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05-04-2006, 06:59 PM
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05-04-2006, 07:42 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | | That middle section wasn't a bass solo per se- Les and Brain went into their version of "The Awakening," a song Les likes to cover, before going back into Tommy the Cat. |
05-04-2006, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Woodlands, Texas | | | speaking of the Awakening, I've never heard any other songs by the Reddings. Does anyone know if they have CDs on any websites? because i can't find any |
05-04-2006, 09:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal, Rive-Sud | | | Thanks! That was a great video |
05-05-2006, 08:16 AM
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05-05-2006, 08:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | That's the video for the live cut of Tommy the Cat that is on Rhinoplasty btw.
Awesome video, I hadnt seen it before, allthough I have heard the live cut plenty of times hehe. |
05-05-2006, 09:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Newcastle - Australia | | sounds much better played on a four  ..dunno what it is, but i like brian alot better than tim...love to jam with brian
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05-08-2006, 04:18 PM
|  | Wanna buy some mandies, Bob? | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Longmont, Colorado | | | If I watched/listened to Les 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I would still not get enough!
Thanks for the link!
BTW, I just snagged a live '98 Primus show in which Les throws down Stanley Clarke's "Silly Putty". If you've never heard him play it, you owe it to yourself to do so.
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05-08-2006, 04:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Wow, Les was kind of a jerk to Brain. I did think it was funny though when Brain dropped the beat at the wrong time, so Les decided to make him Tommy the Cat.
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05-08-2006, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Joshua Perhaps I'm just ol' school, but that clip makes me miss Herb... |
He is (was?) back
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05-09-2006, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Planet Boulder BTW, I just snagged a live '98 Primus show in which Les throws down Stanley Clarke's "Silly Putty". If you've never heard him play it, you owe it to yourself to do so. | I've never heard him play it, but it's cool how even someone as wacky as les can respect a great like Stan! |
05-09-2006, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Grueber speaking of the Awakening, I've never heard any other songs by the Reddings. Does anyone know if they have CDs on any websites? because i can't find any | I don't think they have anything on cd! I've been looking forever! |
05-09-2006, 04:25 PM
|  | Bare Bones Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | | Dig. And I like his just-left-my-office-cubicle-job-and-came-to-the-gig look, too.
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05-09-2006, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by heath_the_great sounds much better played on a four ..dunno what it is, but i like brian alot better than tim...love to jam with brian | I like any lineup better than the one with Tim. I went to HS with him and he was a jock A**H***. I prefer the Sausage lineup with Todd Huth. Back when Les played thru an ADA MP1 into an EV with the VRM driver. Speaking of is he playing all Mesa now? is that a practice amp on his stack? *** with the smoke?
OOOPS! I totally confused which Tim I was talking about! Tim S I went to HS with and took over drums in a different defunct band(VF) but has been a drum tech for Primus. I withdraw above statement about Mr. Alexander. It's just that the Norcal music scene is insanely incestuous, and all those hackysacking drummer guys worship Rush so its easy to confuse them. I apologize, I have had a headache for two days so I am not thinking very clear.
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05-10-2006, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart | Thanks man!
yup. MP1 and the EV with the VMR, looks like an ADA power amp? Those were pretty underpowered if'n I remember. and that the carl thompson he later pulled the frets out of I am pretty sure. Todd and his tasteful guitar. When is that 88? Where is that? anybody?
HAHA, if you look at the comments left under the video there are a bunch of clueless dweebs actually arguing about which lineup it is.
It IS Jay Lane and Todd Huth. Take it from someone who saw Primus in Cotati right after they came out with Sausage.
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05-10-2006, 12:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Calaverasgrande HAHA, if you look at the comments left under the video there are a bunch of clueless dweebs actually arguing about which lineup it is.
It IS Jay Lane and Todd Huth. Take it from someone who saw Primus in Cotati right after they came out with Sausage. | I'm speddling on there and a clueless dweeb 
here is Jay and Todd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9kImpbVV0
if the radio vids aren't Tim Alexander... it's his twin. 
I've seen them at least 25 times early in Primus history and also Rat Dog a few times as well... I was an early fan, I use to get bootleg cassettes of shows mailed to me from my old guitarist that moved to redwood city in the late 80s and jammed with one of Les' students |
05-10-2006, 01:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Newcastle - Australia | | | les is using ampeg now aint he?
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05-10-2006, 08:55 AM
| | | | Very nice clips. What bass is Claypool using on the first clip? |
05-10-2006, 09:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Elk Grove, CA | | | You know, love or hate Les, you've got to envy his ability to sing/talk out of time (freely, vs 2 maybe?) while keeping the grove going.
If the vocals syncopate against the bass at all I can't sing and play unless I know the bass line forward, backward and upsidedown.
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