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My Name Is Mud
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = My Name Is Mud
| cover = Primus mud single.png
| alt = The cover art for the "My Name Is Mud" promo CD single. It is a simple blank cover that reads: "My Name Is Mud Primus".
| type = single
| artist = Primus
| album = Pork Soda
| released = 1993
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Funk metal, funk rock, alternative metal
| length = 4:46
| label = Interscope
| writer =
| producer = Primus
| prev_title = Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = DMV
| next_year = 1993
| misc =
}}
"'My Name Is Mud'" is a song by the American rock band Primus, released in 1993 as the first single from their third album 'Pork Soda'. In 2010, Primus released a new version of the track sung entirely in Spanish under the title "Me Llamo Mud".
Composition and recording
In the book 'Primus: Over the Electric Grapevine', when discussing "My Name Is Mud", bassist Les Claypool explained that "the whole notion of the ... song is basically about a couple of tweekers"one of whom is the titular Mud"who are hanging out, and they get in a fight over something stupid, and one of them kills the other one. Kind of a 'Rivers Edge'type vibe."Prato (2014), pp. 16364.
"My Name Is Mud" (like the rest of 'Pork Soda') was recorded in the band's rehearsal space, which was a series of UltraSound Audio-owned warehouses located in San Rafael. According to Claypool: "We ended up taking over three [of UltraSound's] spaceswe stuck [guitarist Larry LaLonde] in one, [drummer Tim Alexander] in one, and me in another. And we set up video cameras, so we could see each other. And we tracked 'Pork Soda' through a Gamble console, which is our live console, onto
Music video
The music video for "My Name Is Mud" was directed by Mark Kohr (who would also helm the videos for two other Primus singles: "DMV" and "Mr. Krinkle").Thompson (2000), p. 93. According to Les Claypool, the video is composed of three distinct visual threads: The first is the band performing the song in silhouette. The second is Claypool, in character as Mud, burying a dead body while spitting chewing tobacco and singing at the camera. The third is set in a spa "where ... beauty is voluptuous. Where big people are beauty, and skinny people are not."Prato (2014), p. 164.
The outdoor scenes were filmed around the Palo Alto area, near Interstate 280. During the first day of shooting, the band was caught in a massive rainstorm. "We ended up having to actually bag it," Claypool later noted, "which was a big deal ... scrapping the day almost killed the entire thing. It was freezing-ass cold, and the generator kept dying because somebody put diesel into a gas generator." Larry LaLonde noted something similar: "I remember it being super cold and raining [when we filmed the outdoor scenes]just standing on the field, freezing to death. That was a tough one to make. It was pretty uncomfortable."Prato (2014), p. 163. The mud bath scenes were shot in Calistoga, California, and the graphic designer and musician Bob C. Cock cameos in this portion of the video.
Woodstock '94 performance
During Primus's Woodstock '94 performance of "My Name Is Mud", the band was pelted with mud, which band drummer Tim Alexander noted was done "not in a mean way, but kind of a rock n roll way." About a minute into the song, the band stopped playing and Les Claypool told the crowd, "Well I opened a big-ass can of worms with that one, didn't I? The song is called 'My Name Is Mud' but keep the mud to yourselves, you son-of-a-bitch." He also told them that throwing mud was a "sign of small and insignificant genitalia". At that point "we got them to stop," Claypool explained in a 2014 interview with Greg Prato, "and we were able to continue and do our show." In the same interview, Claypool joked that he "still [has] mud in those speaker cabinets."Prato (2014), p. 186.
Track listing
#"Pork Chop's Little Ditty" 0:21
#"My Name Is Mud" 4:46
Personnel
*Les Claypool vocals, bass
*Larry LaLonde guitar
*Tim Alexander drums
"Me Llamo Mud"
Personnel
*Les Claypool vocals, bass*Larry LaLonde guitar
*Jay Lane drums
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Category:Primus (band) songs
Category:1993 singles
Category:2010 singles
Category:1993 songs
Category:Songs written by Les Claypool
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Category:Murder ballads
Category:Songs about crime
Category:Interscope Records singles
Category:Spanish-language songs
Category:Funk rock songs
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