Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers

Infobox Single
Name = Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers


Artist = Primus
from Album = Sailing the Seas of Cheese
B-side =
Released = 1991
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock Funk metal Alternative metal
Length = 5:19
Label = Interscope Records
Writer = Claypool/LaLonde/Alexander
Producer = Primus
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = Tommy the Cat 1991
This single = Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers 1992
Next single = Making Plans For Nigel 1992
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"Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers" is the third single off Primus's 1991 album "Sailing the Seas of Cheese". Unlike its preceding singles "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver" and "Tommy the Cat," "Those...Tweekers" did not feature an accompanying video. The song opens with Larry LaLonde on guitar and a reserved bassline from Les Claypool, from there alternating between his trademark slap bass and a quiet section for the vocals.

The song's narrative describes several different trades that the town's blue collar tweekers engage in, but, like many of the other story-telling songs in Primus's catalogue, lacks any clear, single meaning and leaves plenty of ambiguity in its lyrics. However, many have speculated the song is about truck drivers and "blue-collar workers" using methamphetamines.

The band's Woodstock 1994 performance of the song was particularly notable, with Claypool beginning a bass rendition of the Star Spangled Banner in homage to Jimi Hendrix's guitar performance of the national anthem decades before, but eventually apologizing to the crowd by saying "Sorry, I had to do it" and returning to the song.