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12-17-2004, 06:11 PM
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I just recently discovered that Les Claypool also played double bass. Everyone knows him as an incredible bass guitarist. Has anyone ever heard any of his stuff? I've been looking around and I can't find any recordings. Let me know if anyone uncovers anything about it. Thanks.
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12-17-2004, 07:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: nyc | | | I love this guy all my life, but he's kind of a hack at db. Haven't heard him lately though. |
12-17-2004, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA | | With all due respect to Claypool, I just -cannot- see him playing double bass.  |
12-18-2004, 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Savino I love this guy all my life, but he's kind of a hack at db. Haven't heard him lately though. | Just tell him to get a teacher, he'll be fine. Him and Flea.
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12-18-2004, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: new brunswick,canada | | | Most of his DB work that I have heard is on Tom Waits cds....he is not as impressive as on BG. |
12-18-2004, 04:52 PM
| | | | I'm not sure that he actually plays DB... the closest I've seen him to doing that is playing the NS db. |
12-18-2004, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: new brunswick,canada | | | Yes...he does play(or at least try to play)DB.
The only Primus song I have heard him play DB on is "Mr.Krinkle" on "Pork Soda"...as well as several Tom Waits songs...but yes,he does play EUB more recently. |
12-20-2004, 09:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | Yes, Les does play the REAL DB. As many have stated not very well.
He seems to be more at home on the EUB, for obvious reasons.
Last time I saw him, a year or so ago, he was playing the NS EUB and some strange one string EUB.
Ten years ago I was impressed, this time around sounded like a lot of noodling 
Last edited by Matt Ides : 12-20-2004 at 09:37 AM.
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12-20-2004, 11:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma City, OK | | | There's also a recording on "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" by Primus where he plays a little arco, but it's nothing impressive, or even normal...it's just, bowing random notes, if memory serves me. Claypool is the man on a slab bass though. He plays one heck of a solo... |
12-27-2004, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by StingRay5guy I just recently discovered that Les Claypool also played double bass. Everyone knows him as an incredible bass guitarist. Has anyone ever heard any of his stuff? I've been looking around and I can't find any recordings. Let me know if anyone uncovers anything about it. Thanks. | You can hear Les play DB on "Mr. Krinkle", "Over the Falls", "Seas of Cheese", "Glass Sandwich", and some others. I have to admit he is better on bass guitar than on DB. |
01-05-2005, 02:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Milford, NJ | | | I've heard him mainly on Tom Waits records and prefer Larry Taylor and Greg Cohen more. Les seems to play the busier lines on some songs but the sound is definitely not as hefty as the aforementioned two. |
01-07-2005, 04:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | I really, really like Primus (saw them in the summer, great show) -- and let me tell you, Les will be the first person to tell you that his intonation is far from spectacular. He actually says this quite blatantly in an issue of Bass Guitar (awful US mag, but Les was on the cover.)
Matt Ides -- the 1 string EUB is a "Whamola". On the last tour, during the drum solo, there was always a short Whamola jam. You change the pitch with a lever on the top of the neck (a la washtub bass) and IIRC, you can also stop the notes like on a regular DB. Instead of plucking it, though, he plays it with a drumstick. Some guys made it for him and gave it to him at 2am after a show (they waited outside his hotel room until he showed up).
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01-31-2005, 03:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: West Philthy-delphia, PA | | Les plays the DB on at least one song per Primus album (it seams...).
He's an amazing BG player... but his intonation on the DB is that of a high school student's (at least it was on "Tales from the Punchbowl" and "The Brown Album", the only two I own). Someone used the word "hack" to describe his DB abilities... perhaps that is a bit harsh (IMHO)... but perhaps not...  |
01-31-2005, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Austin, Texas | | | he uses DB on the les claypool and the holy mackerel cd also. |
02-02-2005, 01:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Albuquerque, NM | | | i read an article where claypool says that an upright is only good if you are going to slide up to notes and that if he needed good intonation he might as well play a fretted.
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02-02-2005, 09:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Allen, TX | | | I know virtually nothing about Claypool but what I love about some of his BG playing is that it sounds like a gifted person came upon the bass and learned to play it with out ever having heard anyone else play one before. It's not like he is intentionally defying conventional wisdom, he just ignores it and does his own thing. Very cool! |
02-02-2005, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by FidgetStone I know virtually nothing about Claypool but what I love about some of his BG playing is that it sounds like a gifted person came upon the bass and learned to play it with out ever having heard anyone else play one before. It's not like he is intentionally defying conventional wisdom, he just ignores it and does his own thing. Very cool! | Which is to say it's like he invented his own languauge, or maybe just his own syntax. I get sick of hearing him say "rhumatic tuna run adjacently". I like talking to people who can say deep things in a simple way. |
12-07-2006, 01:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wisconsin | | | I grew up on Primus
I really like the Tom Waits tracks that Les plays on.
The Earth Died Screaming
Big in Japan
Hoist That Rag
Shake It
Baby Gonna Leave Me
All great songs if you like Tom Waits (obviously I do). I think he does some stuff on the new Tom Waits set called Orphans.
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10-08-2007, 06:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nagasaki, Japan | | | I still don't get the rift between DB and EUB players. It's like the difference between sport skiing and snowboarding...yeah it's different but you're still flying down a hill on a piece of wood. DB or EUB; you're still ringing out the low tones. I was trained as a child on piano and then vioin before going to a DB. Now that I'm in the NAVY, I don't have room for a DB and wouldn't let the NAVY move one if I did bring one to Japan with me. I am waiting on my new ERGO 4 (shipped yesterday) and can't wait to play it. I've been stuck playing a BG (Fender Diamond Series P Bass and my Fretless Westone JazzBass) for 2 years now. Can't wait for the change. Still love my BG's but there's something more real playing jazz/blues on an upright. |
10-08-2007, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by StingRay5guy  I just recently discovered that Les Claypool also played double bass. Everyone knows him as an incredible bass guitarist. Has anyone ever heard any of his stuff? I've been looking around and I can't find any recordings. Let me know if anyone uncovers anything about it. Thanks. | I saw Primus back in '93 and he brought a DB out on stage for a couple of songs.
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