Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers

"Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers" is the third single from Primus's 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.

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.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Primus

Les Claypool Larry LaLonde Tim Alexander Todd Huth Jay Lane Bryan Mantia

Studio albums	Frizzle Fry Sailing the Seas of Cheese Pork Soda Tales from the Punchbowl Brown Album Antipop Green Naugahyde Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble

Live albums	Suck on This

Compilations	They Can't All Be Zingers

EPs	Miscellaneous Debris Rhinoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People June 2010 Rehearsal

Videos	Cheesy Home Video Videoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People Hallucino-Genetics Blame It on the Fish

Related articles	Discography Sausage (band) Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Oysterhead Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Les Claypool's Fancy Band Blind Illusion Possessed Prawn Song Records Lance Montoya

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Primus singles discography

Frizzle Fry	"John the Fisherman" "Too Many Puppies" "Mr. Knowitall"

Sailing the Seas of Cheese	"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" "Tommy the Cat" "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers"

Miscellaneous Debris	"Making Plans For Nigel"

Pork Soda	"My Name Is Mud" "DMV" "Mr. Krinkle"

Tales from the Punchbowl	"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" "Mrs. Blaileen" "Southbound Pachyderm"

Brown Album	"Shake Hands with Beef" "Over the Falls"

Rhinoplasty	"Behind My Camel"

Antipop	"Lacquer Head" "Electric Uncle Sam"

Green Naugahyde	"Tragedy's a' comin" "Lee Van Cleef"

Other	"Me Llamo Mud"

Collaborations	"N.I.B."

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