Watch Primus play first present since departure of drummer Tim Alexander
Primus carried out their first reside present for the reason that abrupt departure of drummer Tim ‘Herb’ Alexander, recruiting a former member for the gig. Try footage under.
The gig happened as a part of the band’s New 12 months’s Eve celebration reveals, which have been held on the Fox Theater in Oakland, California this Monday (December 30). Primus took to the stage following units from different artists together with Holy Mackerel and Frog Brigade, and broke out a six-song set.
It marked Primus’s first on-stage look since they introduced that they have been left in “full shock” by information that longtime drummer Tim Alexander could be leaving the line-up.
Whereas Les Claypool and co. are nonetheless underway with their worldwide seek for a brand new drummer – having opened casting calls in November – on the one-off New 12 months’s Eve present, they introduced again former bandmate Bryan ‘Mind’ Mantia to be sticksman.
Mantia was the drummer in Primus again in 1989, and was changed by Alexander who remained a part of the line-up till 1996. After Alexander’s first departure from the group, Mantia returned to the position till the band cut up in 2000. Primus would later reform in 2003, with Alexander again within the group.
On the set at Fox Theater, Primus performed hits together with ‘These Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers’, ‘Fisticuffs’, ‘The Antipop’, ‘My Title Is Mud’ and extra. Try footage of the present under.
The band are nonetheless holding auditions to discover a substitute for Alexander, and have just lately warned followers about potential scammers making the most of the open name.
Auditions submitted on-line started pouring in in November and included an entry from Billy Strings, who swapped out his guitar for a drum package in a video submission. Les Claypool would later share the clip on his personal social media pages, telling followers that they may have “discovered our man”.
The subsequent spherical of auditions for the position of drummer is about to begin later this month.
Following Alexander’s exit from the band, he defined his determination in an additional replace. “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 battling all this stuff, 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.”