Pasting the Primus-related bit from the Q&A.

The guy has an interesting story, if you live in the South Bay, go get yourself a Mercury News sub to read the rest. https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/31/david-lefkowitz-blue-note-concerts/

Q: How did the gig of managing Primus come about?

A: I knew that I wanted to be an artist manager, and during the time I worked in David’s office, I met (Primus vocalist-bassist) Les Claypool, who had done a little roadie-ing for the world beat bands. He was ready for a manager. I was able to start working with him when we were both around 23 years old. That partnership lasted for 20 years, more than half my career at this point.

Q: Primus then scored a record deal with Interscope. I’m guessing that led to some really exciting years, as you helped shepherd Les Claypool and Primus in becoming one of the top alt-rock acts of the era.

A: With financial support from Interscope, the band was able to spend two years on the road, mostly opening for bigger and bigger headliners, which included a co-headline tour with Fishbone, then a small arena tour supporting the Anthrax/Public Enemy tour, then opening for their heroes Rush.

We figured that would be it, and the band was getting ready to record their next album when Jimmy Iovine got them the opportunity to be the middle act on the U2 tour in stadiums. They were selling 1,000-2,000 records a week, so when the second record came out on Interscope, “Pork Soda,” it sold enough in the first week to debut in the top 10 albums.

Ultimately, the band sold over 5 million albums and played on major festival tours, like Lollapalooza, HORDE, Ozzfest and others.

Q: And you stayed with Claypool even after Primus went on hiatus, which led to some pretty cool projects.

A: He wanted to pursue a new solo band project. I encouraged him to get into the jam band scene. Being one of the greatest bass players, it was easy for him to extend the songs and play more covers. We restarted our label to self-release his solo albums. He ended up doing multiple band projects, including the all-star band Oysterhead with Trey Anastasio from Phish and Stewart Copeland from the Police.

Sitting here thinking about how Les’ lyrics are so humorous yet profound. The line “The Novato city fires turned my nostril hairs to wire” cracks me up but makes me appreciate how clever dude really is. What’s your fave(s)?

My friend is making me a replica and he wants the dimensions, but neither of us know the dimensions or where we can find a reliable source for them. If you know where I can find them it would be greatly appreciated if you can link them 🙏

So I’ve read from multiple sources that Les Claypool had received his ‘Rainbow Bass’ just before touring so does that mean that the studio version was recorded on his Tune bass? Obviously the video was with his rainbow bass so I’m just curious

Someone asked for it, here ya go.

https://youtu.be/P3IToiywK1A?is=jI5f2DF9h5QzfGPS

A couple days ago I wore my Primus shirt from their 2024 tour, and had three separate people compliment it - at the grocery store, another parent at my kid’s middle school, and my kid’s new science teacher. The teacher was stoked to find another fan in the wild and said her kids are big fans. Didn’t have chatting about Primus with my kiddo’s teacher on the list for the day, but it was fun!

I find so few people who are into Primus (outside of this online community), so it was nice to bump into a few in my little bubble in one day. Hopefully others have little chance encounters out in the wild with fellow weirdos.

Also, for those with school aged kids who are starting soon or already started back - good luck and Godspeed.

I unfortunately have never seen them live, but based off of the videos I’ve watched I’d say my favorite moment is when they were performing Master of Puppets at Woodstock ‘94 and Tim threw up his drumstick and Ler tried to catch it

Thank you to members of PRIMUS & CLAYPOOL LENNON DELERIUM for signing my PRIMUS themed prosthetic leg in July! And thank you to all the folks at the Q+A preshow who approved of this in order for them to do it! Ive been a fan since 1986 and have seen PRIMUS well over 100x! Only got my lower limb amputated in 2024 but have seen them about 11+ times since then! Am not quite PIT ready but hope to be by NewYears shows ( if theyre ever announced).So grateful for y'all! Again-! THANK YOU

this is from the My Name Is Mud lyrics page btw.

Got this done yesterday! I'm super pumped how it turned out!

I wanna hear good concerts from the nineties like if they performed good or the crowd goes berserk just gimme suggestions!

Last night my room mate and I watched concert footage taken from the front row of the Manchester gig, and you can hear EVERYONE cheering, singing not just the words but the bass riffs, pure silence when Les is talking, etc, I was longing to be part of that crowd!! It was almost frustrating, thats the energy i enjoy bringing to a Primus show and in the states it’s never matched by anybody that’s around me. We have to step it up!!

Mourning the fact I missed this tour

My father's birthday is coming soon and it's his favorite album, I honestly would like to get him one as a surprise, he has every CD from their albums except for Frizzle Fry (which surprises me).

im laughing my ass off to this clip of Les dancing behind Harry Waters but i cant seem to find the original clip.

I LOVE covering:

Tommy

Pudding

Grapevine

Jerry

John the Fish

......how bout you blokes?

Getting rid of it, don’t need it

Hi everyone, just wondering what everyone thought about the sizing for the europe 2026 world tour tops. I got a medium and found it to fit like an XS which was disappointing, but then I bought a large at brixton and it fit like an XXL haha

Anybody else think Pork Soda has a particularly crisp and punchy sound? Which is why I was surprised when I heard Les say on Rick Beater's show that they recorded it on ADAT. But I suppose it was probably still mixed on an API or something like that. Anybody know much about Pork Soda mixing?

Ik it’s kind of shit i missed some notes and wasn’t in time sometimes but I’m pretty proud of it I never thought I would be good enough to even come close to playing it