I went to every Bonnaroo from 2003-2016, and it was interesting watching it morph into what it is now. While Bonnaroo is still special and giving people amazing experiences every year, nothing will ever beat those first few years of the festival when it was just truly a jam fest. No cell service, no connection to the outside world.......when you got there you were no longer on planet earth, you were simply in Bonnaroo. I'm glad I was a part of that.
Well said,didn't hit everyone between there but did about 6 of them.Oysterhead,early Kings of Leon,Bucket of Bernie Brains,Petty,Police,Flaming Lips.....god the bands we saw there early on with so many collaborations. Bonnaroo was a different vibe.
I got this DVD when I was 15. In 2005, when I was 17, I went to my first Bonnaroo. I drove my mom's car because 3 days earlier, mine was stolen. My friends and I had one hella of a time.
Hell yeah. Pretty cool of your mom to let you have her car to make it to the festival, and have the time of your life with your friends. Well, that is, if she knew where you were going. If not, that’s even better!😄
Saw Floyd's Division Bell live in 94, and King Krimson live in 96. Two of the most important shows of my life. Was 16 years old for Floyd show, friends and I were sold fake acid, and in retrospect I've never been happier to get stuck for $10 on a fake tab of acid in my life, coz I remember everything about the show. Still to this day, the best show I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen ton of shows, including Kraftwerk, TOOL (a bunch of times) and MBV live, Grateful Dead, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard etc... nothing can touch that Pink Floyd's show ;)
Skerik plays saxophone like nobody else. The 2nd or 3rd time I saw him play in a tiny cramped club space in Seattle around 1990, I was about 5 feet from him as he was doing the screaming, distorted guitar solo for Hendrix "Manic Depression", face turning purple and pulling sounds from his sax that were unimaginable. He was on a higher level even as a youngster.
@@soyounoat Was he in Sad Happy? I went to see them at some club on 6th ave in Tacoma during that era (a few years later) and Skerik wasn't there - just the bass player & drummer but it was still off the hook great.
@@effsixteenblock50 Skerik Played Sax with Sadhappy in the early to mid '90s. I am not sure if he is considered a member of the band or a guest musician, but he joined them both in the studio and at live performances. I saw them play live with Skerik on multiple occasions in late '80s - early '90s and they were wildly original and entertaining.
@@soyounoat Right - when I asked "Was he in Sadhappy?", I meant "When you saw Skerik, was it with Sadhappy?". I think I still have a live CD of theirs - IIRC it has a red / blue vertically split cover. I regret not having ever seeing the full line-up.
"Thela Hun Ginjeet" is a single by the band King Crimson, released in 1981 and on the album Discipline (1981). The song name is an anagram of "heat in the jungle", which is a reference to crime in the city. (The term "heat" is American slang for firearms or for police.)
If anyone ever sees live video or audio from frog brigade in Pittsburgh around 2006-2009 let me know. Les yelled at my 13 yr old stoned ass for not chanting during David Makalaster. Used to have bootleg would love to find it
19:44 "traffic wasn't that bad" ....I lived less than 2 hrs from Manchester and it took us 14 hours to get on the farm. The traffic moved so slow folks turned their rides off and just pushed their vehicles when we would occasionally move. The port-a-johns were overflowing by Saturday morning. The heat was relentless. And it was ALL fucking AMAZING!!
@@risksrewardsrelics51 we were starting to get anxious just sitting there...then a wookie went by on a skateboard down the center line of the highway holding a 40oz of Colt .45. We pretty much started the party right there on the hwy after that.
@@ryno2323 yeah, we got out and partied on the highway in our first day of traffic as well! Funny enough, I didn’t even have a ticket. I was an SCI tour kid in those days and we decided to head down and try our luck. When we got closer to the gate, I got out of the car to walk around. Some guy who had stolen a strip of wristbands from the gate slapped one on me and said “have a great show!”
