"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" Primus - Live from MTV's Haunted House Party (1993)

[@jacobwright4653]

This songs a lot deeper than you think. It’s about a man, named jerry, who was once a race car driver. He never came in first, nor last.

[@RKTologist]

22 years old, wrapped himself around a telephone pole

[@x808drifter]

Phil McCrevice That’s because Primus Sucks

[@nonyabuzznus2017]

Woah

[@tylerdurden8270]

@@x808drifter out of curiosity why are you watching a video of primus if you think they suck? just find that odd 🤔

[@Nic-xx9em]

a very thorough examination of the lyrics i see.

[@Staniel42]

this was the era where les claypool was transitioning from high school prankster to silent movie villain

[@travislee9662]

Tying up people to railroad tracks, putting damsels in distress, and other nefarious schemes🤪

[@ShaakTisElectricKoolAid]

The era where he was Edward Norton and also Bob Ross

[@JHallDaBoss]

@@ShaakTisElectricKoolAid lol and Mitch Hedberg?

[@adderon]

Yesssss. Realizing how cotdamn badass Primus is

[@mt_vu_rx_jukeboxhero]

🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️

[@JasonRotherMusic]

Everybody talks about how talented les is but the whole band is top tier too.

[@hitopsful]

It's a sin I dont know his name bit man that guitarist can make some sweet noise

[@kellywilson8440]

@@hitopsful , Larry LaLonde a Joe Satriani student way back .

[@gerimayawhyte154]

The drummer Tim Herb Alexander is a beast!

[@RKTologist]

forreal and also three pieces are the best imo

[@d333ds]

@@kellywilson8440 It’s honestly crazy the amount of incredibly talented guitarists Satch has given lessons too. Admittedly not for extended periods if time, but it’s still amazing.

[@mr.l4461]

Dude everyone in the band is the lead player it’s fantastic.

[@ivanviera4725]

Right!!! Like satin gave them the perfect notes to play together 😈

[@statesev]

It’s kinda wild, it’s super tight but also feels like three different songs recorded miles away from one another.

[@faville]

You know it’s Halloween when Les is the most normal looking person in the joint.

[@fossal]

every time I’ve seen les, he’s looked completely different every time

[@sunnyjim98]

I recognise him by the basses he is carrying and nothing else lol

[@davemeese6788]

He looks like early 70's Clapton here, and coincidently Clapton was another shape shifter back in the day lol

[@rickfeith6372]

@@davemeese6788 I enjoy a good chameleon human. Some of these folks just disappear if you look away.

[@brokenguillotine6988]

Yeah

[@chriskelly9361]

He's gone from court jester to master of court intrigue.

[@gleventhal]

This song is technically harder / more interesting than 99% of rock songs, and they play it live perfectly. I love band that can really, truly play their instruments.

[@molo-molo5103]

Ese es el chiste de la música

[@chupamela969]

@@molo-molo5103entiende idioja entiende

[@Sweet9964]

i find it amazing how accurately Larry can replicate those distortion fade ins as well as he does. he's playing it exactly like it sounds on the record, on MTV lmao

[@FatPeaceman]

I love how he makes his voice sound like a racing car and then continues that sound with the bass

[@ricosamson8622]

Doktor Jekyll van Hyde I just realized that's why he makes that "Ahhh" sound, I never knew that 😂

[@unowhavethebiggay1430]

Hay what's your favorite buckethed song

[@sweetsoul3145]

I always imagined he was just taking a big bite of a sandwich

[@jaybles0999]

@@sweetsoul3145 a glass sandwich

[@MichaelGrey11]

Just realized that damn

[@alexbraaten420]

I love it whenever they get a random phrase to put into their songs like “Dog will hunt” or “Where u goin city boi?”

[@fizzhere2653]

yess “dog will hunt” is from the texas chainsaw massacre 2

[@alexbraaten420]

@@fizzhere2653 I had actually watched that movie for the first time shortly after commenting this. When that scene came up and Choptop said that, I was ecstatic, it just made me love Primus and TCM2 that much more.

[@fizzhere2653]

@@alexbraaten420 i actually watched the movie months before i started getting into Primus, and when i first heard Jerry Was a Race car Driver i freaked out!!

[@shad3128]

​@@alexbraaten420 @FizzHere same!! used to listen to this album on my walkman disc player from when my dad left while I was a kid- years later heard the quote in texas chainsaw and i was like holy shit!! 🤣

[@MC-kb6zp]

Where u goin city boi is from the movie Dellievence

[@wackyruss]

PRIMUS was in their PRIME back then! I recorded this show off MTV and watched it over and over again until my sister recorded over my VHS tape with fucking FIGURE SKATING!!!

