In 1993, Primus headlined the alternative rock festival Lollapalooza . They also made an appearance at the Woodstock ’94 music festival. They were pelted with mud while they performed “My Name Is Mud”. About a minute into the song the band stopped playing, and Claypool said, “Well I opened a…
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The band’s profile soared following a performance at the Lollapalooza festival in mid-1993 tour; sales of Rage Against the Machine in the United States increased from 75,000 before Lollapalooza, to 400,000 by the end of the year.
In 1993, Primus released Pork Soda , which managed to debut at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 . The album was darker than previous Primus efforts, dealing with murder, suicide, and alienation. The band has commented that prior to recording, they had been touring for nearly two solid years…
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The band’s debut album, Rage Against the Machine , was released in November 1992. The cover featured Malcolm Browne ‘s Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph of Thích Quảng Đức , a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the shooting of Buddhists by the…
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In 1992, the band went on tour with Guns N’ Roses and Soundgarden in Europe. A reason they were chosen was since Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose was a fan of Faith No More and The Real Thing , with Rose saying in 1990 that Faith No More were…
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Faith No More displayed an even more experimental effort on its next album, Angel Dust , released in June 1992. One critic wrote that the album is “one of the more complex and simply confounding records ever released by a major label” and another that the single “‘A Small Victory’,…
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After the release of Sailing the Seas of Cheese , in 1992, Primus released a cover song EP Miscellaneous Debris , with their version of XTC ‘s “Making Plans for Nigel” receiving enough airplay to reach No. 30 on Billboard ‘s Modern Rock Tracks chart.
In February 1991, Faith No More released its only official live album, Live at the Brixton Academy . The album includes two previously unreleased studio tracks, “The Grade” and “The Cowboy Song”. The same year, the band contributed the song “The Perfect Crime” to the soundtrack to Bill & Ted’s…
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Part of the tour included headlining the first Lollapalooza festival, which traveled across North America in mid-1991. The festival, created by Farrell and Marc Geiger, was to become a farewell for Jane’s Addiction, but also a showcase for other cult artists: Siouxsie and the Banshees , Nine Inch Nails ,…
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Incubus was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd , guitarist Mike Einziger , bassist Alex Katunich and drummer José Pasillas, while the members were in high school. They existed as a band for some time before they gave themselves a name, having only chosen the band’s name “Incubus” when…
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