Sausage was a short-lived alternative/funk rock band featuring a reunion of the 1988 lineup of the San Francisco Bay Area band Primus. They released the album Riddles Are Abound Tonight in April 1994 through the Interscope Records imprint Prawn Song Records.
Sausage reunited on December 31, 2019 to perform for the first time in 25 years.
History
Primus
Primus was formed in 1984 by singer and bassist Les Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth. At this time, Jay Lane was playing with The Uptones, and later the Freaky Executives, for whom Claypool acted as a roadie.
After recording a demo together, which they titled Sausage, Lane left Primus at the end of 1988 when "something good happened" with the Freaky Executives' record deal.
In his review for AllMusic, Bret Love compared the album to Primus' output favourably in some respects, describing Sausage as "a tighter, more focused groove machine" with a "more accessible sound", but also noted that the lack of "instrumental virtuosity, strange time signatures, and almost constant left-field changes" would likely leave Primus fans generally unsatisfied. Claypool, on the other hand, said "I just thought it would look cool... like a giant penis, and we were the blue sperm."
Band members
- Les Claypool – bass, vocals
- Todd Huth – guitar, vocals
- Jay Lane – drums