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Southbound Pachyderm
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| "Southbound Pachyderm" | ||
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| Single by Primus | ||
| from the album Tales from the Punchbowl | ||
| Released | 1995 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock Funk metal Alternative Metal |
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| Length | 6:22 | |
| Label | Interscope Records | |
| Writer(s) | Claypool/LaLonde/Alexander | |
| Producer(s) | Primus | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Primus singles chronology | ||
| Mrs. Blaileen 1995 |
Southbound Pachyderm 1995 |
Shake Hands With Beef 1997 |
Southbound Pachyderm was a track off of the Primus album Tales from the Punchbowl. The song is dominated by Larry LaLonde's guitar playing and a repeating bass line by Les Claypool. The song is over 6 minutes long, as instrumental jamming dominates the end of it.
The song is actually a protest song against poaching in Africa, the band specifically addressing pachyderms, as they seem to be more "common targets" for poachers. It is also a direct reference to the 1977 album Animals by one of Primus' main influences, Pink Floyd.
The song was released as the second single of the Punchbowl album. The music video featured poachers trying to hunt down elephants that were being protected by a group of natives. In the end the elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotomuses escaped. (The elephants had separate airplane-like wings on their backs, the rhinos had helicopter propellers on their backs, and the hippos piled into a dirigible.) Primus themselves only appeared a few times in the video, on the poacher's TV set. It was the band's first fully-Claymation video of several to come.