[@ATthemusician]

I think their absolute prime was 2003-04. Especially Claypools other projects at the time lkke C2B3 and his Frog Brigade, the house of blues set and their cover of Pink Floyd's animals is insane, plus they played some Sausage too.

[@cplsteve8047]

Oksona Baiul was fire!

[@assks92]

Lmao this comment got me @Rsolomon

[@TheGetpunched]

Some unresolved issues there with your sister it seems. I get it.

[@hazardeur]

it doesn't matter. they sucked back then and they suck now

[@joesutherland2017]

Herb's drums sound so good in this room. Whole band was like bizarro world Rush. Hugely talented guys, all of them.

[@GregorMortis420]

In fact Geddy Lee once played with Primus and Les Claypool told him he owes him his artistry with the Bass. And also Lee learned some sick funky shit with Claypool so I think this is a hell of a due for them :)

[@JM-fc9gm]

Bizarro Rush is very appropriate lol

[@rayburn8282]

Bizarro world rush is perfect lol 😂😂

[@betterinsodapop]

How he is playing these complicated bass riffs and singing at the same time is crazy. Claypool is, and always has been, something else. One of a kind.

[@gabfish16]

Autist probably lol

[@schmikminov]

My thought too. Impressive talent.

[@danwhitehurst9592]

Regardless how you feel about them, Les Claypool’s bass skills while singing proves he’s an alien. If the tone of his voice didn’t convince you first

[@coolcool3820]

Can’t believe John Lennon made another band

[@MarioBlaBlaBla]

Take a look to Claypool Lennon Delirium!

[@literatetree8394]

Yeah, the fucker wouldn't even be stopped by death

[@brodyreeb1954]

Idiot, that’s Geddy Lee not John Lennon

[@thrashmetalkid6669]

Brody Reeb Thats not geddy lee thats maxmoefoe

[@BurnedZero]

Yeah and formed a band with his own son. Sick sad little world.

[@hiicantthinkofaname]

The "go!" part sounds extra heavy in this video.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

It might have been the room acoustics....

[@trendkillcfh]

2 years late but it was always super heavy sounding live. They played shows with some crazy bands but they still had some of the craziest mosh pits despite only having like 3 songs the crowd knew

[@StephenRahrig]

Heavy affffff

[@docraul486]

yeah that funky chunky tone

[@davemeese6788]

@@trendkillcfh Primus is one of those bands that you can mosh to even without ever hearing a singles song

[@ReTracedInAir]

Now presenting, guy-in-college-who-always-has-good-weed-on-him on bass, Honest Farmer Joe on drums, and silent-always-stoned skater on guitar!

[@paulfolbrecht744]

except that guitarist is a magician and a genius also

[@jsksnob3562]

@@paulfolbrecht744 Ler really is an underrated guitarist. He gets way less credit than he deserves just because he happens to be in the same band as one of the best bass players of all time. But it's not always necessarily about showing off and being the center of attention.

[@lesclaypoolonbass9431]

lmao, this band is almost made to annoy parents. mine included

[@Wileylikethehawk]

Once I became a parent they annoyed me too!

[@thelegendarye2430]

When I was a kid my parents annoyed me with Primus. Now I love them for it

[@vellaropedart9190]

My dad loves them. Their "quirkiness" reminds him of Frank Zappa. He especially loves "Winona's Big Brown Beaver".

[@lesclaypoolonbass9431]

@@vellaropedart9190 my dad loves Frank Zappa. saw him on acid back in the day. But I still couldn't get him to listen to Primus with me :(

[@enidesouzabarros8852]

I met Primus because my dad, he bought tales from the punchbowl and i got addicted with the Claypool stuff

[@rudibasabasi]

that drum sound so efffin perfect

[@jasonjackson3114]

Legend has it that Primus'timing is so accurate that they use them to calibrate click tracks.

[@paulfolbrecht744]

atomic clocks also.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

@@paulfolbrecht744 And pulsars.

[@therealnynetynyne360]

Les is the chuck Norris of bass

[@GeoffBosco]

A band being tight actually has little to do with metronomic perfection. As long as their really listening to each other the time can drift here and there and have the illusion of perfection.

[@therealnynetynyne360]

@@GeoffBosco tight refers to the timing of the band not a click, you can be tight and not be in time.

[@thatguylego7667]

I love les's little spin he does when playing bass. You can tell he's having so much fun with it.

