We're getting a little funky with this power trio featuring Phish's Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool and one of the world's greatest drummers Mr. Stuart Copeland.
Last week, we dedicated all of our Song of the Days to the more Super of Rock and Roll acts. There truly aren't enough days in the week, so we rounded it out with a few more tunes to make this most super of playlists. Never before have we pulled together a playlist with this much collaborative talent, and we will be hard pressed to do more going forward. Check out the playlist below, along with a brief explanation of each tune. The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With [...]
Radon Balloon - Oysterhead
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The spirit of Frank Zappa appeared to hover in the room during Les Claypool 's Tuesday night show at New York's Brooklyn Bowl. Various t-shirts with the experimental music icon's likeness on them would appear among the crowd and then promptly yet quietly disappear as if the ghostly specter of great jams past were in attendance. Fans of Claypool's various and prodigious musical outlets -- Primus , the Frog Brigade, Holy Mackerel and Oysterhead -- [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Well before Them Crooked Vultures , Chickenfoot and the Dead Weather were bringing back the supergroup phenomenon, Police drummer Stewart Copeland teamed with Primus ' Les Claypool and Phish 's Trey Anastasio for Oysterhead . Despite being a veteran of one of these bands, Copeland doesn't think the all-star collaborations always make good music. "I don't believe in supergroups," he tells Spinner. "Having tried it many times, it's [...]
Oysterhead: Oz Is Ever Floating [ purchase ] Primus bassist Les Claypool is renown among the Bonnaroo crowd for his earth-shattering, jazz-informed slap-and-bounce rhythms, and for good reason: where other rock and jamband bassists are content to hover in the background, Claypool plays up front and center, creating complex octave-spanning bass lines, melding heavy slap-bass style, drifting into full chords and improvisation mode as needed. Claypool's style is so powerful and distinctive, in fact, I didn't even need to check the label to [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Some bands can pinpoint exactly when they shot to stardom. For many, like '90s alternative heroes Primus , it was much more gradual. "I have people that say to me, 'When Primus made it, what did you think?,'" frontman Les Claypool tells Spinner. "It didn't really happen like that, we were out there plunking along.'" To Claypool, the appeal of Primus is the band's touring ethic and strong live shows. "It was all baby steps, building this foundation. [...]
With Scotty, myself and the rest of the HT crew taking in most or all of Phish's first six shows of their Summer tour we almost let the fact that Bonnaroo kicks off in a mere few days slip past us. Fear not folks now that we're back in front of our computers screen full time we have some great coverage planned for you of all things 'Roo - including a full slate of 'Tubes. Much like Desmond Hume is to Daniel Faraday, Trey Anastasio seems [...]
I'm going to go ahead and declare a tie from our edition two weeks ago with The Bridge and Mr. Blotto refusing to quit as the votes go higher and higher - so we'll call them both winners from when we looked at covers of Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys . Last week's however has a clear winner, no big surprise here as Jerry Garcia & David Grisman received the majority of votes when we examined covers of Sitting In Limbo . This [...]
The Devil is back rested, refreshed and raring to go. While away the Devil's fame has spread a little wider with a brief, but penetratingly insightful, note on the NME's letters page!!! Check out this weeks letters page for the Devil's words of wisdom on Pennie leaving the Automatic and marvel at how so much can be said in so few words. Now for some words of wisdom on tonights band... [...]
i know that Bonnaroo was 3 months ago and most respectable music bloggers out there have already done it all, but this is my blog and i’m slow. afterall, one of the themes of this blog is that I AM LATE. i also lost my home internet connection for a while because of Roo (long story). on with the blogging… the [...]
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