Primus' new album "Green Naugahyde" draws on Les Claypool's filmic obsessions -- even veteran Westerns actor Lee Van Cleef gets a shout out in a song called, well, "Lee Van Cleef." "People always ask me who my heroes are, expecting me to say someone like Geddy Lee [from Rush]," Claypool told IFC. "But really, it's more people like Elia Kazan, Sergio Leone, Frank Capra, Terry Gilliam, and Jared Hess."
That might go a long way towards explaining why so many Primus songs seem to happily co-exist in the film world -- for instance, "Spegetti Western," or "Camelback Cinema." Or why so many Primus songs are based on peripheral characters -- "John the Fisherman," "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver," or, more recently, "Jilly's On Smack." "I love character actors," the singer/bassist said. "If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
That might go a long way towards explaining why so many Primus songs seem to happily co-exist in the film world -- for instance, "Spegetti Western," or "Camelback Cinema." Or why so many Primus songs are based on peripheral characters -- "John the Fisherman," "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver," or, more recently, "Jilly's On Smack." "I love character actors," the singer/bassist said. "If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
- 11/16/2011
- by IFC
- ifc.com
Check out this two part video tribute to fictional movie bands courtesy of Vulture.
Musical artists featured are as follows:
01 - The Lone Rangers (Airheads)
02 - Dewey Cox (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
03 - Spinal Tap (This is Spinal Tap)
04 - The Pinheads (Back to the Future)
05 - Weird Sisters (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
06 - Max Frost and the Troopers (Wild in the Streets)
07 - The Blues Brothers (The Blues Brothers)
08 - The Soggy Bottom Boys (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
09 - The Swanky Modes (Tapeheads)
10 - Marvin Berry & the Starlighters (Back to the Future)
11 - Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
12 - The Wonders (That Thing You Do!)
13 - The Folksmen (A Mighty Wind)
14 - The New Main Street Singers (A Mighty Wind)
15 - Mitch & Mickey (A Mighty Wind)
16 - Three Times One Minus One (Run, Ronnie, Run...
Musical artists featured are as follows:
01 - The Lone Rangers (Airheads)
02 - Dewey Cox (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
03 - Spinal Tap (This is Spinal Tap)
04 - The Pinheads (Back to the Future)
05 - Weird Sisters (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
06 - Max Frost and the Troopers (Wild in the Streets)
07 - The Blues Brothers (The Blues Brothers)
08 - The Soggy Bottom Boys (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
09 - The Swanky Modes (Tapeheads)
10 - Marvin Berry & the Starlighters (Back to the Future)
11 - Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
12 - The Wonders (That Thing You Do!)
13 - The Folksmen (A Mighty Wind)
14 - The New Main Street Singers (A Mighty Wind)
15 - Mitch & Mickey (A Mighty Wind)
16 - Three Times One Minus One (Run, Ronnie, Run...
- 2/3/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
National Lampoon Prods.
Yet another mockumentary taking its cue from the tapped-out Spinal Tap model, National Lampoon Presents Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo follows the exploits of a fictional Jerry Garcia-obsessed rock group in its quest to make it into the Festeroo jam-band festival.
Marking the directorial debut of Primus singer-bassist Les Claypool, the film is even less funny than it is original, even though Claypool has recruited the likes of the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Phish's Mike Gordon to instill a bit of street cred.
While it's being released theatrically Nov. 9 in a couple of dozen markets (Los Angeles and New York aren't among them), the most appreciative audience for this lame National Lampoon release likely will be guys in tour buses.
Claypool, who also gets script bragging rights, plays the part of Electric Apricot drummer Lapland Lapdog Miclovik, who hits the road with fellow band members Steve Aiwass Trouzdale (Adam Gates), Steve "Gordo" Gordon (Bryan Kehoe) and Herschel Tambor Brillstien (Jonathan Korty) in a drawn-out bid to go where Christopher Guest has successfully gone several times before them.
Ha-ha?
Uh-uh.
Yet another mockumentary taking its cue from the tapped-out Spinal Tap model, National Lampoon Presents Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo follows the exploits of a fictional Jerry Garcia-obsessed rock group in its quest to make it into the Festeroo jam-band festival.
Marking the directorial debut of Primus singer-bassist Les Claypool, the film is even less funny than it is original, even though Claypool has recruited the likes of the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Phish's Mike Gordon to instill a bit of street cred.
While it's being released theatrically Nov. 9 in a couple of dozen markets (Los Angeles and New York aren't among them), the most appreciative audience for this lame National Lampoon release likely will be guys in tour buses.
Claypool, who also gets script bragging rights, plays the part of Electric Apricot drummer Lapland Lapdog Miclovik, who hits the road with fellow band members Steve Aiwass Trouzdale (Adam Gates), Steve "Gordo" Gordon (Bryan Kehoe) and Herschel Tambor Brillstien (Jonathan Korty) in a drawn-out bid to go where Christopher Guest has successfully gone several times before them.
Ha-ha?
Uh-uh.
- 11/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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