![]() They were playing at the Palace in Hollywood and one of the opening bands was Uniform Choice. I hadn’t heard anything about the punk scene or any of the bands I had played with until 1989 when I was hanging out with a band called “the Shrinky Dinx” who later became Sugar Ray. They are on their third drummer, third vocalist, fourth or fifth bassist (Shane is the longest serving current member) and fourth guitarist. Other fun fact: Napalm Death is the only band where, not only are none of the original members left, but none of the members who replaced the original members are left in the band. He and Les Claypool were also in this band called Blind Illusion for a while and recorded an album with that band right about the same time Primus first came out. He was asked to join because the previous guitarist basically sucked, if you listen to the early Possessed demo, the lead guitar is just sloppy random high notes, something pretty much any beginner guitarist could pull off, whereas even as a 15 year old, Larry was already a much more talented musician. Of course, he was only 15(!) when he joined Possessed a lot of people probably didn't realize that. ![]() I remember thinking it was odd that Lalonde joined a band like Primus, as it was so different from Possessed. Draconian metallum how to#I believe Max basically taught him how to play, and during their live shows he was turned way down in the mix, naturally. ![]() ![]() Paulo was the classic Sid Vicious type musician story- brought into the band because he fit their image and was tight with the other members, but had next to no actual musical ability. ![]()
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