Sunday, January 23, 2011

1000 SONGS - Day 24 - SONG # 44

Day 44 - A Song that no one would expect you to love


As already mentioned below (and not above, due to the order of posts on a blog, which reverses the order in a book), I do not think that there is any song I like where there is not a least one person who could imagine I did. So I decided to use that post to feature a track that represents a different style of music than all the posts so far in this "1000 Songs Challenge". Among the heavy bands, one of my favs is PRIMUS, at least their early years, with Tim "Herb" Alexander on drums (I think he is an outstanding drummer). Here is their first single, "JOHN THE FISHERMAN", an out-take from their first studio album "FRIZZLE FRY" (they have recorded one live album before that). Primarily, this is the band of bassist Les Claypool, who is one of the few persons I know who think that the bass is the solo-instrument played by the frontman of the band (the other one is Goeran Bredberg, great bass player, to whom I dedicate this post because it was through him that I got to know Primus). There is a famous anecdote about Claypool auditioning for Metallica, which in the Wikipedia version reads like that:
"Claypool has also been close friends with Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett since childhood and he owns a copy of Ride The Lightning that was given to him by Kirk Hammett. This act prompted him to audition for the then vacant position of bassist in Metallica after the death of Cliff Burton. Metallica frontman and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield has said Claypool didn't get the position because "he was too good", which Claypool himself has said he doesn't believe, stating that he believed the reason he was not chosen for the band was because he simply did not "belong" with Metallica."

JOHN THE FISHERMAN (to be played at maximum volume!):



And, as a bonus track, "Frizzle Fry" from the same album; maybe one could critisise, that it takes them so long to reach the fulminant passage in about the last minute of the song (they could have gone faster to the climax, which is, on the other hand, not advisable in each and every situation :-) ); a version where somebody has done a video to the original recording:




I DON'T BELIEVE IN CHARITY I DON'T BELIEVE IN SIN
AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN ME WE'LL PLAY THIS TUNE OVER AGAIN
(A live version to a picture of Les):

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