“Everybody wanted to be Eddie Van Halen,” the Primus bass player and frontman tells Rick Beato. So, his looking to the low-end of the scale made perfect sense — all these guitar players would need a bassist for the bands they started. At the same time, like Van Halen, Claypool set out to do things with his bass guitar that others had not. “My style in Primus evolved from me consciously trying to play bass and rhythm guitar at the same time,” he explains. “Primus was all about doing something that nobody had ever heard before, and the guitar players I used were textural players.