![]() ![]() “If you listen to the actual soundtrack, there’s no drums on it, so I had to kind of create all that. ![]() Layering the band’s distinctive psychedelic punk sound over the tinkling “Willy Wonka” soundtrack was a bit more involved than the casual listener might think. “Once I finally was kind of feeling like I should play again is when I called the guys.” I’ve been not sure if playing drums or playing music is what I’m here to do, and I wasn’t enjoying it, I wasn’t appreciating it,” he said. Although he initially joined Primus in the 1980s, the drummer left in 1996, returned in 2003 to do the EP “Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People” and parted ways with the group again in the late 2000s. “It’s still a very interesting movie, you know, without all the fancy, super digital effects of today.”įor Alexander, “Primus & the Chocolate Factory” was his strangely delicious return to recording with the influential band. I don’t know what specifically brought it up … but just throwing ideas around, Les, he was thinking about that,” Alexander said. “We all watched it as kids when we were younger. The “Primus & the Chocolate Factory” tour makes its Oklahoma City stop Tuesday with the band’s quintessential lineup - bassist/singer Les Claypool, guitarist Larry “Ler” LaLonde and drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander - and an exclusive line of chocolate treats with names like “Professor Nutbutter Bars” and “Mr. For most bands, a full album reworking the soundtrack to the Scrumpdiddlyumptious 1971 film oddity “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” might sound like a strange sideways spree in the great glass Wonkavator.įor a band whose resume already includes the Grammy-nominated track “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver,” the adorably titled but deadly serious anti-war song “Too Many Puppies” and the twangy theme song to “South Park,” such a cover project actually seems more like a perfectly rational trip in the Wonka Mobile.Įxperimental rockers Primus are bringing their trippy world of “Pure Imagination” to the Chevy Bricktown Events Center next week in support of their “funhouse mirror” cover album, “Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble.” ![]()
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