Durst began to take an interest in directing, and directed a music video for Limp Bizkit's single " Faith " in promotion for its appearance in the film Very Bad Things, but was unsatisfied with it, and directed a second video which paid tribute to tourmates like Primus, Deftones and Mötley Crüe, who appeared in the video.

Carl Richard Nyberg invented the blowtorch in 1882 and began manufacturing Primus stoves a decade later.

Upon learning that Primus has a son, he transferred his fanatical hatred of Primus to Ren, and began to hunt the boy across the twenty seas of Mer, in order to capture the Treasures, and to kill Ren and the house of Primus.

As the two sides battled for the Keys, the Autobots would eventually find all four and use them to revive Primus, but in doing so caused a massive earthquake that began shattering the planet around them.

When Unicron awoke, his task began again, as he consumed world after world, until the sentient core of the universe responded by creating a guardian to battle Unicron-the Lord of the Light, Primus.

Realizing that the Oracle itself was the Quintessons ' shell program, Primal Prime began to fear that all that had come about as a result of its guidance — including Optimus Primal's mission to restore a techno-organic balance to Cybertron — was all part of a Quintesson plot, but Alpha Trion assured him that Primus worked in mysterious ways.

Then, when the dark god Unicron began his plan to pit Autobots and Decepticons from across the multiverse in conflict to initiate his resurrection, Vector Sigma and Alpha Trion chose Optimus Primal to lead the " Children of Primus " against this threat.

Born in Forest Gate, England, to Caribbean-born parents, Primus began his professional career at Charlton Athletic ; where he made four league appearances.

Primus began playing in the reserves under manager Alan Curbishley and at the end of his apprenticeship, Primus was offered a one-year professional contract by the new youth team coach John Cartwright.

Huth and Claypool began playing together, along with a drum machine, in or around 1984, originally calling themselves Primate until about 1986 when they changed their band name to Primus.

The Matrix Quest began when Primus, the Transformers ' god and core of their homeworld, Cybertron was reawakened, alerting his nemesis, Unicron to his location.

After Unicron was defeated in battle with the original thirteen Transformers, Primus entered into a deep sleep, and the Transformer race began to grow.

In 1996, Primus began its global expansion by acquiring Australia's fourth largest telecommunications service provider, Axicorp.

Following the dot-com bubble " bursting " in 2000, and the subsequent U. S financial downturn and stock market crash in 2001 after September 11, Primus reportedly began scaling back growth plans and reducing their debt in response to their stock value dropping to US $ 0. 54 in June 2002.

Towards the end of 2004, Primus ' stock fell 69 % and continued to fall in 2005 as their core revenue streams of long-distance telephone service, dial-up Internet connections and prepaid calling began shrinking.

Primate changed their name to Primus after " about a month " when they were approached by a group called The Primates threatening legal action over the similarity of their names.

Upon receiving the news he had not been chosen, he went on to form Primate ( a precursor to Primus ) but continued to write music with Blind Illusion.

Claypool left in the middle of the tour ( and was replaced by friend Adam Gates ) to continue Primate ( soon Primus ).

* Famous musicians such as Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Exodus, Marc Biederman of Blind Illusion, Les Claypool ( former member of Blind Ilusion currently of Primus ), Larry " Ler " LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Jason Beebout of Samiam and Isocracy and John Kiffmeyer of Green Day and Isocracy all grew up in El Sobrante, and most of them attended De Anza High School.

Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist / vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry " Ler " LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane.

* One of the bands competing in the Battle of the Bands was real-life California band Primus, led by Les Claypool, performing " Tommy the Cat " from their then-current album Sailing the Seas of Cheese.

Slim now performs around Northern California, with a lineup consisting of drummer Peter Libby ( Primus, Ramona the Pest ) bassist Kevin Witte ( Surreal Neil, Tom Jonesing ) and Tom Hamilton on keys and backing vocals.

Primus originally formed in 1984 with Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth, later joined by Lane, though the latter two departed the band at the end of 1988.

* Rush — February 27, 1980, with Roadmaster, April 23-24, 1981, October 15-16, 1982, with Rory Gallagher, June 16, 1984, with Gary Moore, April 29, 1986, with Blue Öyster Cult, April 7, 1988, with The Rainmakers, March 3, 1990, with Mr. Big, May 23, 1992, with Primus and April 5, 1994

* Rush-November 19 – 21, 1982, with Rory Gallagher, June 29 – 30, 1984, with Gary Moore, March 21 – 22, 1986, with Marillion, February 25 – 26, 1988, with Tommy Shaw, November 1, 1991, with Eric Johnson and March 29 – 30, 1994, with Primus

Primus was formed in 1984 by singer and bassist Les Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth.

