| 词条 | Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers |
| 释义 |
| name = Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Primus | album = Sailing the Seas of Cheese | released = 1991 | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Alternative metal, funk metal | length = 5:19 | label = Interscope | writer = Les Claypool/Larry LaLonde/Tim Alexander | producer = Primus | prev_title = Tommy the Cat | prev_year = 1991 | next_title = Making Plans for Nigel | next_year = 1992 }} "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers" is a song by the American rock band Primus. It was released as the third single from their 1991 album Sailing the Seas of Cheese. Unlike its preceding singles "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" and "Tommy the Cat", "Tweekers" did not feature an accompanying video. The song opens with Larry LaLonde on guitar and a reserved bassline from Les Claypool, from there alternating between his trademark slap bass and a quiet section for the vocals. The song's narrative describes several different trades that the town's blue collar tweekers engage in, but, like many of the other story-telling songs in Primus's catalogue, lacks any clear, single meaning and leaves plenty of ambiguity in its lyrics. The song is about truck drivers and "blue-collar workers" using methamphetamines. {{quotation|I was born in a suburb by the East Bay, a rural, almost redneck environment. I grew up on the blue-collar side of town. My father was a mechanic, both my uncles are mechanics, my grandfather was a mechanic. That song is not derogatory at all. It’s very much me. A tweaker is someone who is strung out on methyl amphetamines, otherwise known as crank. There’s a reference in there to a guy who hung Sheetrock, and that’s how he got through the day. He’d snort up speed to keep up with the younger guys.|Les Claypool[1]}}The band's Woodstock 1994 performance of the song was particularly notable, with Claypool beginning a bass rendition of the Star Spangled Banner in homage to Jimi Hendrix's guitar performance of the national anthem decades before, but eventually apologizing to the crowd by saying "Sorry, I had to do it" and returning to the song. As of 2015, it is Primus's second most-performed song live. A live version of the song (performed at Primus' show at the Brixton Academy, London, England on July 13, 2011) also appears as an iTunes exclusive bonus track on the band's 2011 album, Green Naugahyde. When played live, they often use animated clips from the online animated series Salad Fingers. References1. ^{{cite web |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |title=Q&A: Les Claypool of Primus |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/qa-les-claypool-of-primus-94054/ |website=Rolling Stone |accessdate=7 February 2019}} External links
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