John the Fisherman - Primus - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Long before they poured their unique genius into creating the now-iconic theme tune for South Park, Primus had been lighting up America's alternative scene with a string of humour-spiced, funk metal-channelling albums, which began with their 1990 debut for Caroline Records, Frizzle Fry. Produced by the band and Matt Winegar, and recorded at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco in December 1989, the album cover depicted a B-movie scene that showed a garish sculpture of a head sizzling in a frying pan, and referenced the memorable "this is your brain on drugs" public service announcements of the '80s. "John the Fisherman" is the sixth track on the album and reels in a tightly wound rock fable about a fisherman and a boating accident, which was inspired by a real-life incident on the water. "John the Fisherman" was the first part of a four-part story called the "Fisherman's Chronicles", which the band explored on later albums, from sequel "Fish On (Fisherman Chronicles, Chapter II)" on 1991's Sailing the Seas of Cheese to "Last Salmon Man" on 2011's Green Naugahyde.