Watch Bill Burr Perform ‘Too Many Puppies’ With Primus & Tool Members

Comedian Bill Burr shared his experience performing ‘Too Many Puppies’ with Primus and Tool last week.

Bill Burr continues to live out our dreams.

Last Wednesday at Primus’ show on August 6 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the comedian and actor joined the band on-stage to share drumming duties during their 1990 song ‘Too Many Puppies’.

The comedian would share the stage with Primus and Tool‘s bassist Justin Chancellor.

You can watch a video of the performance below:

Burr and Chancellor weren’t the only guests of the night. Tool drummer Danny Carey would return to the stage with Primus after filling in for them earlier this year. Carey would perform their Pork Soda single ‘My Name Is Mud’, with the band. Ty Segall, MonoNeon and South Park co-creator Matt Stone would also join the band on stage throughout the night.

The comedian and actor shared on the August 7 episode of his podcast, Monday Morning Podcast, about his experience, referencing his nostalgia about growing up playing their songs with his brother.

“…I got to sit in on ‘Too Many Puppies’. And I can’t even… you know, I’m at the Greek, and me and my brothers, we used to jam way back in the day. We used to try and play the few songs that [Primus] had where Les was sort of playing a bassline that my brother could keep up with,” the comedian shared.

“And then, oh, by the way, Justin Chancellor from Tool was playing bass also, and then fucking Guitar Centre me was up there. But I was psyched. I fucked up some of the changes. 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 ripe for that roast.”

Burr would then reveal that he had some technical difficulties during the performance.

“I had in-ears – which I never used – and they were working of course, until I sat down, and then they weren’t,” the comedian revealed.

“I could still hear the band, but I was just going, ‘What the fuck?’ So I messed up a couple of changes. But in the end, those 16th note triplets — there’s like four fills. I played the first and the third, and John [Hoffman] murdered the second and the fourth. But I did the 16th note triple thing, then just played, like a quad thing. You know, I stayed in my wheelhouse.”

Burr would also reveal his wife, Nia Renee Hil,l was in the crowd, who admittedly had no experience listening to the band.

“…My favourite part was when I went out to the crowd after, and I went with my lovely wife, and she didn’t know anything about Primus. And as we were walking in, running into people, ‘Hey, man,’ ‘How you doing?’ And she was trying to get a read on what a Primus fan is.”

“So when I went out to the crowd and I sat 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 funky.’ I go, it’s kind of like Rush meets conspiracy theory meets, like Bootsy Collins. I don’t know how to like describe it, but it’s fucking awesome.”

“And the end of the concert, when I saw my wife chanting ‘Primus sucks’, I was telling Les afterwards, I go, ‘That was the music equivalent of if my wife actually sat down and watched a sporting event with me and high-fived me in the end’”.

You can listen to his full response below.