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"My Name Is Mud" is a song by American
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band Primus. It was released in 1993 as the first single from their third studio album ''
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''. In 2010, Primus released a new version of the track sung entirely in Spanish under the title "Me Llamo Mud".


Composition and recording

In the book ''Primus: Over the Electric Grapevine'', when discussing "My Name Is Mud", bassist
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explained that "the whole notion of the ... song is basically about a couple of tweekers"—one of whom is the titular Mud—"who are hanging out, and they get in a fight over something stupid, and one of them kills the other one. Kind of a ''
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''–type vibe."Prato (2014), pp. 163–64. "My Name Is Mud" (like the rest of ''Pork Soda'') was recorded in the band's rehearsal space, which was a series of UltraSound Audio-owned warehouses located in San Rafael. According to Claypool: "We ended up taking over three f UltraSound'sspaces—we stuck uitarist Larry LaLondein one,
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in one, and me in another. And we set up video cameras, so we could see each other. And we tracked ''Pork Soda'' through a Gamble console, which is our live console, onto /nowiki>Alesis Digital Audio Tape (ADAT)">Alesis_Digital_Audio_Tape.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Alesis Digital Audio Tape">/nowiki>Alesis Digital Audio Tape (ADAT)/nowiki>. It was one of the first ADAT records." "My Name Is Mud" was produced by the band themselves.


Music video

The music video for "My Name Is Mud" was directed by Mark Kohr (who would also helm the videos for two other Primus singles: " DMV" and "Mr. Krinkle">DMV (song)">DMV" and "Mr. Krinkle"). According to Les Claypool, the video is composed of three distinct visual threads: The first is the band performing the song in silhouette. The second is Claypool, in character as Aloysius Devadander Abercrombie A.K.A. Mud, burying a dead body while spitting chewing tobacco and singing at the camera. The third is set in a spa "where ... beauty is voluptuous. Where big people are beauty, and skinny people are not."Prato (2014), p. 164. According to Claypool, the video is partly a homage to
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's work. The outdoor scenes were filmed around the
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area, near Interstate 280. During the first day of shooting, the band was caught in a massive rainstorm. "We ended up having to actually bag it," Claypool later noted, "which was a big deal ... scrapping the day almost killed the entire thing. It was freezing-ass cold, and the generator kept dying because somebody put diesel into a gas generator." Larry LaLonde noted something similar: "I remember it being super cold and raining hen we filmed the outdoor scenes€”just standing on the field, freezing to death. That was a tough one to make. It was pretty uncomfortable." The mud bath scenes were shot in
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, and the graphic designer and musician Bob C. Cock (who also appears in the music video for "
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") cameos in this portion of the video, where he drinks soda containing the pig head from the cover.


Woodstock '94 performance

During Primus's
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performance of "My Name Is Mud", the band was pelted with mud, which band drummer Tim Alexander noted was done "not in a mean way, but kind of a
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way." About a minute into the song, the band stopped playing and Les Claypool told the crowd, "Well I opened a big-ass can of worms with that one, didn't I? The song is called 'My Name Is Mud' but keep the mud to yourselves, you son-of-a-bitch." He also told them that throwing mud was a "sign of small and insignificant genitalia". At that point "we got them to stop," Claypool explained in a 2014 interview with Greg Prato, "and we were able to continue and do our show." In the same interview, Claypool joked that he "still asmud in those speaker cabinets."Prato (2014), p. 186.


Track listing

# "Pork Chop's Little Ditty" – 0:21 # "My Name Is Mud" – 4:46


Personnel

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Les Claypool Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American rock music, rock musician. He is the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the band Primus (band), Primus. Listed as one of the greatest bassists of all time by ...
– vocals, bass guitar *
Larry LaLonde Reid Laurence "Larry" LaLonde (born September 12, 1968), also known as Ler LaLonde, is an American musician. He has been the guitarist for the rock band Primus since 1989, where he is known for his experimental accompaniment to the bass playing ...
– guitar *
Tim Alexander Timothy Wayne Alexander (born April 10, 1965), also credited as "Herb" Alexander, is an American retired musician best known as the drummer for the rock band Primus. Prior to Primus, Alexander was the drummer for Arizona's Major Lingo from ...
– drums


"Me Llamo Mud"


Personnel

*
Les Claypool Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American rock music, rock musician. He is the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the band Primus (band), Primus. Listed as one of the greatest bassists of all time by ...
– vocals, bass *
Larry LaLonde Reid Laurence "Larry" LaLonde (born September 12, 1968), also known as Ler LaLonde, is an American musician. He has been the guitarist for the rock band Primus since 1989, where he is known for his experimental accompaniment to the bass playing ...
– guitar *
Jay Lane Jay Lane (born December 5, 1964) is an American musician. He is a founding member of Bob Weir's RatDog, with Weir and Rob Wasserman, Wolf Bros, Furthur, Golden Gate Wingmen, Dead & Company and Alphabet Soup. He was the 5th and then later the 8 ...
– drums


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