C2B3: Claypool, Buckethead, Bernie Worrell, Brain. Live they famously did not rehearse. In the studio they wrote actual songs — Funkadelic sci-fi with a sitar cameo from Gabby La La.
If Primus ever felt too verse-chorus, this is the experimental lane at full volume. If it feels like too many geniuses in a room, Of Whales and Woe is the palate cleanser.