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I saw Primus at - No Kidding - Shenk Hall in Milwaukee with about 6 people in the audience. They invited us all backstage after the gig to hang out and eat up the rest of the catered food. About 6 months later they blew up huge! Super nice guys.
Les is a true original. You guys nailed it when you said that no one sounds like him, even if they're essentially playing the same thing. If the bass playing wasn't enough, the fact that he sings over all that dexterous chaos is (to me) what makes him an alien. Superb job, Scott & Ian.
@@eLiBoBBer I don't, but I have heard it played live twice, and the second time, I was right up on the barricade in front of Les and could hear it coming not just from the PA speakers but directly from his amp as well.
Primus? Instant watch. Les was quoted saying “Suddenly, there were a lot of things I could play that I couldn't do on my Ibanez.” When referring to playing his first Carl Thompson
Les Claypool, in a Q&A, Admitted that he actually kind of stole the Carl Thompson. He played it in a store, fell in love, then went to get the $600 it was being sold for. When he got back with the money, the shop had learned how much the bass was worth and raised it to something like $1200 (80s money). Les told the salesperson that he was promised to be sold it for $600, so the salesperson split the difference and let him buy it at $800. Les only had the $600 in his account, so he wrote a check that 100% bounced. But, by the time the store would have found out, he was long gone. He also said he tried to repay them, but their store went out of business.
My patriarch of bass knowledge just passed(my brother), and I just wanna say this video brings so many warm thoughts to my heart... Thank you for this beautiful video...
“Golden Boy” is the absolute most fun bassline of all time. Please do a whole entire video on it. At the very least, learn it for your own enjoyment and jam sessions. Your drummer will love you for it too.
I will never forget that the friend who introduced me to bass, unluckily passed away 15 years ago, was a strong fan of Les Clayppol and Primus. He was obsessed with him! ♥
I'm always amazed by his angular lines... big leaps between notes, and the tritones. His guitar player is equally insane, similar to Frank Black of the Pixies, or Buckethead. Constantly searching for the tones that rub the most, and cause the most tension. Almost like they're playing a different song completely. "Careful with that axe Eugene"... Nobody else writes like this... it's unique.
My childhood just flashed across my eyes. Les Claypool broke down all barriers of music for me. I truly appreciate how talent could be so different across all genres. What a fun time to be alive blasting Primus Sucks out my ‘81 Honda Accord 😂
I saw Primus at Lollapalooza Dallas, TX in 1993 and Les Claypool's playing blew my mind. I saw Primus again at MGM Las Vegas, NV in 2019, and Les Claypool's playing was on a whole different level. Amazing unique talent!
Please MORE Claypool on this channel!!!! Awesome content guys! Great breakdowns of the parts and your joy and excitment are so communicative, that I am willing to break my fingers trying to play those riffs :)
I've been lucky enough to have seen them all performed live multiple times. Les is always a phenomenal live experience. Never know what he's gonna make that bass do.
Scott & Ian are the bass players I would want in the STUDIO with us! They are the real deal. Love you guys! More Primus! This is Epic as always! Stay frosty!
Nice work, i dont want to burst your Les bubble but when i see someone singing, dancing and completely comanding the stage while playing as he does is the day that will never come, not to mention that alot of that stuff is 30 years or more old too. Les is just Les and only Les, amazing guy!!
I'm quite proud I can play these songs...even 'Is it luck'. Always bust out some Primus licks for a warm up in the studio...my mate always tells me 'It isn't a Primus tribute band' 😂
FINALLY SOMEONE PLAYING IS IT LUCK RIGHT! It really is that simple, people just think there's a bunch a crazy stuff he's doing when in reality it's simple but just really fast
One thing I love about the setup in this video is the two basses and how they compare to each other. Both seem to be customs, but they seem to be polar opposites as well. Ian has a Jazzed up (possibly blinged) classic looking bass; meanwhile Scott's is a more modern looking bass. Opposite fretboard colors and different string amounts. Just makes for an awesome video esthetically.
Saw a guy at my job with a Primus shirt and asked if they had gone to their recent concert in Texas, and he was so excited about them and said they were perfect note-for-note, just like the studio recording
Well done, Ian!! I went on the same journey 20+ years ago. No way It has been that long! Just the effort of learning these lines taught me so much about playing. So difficult... so fun!
