Legendary bassist les claypool of primus fame and his entire discography from 19882019. Les claypool super steamer hatters ball nye 20092010. Now his most famous band, primus, is announcing a handful of festival shows. However, he quickly diverted away from his familys line of work to become a musician, specifically as a bass player, beginning to play the instrument around the. The duo was originally conceived as a oneoff gig for hardly strictly bluegrass music. Les claypool talks twangifying primus and the bee gees with duo.
Ive seen primus 5 times, fancy band once and duo once but man that duo show was killer. Les claypool goes strippeddown and acoustic with an interesting array of covers and revised versions of primus and his solo songs. Well, he was born in richmond, california on september 29, 1963 into a family of auto mechanics. Les claypool biography where do we begin to tell the story of leslie edward claypool. Licensed to youtube by the orchard music, umg, ingrooves on behalf of maplemusic recordings ato records fontana north, and 4 music rights societies. Aside from primus and several solo albums, hes played with blind illusion, oysterhead, the fearless flying frog brigade, buckethead, the holy mackerel, electric apricot, sausage, bucket of bernie brains, beanpole, and most recently formed the claypool lennon delirium with the son of john lennon, sean lennon. Leslie edward les claypool born september 29, 1963 in richmond, california, u. Its a nofrills album featuring claypool on bass and vocals with longtime pal bryan kehoe handling guitar duties.
The acoustic group, consisting of claypool and guitarist marc mirv haggard, will kick things off august 16th at the belly up tavern in solana beach, california and wrap up the first leg of the tour august 26th in. While les is still pulling double duty with the primus lads, he has also found the time to unite with his old buddy, bryan kehoe, who fans will recognize from several past claypool projects, and also as one of the. The album contains 15 songs that mix originals from. Wynonas big brown beaver, stayin alive, man in the box, amos moses. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from les claypool at the discogs marketplace. This album contains one original song and fourteen cover songs although many of the covers are primus or les claypool songs. Les claypool the awakening bass cover play along tabs in video duration. It features primus bass guitarist les claypool and m. While les is still pulling double duty with the primus lads, he has also found the time to unite with his old buddy, bryan kehoe, who fans will recognize from several past claypool projects, and also as one of the main. Primus bassist twangifies classics with bryan kehoe. The oldschool country music collaboration, featuring claypool and longtime friend bryan kehoe, features raw covers of songs by the bee gees, alice in chains, and claypool s own primus. Duo was one of my least favorite albums but may be the best live bands he was in. Les claypool tickets, 2020 concert tour dates ticketmaster. Les claypool bass and vocals bryan kehoe guitar support live music.
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