Primus’ Les Claypool is promoting his “beloved” ‘Giant Marge’ tour bus on eBay
Primus frontman/bassist Les Claypool is promoting his “beloved” tour bus on eBay for $152,000 (£117,423).
The 1998 Prevost Marathon XL 45-foot Tall Boy nicknamed ‘Giant Marge’ can sleep as much as six folks and options wood flooring, twin sofas, sensible TVs and what’s being described as a “very distinctive wealthy ‘regal’ inside.”
In accordance with the itemizing, the automobile has finished over 300,000 miles over time.
The public sale comes after the band not too long ago introduced the identification of their new drummer, after they issued a world open name for auditions.
In October, the band revealed the “full shock” departure of their longtime drummer Tim Alexander, writing on social media: “We’re presently taking submissions from all factors within the universe for the place of Primus drummer/percussionist.”
The profitable applicant John Hoffman, a drummer from Shreveport, Louisiana who has a major following on YouTube, was introduced final month.
After touchdown the job, Hoffman wrote: “Luck is when preparation meets alternative. I got here and did my factor the way in which I do it. It went in addition to I may have hoped. Maynard James Keenan was sitting straight in entrance of me and watched my complete audition. He gave me this towel. It’s been probably the most unimaginable days of my life. I really like you all. We did this.”
Explaining his resolution to give up the band, Alexander mentioned: “Over time, I began realising that it was affecting my bodily life, it was affecting my psychological life, and it was affecting my household life, and my coronary heart simply wasn’t in it,” he mentioned.
“Once I found that I’m combating all these items, I needed to sit and take into consideration precisely what am I doing,” he continued. “I don’t suppose I’ve ever chosen my path in life, I feel I’ve simply at all times thought ‘I’m a drummer, I’m simply gonna do music,’ and issues got here to me, accepting no matter occurs.”
Hoffman’s debut will come on the ‘Sessanta’ tour later within the yr, which can see Primus be part of Puscifer and A Good Circle.