Les Claypool, of Primus fame, is back with a brand new video. Well, it only look him a good 11 years but I think it was worth the wait. "I spent so many years dodging goofball bullets from doing the 'Wynona's Got A Big Brown Beaver' that I don't resist it anymore," Claypool said. "I got to put on a giant lobster suit, and that doesn't happen every day."
Lobster suit, you say?? Interesting..Please go on.
"Musically, it's upbeat," Claypool says. "But lyrically, the song is all about impending doom. This last year has been a trying time in my world, with my mother fading away, my brother's baby boy getting diagnosed with leukaemia, and other people having various ailments. So the song is about a storm coming, the rain must fall. But to depict that would have been the cliché thing to do, so we've got lobsters."
Also not intended is any sort of animal cruelty statement. Claypool--who is an avid fisherman -- has conjured some new songs for his seventh and latest album Green Naugahyde [already out] with titles like, 'Last Salmon Man' and 'Salmon Men.'
And as for the plight of the crustaceans?
"PETA would probably hate me for this," Claypool said, "...but I think it's kind of like going to sleep in a hot tub. Or like having too much wine and going to sleep."
Speaking of wine, the restaurant scenes feature vintages from the musician's own winery, Claypool Cellars. "You couldn't put any real alcohol in videos before, because MTV wouldn't play them," he said. "We thought, 'What the hell? MTV's not going to play this anyway!"
Very true sir...MTV is not the shining beacon of rebllious self-expression it use to be. Nevertheless, enjoy the video in all its glorious weirdness below:
I had a big brown beaver once...wait, no I didn't. That was Ted Nugent...
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