Primus sure did take their sweet time between recording their latest album (2011’s Green Naugahyde) and its predecessor (1999’s Antipop). Now, frontman Les Claypool has revealed that the band actually broke up for a while during that interlude, although they didn’t tell anyone.
Claypool told Spinner that Primus broke up “for about three years. Then we came back and did the nostalgia thing, in ’03, with a pretty big tour. And then in 2006 we did another round. But those tours, they were just – they were what they were.
“We’re kind of under-the-radar guys. We've got to go out and work. So for us to stop like we did – we weren’t even talking. We definitely broke up. We broke up but we didn’t want to tell everybody, so we said ‘Well, we’re on hiatus.’”
Later in the interview, Claypool spoke about his influences – including some of his favorite film directors.
“I always talk about [Frank] Capra films and Coen brothers films and Elia Kazan, just these colorful characters throughout my music, but they’re all very tragic, you know?” he said. “Not all of them, but most of them are very tragic because I’m sort of exorcising my demons and my experiences through the eyes of these colorful characters, similar to what Capra used to do and what the Coen brothers do. You know, they’re these compelling characters but they’re so f---ed up. But you’re with them.”
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