30 years ago this video would have been quintessential as a (relatively) young bass-player. Now I just press the "like"button. Great stuff!!!
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Love the passion of you guys to express how unique is Les Claypool, is like me and my friends when we had 15 years old and we discovered this sounds of freakiness. Great to see you play in the most correct way Tommy the Cat!
So glad you covered “is it luck” and “as the toys go winding down.” By far two of Claypool’s most challenging. I think Les plays is it luck with the trem engaged for more sway in strings. Ian’s gain sounded fantastic!
This video is timed so perfectly because I've been in a black hole of Primus/Les music. Primus is absolutely brilliant, and Les has also made incredible music with side-projects like Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Oysterhead, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, and several other projects and collaborations. Any fan of Primus and bass guitar owes it to themselves to check out all of this other incredible music that Les has been a big part of. And, thank you very much for the video! Very well made and entertaining! 🙂
I learned most of his stuff in the 90’s and it’s all energy.. when n I went to see them I have never seen a crowd so energized before in my life and I’ve been to many concerts. The man is probably one of my best influencers in my playing style.
Watching you two celebrating Primus and Les kept me entertained for half the day. Always pausing the clip in between, trying some licks or basslines, failing, trying the next one, adapting it to my playing, was such a educational and fun thing. Great job, thanks a lot!
ive been playing bass since i first heard primus in 91. its been a point of pride that what i can play ive learned mostly by ear. and what ive not, ive at least understood... except " is it luck." " is he popping/ no its tap/ no its popping/ no its a combo of both!"... thank you fot this. amongst all the other great things yo do on this channel.
Terrific video boys! I first saw Les Claypool strutting his stuff on stage at Wembley Area when Primus were opening for Rush's Roll the Bones Tour. I was totally blown away by how crazy, weird and addictive their music was!! Been a fan ever since.
I actually just spoke to Les and Lar a couple weeks back in Indiana. Les said that his first Bass was an Ibanez. He chose it over the Rickenbacker that was in the same store and regretted it later LOL. He never owned his own Rickenbacker until Primus did their Rush Tribute to Kings tour and Tribute shows for Neil Peart.
One of the things I really love about him is that he is an example of what it is to be someone who just starts trying shit and does what they feel and ends up creating a style that’s copied or tried to figure out if that makes sense. To me,so many of my favorite players are those types. Plus, the singing and songwriting and creating a vibe is an even huge or part of it.🤙🏻
Never forget my introduction Primus was as a young crazy young 20s guy who liked to get extremely high and watch Beavis and Butthead! Les is an alien, but so is Ler! While Les is the most underrated Behs guy, Ler is that same for guitar! Those two meeting, along with Les's crazy 6 string Packy's, totally changed music for this guy with two thumbs.
Ive been playing Primus, since i was a teenager! Seeing this video pop up, hooked me in fast! Lacquer head. Use to play that in a cover band, and that fill after the first chorus.....cant do it. I figured out what hes doing, but i cant....not that way. I found that i can, if i lay my left hand, over the top of the neck! Looks cool, and is the same percussive sound! All 15 people in the audience loved it! 😆
As a bass player (a terrible one but still) that loves practically everything Primus and Les Claypool, it still annoys how overlooked Larry and Tim are, this is a bass channel so it's ok, but everyone seems to forget the genious of the other two. Anyways, nice video! Big love from Trondheim, Norway (where we have one of my favourite bass players of all time playing in my favourite band of all time).
One of the first Primus songs I ever heard was Mu name is Mudd. It blew my mind how he can be that locked into the drums playing that complex of songs. Simply mind blowing. Than years later I saw them live and it blew My mind how good they were.
4:34 I know exactly how much work he has put in. I have been trying to nail these lines for years. It's one thing to know how quiet another to play it well. With all these lines the fingering, strumming, slapping, and taping all have to be on point and confident or it won't sound good.
I remember being amazed at his right hand when I saw them live on Oct 24th 1995 ! (On my 18th birthday). Big influence on my playing at the time. Les is great!
