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 | |
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| 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 considered by many critics and fans to be among Primus's most musically creative songs to date. The song is dominated by Larry LaLonde's guitar playing and a repeating bass line by Les Claypool. The song is nearly 6 and a half minutes long, as jamming dominates the end of the song.
The song is actually a protest song against poaching in Africa, the band specifically addresses pachyderms as they seem to be more "common targets" for poachers.
[edit] Music Video
The song was released as the second single of the bands aforementioned Tales From the Punchbowl album. The music video featured poachers trying to hunt down elephants that were being protected by a group of people, in the end the elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotomuses, (The elephants have separate airplane-like wings on their backs, the rhinos have helicopter propellers on their backs, and the hippos pile into a dirigible) escaped. Primus themselves only appeared a few times in the video, on the poacher's TV set. It was the band's first fully claymated video and would open the door for future Primus videos to use claymation.
The song was played in the 1996 Motocross Video Terrafirma III, which featured many of today's star riders at an amateur level
