be easy and unfair to dismiss it that easily. Primus is probably the only band that could possibly get away with this and pull it off at the same time.
PRIMUS AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY FULL ALBUM FULL
But like all human beings, every now and then, we crap in our pants.The classic Primus line up with Tim Alexander back on drums release their first full length studio album since 1995's "Tales From The Punchbowl" and it is a re-working of Willy Wonkas Chocolate factory. And Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are two of those very talented people. “There are a lot of very talented people on the planet. The album will also be available on chocolate-colored vinyl and feature, naturally, five golden ones appropriately scattered about at random. “We need to make sure that kids in the future watch the original Willy Wonka and not the horrendous, horrible remake that came along and left the taste of feces in our mouths,” says Claypool. So we had to come up with another income stream, so we’re making chocolate bars because you can’t digitize a chocolate bar - yet.” Because the fucking recording industry rolled over and let this Internet shit all over us. “That’s the whole impetus of this entire project. “The tour and the album are solely a marketing tool just so we can sell candy bars,” jokes Claypool. Krinkle (crisped rice), Professor Nutbutter (peanuts) and Bastard Bar (dark chocolate). In addition, fans may be able to looks forward to the return of the Primus candy bars made by Pennslyvania’s Asher’s Chocolates - a hot sell at the Oakland show - including Mr. “We’re gonna do an early show that’s only the Wonka thing - and it’ll be a short show ’cause kids have a short attention span.” “We’re also talking about doing a matinee stage production of it, for kids,” he says. “So he’s all about it.”Ĭlaypool suspects the tour will mirror the New Year Eve performance, a “stripped down, old school, nightclub Primus set” before opening the curtain to reveal the chocolate room for a full run-through of the Wonka material. “He was very adamant, before he went under the knife, that we not change anything that has to do with scheduling of Wonka,” says Claypool. He’s currently working on what should be a speedy recovery before Primus launches a Chocolate Factory tour in October. A long phone call spurred a studio reunion nearly two decades in the making, but was recently sidelined after Alexander suffered a heart attack. He started a family in Northern Washington and, as Claypool heard, had quit playing drums altogether. We’d open up a portion of it and shove him in there and then lock him in with other pieces of things.”Īlexander rejoins Primus after last touring with them in 2008. “If you saw this kit, you’d laugh your ass off. “He’s so musical at what he does, and he can be very orchestral when he wants to be, and taking him off a traditional kit just brought forth these sounds that we’ve just never gotten from him before,” says Claypool. The album clatters and spurts unlike any Primus record thanks to Alexander’s percussion set-up - instead of a drumkit, he’s in the center of what Claypool describes as “a giant circle, or a pile of things to bang on.” Watch Primus Tear Through Rush's 'A Farewell to Kings' in Its Entirety on Tribute Tour Prior to that it was everything Wonka.” This tribute - fleshed out with help from Critters Buggin percussionist Mike Dillon and Frog Brigade cellist Sam Bass - is a logical extension of Primus’ Wonka-themed performance in Oakland last New Year’s Eve. “I don’t think it was until Jaws came along that I was more obsessed with a film,” Claypool tells Rolling Stone, “when I started drawing sharks all over my binders and notebooks. The clanging, ill-angled LP, titled Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble, will be released on October 21st on ATO, but a pre-order is currently available. It will be the first album-length release from the classic, multi-platinum lineup - leader Les Claypool, guitarist Larry Lalonde and drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander - since 1995. Prepare to enter a world of pure imagination this October, as veteran thrash-funk eccentrics Primus release their eighth studio album, a wall to (lickable) wall tribute to the 1971 musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.