This has to be the best video I've ever seen of yours (which is saying something because all your videos are great). The first time I heard Primus, I thought that what Les does is not humanly possible. The way you break everything down and explain how it's all played shows that it really isn't all that difficult. Humans can in fact play it. I'm not quite convinced that humans can actually CREATE that stuff, so yes, Les Claypool is an alien.
Thank you for the video! Les Claypool was a huge influence of mine in high school (I am also a bassist born in 1978!). My band in high school covered “John the Fisherman” at battle of the bands my sophomore year! I actually sang it as well and we killed! I think a lot of my technique came from trying to cover Primus songs!
When I was cca 17 I was obssesed with Primus. I learned almost every bass part there was. They are definitely not easy, but with some work one can master them. But the most insane thing to me is, that he is even able to sing while he's playing those.
Coming here as a drummer (and not a good one). Y'all are nuts. I didn't realize the guitar was just as difficult and nuanced. as drums. Cheers, brothers.
My 2 favorite things about Primus is the drums (Tim Alexander specifically) and the story telling! Primus has been one of my favorite bands since I was like 7 hearing Jerry was a Racecar Driver on Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Lol I rediscovered them when I was about 15 when I bought Pork Soda and I was OBSESSED, just like I am now 19 years later, with the drums on that album! Especially the song Bob, the drumming on that track is out of this world!
I didn't realize how much similarity there is between the bass and clawhammer-style banjo. The explanation on "Lacquerhead" is basically an introduction to banjo picking in that style. Pretty cool
I only own 4 strings, and I can play a butt ton of the 4 string riffs he has. The ones I love that I never learned because I don’t have atleast a 5 string are ones like The Carpenter and the Dainty Bride, The Last Superpower, On The Tweek Again and my favorite favorite The Chastising of Renegade. The slides between 8/9th fret with the percussive stuff on top then he hits ya with that 3rd/8th fret slide. MAN! That’s a bad ass bass riff.
Les Claypool and Mark Sandman two most underrated/unknown bass players of the last thirty years. Do Morphine next! DON’T ACTUALLY DOOO MORPHINE… Didn’t work out for Sandman, obviously, or a lot of others… but his music is out of this world!
Seen primus last night at stage AE in Pittsburgh Coheed Cambria opened I took my son and he wanted to leave after Coheed it was a great show but I told him you are about to have your mind blown he laughed it off and agreed after the first song he could not believe what he was seeing and hearing the look and emotion was priceless and I had to explain when the primus sucks chants started great show got to hang out with my adult son and have a great time
If I am not mistaken his first base was a jazz bass. It was not long after that he got the CT though. I believe from a pawn shop for $700 he plays his own bass now the pachyderm bass all his CTs are road retired.
The Carl Thompson Antimatter bass that was used on Antipop and Snocore Tour was my favorite of all his basses. Even though it's 36" scale, the sound is incredible.
I friggin love you guys! You picked some good ones for sure. Would’ve loved to see Golden Boy broken down off the Brown album. That one’s eluded me for years! Great work!
"I'm gonna send this to my enemies..." - Did you notice the 'friendly' beef Danny Sabko only recently started (just to make it to this comment section I suppose ;-) )
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I saw Primus at - No Kidding - Shenk Hall in Milwaukee with about 6 people in the audience. They invited us all backstage after the gig to hang out and eat up the rest of the catered food. About 6 months later they blew up huge! Super nice guys.
Sooo jealous
That’s fuckin awesome
That's wild bro.
Best Napoleon Dynamite Voice: “LUCKY!!!”
They sound like good people, can't waste the expensive catered food might as well feed the audience.
Les can slap, sing and duck walk at the same time better than I can do any of the three at once. He is from another world for sure
interesting video ,,, loads of stoner bass slap ,,
alien mode for sure
Don't forget the stomp!
Les is a true original. You guys nailed it when you said that no one sounds like him, even if they're essentially playing the same thing. If the bass playing wasn't enough, the fact that he sings over all that dexterous chaos is (to me) what makes him an alien. Superb job, Scott & Ian.
not only sings but actually wrote most of the long, complicated and nonsensical lyrics
Tony Levin was playing these in the 60,s then got better from there. Les even said that Tony was an inspiration.
