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Larry LaLonde – guitar (tracks 1-11, 13, 14), lead vocals (10).The live CD was replaced with a DVD of custom visuals for each song. Shortly after the last live performance of the album, it was announced on Primus' official website that the Deluxe Edition's release date had been delayed until November 20, 2015, and that pre-orders will now include a limited edition box of chocolates. This was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album.
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#WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY ALBUM COVER UPDATE#
This update reformats the album into Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound, and also includes a bonus live CD that features Primus' signature extended live jams. In early 2015, Primus' official website announced Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble Deluxe Edition to be released on April 28, 2015. The last live performance of the album, September 19, 2015, was a live Pay-Per-View event on Īll tracks are written by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley, arranged by Les Claypool (bass), Larry LaLonde (guitar), Tim "Herb" Alexander (percussion). So we had to come up with another income stream, so we're making chocolate bars because you can’t digitize a chocolate bar - yet." On Hollywood, limited edition 'Pork Soda' bars were available. Because the fucking recording industry rolled over and let this Internet shit all over us. "That's the whole impetus of this entire project. "The tour and the album are solely a marketing tool just so we can sell candy bars," jokes Claypool. Krinkle Bars" and "Pork Soda Bars" (from Pork Soda), "Professor Nutbutter Bars" (from Tales from the Punchbowl), and "Bastard Bars". The varieties are named after Primus songs: " Mr. To tie in with the album's Wonka theme, Primus began selling exclusive chocolate "Primus Bars" at live performances. It made me have to think about what I’m doing to create rhythms using all this stuff." Promotion Putting all these things together, I just had all these different sounds to work with them. About the odd choice of percussion, Alexander explains "It went back to the original meaning of a contraption, which is what a drum set initially was when they were first being put together in the early 1900s. The track "I Want It Now" is the first Primus song to feature guitarist Larry "Ler" Lalonde on lead vocals.ĭrummer Tim Alexander used an intentionally unusual drum kit throughout the album, which contained various rototoms, frying pans, a HAPI UFO drum, and more in addition to his already-large drum kit. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band around the same time. Although this project never came to fruition, he stated that he was glad it didn't work out since he later found out that The Flaming Lips were producing their cover of Sgt. Prior to that it was everything Wonka." ĭuring an interview at The Greene Space, Les Claypool explained that one idea for his next record was a cover of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. Lead singer and bassist Les Claypool told Rolling Stone of his fascination with Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the 1971 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: "I don't think it was until Jaws came along that I was more obsessed with a film, when I started drawing sharks all over my binders and notebooks.