[@terrencebierke7700]

I always remember my dad playing Primus when i was like 5 and this was my favorite song. We ended up seeing Primus when i was 20. Such an awesome experience

[@dukecloudkicker5779]

The song that wouldn't die lol

[@popebryanii7224]

Just to imagine that les claypool auditioned for metallica way back in the day.

[@OwlCatStudios]

But he was too good. It should have been Lars.

[@digdoug9352]

Yeah, they told him he was too good, lol

[@1986emix]

I heard about that story too. I think they said to him that he was too good for them

[@digdoug9352]

@@1986emix kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4SZmKqma7iYjq8

[@1986emix]

@@digdoug9352 jaja true, I thought it was in the early days, but was after cliff's death

[@theateroftheabsurd2168]

Everyone always talks about les the bass god but nobody ever mentions the guitar player is the shit

[@gomebome]

Ler is the shit! dude helped invent death metal then started Primus. he's an absolute beast of a player

[@micklee5152]

And the drums

[@bustersales4932]

His name is Larry "ler" LaLonde

[@WolfMountford]

Definitely a very interesting and unique sound.

[@warhol20000]

I love Ler!!!

[@sobmadrox]

First time i have ever seen them... how he plays that on the bass while singing, totally accurate as well, that blows my mind.

[@wackyruss]

Practice makes perfect!

[@azabshniggurath1541]

The way they're dressed, it's just so totally 90s!

[@booboodadfool8015]

Was a strange time when the cool look was to look as below average as possible. That's still a thing today but mom jeans are made by designers now and have a premium price. These dudes were really decked out in k mart gear.

[@BeatdownGG]

It was a halloween show. He is dressed like Cobain. That 1as his outfit.

[@gabrielwalker4411]

Set list Intro 0:00 1. Jerry was a race car driver 0:03 2. the ends? 1:44 3.Second half 1:47 4.Jerry was a race car driver (jam) 1:50 5.outro 3:08 video ends 3:30

[@brett-1261]

I love his lil walk that he does lol😂

[@ethanlocke3604]

The claypool march. It’s taken me years of practice to even come close to being able to do it as well as he

[@needsomeink]

The strut

[@OD_30]

I would too if I can rock like that😂

[@iamnathanael2132]

Yeah, he struts around like a rooster. I love it

[@thebigempty_5792]

yea, I love the one where he's dressed like a chicken and does the walk!

[@xxn0thing]

Les, Ler & Herb. This is CLASSIC.

[@isaiahdemontiney8993]

Sucks MTV really downgraded in time

[@lifejunkie92]

i know, but hey, we have KZbin

[@jaymccomb8468]

As an 18 year old it pisses me off this was mtv.

[@anatreyu1986]

No more "Music Television".

[@edgarm6017]

Who is MTV?

[@kingtrashmouth7265]

@Buford Montgomery cry about it, you sad racist fuck.

[@CaseyWinehouse]

I love how, in all Primus performances, Ler lays down some of the most in-your-face popular metal riffage ever written but he plays it in place like he’s just accompanying a high school pep band or something. He bobs along or whatever but it always strikes me as a 16 yo who is a phenom but not quite confident with performing live yet. Obviously that’s not the case at all, but that’s how I see it. We had a student who played in a punk band but when he had to be reserved and play bass for the school pep band, this is exactly how he looked.

[@stuartcarswell2815]

How good is Herb's snare sound!!

[@jsmiles28]

So Crispy!!!!

[@andreasdeutinger7319]

to play this AND sing at the same time-i can‘t do that. he is amazing. ler is an unique guitarist and herb is a machine on the drums. damn, this sucks!

[@azrielofearth9406]

Just practice ots not that bad. Your muscle memory will take over

[@GeoffBosco]

I play bass. I play drums. I'm a decent singer. I can sing and play drums with a good amount of facility. I can't play even very simple bass lines while I'm singing. So guys like Les and Geddy just melt my brain how they can do that stuff while singing.

[@oleksiistri8429]

Everybody talks about how great bass player is, but damn that guitar solo!!!!!

[@NeverSleepsAC]

This is the most early 90s thing I've ever seen. Holy christ to have been a teenager back then

[@Biblecampvictim_]

Here’s the band members: singer/bass player: John Lennon, guitarist: eminem, and drummer: a random farmer

[@hansgrueber8169]

Good to see King Buzzo jamming out on balcony behind the drummer.

