Shake Hands With Beef
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| "Shake Hands With Beef" | ||
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| Single by Primus | ||
| from the album Brown Album | ||
| Released | 1997 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock Funk metal Alternative Metal |
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| Length | 4:02 | |
| Label | Interscope Records | |
| Writer(s) | Claypool/LaLonde/Mantia | |
| Producer(s) | Primus | |
| Primus singles chronology | ||
| Southbound Pachyderm 1995 |
Shake Hands With Beef 1997 |
Over the Falls 1997 |
Shake Hands With Beef is the first of two singles off the Brown Album by the band Primus.
[edit] Music Video
The video, directed by Les Claypool, features him, Ler 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.
The video was recorded at a slower pace and sped up, making the band members appear to be making strange, jerky motions.
[edit] Meanings
It has been presumed that to "shake hands with beef" is to masturbate. However, Claypool claimed that he wrote the song in an attempt to get a few laughs out of some vegetarian friends.
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.
