What better way to ring in the New Year than with hometown band Primus' sold out New Year's Eve show at the Great American Music Hall?  The band, fronted by legendary basssist Les Claypool has just released their first album in eight years, Green Naughahyde and have been winning back old fans and making new ones in the record's aftermath. Primus has been described variously as alternative metal, funk and progressive rock while Les Claypool himself once described their sound as psychedelic polka. One thing is for sure, they have carved out a unique niche that defies classification and cuts over, under, around and through modern mainstream music genres in their daringly irreverent 20+ year career.

Begin your New year's Eve build-up with a total Primus immersion in the pages of To Defy The Laws of Tradition—A Photographic Archive of Primus and Les Claypool.  Chart the evolution of Les Claypool and the many incarnations of this mercurial, iconic band with this 184-page, hard-cover book featuring over 750 photographs culled from rock photographer, extraordinaire, Jay Blakesberg's 10,000+ image archive of Primus, Holy Mackerel, Sausage, Oysterhead, and Frog Brigade photos. 

Les Claypool and others contribute essays to this one of a kind, limited edition, numbered, collector's item. 

"To Defy The Laws of Tradition”— is signed and numbered by Les Claypool and the author/photographer, Jay Blakesberg and comes in a special hand-made box. This is a one-time-only printing! An instant collector's item and must have for any serious music lover.