My Name is Mud has one of the greatest, and most unsettling, bass lines I’ve ever heard.
it was my introduction to the band
💯💯💯
in fact, if you don't have 20-30 kilowatt subwoofers, then you haven't heard this song.
Yeah, where was it?
@@eLiBoBBer I don't, but I have heard it played live twice, and the second time, I was right up on the barricade in front of Les and could hear it coming not just from the PA speakers but directly from his amp as well.
He's like that goofy uncle that is secretly really good at something
His steampunk look along with the way he stalks and struts around the stage 😂
He's Rick from Rick and Morty
@@AnnaKissed36 but with the Monty Python ministry of silly walks stage antics 😂
Right, as if there’s a complete wall dividing Freddie Mercury from Farruhk Bulsara.
Just like Devin Townsend. Funny uncle who can shred
Primus? Instant watch. Les was quoted saying “Suddenly, there were a lot of things I could play that I couldn't do on my Ibanez.” When referring to playing his first Carl Thompson
Ibanez Musician! The guy at the music store talked him out of a Rickenbacker and into an Ibanez Musician
Lol I have a sound gear
Les Claypool, in a Q&A, Admitted that he actually kind of stole the Carl Thompson. He played it in a store, fell in love, then went to get the $600 it was being sold for. When he got back with the money, the shop had learned how much the bass was worth and raised it to something like $1200 (80s money). Les told the salesperson that he was promised to be sold it for $600, so the salesperson split the difference and let him buy it at $800. Les only had the $600 in his account, so he wrote a check that 100% bounced. But, by the time the store would have found out, he was long gone. He also said he tried to repay them, but their store went out of business.
All cause of him!
😊
That's the same QnA story he told us! Wild!
In no way shape or form is the conclusion of that story that he stole it. But cool story tnx for sharing
@bokaboka4675 taking something with a check you knew would bounce doesnt get much simpler in its definition
That is the most Les Claypool of outcomes that could have happened.
Ian is KILLING the Claypool stuff. That shit is hard.
He 100% earned you a subscriber.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@IanMartinAllisonyou’re a mad lad!! Thank you so much!!
Yes!! I’m so happy that Les Claypool/Primus is finally getting the recognition he deserves!! Thank you so much guys!!
idk about finally but it is deserved no doubt
@@MongoHongosthat’s cuz *PRIMUS SUCKS!*
And I’m in love with them
huh? they have long been considered legendary.
@@spoonysmalls I’m talking about from this channel
My patriarch of bass knowledge just passed(my brother), and I just wanna say this video brings so many warm thoughts to my heart... Thank you for this beautiful video...
sorry for your loss. im relatively new in my bass journey but whenever i learn these songs i'll do it in honor of your bro!
@Keychain- much love to you and yours, brotha man 🤘💙💚🤘
“Golden Boy” is the absolute most fun bassline of all time. Please do a whole entire video on it. At the very least, learn it for your own enjoyment and jam sessions. Your drummer will love you for it too.
Scott's "WTF??" on "Is It Luck" was epic!!
🤣🤣🤣
Les Claypool's music was the reason i started playin' bass 20+ years ago. Legend. 👍
🧡🧡🧡
I will never forget that the friend who introduced me to bass, unluckily passed away 15 years ago, was a strong fan of Les Clayppol and Primus. He was obsessed with him! ♥
I'm always amazed by his angular lines... big leaps between notes, and the tritones. His guitar player is equally insane, similar to Frank Black of the Pixies, or Buckethead. Constantly searching for the tones that rub the most, and cause the most tension. Almost like they're playing a different song completely. "Careful with that axe Eugene"... Nobody else writes like this... it's unique.
I'm a massive fan of Ler his guitar work is absolutely insane! His weirdness is perfect for Claypools weirdness also lol
Frank Zappa on Larry LaLonde: "Larry is the only guy I ever met that learned all the chords so he could play outside them"
My childhood just flashed across my eyes. Les Claypool broke down all barriers of music for me. I truly appreciate how talent could be so different across all genres. What a fun time to be alive blasting Primus Sucks out my ‘81 Honda Accord 😂
I saw Primus at Lollapalooza Dallas, TX in 1993 and Les Claypool's playing blew my mind. I saw Primus again at MGM Las Vegas, NV in 2019, and Les Claypool's playing was on a whole different level. Amazing unique talent!
