How did I first get into Primus??...Well now I tell ya, it was kinda like

this here. Ya see, I first saw them quite by accident at a little club

near Arizona State University called "After the Gold Rush". Later

re-named The Electric Ballroom and subsequently shut down

completely. I hadn't ever heard of them before but I just wandered in

and there they were. I don't know who they were with that night in '91

or '92 because I missed it just wandering in off the street kinda

loaded. But I sure do remember the deep funky bass sounds that Les

rolled off into my ears that night. My life was changed. I'd never

heard anything like that before but damn if I didn't want to hear

some more. The next day (after my hangover allowed it) I ran out to

find everything of their's that I could. How surprised I was to find

that they only had one CD. I bought it though..A strange little cut

called "Suck On This" of all things. It was live and grainy and oh how I

loved it. I listened to it over and over and told everyone I knew about

these three tripped out guys with the Phat sound. Thus went my

introduction to the greatest music ever played..

I then saw them at Lollapalooza   (at Compton Terrace)   with Alice

In Chains. I waited until well into the middle of the Alice set before

dropping paper so that I could be really peaking when Primus came on

right after them. Snuff the rooster ended and people started moving

down the hill toward the stage. The between acts music was so

tripped out. It was some weird thing that I was sure was John Phillips

Sousa but given my state of mind I could hardly believe it.

Interestingly I later heard Les talk about a band called "The

Residents" in one of their songs on Pork Soda so I went and found

one of their tapes called "Stars and Hank Forever". Lo, there on one

side was this tripped out music that had been playing so long before

at that concert. But I digress. They started out with Fish On with a

giant screen behind the stage with water rippling on it. From that

point on things got pretty weird. I moshed so hard during Those

Damned Blue Collar Tweekers   (which incedentally is my all time

favorite song)   that I almost hurt myself. I saw every Lollapalooza

since the first one with Janes Addiction until it went commercial

with the bullshit Metallica fiasco and I have to say that was the

greatest. Nothing against Janes of course, hey Perry Farrell is at least

a demi-god himself after all.