Shake Hands with Beef

"Shake Hands With Beef" is a song by the American rock band Primus. It was released on their fifth album Brown Album (1997). The song was also released as the first single from the album.

"Shake Hands with Beef"
Single by Primus
from the album Brown Album
Released1997
Length4:02
LabelInterscope
Songwriter(s)Les Claypool, Larry LaLonde, Bryan Mantia
Producer(s)Primus
Primus singles chronology
"Southbound Pachyderm"
(1995)		 "Shake Hands with Beef"
(1997)		 "Over the Falls"
(1997)

Music video

The video, directed by Les Claypool, features him, Larry LaLonde, and new drummer Bryan Mantia dressed in orange and brown playing atop a garbage can, while a family grills up a dinner of hamburgers in front of their trailer home. At certain points, Claypool and LaLonde grow insect wings and buzz around the barbecue, only to get swatted at by the family members, eventually flying into a bug zapper.

The video was recorded at a slower pace and sped up, making the band members appear to be making strange, jerky motions reminiscent of flies.[1]

Other versions

The song was performed live for the first time with Bryan "Brain" Mantia on drums on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 1997. An extended version of this song appears on Primus' "Best Of" album, They Can't All Be Zingers.

Reception

AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose "Shake Hands with Beef" as one of the 3 highlights on the album, writing that the song "has a reasonably amusing adolescent lyric, but the real attraction of the song is how its thunderous bass riff weaves in and out with the syncopated drums and avant guitar".[2]

References
  1. Primus; Prato, Greg (2014-09-16). Primus, over the Electric Grapevine: Insight into Primus and the World of les Claypool. ISBN 9781617753305.
  2. "The Brown Album - Primus | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
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