Yeah it was cool. I was 17 when I went to this very 1st Bonnaroo festival. Had such a great time with good friends. I'm 38 now, with a 11 year old daughter working all the time but still loving life just in different ways lol
Am I wrong to say that during the Primus “break”/hiatus, that it was more of a break between Les and Ler? Think about it, Les was working with every Primus member besides Ler during that period. Bryan Mantia was in Colonel Claypools Bucket Of Bernie Brains, Todd Huth was in the Frog Brigade, Herb Alexander was in the Frog Brigade, Jay Lane was in the Fancy Band and the Frog Brigade. Keep in mind that Ler was the only one who stayed true to Les all these years. Todd left him, Jay left him, Herb left him (3 times). Ler kept the faith!
You can say that. I think Les views Larry as his best friend and they needed the band to stop to salvage the friendship. Les seems like a humble guy that values relationships more than turning a profit. He could’ve easily called the Frog Brigade “Primus” because it had 3 pre existing members (Huth and Lane) of the band in it, but he didn’t...
I don’t know about Les and Ler but I saw Primus in Feb 00 and at the end of the show Ler taped a cymbal w his guitar and Brain grabbed his guitar and threw it across the floor, was not smiling, seemed like a lot of tension.
@@TwinPawsFWWMWow, what a shame that they got to that point. That hiatus was the best thing that they could have done for the band and their musical partnership.
@@TwinPawsFWWMI haven’t heard about that incident! Les even mentioned that the Antipop era was him at his most depressed. Tensions were probably rising to a breaking point by that time. Hope there is no bad blood between Ler and Brain (they haven’t collaborated on anything since Primus if I’m not mistaken). Regardless, I just saw Primus a couple nights ago and they are still in top form!
Man this was such a hot weekend. les has to be dying in that jacket. I’d seen primus a few times (and the frogs) but Tim had been out of the band for years so it was so exciting to see him. Man this show and whole weekend was fantastic.
@@d3lt452 dude I was genuinely asking, i just thought he meant that he like actually had a part In the arrangement of the festival, basically I’m stupid therefore I asked a stupid question
Holy shit. So I watched a movie put out by Les Claypool and the National Lampoon crew called Electric Apricot. I knew it was a parody of Bonnaroo and the jam band scene but I didn't realize that the part in the movie where they ask festival goers what Festeroo was is a direct parody of the intro to this video. That makes this already great song so much better lol
I spent time in Texas State Jail for 8 months, more than county, less than prison. Had a job at the livestock barn where they cared for animals seized or rescued. One of the guards, had to be 50, worked Bonaroo every year. His family was from somewhere close by. He was cool. Brought us bags of Buglers and a lighter or two
TO imagine this is what Bonnaroo use to be like back in the day when I actually went to it! So may hippies nad good vibes :) I feel sorry for people who go today haha.
I was 16 and went in 03/04. When I got there this dude KEPT FOLLOWING me for like 1 mile straight saying "Bro, I got EDYS nuggets," I ask my cousin "WTF are Eddies nuggets?" He's like nah man HEADY NUGGETS, it's bomb ass weed." Now I had came from a small town and never seen anything like this indoor grown "cali-miist" so he called it. I proceeded to finally buy some from him. Man, there was drugs EVERYWHERE that year sold in the open. "headies" "shrooms" everywhere. It was the first time I ever took mushrooms too during the Dead set. Me and my best friend just looked at each other and hugged and where like " i love you man." When we went back in 2004 it was nearly ruined by HORRIBLE storms the entire time, and for some reason just didn't have the same magic.
Roo how it was originally done. Just finished high school a week prior. This set was the best way to get weird and loosened up for the freak-in and many epic things to come. Roo 1 as a multi band festival ( not including phish mega happenings) was the best since 69 Woodstock Huge,wild , and free. All things are destroyed by the time it is over.
My little brother and I used to watch the shit out of this on that 5 gallons of diesel dvd or whatever it’s called. I remember being so blown away watching this after only hearing them on those 3 frog brigade records. I was like “holy shit, they’re actually fucking doing it!”. Monsters. All of em.
I went to there record release party at the Warfield theater in San Francisco. Ooos and went to all of there shows in the Bay Area. Including the Stanford frat parties. Still trying to find my brain cells after I jumped out of the window frying on 8 grams of mushrooms
Incredible performance I think Robert Fripp would be proud of..les is just doing les and less is more than most bassmen can ever deliver.. having Primus drummer Tim Alexander in the pocket just kills it but who was that ace on guitar?
