Les is truly a wonder. He’s able to be so different and weird but he’s able to make it work so well. We all need a little more Les Claypool in our lives.
“Well Les was too good…That was total bullshit, he was being nice, he thought I was a weirdo.” The most relatable thing I’ve ever heard a famous Rockstar say.
Yeah he is. Had dinner with him in Sonoma once about 6 years ago. He has a winery out there so met up through that industry when I was a winemaker. And holy shit while I’m typing this the part of the video of hiring his winemaker because he was a bass player kinda kills me. I was too intimidated to even mention I played bass (like for a job for six years). Anyway good dude. But my wine is better than his lol
I once saw someone compare Les Claypool to a praying mantis cursed with eternal knowledge. I don’t know what they meant, or what they were on when they wrote that, but I want to agree
He seems to perfectly capture that feeling of eeriness, like looking at liminal spaces. He put that into both music and video production to make you question life. That's art.
I have seen hundreds of bands live, from PinkFloyd to Metallica and everything in between. Without a doubt Primus was the best all around performance I’d ever seen in a small venue. All three guys are so talented at what they did. Amazing. PinkFloyd was amazing but it was a stadium concert and I wasn’t close enough to be involved in the antics, I was just watching from hundreds of feet away in the nose-bleeds.
People underestimate how hard it is to play dissonant nonsense. It's like trying to pee your pants. It requires a surprising amount of effort. Larry Lalonde deserves a ton of credit for working well with Les.
I’m not sure if you’ve heard of their stuff together, but definitely check out The Claypool Lennon Delirium! They have some cool stuff they’ve made together. Kinda like a Primus feel with some Beatles-esque vocals.
My cousin was at a Primus concert one time, and he told me Les said something during the set along the lines of "Women who smoke cigarettes have pu**ies that taste like beef jerky." If anyone knows of footage where Les says this, please let me know.
I met Les behind the Newport in Columbus Ohio. Very nice guy and he happily signed everything. Except a bootleg t shirt the guy pretended not to know was bootleg. Lol.
Love this video! I had the Blind Illusion album in high school and started following Primus shortly after that. Musically gifted and a great dude in general.
Still one of the best live performances of Wynona ever captured and they fucked up the audio feed, I still can't believe it. What we're hearing is actually Ler's monitor mix, that's what he's hearing in his fold-back monitors. It got routed to the broadcast in place of the master stereo, that's why we're hearing mostly guitar.
🤯 I haven't ever seen this until JUST NOW yet I asked about their favorite shoes at last year's Vegas show!! And in answer to the question at the end.... Yes make a 2nd
I was just talking to some guy in Chicago who use to tour with primus when they just had one record with four songs on it and would give it out for free out their van.
enjoyed this very much... this band is so underrated, interesting larry picked zappa as an influence, he's so much better, larry lalonde is the best guitar player no one knows about. the spaghetti western with robert trujillo was hilarious. les outs south park as "animated cray paper." big brown beaver video is epic.
