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Mar 10, 2024 2 hr 7 min

Primus

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The craziest bass playing you've ever seen. Atonal metal breakdowns. Songs about meth heads burying bodies. And multiple top-ten records. How? It's PRIMUS week! It's a guestless, Alex-pick episode: buckle up. Primus breaks on to the national TV scene on the Dennis Miller Show. "My Name is Mud" is a hit somehow, and Primus performs it on MTV's Haunted House Party with White Zombie and Penn & Teller. Les, Ler, and Herb dress up in penguin suits to perform their biggest hit to the dismay of David Letterman's showrunner. We finally return to Farmclub.com to see Primus awkwardly fitting into the Nu-Metal moment. Plus the debut of South Park Sucks! Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week! Jerry was a Race Car Driver/Tommy The Cat, 3/20/1992 on The Dennis Miller Show My Name is Mud, 10/30/1993 on MTV's Haunted House Party Wynona's Big Brown Beaver, 6/16/1995 on The Late Show with David Letterman Shake Hands with Beef, 7/16/1997 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien Antipop/Greet the Sacred Cow, 3/5/2000 on Farmclub.com Lee Van Cleef, 10/24/2011 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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The craziest bass playing you've ever seen. Atonal metal breakdowns. Songs about meth heads burying bodies. And multiple top-ten records. How? It's PRIMUS week! It's a guestless, Alex-pick episode: buckle up. Primus breaks on to the national TV scene on the Dennis Miller Show. "My Name is Mud" is a hit somehow, and Primus performs it on MTV's Haunted House Party with White Zombie and Penn & Teller. Les, Ler, and Herb dress up in penguin suits to perform their biggest hit to the dismay of...

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