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Les Claypool
- Thread starter jokerk874
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Nope. I don't know if I'll ever see Les again strangely. After 2 Primus concerts, my hero worship disappeared. Meh, oh well.
i saw les with primus about 5 years ago in vt(the first time oysterhead ever took the stage together) and i saw him once locally with flyign frog brigade. he puts on a great show, dont worry. ive kind of lost my hero image of les as well, but i still respect him a lot and would go see him ina heartbeat if he came to this area again. enjoy the show!
jokerk874 said:
He's tight live w/Primus, I'm sure he's tight live solo. I've been listening to Les for about 5 years straight, so I'm burnt out on him. He's good live, you'll like it.
Primus/Les is funny that way, it seems like. I used to be way into Primus back in the early-mid '90s, in the heyday of the Sailing the Seas of Cheese era. Saw them play many times in many venues. But man, I'm still totally burned out on them and it's been 10 years. Les is a supercool guy though, my wife interviewed him once.
Was a great show, totally different then any primus show I have ever been to. That Sitar player is just amazing... Pure energy all night long, the opening band's bass player even had a nice Ken Smith.
I'm going to see him in NYC on saturday. Good stuff.
John, you should go. Anything better going on?
John, you should go. Anything better going on?
yeah, where in NYC? i've seen just about all of his incarnations. i think this one is with his fancy band? expect quirkiness, but don't expect primus tunes. you'll likely hear stuff from all of his solo projects. my personal fav was when he played floyd's animals every night. a "shine on" would be VERY appropriate with barret's passing.
i saw him do kashmir and shine on in concert once....when he did "the intruder" with frog brigade it was sooo sick. i was fortunate enough to see im in burlington vermont once and it was the first time he jammed on stage with stewart copeland and trey....so crazy. he introduced trey as eddie van halen, which got a good laugh out of the burlington crowd.
gkbass13 said:
ha, nice!
i was fortunate enough to see a string of oysterhead shows when they did that first tour. unfortunately, the shows were practically the same thing again and again with the exception of a song or two. for the nyc roseland show, i went early and positioned myself front row trey side (i may play the bass and les may be one of the most inspiring bassists to watch, but i've had many 'spiritual' experiences seeing trey play
) which also gave me a killer view of les! does anyone know what that antler guitar trey plays is? is it a built in theramin or something?in any event, thanks for the info, lesfleanut...i'll definitely try and score a ticket and head out to that show. nokia is a REALLY cool theatre inside.
Sane said:
thats Gabby La La...i think in most states she would be considered insane.
i saw Les at Bonnaroo. i find most of his non-Primus stuff to be kind of lame, but it was a good show. The sax player was the most entertaining person to me.
i have some pics from that show here: Link Removed
cosmicevan said:ha, nice!
i was fortunate enough to see a string of oysterhead shows when they did that first tour. unfortunately, the shows were practically the same thing again and again with the exception of a song or two. for the nyc roseland show, i went early and positioned myself front row trey side (i may play the bass and les may be one of the most inspiring bassists to watch, but i've had many 'spiritual' experiences seeing trey play
in any event, thanks for the info, lesfleanut...i'll definitely try and score a ticket and head out to that show. nokia is a REALLY cool theatre inside.
IIRC the antler guitar is called the matterhorn, and yes, it's just a theramin built into a guitar. I might add that tre usually butchers any jam that he tries live with it. That's alright, because when you look behind him... Yeah that's stewart copeland.
