And, naturally, he realized that it was dangerous waters to swim in the wake of Gene Wilder, who portrays Willy Wonka in the original film. Of course, Claypool realized that it was risky business to adapt a cinematic classic that is so close to so many people’s hearts. And, in light of the record business being gutted by the internet, we’ve made some PRIMUS brand chocolate bars to peddle as well.” “We’re going to do some touring with it and we put together this pretty abstract stage production,” says Claypool, “We’re going to take it out there, around the planet, and see what happens. With the album drop scheduled for October 21, Primus plans to tour the Chocolate Factory beginning the very next day. “The notion wasn’t so much to go in and redo the soundtrack note for note as much as it was to utilize the classic elements of the music yet try to reflect some of the darker undertones of the Roald Dahl books, because when you read those books, there is an eerie and somewhat menacing aspect implied.” “The recording is about my early perception of the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film,” says Claypool. “It just seemed like the perfect project to take on, in part because those tunes are all so strong.”
“The thought was that I wanted to take on some kind of sacred cow, and the whole Wonka thing was a massive part of my childhood,” Claypool explains. “Hell, I’ve been doing the line from the boat ride on stage since the ‘80’s,” then Les sings, ”There’s no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going…” Claypool admits that he’s always, “in some way, wanted to be Willy Wonka,” and, also, that he’s always wanted to work a cover of “The Candyman” - a memorable number from the film’s soundtrack - into Primus sets. It felt so good, in fact, that he decided to take Primus into the studio to prepare the soundtrack for an album release. Listen to classic track “ Pure Imagination” re-imagined, which just premiered on Rolling Stone. And as opposed to just going in and recording the songs and playing them the way they are in the film, we twisted them up a bit…twisted them up a lot." I really wanted to pay homage to a film that was very important to me as a kid and very influential to me musically. I think like a good portion of the planet, we were all pretty put off by the remake of the 'Willy Wonka' movie - the Tim Burton version. "The idea was to combine the Frog Brigade and Primus, and do this record,’ says Claypool. The definitive Primus line-up – Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander - is back together and set to release their first full-length studio set in nearly 20 years, 'Primus & the Chocolate Factory,’ due out on ATO Records on October 21.
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