* Rush-February 10, 1980, with Max Webster, October 17, 1982, with Rory Gallagher, June 15, 1984, with Gary Moore, May 2, 1986, with Blue Öyster Cult and May 24, 1992, with Primus

In 1984, the Primus stove was depicted on a Swedish stamp, commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Swedish patent system.

The terms of resignation had actually been agreed upon with Marcus Antonius Primus, the commander of the sixth legion serving in Pannonia and one of Vespasian ’ s chief supporters, but the praetorians refused to allow him to carry out the agreement, and forced him to return to the palace, when he was on his way to deposit the insignia of empire in the Temple of Concord.

In his bid for imperial power, Vespasian joined forces with Mucianus, the governor of Syria, and Primus, a general in Pannonia.

Right after their album's release, the band went on tour with Primus and Buckethead, a tour which lasted for the remainder of the year.

LaLonde was a founding member of death metal pioneers Possessed, who toured with Metallica before joining Claypool in Primus, and Claypool auditioned to join Metallica ; however Claypool was turned down because his style was too funky for Metallica.

* Jim Martin has guest appeared on albums including Antipop by Primus, Metallica's 1998 release Garage Inc. and performed with several other musicians on their cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Tuesday's Gone ", as well as releasing a solo album entitled Milk and Blood in 1996.

Finally, the band ended their tour with two dates in Santiago de Chile, the first as a part of the closure of the 2010 edition of the Chilean Telethon on December 4, the former being the next day at La Florida, Santiago with Primus and Monotonix.

After rising to local music scene stardom with their brand of funk metal fusion, reaching the point where they were " selling out Berkeley Square ", Wright left Primus in the summer of 1988 to be replaced by Jay Lane, drummer with the Freaky Executives, who were " getting dicked around by their record company ", as Claypool later described it.

After recording another demo, titled Sausage, Lane left Primus at the end of 1988 when " something good happened " with the Freaky Executives ' record deal.

Claypool recruited LaLonde to reform Primus together with Tim " Herb " Alexander, drummer with the Arizona-based group Major Lingo, and a month later, the trio recorded their first album: Suck On This, a live recording culled from two of their Berkeley concerts, funded by a loan from Claypool's father.

With a music video featuring Kirk Hammett, a studio album and a tour with Jane's Addiction, Primus ' popularity grew to the point where they attracted attention from Interscope Records, who signed them in 1990.

After the release of Sailing the Seas of Cheese, in 1992 Primus released a cover song EP Miscellaneous Debris, with their version of XTC's " Making Plans for Nigel " receiving enough airplay to reach No. 30 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The album was darker than previous Primus efforts, dealing with murder, suicide, and alienation.

Primus also later contributed to the Chef Aid album with the song " Mephisto and Kevin ".

The band went on hiatus, with Claypool later stating: " The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp.

In late 2003, Primus reunited with Tim Alexander on drums to record a five track EP.

A May 10, 2006 article in IGN revealed that Primus had signed on with RedOctane to allow the master recording of John the Fisherman to be used in Guitar Hero 2, a game for the PlayStation 2 and.

During this time the configuration experienced a renaissance of sorts with groups such as Nirvana, Silverchair, Meat Puppets, Violent Femmes, Babes in Toyland, Primus, Hüsker Dü ( and spin off bands Nova Mob and Sugar ), Walt Mink, the Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Melvins, Fudge Tunnel, Galaxie 500, DC3, Nomeansno, The Presidents of the United States of America, Low, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Killdozer, Cosmic Psychos, Therapy ?, Placebo, Jawbreaker, Bratmobile, Sleater-Kinney, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, Gov't Mule, Morphine ( bass, sax and drums ) and Ben Folds Five ( piano, bass and drums ).

Singer-songwriter Tom Waits, a Beat fan, wrote " Jack and Neal " about Kerouac and Cassady, and recorded " On the Road " ( a song written by Kerouac after finishing the novel ) with Primus.

A benefit concert to help with Norwood's legal expenses featured Porno for Pyros, Primus, Tool, and Alice in Chains.

" Faith No More mixed funk metal with experimental rockPrimus ( band ) | Primus frontman Les Claypool Certain bands not from an alternative background, such as Bang Tango and Extreme, have also frequently incorporated funk into their musical style.