2021 is going to be some of the best shows with new material coming. So many bands gonna let it all hang out Tour 2021!!!!! F U Covid we will beat you by rhymes and beats.
I love to ponder how much skill and technology Adrian Belew applied to make a lead guitar sound that sounded vaguely like a tortured trans-dimensional saxophone, only for someone to come along 20 years later to apply similar skill and technology to make a saxophone sound exactly like his guitar.
A legendary performance
I was maybe 30 or so rows back and about 10 feet audience right from Les’s mike.
John Meyer fuuuuuuck yeah, man.......👍😲
@@johnmeyer2084 blazing freaking hot that weekend!
Primus sucks man!!!!
10 feet from les's mike and that COCK!
Good enough
i love how les can both give zero Fs and all the Fs at the same time.
he watched garyvee
Well put🤙
😂 too true man
He has 10 digits
He can identify which fucks are worth giving. Fuck about and which aren't, it's a rare gift.
I went to every Bonnaroo from 2003-2016, and it was interesting watching it morph into what it is now. While Bonnaroo is still special and giving people amazing experiences every year, nothing will ever beat those first few years of the festival when it was just truly a jam fest. No cell service, no connection to the outside world.......when you got there you were no longer on planet earth, you were simply in Bonnaroo. I'm glad I was a part of that.
SXSW used to be cool as well. Not it’s too big a goat rope.
Lucky bastard
Bon-na-rooooooo....
You lucky bastard
Well said,didn't hit everyone between there but did about 6 of them.Oysterhead,early Kings of Leon,Bucket of Bernie Brains,Petty,Police,Flaming Lips.....god the bands we saw there early on with so many collaborations. Bonnaroo was a different vibe.
I got this DVD when I was 15. In 2005, when I was 17, I went to my first Bonnaroo. I drove my mom's car because 3 days earlier, mine was stolen. My friends and I had one hella of a time.
Hell yeah. Pretty cool of your mom to let you have her car to make it to the festival, and have the time of your life with your friends. Well, that is, if she knew where you were going. If not, that’s even better!😄
@@cleech74 Yeah, she knew!
I love how the sax player was wearing his mom's Christmas tree skirt with no shame. Pretending it was clothing. Excellent performance and costume.
Always trust the spanish inquisition on sax!!!!
Nobody expected a Spanish Inquisition.
Every one on stage is playing thier own jam and making it all mesh. Beautiful.
Claypool has great taste in music and it shows... Animals and Discipline are two of the greatest albums ever
agree 500%
Saw Floyd's Division Bell live in 94, and King Krimson live in 96. Two of the most important shows of my life. Was 16 years old for Floyd show, friends and I were sold fake acid, and in retrospect I've never been happier to get stuck for $10 on a fake tab of acid in my life, coz I remember everything about the show. Still to this day, the best show I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen ton of shows, including Kraftwerk, TOOL (a bunch of times) and MBV live, Grateful Dead, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard etc... nothing can touch that Pink Floyd's show ;)
They had to get a saxaphonist to play Adrian Belew's solo, perfect.
I am sure Adrian would approve.
Skerik plays saxophone like nobody else. The 2nd or 3rd time I saw him play in a tiny cramped club space in Seattle around 1990, I was about 5 feet from him as he was doing the screaming, distorted guitar solo for Hendrix "Manic Depression", face turning purple and pulling sounds from his sax that were unimaginable. He was on a higher level even as a youngster.
And it came full circle th-cam.com/video/7gomFh0pE54/w-d-xo.html
@@soyounoat Was he in Sad Happy? I went to see them at some club on 6th ave in Tacoma during that era (a few years later) and Skerik wasn't there - just the bass player & drummer but it was still off the hook great.
@@effsixteenblock50 Skerik Played Sax with Sadhappy in the early to mid '90s. I am not sure if he is considered a member of the band or a guest musician, but he joined them both in the studio and at live performances. I saw them play live with Skerik on multiple occasions in late '80s - early '90s and they were wildly original and entertaining.
