Name: Playing Drums with Primus & Justin Chancellor from Tool! | Bill Burr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Playing Drums with Primus & Justin Chancellor from Tool! | Bill Burr' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-08. Transcript available.

Last night, I went to the Greek theater, and I saw Primus with their new
drummer, John Hoffman,
and I got to tell you something, man. I've seen that band, I don't know how
many times,
but every time I see them, they just get better and better and better. They
were like on fire
last night. It was like face-melting stuff. I wish I took some mushrooms or
something, but
they let me sit in on one song, so I couldn't, and I knew I was going to go
early. It's not like
I'm a musician, so they're like, all right, let's get the clown out of the way
early, so it was after
three songs, but then I was kind of like, is this going to be one of these
things if I have some
mushrooms? Like, you know, thanks a lot, good night, and then boom, they hit,
and then I'm just
tripping, trying to fucking drive home. I don't want to be doing that, so, you
know, they had the
elephants jumping up and down on the trampolines and shit. It's just like, this
is the show, and the
vibe is great, but anyways, they had, I got to sit in on Too Many Puppies, and
I don't know, I can't
even, you know, I'm at the Greek, and I, me and my brothers, you know, we used
to jam way back in
the day. We used to try and play, like, the few songs that they had where, like,
Les was sort of
playing a bass line that my brother could keep up with, and, like, to just be
looking up and seeing him,
you know, and then seeing Lair looking back at me, smiling and everything, and,
and, and John was,
like, beyond cool. Oh, my God, he sounded amazing, and he had just got a brand
new, uh, orange sparkle
DW kit, and I just saw that thing. I was like, dude, that is going to look
fucking sick under the
lights, and it did. It looked like it was glowing, and then, oh, and then, oh,
by the way, Justin
Chancellor from Tool was playing bass also, and then fucking Guitar Center, me,
was up there, and,
but I was psyched, you know, I fucked up some of the changes. I, I, you know,
they kind of asked me
a couple weeks ago, and I thought for some reason it was the middle of August,
so I was just writing
for that roast, and I was like, oh, fuck, it's the next day, so I, I had my
little, my little drum
chart, and I went, and I sat down, and I put it down upside down, and then I
had in ears, which I
never used, and they were working, of course, until I sat down, and then they
weren't, but I could
still hear the band, but I was just going, like, what the fuck, um, so I messed
up a couple of changes,
but in the end, those 16th note triplets, you know, there's, like, four fills.
I played the first
and the third, and John, like, murdered the second and the fourth, but, uh, you
know, I did the 16th note
triple thing, and then just played, like, a quad thing. You know, I stayed in
my wheelhouse,
but it sounded, uh, I think I pulled it off, and, uh, but my favorite part was
when I went out to
the crowd after, and I, I went with, uh, my lovely wife, and she didn't know
anything about Primus,
and we were, like, as we were walking in, you know, I was running into people,
hey, man, what's, hey,
how you doing, you know, and she was, like, trying to get a read on what a Primus
fan is, and it,
you know, Primus fans are everywhere from, like, Grateful Dead-ish to, like, jocks
to, like,
introverts to, I mean, it's outgoing people. It's just, like, it's a, it's a
wide mass of people
that don't look like they should be together, but they do. There's, there's
some sort of through
line that you can't quite put your finger on for a Primus fan, so when I went
out to the crowd,
and I, I sat, um, with my wife, she had this look on her face, she was going,
like,
these guys are great, I like this, this is sort of, like, kind of funky, I was,
like, yeah,
like, yeah, I go, it's kind of, like, you know, it's, like, Rush meets Conspiracy
Theory
meets, like, Bootsy Colin, I don't, I don't know how to, like, describe it, but
it's fucking awesome,
and, and, like, the end of the concert, when I saw my wife chanting Primus
sucks, I was, like,
I was telling Les afterward, I go, that was the music equivalent of this, if my
wife actually sat
down and watched a sporting event with me and high-fived me in the end, so, um,
so I got to do
that, and then today, I'm sitting in with somebody else at, like, sort of, like,
a Guitar Center thing,
which is where I belong, which is cool, um, and then that's the end of my, my
three night in a row
getting outside of my comfort zone, um, and I can't tell you, they, those,
those gigs actually really
help with my stand-up, because then to actually just do what I do for a living,
you know, when I walk
on stage, it, it just feels like I'm playing t-ball, um, so there you go, there's
an old Billy life lesson
there, you know, go out in that thing that you're saying no to, not because you
don't want to do it
because you're afraid, just go, yes, that's how I started my stand-up career,
when I saw there was a
phone number, and it was for a, you know, a talent contest, find Boston's
funniest college student,
I went home, set down my f***ing backpack from college, and just picked up the
phone in my
parents' house, and called the number, because I knew if I didn't, I was going
to sit down, and that
fear was going to take over, you know, maybe in the next, the next contest, I
was just call up and do it
now, before you chicken out, and then I did it, and then it was like, that's it,
that's it, now, now the, the, the, the hourglass has been tipped over, you know,
and when that stands
out, you go on stage, and whatever the f*** happens, happens, and it doesn't f***ing
matter, it's not
about doing well, it's just about having the balls to go up there, so that's it,
give yourself permission
permission to suck, and then you're off and running, there you go, do you ever
think you'd be taking
tips from somebody who went to summer school?