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Another beautiful Sunday night in Santa Barbara and what better way to spend it than with PRIMUS. Before I get into that Wolfmother opened and they did a solid job performing a good mix of new and old and some covers to a unenthusiastic audience. They were saving their energy for the main act that came onto the stage nice and early around the 8pm mark, and since curfew is 10pm this should make for a solid 2 hour Primus show, WRONG.
OK fist off look at this STRONG setlist.
1. Pudding Time
2. Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers
3. Duchess and the Proverbial Mind Spread
4. American Life
5. Golden Boy
6. Big in Japan (Tom Waits cover)
7. Over The Falls
8. The Toys Go Winding Down
9. Drum and Whamola Jam
10. Groundhog’s Day
11. Mrs. Blaileen
12. Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
13. In The Flesh (Pink Floyd cover)
14. Harold of the Rocks
Encore:
15. Southbound Pachyderm
16. Too Many Puppies
Awesome right? Southbound Pachyderm is a personal favorite. Les Claypool did his thing making complex bass moves look simple. The highlight is when he broke out the Whamola, totally awesome. The crowd was real into the show and if this was your first time seeing Primus then you were STOKED. Now on to people who have seen Primus. WTF is up with ending the show before curfew. Primus, who have not been to the Santa Barbara Bowl in years could have played a 2 hour kick ass set, instead they choose to only play a 1 hour and 25 minute kick ass set. Normally I would not complain, but we are talking about PRIMUS! These cats are supposed to jam out not call it in early. That left a bad taste in the collective mouths of seasoned fans, I especially feel bad for people who drove from LA to see Primus at this venue, its something else. The only thing I could think of was that they didnt sell out the Santa Barbara Bowl, that might be why they wanted to call it quits, or maybe they are getting old. One long time Primus fan and downtown venue/club owner that I will leave nameless stated he was “fistfucked in the face” along with a whole lotta of other super hallrouis shit that I could not retrain in my brain.
The verdict, despite calling it a night at 9:26pm it was a solid set. Weird visuals, on stage blow up astronauts and amazing musicianship made this a great Sunday night. HE COVERED TOM WAITS!!!! In the end they played 16 songs, and anytime you see a Whamola is a good time.
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Well sir…this was indeed my first time seeing Primus and was not disappointed. I can’t remember the last show that I saw where the crowd wasn’t ‘too cool’ to go nuts. Claypool…what a strangely talented and talentedly strange man. But…if I had to say something, yeah, yr already going into a show with a set curfew, which blows, and to cut it a bit short was a kick down below. All I guess anybody can say is they played a midnight Vegas show the previous night. Nothing off of Pork Soda though, is the main thing that bugged me. No, I didn’t need to hear ‘My Name is Mudd’, but how intense would Welcome to this World or DMV have been?My guess is very.Can I make a quick comment as to how technology sucks for shows these days…before they came out I heard some putz telling his friend, “Yeah I saw on youtube how there are gonna be two spacemen and they’ll show projections on the visors blahblahblah”Why spoil these fun little things…
Gary,
Thanks for the comment. I totally agree with you kids these days suck. It was interesting to see the deviation between the age demographic. All the 30 and plus people were happy with Primus but pissed with EVERYTHING else and all the kids were stoked cause PRIMUS played the Santa Barbara Bowl. It would be nicer if this venue would allow more bands like this to play