[@richardgithens1960]

So unique. People call them weird. Maybe, but they did something special together. No band like them. I can't stop watching Les' fingers work the bass and the band's approach to the bass and how it's used like a lead guitar. It's why I fell in love with the bass and this band.

[@BeerMe831]

This song will always be the anthem for THPS for me. I played the demo for probably 100 hours before I convinced my mom to buy me the game.

[@RogueBurn]

One word TALENTED! This is rock music and jazz had a baby. Innovative and expressive.

[@loganhill2713]

Just something kinda chilling about them rocking out after he says the line about him wrapping himself a telephone pole. Genius

[@thomasBura]

nice quality

[@kokigami5492]

tom bura yes. Yes it was

[@rickynogosek1413]

Jim bruer

[@xxtheswagger8xx263]

Steamy quality

[@christophermontoya5526]

I remember watching this when it aired. I had this recorded on VHS. Haven't seen it since then. Thanks for posting.

[@nospam3327]

It's the song that wouldn't die because it's one of the best songs ever written

[@benmontoya2143]

Saw them once on a stacked lineup that included bush, nine inch nails, stp, clutch, suicidal tendacies and many more but primus ended up stealing the show that night hands down best performance of the day it was a thing of beauty

[@Yeagerade]

I love how he emotes with his hand at the camera before and after a song! So weird! So Les!

[@markg0410]

MTV, Kennedy, and 120 Minutes - those were the days!

[@josephhickman4528]

Scott Black Cycles what Kennedy was sort of that bratty friend of a friend s sister's cousin who .. .yada yada at least those days you could take a microwave snack break haha

[@Phernaldo]

Headbangers Ball too

[@LVSGirl]

The '94 Woodstock version of this SLAPS HARD! The Crowd going absolutely insane.

[@POOKIE5592]

Man, this takes me back. I saw them that year with The Melvins opening.

[@christopherbeavers8344]

Les Claypool straight looking like Mitch Hedberg.

[@tims_always_fishingt5726]

Short joke, funny as hell, Mitch!!!

[@garydupuis2796]

I had the pleasure of seeing these guys on tour with Rush in 94. Awesome show!!! And they did this song!

[@ARPSMUSIC]

He doesn't just sing and play bass at the same time, he does it soooo well!

[@redhotchilifan98]

I love this band so much they are unbelievably tight and precise incredible musicians

[@jasonking4753]

I heard someone once say they’re the most solid 3 piece that exists, next to rush. Would have to agree

[@oops6876]

Yeah, I’m still convinced the 90’s didn’t really happen.

[@kenzopoe7050]

1 of the Greatest, Most Underrated Bands of All Time.

[@rainyblossoms109]

0:42 I like how they sing parts so that it sounds like your passing a race car, its a cool effect in the song 👍🏻0:50 same thing with the bass

[@n6pud]

One of my favorite bands to this day. Les Is a God On the Bass.

[@punkfan97]

Primus is the ultimate jam band

[@ohedasan]

You truly realize that a bass player is so badass when he slaps and sings at the same time, Les Claypool is a beast!

[@bigshan5806]

Love the song almost as much as the dancing animals n stuff in the background

[@canIgetuhhh]

The level of unbound creativity these guys had is a treasure

[@johnhelton9533]

Such a unique band.

[@ineedanewname9595944]

They are just so unique!!!! Will always love them!!! Fun, talented, cool as shit, and never got what they deserved!! Awesome!!

[@timeye7684]

You’d never believe Less is an avid fly fisherman. He’s so good

[@joeday4293]

Ha. If I remember correctly, literally every Primus album has at least one song about fishing. So no, you should find it very easy to believe. LOL

[@layz_gaming_4275]

Les is so cool that in tommy the cat he can just make noise as a bass solo, and its awsome.

[@aleksandrvlasenko3843]

0:11 So that's what KORN was inspired by for their solo sound! 😀

[@vibrantdragon3123]

To many poppies(Primus) = Blind(Korn)

[@jeffreystacks7929]

Double bass grace 16th and 32nd notes every where, but what blows me away is that moment of grace with a finger roll going back into the verse.

[@blasphamaritanofficial1131]

Just noticed that there is a dude dressed as Buzz Osbourne from the Melvins on the balcony in the background.

[@aquaticnerve1308]

Let's not forget that guitarist Larry LaLonde pretty much invented death metal with his band Possessed, and their legendary 1985 album "seven churches"

[@void0094]

I thought I'm into weird music but this is from an other universe

[@PanasonicTooth]

R U talkin' P.R.I.M. RE: US?