Please MORE Claypool on this channel!!!!
Awesome content guys! Great breakdowns of the parts and your joy and excitment are so communicative, that I am willing to break my fingers trying to play those riffs :)
I've been lucky enough to have seen them all performed live multiple times. Les is always a phenomenal live experience. Never know what he's gonna make that bass do.
Southbound Pachyderm is my favorite bassline
& a great way to learn how to use your bass in quite unconventional ways :-)
Tales From The Punchbowl and the Brown Album are forever burned in my brain. So good
I'm a guitarist, not a bass player and I can sense the amount of effort that went into getting this all together.
Not only does he play this insanity, he dances and sings along to it. Dude IS an alien.
Right?! lunacy!
Scott & Ian are the bass players I would want in the STUDIO with us! They are the real deal. Love you guys! More Primus! This is Epic as always! Stay frosty!
People don't understand how hard it is to control that strum man incredible stuff guys
Les is great! Awesome video, guys
Nice work, i dont want to burst your Les bubble but when i see someone singing, dancing and completely comanding the stage while playing as he does is the day that will never come, not to mention that alot of that stuff is 30 years or more old too. Les is just Les and only Les, amazing guy!!
I'm quite proud I can play these songs...even 'Is it luck'. Always bust out some Primus licks for a warm up in the studio...my mate always tells me 'It isn't a Primus tribute band' 😂
Can't warm up with ANY bass line that's recognizable to not-bassists without getting shit for it😂
FINALLY SOMEONE PLAYING IS IT LUCK RIGHT! It really is that simple, people just think there's a bunch a crazy stuff he's doing when in reality it's simple but just really fast
One thing I love about the setup in this video is the two basses and how they compare to each other. Both seem to be customs, but they seem to be polar opposites as well. Ian has a Jazzed up (possibly blinged) classic looking bass; meanwhile Scott's is a more modern looking bass. Opposite fretboard colors and different string amounts. Just makes for an awesome video esthetically.
Saw a guy at my job with a Primus shirt and asked if they had gone to their recent concert in Texas, and he was so excited about them and said they were perfect note-for-note, just like the studio recording
20+ years working and I've met 2 Primus fans. Became great friends with 1 of them.
Well done, Ian!! I went on the same journey 20+ years ago. No way It has been that long! Just the effort of learning these lines taught me so much about playing. So difficult... so fun!
30 years ago this video would have been quintessential as a (relatively) young bass-player. Now I just press the "like"button. Great stuff!!!
Love the passion of you guys to express how unique is Les Claypool, is like me and my friends when we had 15 years old and we discovered this sounds of freakiness. Great to see you play in the most correct way Tommy the Cat!
So glad you covered “is it luck” and “as the toys go winding down.” By far two of Claypool’s most challenging. I think Les plays is it luck with the trem engaged for more sway in strings. Ian’s gain sounded fantastic!
I just love to see these two having so much fun and not taking everything so seriously!
This video is timed so perfectly because I've been in a black hole of Primus/Les music. Primus is absolutely brilliant, and Les has also made incredible music with side-projects like Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Oysterhead, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, and several other projects and collaborations. Any fan of Primus and bass guitar owes it to themselves to check out all of this other incredible music that Les has been a big part of.
And, thank you very much for the video! Very well made and entertaining! 🙂
🧡🧡🧡
absolutely love that youve included Is It Luck? in this list. Probably my favorite Primus song
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I learned most of his stuff in the 90’s and it’s all energy.. when n I went to see them I have never seen a crowd so energized before in my life and I’ve been to many concerts. The man is probably one of my best influencers in my playing style.
Haven’t listened to Primus, but now I will. You guys are a great duo for this channel. Thank you, sirs. 🙏🏼
Cheers, and have fun checking out Primus!!
Watching you two celebrating Primus and Les kept me entertained for half the day. Always pausing the clip in between, trying some licks or basslines, failing, trying the next one, adapting it to my playing, was such a educational and fun thing. Great job, thanks a lot!
ive been playing bass since i first heard primus in 91.
its been a point of pride that what i can play ive learned mostly by ear. and what ive not, ive at least understood... except " is it luck." " is he popping/ no its tap/ no its popping/ no its a combo of both!"... thank you fot this. amongst all the other great things yo do on this channel.
