Les Claypool News

 
Nashville Scene
How a happy-go-lucky drummer saved Primus from reunion limbo
Nashville Scene
After two rounds of reunion touring in 2003-04 and 2006 — both featuring the classic lineup of bassist/leader Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and on-again-off-again drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander — Primus had successfully rekindled its career, ...

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Columbus Dispatch
Concert Review | Primus: Band's strengths keep show on track
Columbus Dispatch
Rather, bassist Les Claypool's on-and-off musical vehicle is an intuitive ensemble for pieces that generally work with a riff, touch on a thin melodic idea, amuse with a lyric line, but find their gold in the improvisations and their irrepressible ...
Concert review: Primus, Gogol Bordello serve up fun and weirdnessPittsburgh Post Gazette

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Silicon Valley's Metro
Primus Innovator Todd Huth Returns With Porch
Silicon Valley's Metro
Spazzy, weirdo bass player/frontman Les Claypool started the band in the early '80s with guitarist Todd Huth. In 1988, literally months before Primus released their first album, Suck on This, Huth quit the band. While Larry LaLonde, Huth's replacement, ...
Primus, Gogol Bordello serve up fun and weirdness at Stage AEPittsburgh Post Gazette (blog)

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From Jane's Addiction to Common, Summer Camp 2012 mixes up sounds
Peoria Journal Star
Band leader Les Claypool, considered one of the most versatile bassists of our time, has played the festival in past years. But this is the first time that he'll bring Primus along. The band started out as an underground cult phenomenon in San ...


 
Seattle Weekly (blog)
The Fishbone Documentary Is Now Streaming on Netflix
Seattle Weekly (blog)
Les Claypool, Primus If you're old enough to remember Fishbone from their early '90s heyday, chances are you already worship them. Though they never broke through to the mainstream, their funk-punk-ska-soul fusion influenced a slew of the most popular ...


 
A Primus primer: Get acquainted with the quirky pioneers before they kick off ...
Columbia Daily Tribune
Over the course of 25 years, it has become abundantly clear that Les Claypool and his Primus playmates are odd fellows. Yet, as is often true, the line between weirdness and wisdom is a fine one, and Primus has provided the soundtrack to dancing across ...


 
Columbia Daily Tribune
May 3: Optimum Primus
Columbia Daily Tribune
The Blue Note's Summerfest concert series kicks off in fine fashion tonight with a set from slap-happy, slap-bass master Les Claypool and his band Primus. Back in the swing of things after a 12-year recording hiatus, the band should have Ninth Street ...