[@mpguilfo]

Hey pal thats my childhood youre talkin about

[@Ginger2Rocker]

such a legend. he plays it perfectly without even looking at his bass

[@paulmildner6093]

Don't get me wrong I love primus but I still have no clue how they got so popular

[@erichwashausen4602]

Haha I’ve always wondered that too. My theory is first they’re extremely talented with a unique sound, but even though that sound is unique it had elements of stuff that was popular when they were getting big.

[@alexpickle2413]

South Park maybe

[@SoundingSix]

@@alexpickle2413 They were popular long before SP came into existence. This song and Tommy the Cat are what made them popular and they had a lot of airplay on Mtv back in the early to mid 90's. If it had anything to do with a cartoon it would've been Beavis and Butthead.

[@alexpickle2413]

Sounding Six gotcha I’m not totally sure myself

[@raphcourte420]

You have no clue because Primus Sucks ?

[@mrhound9862]

Wow!! The Halloween '93 party with Primus!! Had it on VHS somewhere. Thank God for KZbin!!

[@FakeBeatle538]

Tim is a beast, Larry is a beast, but Les is hands down one of the greatest bassists of all time 🤘

[@Metalkodelik]

The crazies 90' years! That's amazing!

[@fernandoizu]

Reminds me of Elephant Talk by King Crimson

[@Dwolfmusic]

Holy crap it does sound like it!

[@bubuotis]

STill...so powerful and funky and unique!

[@chrisbergey9470]

They sound awesome live. Sometime less is more...

[@paulfolbrecht744]

Er, you did mean "Les is more," yes?

[@jsmiles28]

I love this song so much

[@choppedartisan7360]

Looks like a good time to be alive. I was just a toddler. I missed out on the good times.

[@OCDtea]

he sings that "aaah" (at 0:42 for example) like the sound of a passing by race car

[@AceBambam]

Wow PRS very classy during that time i guess

[@mr.sparkle3302]

All their gear was top of the line, Carl Thompson, Pork Pie, etc.

[@AceBambam]

Mr. Sparkle what's pork pie?

[@mr.sparkle3302]

Pork Pie percussion. Tim was one of the early adopters. Like PRS, they were less common to find back then. porkpiedrums.com/

[@AceBambam]

Mr. Sparkle yeah forgot about google, thanks tho

[@bassguy8013]

Carlos Santana used it for Supernatural.

[@rapidtransit8373]

Love these guys. Saw a lot of band when I was young. But never got to see these guys. Oh well glad for the one's that I did. Great times wish I could do it again.

[@WarGhostsquad]

gosh tony halk pro skater on the ps1 anyone remember thoes days?

[@LEAK88925]

this is a musical masterpiece not many can understand

[@rightcoast7049]

Damn 1993 Les looks like Anthony Kiedis

[@Musistics]

Right Coast Muy guapo. 😍

[@SnailSlugSlut]

Except Les has a shirt on 😂

[@expatveteran7815]

Blasphemy! Never compare the Bay to LA!!!

[@rightcoast7049]

@@expatveteran7815 You might want to let go of the turf war if someone bringing up two humans resembling each other is blasphemous..

[@RychleTube]

SUPERB quality. Very good live performance

[@hoogabooga290]

Wow, primus on MTV... my how things have changed

[@russhapoff1867]

Quirky and funky, yet heavy. Absolutel fuckin' GOLD!

[@montgomerymontgomery570]

Primus is wayyy too weird for MTV. This is amazing!

[@bassage13]

They were on MTV a lot back then.

[@scottjensen7045]

Can’t stop watching. May be three best guys at their instruments out there. Perfect group of weirdos

[@alxluthor]

Anyone else seeing Pony Tail Joaquin Phoenix on drums?

[@frod79]

just wandered in here randomly to admire Les's classic 6 string carl Thompsonrainbow bass. always wanted to get one of these or try to make one of my own somehow.

[@ryanwatts8075]

Anyone else excited for Tony Hawk Pro Skater remaster? XD

[@danielkinn782]

I was in the original Jerry's video. Petaluma California in the infamous Phoenix Theater. Les lives in Sebastopol Ca. I used to talk fishing with him all the time. A super nice guy. Thanks for the memories

[@iamcraiger]

Awesome 😎

[@MorbidVisions310]

My absolute favorite song to play drums along to. Great pocket playing and the energy is next level. Coming from one thst plays alot of extreme/death/black etc metal, this song is another dimension.

[@zetascorpii9519]

Early 90's music was great! Each generation has their moments, but I'm glad I was a teenager back then!

[@nuclearfrog306]

Remember when music television had music