Terrific video boys! I first saw Les Claypool strutting his stuff on stage at Wembley Area when Primus were opening for Rush's Roll the Bones Tour. I was totally blown away by how crazy, weird and addictive their music was!! Been a fan ever since.
I actually just spoke to Les and Lar a couple weeks back in Indiana. Les said that his first Bass was an Ibanez. He chose it over the Rickenbacker that was in the same store and regretted it later LOL.
He never owned his own Rickenbacker until Primus did their Rush Tribute to Kings tour and Tribute shows for Neil Peart.
That would have been my first time seeing them alive. And then they cancelled the European part of the tour. 😭
I love Les Claypool he is an absolute monster.
I remember I taught myself the tapped out part to DMV many years ago when I was in college. Good times!!!
Les made me fall in love with music. He will forever be my #1
John the Fisherman is my favorite Primus bass line. First one I ever heard and its still my favorite.
Great video my fave dynamic duo. Can’t get enough Les
I’m not even a bass player and you got me hook, line and sinker. New sub. Amazing work
Claypool has an amazing style and that one leg hop just perfectly executes the tone 💪
One of the things I really love about him is that he is an example of what it is to be someone who just starts trying shit and does what they feel and ends up creating a style that’s copied or tried to figure out if that makes sense. To me,so many of my favorite players are those types. Plus, the singing and songwriting and creating a vibe is an even huge or part of it.🤙🏻
Never forget my introduction Primus was as a young crazy young 20s guy who liked to get extremely high and watch Beavis and Butthead! Les is an alien, but so is Ler! While Les is the most underrated Behs guy, Ler is that same for guitar! Those two meeting, along with Les's crazy 6 string Packy's, totally changed music for this guy with two thumbs.
Nice!! Been waiting for you guys to make more Primus videos, and with tabs! Thank you guys! Great video and great songs
Ive been playing Primus, since i was a teenager! Seeing this video pop up, hooked me in fast! Lacquer head. Use to play that in a cover band, and that fill after the first chorus.....cant do it. I figured out what hes doing, but i cant....not that way. I found that i can, if i lay my left hand, over the top of the neck! Looks cool, and is the same percussive sound! All 15 people in the audience loved it! 😆
Ian is an absolute BEAST! You guys are not mere humans......
Love Les Claypool....He is actually a decent writer. South of the Pumphouse is the name of his book....give it a whirl!!
Jon the Fisherman is my favorite Primus groove. James Brown fishing on Acid
One of my personal faves from Les Claypool is The Awakening. You guys did a great job on the video!
As a bass player (a terrible one but still) that loves practically everything Primus and Les Claypool, it still annoys how overlooked Larry and Tim are, this is a bass channel so it's ok, but everyone seems to forget the genious of the other two.
Anyways, nice video! Big love from Trondheim, Norway (where we have one of my favourite bass players of all time playing in my favourite band of all time).
One of the first Primus songs I ever heard was Mu name is Mudd.
It blew my mind how he can be that locked into the drums playing that complex of songs.
Simply mind blowing. Than years later I saw them live and it blew
My mind how good they were.
The boys have done it again! Best content on TH-cam!
I love Primus so much. Been a huge fan since I was about 7. Got to meet them last year after a show in Austin.
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I do love me some IMA. You’ve got the best attitude Ian, don’t ever change!
Thanks guys, so much fun & interaction between you two, aswell as an instructional homage to Les & Primus !
I JUST FINALLY got to see them, with a perfect circle and Puscifer. I always KNEW it would be AWESOME
Duuuuudesssss!!! The opening jam was absofreakinlutely dopeishly rad!!!
This is the one we've been waiting for.
4:34 I know exactly how much work he has put in. I have been trying to nail these lines for years. It's one thing to know how quiet another to play it well. With all these lines the fingering, strumming, slapping, and taping all have to be on point and confident or it won't sound good.
I remember being amazed at his right hand when I saw them live on Oct 24th 1995 ! (On my 18th birthday). Big influence on my playing at the time. Les is great!
