Les Claypool
Les Claypool
Leslie Edward "Les" Claypoolis an American musician, singer, songwriter, composer, author and actor best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass mixes tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends, and slapping...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth29 September 1963
CountryUnited States of America
american-musician audience floyd minds playing ready
I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting.
buddy following high metallica realize school
I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
bass draw picked played similar stuff
The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.
I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.
names frogs imagery
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
basketball sound theater
Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
personality guy feelings
Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.
thinking artist appreciate
More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.
play cities my-favorite
My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.
couple past years
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
thinking playing-music going-out
I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
nice san-francisco interesting
San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.
actors my-favorite planets
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
would-be drs watches
You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.