![]() Saturday, August 13 – Vail, CO – Gerald R.Heavy music is full of legendary bands boasting deep catalogs stacked with iconic songs - sometimes it can be hard to know where to start, or what to consider their best. It seems to be a good one for us to tackle 2112 seemed a little obvious.”įriday, August 12 – Vail, CO – Gerald R. “Originally we’d always kind of joked around about doing Hemispheres…but we settled on Kings, because A) it was the first Rush record I ever heard and B) it contains ‘Cygnus X-1,’ which has always been my favorite Rush tune. “ Hemispheres was my first concert,” Claypool said, referring to Rush’s 1978 album and tour. ![]() ![]() The band will also be performing a two-night run of ‘A Tribute To Kings’ on November 2 and 3. The release of the “Follow The Fool” video comes just before the final US shows of Primus’ wildly popular ‘A Tribute To Kings’ Tour in Vail, CO on August 12 and 13, which will find them performing Rush’s 1977 album A Farewell To Kings in its entirety, following a set of their own music. “‘Conspiranoia’ was sprouted from a seed I had planted in my notebook a year or so ago–a few lines commenting on the mental state of the contemporary world.” ![]() “I’d been itching to record an opus–basically a long, winding, bastard of a song, reminiscent of some of the compositions I cut my teeth (or ears) on, in my music-hungry adolescence,” bassist Les Claypool said. Primus announced the Conspiranoid EP in April with the release of its epic, 11-minute opening track, “Conspiranoia”. Their first new music in more than five years, the EP features several commentaries on what frontman Les Claypool described as “the mental state of the contemporary world,” with “Follow The Fool” asking the pointed question – “who’s the bigger fool? Is it the fool, or is the fool who follows the fool.” A special vinyl release of the Conspiranoid EP is out now via ATO Records. On the heels of a run of shows in Colorado next week – including a two-night appearance at the “South Park: 25th Anniversary Concert” at Red Rocks and the final US shows of the band’s wildly popular ‘A Tribute To Kings’ Tour in Vail on August 12 and 13 – Primus has unveiled a music video for “Follow The Fool”, the final single off their new Conspiranoid EP. ![]()
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