&Now For Something Completely Different- Primus Reunites F/Wild Willy Wonka Album
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Classic Primus Lineup Reunites for Wild Willy Wonka Album, Tour, Candy
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/classic-primus-lineup-reunites-for-wild-willy-wonka-album-tour-candy-20140729#ixzz3DoPDXTiu
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. 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.
"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. 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.
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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."
"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. "If you saw this kit, you'd laugh your ass off. He couldn't get in and out of it. We'd open up a portion of it and shove him in there and then lock him in with other pieces of things."
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Claypool 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. "We're also talking about doing a matinee stage production of it, for kids," he says. "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."
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. Krinkle (crisped rice), Professor Nutbutter (peanuts) and Bastard Bar (dark chocolate).
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