@@soyounoat Right - when I asked "Was he in Sadhappy?", I meant "When you saw Skerik, was it with Sadhappy?". I think I still have a live CD of theirs - IIRC it has a red / blue vertically split cover. I regret not having ever seeing the full line-up.
"Thela Hun Ginjeet" is a single by the band King Crimson, released in 1981 and on the album Discipline (1981). The song name is an anagram of "heat in the jungle", which is a reference to crime in the city. (The term "heat" is American slang for firearms or for police.)
Cool beans. Never knew dat
grande! non lo sapevo.
Primus playing Crimson. Unbelievable. Great job.
Really nice version. I like that Les has so much fun with it. It's an incredibly danceable song. He has the right spirit.
You had me at it.
Concerts before cell phones were great
That was the most inspirational thing I’ve seen in a while. It’s late now so, I’ll watch this again in the morning before practice
That bass line! Les, you're a god!
The Hesedingking you know this is a king crimson cover right
You should thank daddy Tony Levin. Believe me that guy has magic in his fingers. And Les does too of course
this is the most fun I've had watching such wacky music. this is cute
If anyone ever sees live video or audio from frog brigade in Pittsburgh around 2006-2009 let me know. Les yelled at my 13 yr old stoned ass for not chanting during David Makalaster. Used to have bootleg would love to find it
do you have the exact year? I kinda wanna try finding it
Master Class on how to pay tribute to KC
Totally !!!
They allowed the music to evolve in there own way.
WHIT IRONY MY FREINDS TO MUCH DISCIPLINE MEKE ME BE ABNORMAL
@@2verme what?
Nice one! The art of having fun in music. Another great one from Les Claypool and his acholites. Keep the bouncing!
Cave-in to the bounce
Acolytes?
Great quality upload of this classic Frog Brigade show!
Tim Alexander is criminally underrated.
19:44 "traffic wasn't that bad" ....I lived less than 2 hrs from Manchester and it took us 14 hours to get on the farm. The traffic moved so slow folks turned their rides off and just pushed their vehicles when we would occasionally move. The port-a-johns were overflowing by Saturday morning. The heat was relentless. And it was ALL fucking AMAZING!!
We got sick of sitting in traffic and pulled into a convenience store parking lot to crash for the night!
@@risksrewardsrelics51 we were starting to get anxious just sitting there...then a wookie went by on a skateboard down the center line of the highway holding a 40oz of Colt .45. We pretty much started the party right there on the hwy after that.
@@ryno2323 yeah, we got out and partied on the highway in our first day of traffic as well!
Funny enough, I didn’t even have a ticket. I was an SCI tour kid in those days and we decided to head down and try our luck.
When we got closer to the gate, I
got out of the car to walk around. Some guy who had stolen a strip of wristbands from the gate slapped one on me and said “have a great show!”
Haha....still have my wristband!!
Lol… I probably do too!
Yeah it was cool. I was 17 when I went to this very 1st Bonnaroo festival. Had such a great time with good friends. I'm 38 now, with a 11 year old daughter working all the time but still loving life just in different ways lol
Woww. What an excellent cover of a great Crimson song. Nice touch with the sax and xylophone...
Am I wrong to say that during the Primus “break”/hiatus, that it was more of a break between Les and Ler? Think about it, Les was working with every Primus member besides Ler during that period. Bryan Mantia was in Colonel Claypools Bucket Of Bernie Brains, Todd Huth was in the Frog Brigade, Herb Alexander was in the Frog Brigade, Jay Lane was in the Fancy Band and the Frog Brigade. Keep in mind that Ler was the only one who stayed true to Les all these years. Todd left him, Jay left him, Herb left him (3 times). Ler kept the faith!
Drummer rhymes with bummer. -Les claypool but I do love Jay, herb and brain
You can say that. I think Les views Larry as his best friend and they needed the band to stop to salvage the friendship. Les seems like a humble guy that values relationships more than turning a profit. He could’ve easily called the Frog Brigade “Primus” because it had 3 pre existing members (Huth and Lane) of the band in it, but he didn’t...
I don’t know about Les and Ler but I saw Primus in Feb 00 and at the end of the show Ler taped a cymbal w his guitar and Brain grabbed his guitar and threw it across the floor, was not smiling, seemed like a lot of tension.
