11/12/2022 0 Comments Primus rare songs![]() ![]() What was it that established the long-lasting friendship between the two bands? I just completely had my mind blown, watching the Rocinante fly through the black hole of Cygnus. So I paid more for the ticket than if I’d just bought one at the door. Of course, he was old enough to buy beer, so I drank three warm Lowenbraus and threw up in the parking lot and bought a scalped ticket for a show that wasn’t sold out. It was my first concert, my buddy Dan Maloney, who actually builds my basses now, he was older and he drove us. That’s just like my bass!” I was like, “Goddammit!” I was all jealous of Bill Peterson, because he had a black Rickenbacker, just like Geddy. So he’s like, “I’ve got a bass like that. My buddy Bill Peterson, who unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago, he had a little bit of money. ![]() Then, just looking at the stage setup while they’re setting up the gear, there’s Geddy’s Rickenbacker bass just sitting there, which was the holy grail for us. So standing there at the Cow Palace, looking at the stage, Pat Travers played and he was amazing with Mars and Tommy Aldridge. Well, I was just starting to play bass, maybe a couple of months into it. How much of a fan were you when you saw that first show? I remember my buddy Jeff pulling out A Farewell to Kings and I was going, “What the hell is this?” So we’d always go over to their house and listen to all of their records. I had two friends, brothers, and they each had their own stereos and a huge record collection. I had like three records and a record player. When I was a kid, I didn’t have a stereo. ![]() The first album I heard by was A Farewell to Kings. My very first concert was Rush on the Hemispheres tour and it blew my 14 year old mind. How did you first get into Rush? What was your gateway? With a fresh leg of A Tribute to Kings tour dates set to launch in April, we spoke with Claypool via Zoom to discuss being a Rush fan and how they approached learning an album's worth of difficult Rush music. As you might expect, they spent a lot of time preparing and working to get it right. Always challenging themselves creatively, the California trio have really leveled up with their latest excursion, a live tribute to Rush's 1977 opus A Farewell to Kings. ![]()
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