Sausage - Riddles Are Abound Tonight - Music Video

What this video is

Released in April 1994 on Les Claypool's Prawn Song Records (a subsidiary of Interscope), this video represents a micro-moment in early-90s alternative culture when Primus-adjacent acts could briefly leverage MTV's appetite for eccentric, non-mainstream content. Sausage was the original pre-Primus lineup of Claypool, Todd Huth, and Jay Lane reunited after years apart, making this both a reunion artifact and a…

Why it matters

A canonical artifact of Bay Area funk-metal's visual identity in the early-1990s MTV era. Demonstrates how Claypool-sphere artists used music video as an extension of the same absurdist conceptual energy driving the music itself, establishing a template of high-concept low-budget surrealism that…

The director

Mark Kohr is an American music video director and cinematographer who began directing in the late 1980s and founded the San Francisco-based production company Fire Ball Films. He worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) as a lighting camera assistant.…