@@TwinPawsFWWMWow, what a shame that they got to that point. That hiatus was the best thing that they could have done for the band and their musical partnership.
@@TwinPawsFWWMI haven’t heard about that incident! Les even mentioned that the Antipop era was him at his most depressed. Tensions were probably rising to a breaking point by that time. Hope there is no bad blood between Ler and Brain (they haven’t collaborated on anything since Primus if I’m not mistaken). Regardless, I just saw Primus a couple nights ago and they are still in top form!
I got to see the Frog Brigade during this Tour in Chicago in '02. Great time! They ended up playing Locomotive Breath twice that night!
Man this was such a hot weekend. les has to be dying in that jacket. I’d seen primus a few times (and the frogs) but Tim had been out of the band for years so it was so exciting to see him. Man this show and whole weekend was fantastic.
If there anyone who personifies bannaroo, it is Les Claypool.
King Crimsons version is good but this one oh lawd is the BEST ! He ain't a Colonel for no reason.
Papa Claypools solo begins at 10:47.
The song that comes into my head each and every time I think of them. Thela Hun Ginjeet... Thela Hun Ginjeet... Thela Hun Ginjeet _ ~
You can clearly see Les was having fun on this one. Different but nice
I am addicted to this video
NOBODY expects the Spanish Saxmusician!
omg lmao thats perfect
"Cave into the bounce"
It will be a sad day when this man is gone
Claypool for president!
Because Les is more...
Skerik is showing that sax who's the boss. madman. Like Belew. Dillion is also on another planet. They all are.
EXCELENTE!! MAJESTUOSO!! FASCINANTE!!
I would gladly give a year of my life to goback and watch this concert
Saw King Crimson play this live 3 times. But this cover is unreal, soooo cool!
I'm blessded I've been able to be a part of so many amazing shows,this being one.A true highlight in my life.
You had no part in it whatsoever
Tyler fletcher I know this comment is from 2 years ago but what part did you have?
Anything good in the last decade or two? Besides claypool stuff of course
@@Otisledriftwood2005 Why the edgyness? He means he went there and had fun like most other people that did. Shut up and enjoy the jam would you?
@@d3lt452 dude I was genuinely asking, i just thought he meant that he like actually had a part In the arrangement of the festival, basically I’m stupid therefore I asked a stupid question
12:25 ... Colonel Crimson' s amazing groove
Greatest Claypool project ...
The Carl Thompson had a legendary sound.
My dream bass. Sadly I'll never have the several thousand dollars necessary to make it a reality. 😅😂
Best concert ever played!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit. So I watched a movie put out by Les Claypool and the National Lampoon crew called Electric Apricot.
I knew it was a parody of Bonnaroo and the jam band scene but I didn't realize that the part in the movie where they ask festival goers what Festeroo was is a direct parody of the intro to this video.
That makes this already great song so much better lol
Drove up from Texas...A good time indeed!
Wow. Awesome cover. CRIMMMSSSSOOONNN!
Great version
Fantastic!! Love this. Wish I could have been there.
It was amazing, small flex😂
I spent time in Texas State Jail for 8 months, more than county, less than prison. Had a job at the livestock barn where they cared for animals seized or rescued. One of the guards, had to be 50, worked Bonaroo every year. His family was from somewhere close by. He was cool. Brought us bags of Buglers and a lighter or two
Sherik is the man . He played with Mad Season some
ski rackington at it again
Hell yeah og Seattle musician
I was at this show. Was absolutely incredible!
You're lying
@@codedog02 xD xD
I was there about 3 rows back, center stage.
You're lying
@@codedog02 nope
I was there . All time !!
Lies
Super chingon!!
Master tim herb alexander!!
That's Tim?
@@benp.320 I think that's Jay Lane.
It's Herb. Les even calls him out at around the 7 minute mark.
The bounce is good.
Cave into the bounce
ic what you're doing, and I like it.
One of the best sets!
Damn that was blistering!
TO imagine this is what Bonnaroo use to be like back in the day when I actually went to it! So may hippies nad good vibes :) I feel sorry for people who go today haha.
