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Just saw Les Claypool...

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nathan

Jul 16, 2004
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....and it was terrible. Has anybody else seen him on his latest tour? Every song had what seemed like two separate 30 minutes xylophone (sp?) and saxaphone solos and a short 2-3 minute bass solo. Les would just walk off the stage at random points and let the drums play for like 45 minutes and he would periodically appear onstage with an animal mask on and dance around.

THEN he told us that he actually had a broken pinky on his fretting hand and his doctor had told him to cancel the tour, but he refused to. So, he said "there are just some songs and some things I just can't do for a few weeks." People started booing him.

I was very excited about the show, and it was a huge disapointment. Has anyone else seen him recently and felt this way?
 
#2
nope never been that disappointed about a show of his. sounds it would had been better had he just cancelled it.

when i saw em last primus played all of sailing the seas of cheese, it was a bit disappointing cause they were recording it and the volume was way to low, i shouldn't be able to hear myself singing or those around me.
 
#3
Saw them on the Hallucinogenetics tour. If it weren't for the terrible soundguy/venue (Hummingbird Centre = t3h sux0rs) it would've been perfect. As it stands...it was great :p.

Sorry it was so bad dude, everyone has their bad periods I guess though.
 
#4
I would have killed to see him with primus...I'm not really that big a fan of his solo stuff. It just blew me away how terrible it was coming from Les Claypool. I mean, he's one of my idols. Honestly after that show though...not so much anymore.

He also just pressed some new movie he was in a lot.
 
#7
Better to break a string than a pinky.

Should have cancelled but that's a lot of $, planning work etc.

Everytime he's played in the Bay, he's rocked the place to pieces.
Sorry, guess it happens, see the Police's drummer comments on their tour, he was the worst critic of them all.

But if you have to apologize, you may as well not be up there.

Victor Wooten broke a string, as have many others, that did not stop them.

Fans love that type of drive.

But strings are not like pinky's.

Tom
 
#12
Aaron said:
If it was Skerik and Mike Dillon on sax and vibes that must have been really friggin' cool.
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I payed to see Les Claypool playing bass, not whoever else playing vibes and sax. Seriously, the sax and vibe guys got about twice as much of the spotlight as les did.

It seems like this must've been just a bad show. Hopefully I'll get the chance to see him again.
 
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labgnat said:
yeah mike dillon is pretty bad ass i met him playing with some bmx racer or somethign or other band in lawrence, he's a cool guy. but can only take so much of the vibes before it gets irritating.
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I've seen him live a ton. Most memorably would be with Critters Buggin minus Matt Chamberlain. Dillon played vibes with two mallets in his left hand, while playing drums with his remaining eight limbs.
 
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labgnat said:
yeah mike dillon is pretty bad ass i met him playing with some bmx racer or somethign or other band in lawrence, he's a cool guy. but can only take so much of the vibes before it gets irritating.
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Hairy Apes BMX is the name of that band, one of the many he plays in :)

I see Les next week in Dallas, hope its better hehe - allthough I love Skerik and Mike D, so Im fine with their solos too.
 

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