Primus Announce 3D Tour Dates

Primus is excited to announce a unique 3D tour this fall, featuring two sets per evening. Being that this is the first-ever traveling 3D enhanced live musical performance, this groundbreaking tour is sure to provide a one-of-a-kind psychedelic experience, further enhanced by the fact that every show will also feature Quad Surround Sound.

Tour Dates:

Fri-Oct-12 Poughkeepsie, NY Mid Hudson Civic Center
Sat-Oct-13 Burlington, VT Memorial Auditorium
Mon-Oct-15 Washington, DC The Fillmore
Tue-Oct-16 Wilkes Barre, PA Kirby Center
Wed-Oct-17 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theater
Fri-Oct-19 New York NY Hammerstein
Sat-Oct-20 Boston, MA Orpheum Theater
Sun-Oct-21 Providence, RI Veterans Memorial Aud
Tue-Oct-23 Niagra Falls, NY Rapids Theater
Wed-Oct-24 Detroit, MI Fillmore
Fri-Oct-26 Asheville, NC Moogfest
Sat-Oct-27 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theater
Sun-Oct-28 St Louis, MO Peabody Opera House
Tue-Oct-30 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theater
Wed-Oct-31 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
Fri-Nov-02 Kansas City, MO Uptown
Sat-Nov-03 Denver, CO The Fillmore
Sun-Nov-04 Wichita, KS Cotillion Ballroom
Mon-Nov-05 Dallas, TX McFarlin
Wed-Nov-07 Austin, TX Bass Hall
Fri-Nov-09 Orlando, FL The Hard Rock
Sat-Nov-10 Miami, FL Fillmore

In other Primus news...

[theprp.com] Band vocalist/bassist Les Claypool recently revealed what fans can expect from the trek to Billboard.com.

According to the article, attendees will be issued 3D goggles upon admittance to the venues. The group will take advantage of this through a wealth of new 3D imagery created explicitly for the tour—something that will apparently help accentuate their improv jams in particular.

“Quad Surround Sound” technology will also be utilized at each stop of the tour, which will find the band performing two sets per night. Despite the increased production scale, the performances will not be canned. On that, Claypool stated:

“Every show will be different. Different environments, as far as venues, are going to lend themselves to different experiences, depending on where you are and whatnot in the crowd. It’s very heady. People that are going to be moshing around probably won’t get any of this, but the heads will get it.”

The technology itself was developed by 3D Live with the initial leg of dates announced thus far serving as a test run for a possible future tour. Meanwhile, Claypool also revealed that a 5.1 surround sound reissue of the groups 1991 offering “Sailing The Seas of Cheese” will arrive sometime this fall.

When pressed about new material from the band however, he offered:

“We haven’t really been working on anything new at this point. We haven’t even really been talking about it. We’ve still been kind of hammering away at this record. It’s been a very pleasant record to play. It flows really well, so it’s been a good one to hammer away on. I doubt we’ll take as long (to make the next album) but we’re not on the 18-month schedule.”