I was 16 and went in 03/04. When I got there this dude KEPT FOLLOWING me for like 1 mile straight saying "Bro, I got EDYS nuggets," I ask my cousin "WTF are Eddies nuggets?" He's like nah man HEADY NUGGETS, it's bomb ass weed." Now I had came from a small town and never seen anything like this indoor grown "cali-miist" so he called it. I proceeded to finally buy some from him. Man, there was drugs EVERYWHERE that year sold in the open. "headies" "shrooms" everywhere. It was the first time I ever took mushrooms too during the Dead set. Me and my best friend just looked at each other and hugged and where like " i love you man." When we went back in 2004 it was nearly ruined by HORRIBLE storms the entire time, and for some reason just didn't have the same magic.
Yes used 2 actually have music played now its all digital bullshit smh
Roo how it was originally done. Just finished high school a week prior. This set was the best way to get weird and loosened up for the
freak-in and many epic things to come. Roo 1 as a multi band festival ( not including phish mega happenings) was the best since 69 Woodstock
Huge,wild , and free. All things are destroyed by the time it is over.
Its still hippies and good vibes
Fabulous !!!
Tony Levin... or Les Claypool who's tops this song
My little brother and I used to watch the shit out of this on that 5 gallons of diesel dvd or whatever it’s called. I remember being so blown away watching this after only hearing them on those 3 frog brigade records. I was like “holy shit, they’re actually fucking doing it!”. Monsters. All of em.
This here just f in rocks!
I went to there record release party at the Warfield theater in San Francisco. Ooos and went to all of there shows in the Bay Area. Including the Stanford frat parties. Still trying to find my brain cells after I jumped out of the window frying on 8 grams of mushrooms
Why has les Claypool yet to partner and play with king crimson members
He has with Belew. Check out Belew's Side One and Side Three albums.
Yes, this a King Crimson song, but this particular band has a Crimsonesque feel to it in the way they present themselves and in the way they play.
Ye ye yeah!! King Crimson!!! :)
What song by King Crimson is this I don't recognize it?
@@rogerwaters3165 It's from the 80s; the "Discipline" album.
@@sullyb23511 oh cool I need to listen to that album more
@@sullyb23511 funny because I love Crimson mainly the 70s though
bel rendering wow!
14:30 what VERSION of tennesse jed is this???
A great one
How sick was this band?!
This is the best damn band ever.
Les unleashed upon KC.
Nothing better.
Incredible performance I think Robert Fripp would be proud of..les is just doing les and less is more than most bassmen can ever deliver.. having Primus drummer Tim Alexander in the pocket just kills it but who was that ace on guitar?
Ron Wilbur or Enor , on guitar.
2021 is going to be some of the best shows with new material coming. So many bands gonna let it all hang out Tour 2021!!!!! F U Covid we will beat you by rhymes and beats.
Primus is supposed to be doing a Rush tribute tour this year
@@benp.320 sweet!
,nice crimson
19:32 I just spotted the guy in the recent "Phish lot" video that was uploaded recently, wow!
WOW INCREDIBLE
Sandman lives through that mic
Saw neil young and widespread on the blood moon
I love to ponder how much skill and technology Adrian Belew applied to make a lead guitar sound that sounded vaguely like a tortured trans-dimensional saxophone, only for someone to come along 20 years later to apply similar skill and technology to make a saxophone sound exactly like his guitar.
Considero Les claypool o maior contrabaixista que vi tocar ao lado do lendário Clif Burton...
My favorite Bonaroo. 2002
Nobody would care about these guys without their interesting hats
Vibes player looks like hes in the set of mad max
Mike Dillon is definitely from beyond the Thunderdome.
Less, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
Santana '69 vibes ✌😎
Thanks bro 👊
12:25 Greetings from Tony Levin
basically crash bandicoot soundtrack (:
Killer Sax - Solo
This is a dangerous place.
Does anyone know why les has on two sets of eyewear?
何べん見てもおもろい。これ本歌どりしようっとwwww
Good cover of king crimsons somg
All will be right with the world
Where's Mr. Todd P. Huth?
Is this on an available DVD?
Yes!
Official 2002 Bonaroo Festival dvd. I got mine off eBay, IIRC