Primus is out there for a brand new drummer … as a result of Tim Alexander abruptly stop the exhausting rock group … informing his bandmates through digital communications.
The band introduced Tuesday that Tim stop Primus “effective immediately” … after firing off an e-mail to founding members Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde.
Primus says they had been blindsided when Tim determined to stop … and, the band says he went radio silent after dropping out, apart from one response the place he advised them he had “lost his passion for playing.”
Tim joined Primus manner again in 1989 … although he took a 7-year hiatus in 1996 earlier than returning.
The band’s greatest hit was the 1993 traditional “My Name is Mud” … and Primus recorded the OG theme track for “South Park.”
Les and Larry say they’re dissatisfied to lose Tim however they respect his alternative … and, the band says it is nonetheless planning to take the stage Dec. 31 for a New 12 months’s Eve gig on the Fox Theater in Oakland, with out Tim after all.
Tim had open coronary heart surgical procedure again in 2014 … but it surely would not sound like well being is a consider his departure.
