Primus – Tales From The Punchbowl

This was his main guitar from 1989-1992 and he still occasionally used it for studio sessions during Pork Soda and Tales From the Punchbowl. He can be seen using it in the majority of live peformances at that time. However, his has a maple neck instead of the rosewood in the image provided. He no longer brings it out on tour because he is afraid of it getting broken or stolen.

Larry used PRS Custom 24's from mid-1992 to 2000. He used a Green Custom 24 in '92 and then in '93, he switched to a Vintage Yellow Maple Top Custom 24 for his primary guitar and then a Walnut Custom 24 for his backup guitar. He broke the neck in 2000 at a show in Kalamazoo, Michigan and when it was replaced, he lost Paul Reed Smith's signature on the back of the original neck. He brought it back during the 2015 New Years show and in 2017 for songs from Pork Soda and Tales From The Punchbowl.

Used on Tales From the Punchbowl and Brown Album, as stated in two interviews archived on the fansite Jim Wade's Sucky Primus Page.

"CyberFunk: Primus go multimedia on their juicy new album, TALES FROM THE PUNCHBOWL"

And then I have piles and piles of effects, too many to name. I'd just start plugging and unplugging things. My main sound was an Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes, going through that Boogie, or sometimes through an old Ampeg Portaflex. The super-distorted, crazy stuff is usually the Boss Metal Zone pedal with the wacky EQ in it. I used some harmonizer on "Professor Nutbutter," as well...I hope you're going to edit this to make it look like I know what I am talking about.

"A New Kind of 'Brown Sound'"

Les thumped and plucked his treasured Carl Thompson 6-string fretted and fretless basses, which he tunes BEADGC . On “Over the Falls” he used “an old no-name electric upright that sound amazing.” He also plugged in an Italian-made, Hofner-style Eko. “I’d always wanted an Hofner,” says Les, “but the Eko just smokes the Hofner--and it cost $250! It has a real nice percussive attack.” His amp? A small solid-state Gallien-Krueger, which he would occasionally sweaten [sic] with a Hot Tubes, a Systech Harmonic Energizer and the tremolo filter on his ADA preamp.

Larry used this during Tales From the Punchbowl for heavy distortion.

He used this during the recording sessions for Tales From the Punchbowl.

He used or at least had an Octave Multiplexer in the studio during the recording sessions for Tales from the Punchbowl and Pork Soda.

He switched over from JCM 800's to JCM 900's in 1993 and continued using them until Primus' hiatus in 2000. They were his main amps during during the Pork Soda and Punchbowl-era, but in 1997, he began to use them with other amps.