Trivia / Primus

• Creator Backlash: The band has expressed disappointment with Antipop, finding it unfocused and relying too much on the guidance of others, and admitted that it was the mark of a fractured and dysfunctional group that wasn't getting along at all. Les has some fondness for the Tom Waits collaboration "Coattails of a Dead Man" though, which explains why it was included on the Greatest Hits Album They Can't All Be Zingers instead of either of the album's official singles, "Lacquer Head" and "Electric Uncle Sam". He confirmed if the band hadn't taken a hiatus after its release, there's a chance Primus would have broken up for good.
• He Also Did: Les performed the theme to South Park, composed the theme to Robot Chicken, and composed the soundtrack to Mushroom Men.
  • Ler was the original lead guitarist for the Trope Namer of Death Metal Possessed before permanently joining Primus in 1989.
  • Ler and Les were in an early lineup of Thrash Metal group Blind Illusion before the former joined Primus - both can be heard on Blind Illusion's 1988 album The Sane Asylum.
  • Brain spent six years in Guns N' Roses, and is the most credited drummer on Chinese Democracy.
• The Pete Best: Original guitarist Todd Huth, though he did compose guitar melodies on Frizzle Fry. Subverted with Jay Lane, who would rejoin and perform on Green Naugahyde.
  • Huth and Lane have appeared with Claypool on a couple of side projects. Sausage was a brief in-all-but-name reunion for the trio, with a 1994 album called Riddles Are Abound Tonight. Later, all three appeared on the Les Claypool Frog Brigade's Live Frogs album.
  • The drummer before Jay Lane, Tim "Curveball" Wright, never recorded with Primus. However, a snippet of concert footage appears of him on the Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People EP.
• Referenced by...:
  • The censored version of Eminem's "My Name Is" replaces "Hi kids, do you like violence?" with “Hi kids, you like Primus?”
  • Primus has been referenced numerous times in South Park:
    • The band is seen performing in "Chef Aid", with Les stating that Chef provided them encouragement no matter how much they sucked.
    • "Pork Soda" and "Welcome to this World" are featured in "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000".
    • "John the Fisherman" is featured in the episode "Guitar Queer-O".
  • Seamus from Family Guy has a Primus poster stored in his right peg-arm, along with a diagram of a diseased prostate, a map of Middle Earth, and a cat doing a pull-up.
    • "Sgt. Baker" is referenced in the episode "Saving Private Brian".
• What Could Have Been: Imagine if James Hetfield accepted Les into Metallica.
  Les: Lars was like "You're not really used to playing this kinda music, are you?" I said "No, hey, you wanna jam on some Isley Brothers tunes?" Nobody laughed at my joke.
  James: He was too good! It's like, you do your thing, man.
  Les: So I didn't get the job. And I went home and wept. Wept like a little girl.