This has to be the best video I've ever seen of yours (which is saying something because all your videos are great). The first time I heard Primus, I thought that what Les does is not humanly possible. The way you break everything down and explain how it's all played shows that it really isn't all that difficult. Humans can in fact play it. I'm not quite convinced that humans can actually CREATE that stuff, so yes, Les Claypool is an alien.
When i was a kid i went through and learned all the primus i could ive forgotten most of it since but this has been a nice blast from the past
I love this video so much - the guys reactions are pretty much how I feel listening to Les too!!!
Thank you for the video! Les Claypool was a huge influence of mine in high school (I am also a bassist born in 1978!). My band in high school covered “John the Fisherman” at battle of the bands my sophomore year! I actually sang it as well and we killed! I think a lot of my technique came from trying to cover Primus songs!
i respect that schott clearly doesn't like Claypool, but isn't stopping Iain from doing the vids about him.
When I was cca 17 I was obssesed with Primus. I learned almost every bass part there was. They are definitely not easy, but with some work one can master them. But the most insane thing to me is, that he is even able to sing while he's playing those.
💯💯💯
brain isn’t my fav primus drummer, but i love the sound of the brown album. they never sounded better.
Brain is a groove drummer. He's no Tim but he did a damn good job playing Tim's stuff.
His drums sound like John Bonham’s on “When the levee breaks” without the echo. Just Fat reverb and compression
IMO,
If you had to boil it down to the “one thing” that makes Claypool a giant it’s this,
He’s absolutely fearless!🤘🏻
Coming here as a drummer (and not a good one). Y'all are nuts. I didn't realize the guitar was just as difficult and nuanced. as drums. Cheers, brothers.
My 2 favorite things about Primus is the drums (Tim Alexander specifically) and the story telling! Primus has been one of my favorite bands since I was like 7 hearing Jerry was a Racecar Driver on Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Lol I rediscovered them when I was about 15 when I bought Pork Soda and I was OBSESSED, just like I am now 19 years later, with the drums on that album! Especially the song Bob, the drumming on that track is out of this world!
I didn't realize how much similarity there is between the bass and clawhammer-style banjo. The explanation on "Lacquerhead" is basically an introduction to banjo picking in that style. Pretty cool
Not much similarity unless you’re Les Claypool hahah
I only own 4 strings, and I can play a butt ton of the 4 string riffs he has. The ones I love that I never learned because I don’t have atleast a 5 string are ones like The Carpenter and the Dainty Bride, The Last Superpower, On The Tweek Again and my favorite favorite The Chastising of Renegade.
The slides between 8/9th fret with the percussive stuff on top then he hits ya with that 3rd/8th fret slide. MAN! That’s a bad ass bass riff.
Les Claypool and Mark Sandman two most underrated/unknown bass players of the last thirty years. Do Morphine next! DON’T ACTUALLY DOOO MORPHINE… Didn’t work out for Sandman, obviously, or a lot of others… but his music is out of this world!
He can do all that with a bass and be the lead singer at the same time. Legendary!
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Les was a big part of why I started playing bass. I'm a big fan of the weird and he is a master. We need to see him on SBL already.
We would LOVE to have him on here!!
Seen primus last night at stage AE in Pittsburgh Coheed Cambria opened I took my son and he wanted to leave after Coheed it was a great show but I told him you are about to have your mind blown he laughed it off and agreed after the first song he could not believe what he was seeing and hearing the look and emotion was priceless and I had to explain when the primus sucks chants started great show got to hang out with my adult son and have a great time
If I am not mistaken his first base was a jazz bass. It was not long after that he got the CT though. I believe from a pawn shop for $700 he plays his own bass now the pachyderm bass all his CTs are road retired.
You both are SUCH BASS MONSTERS 😮 !!!
Pure Genius. I've met the man three times, and every time, he surprises me with some sarcastic comment about fishing.
The Carl Thompson Antimatter bass that was used on Antipop and Snocore Tour was my favorite of all his basses. Even though it's 36" scale, the sound is incredible.
I friggin love you guys! You picked some good ones for sure. Would’ve loved to see Golden Boy broken down off the Brown album. That one’s eluded me for years! Great work!
Fantastic video, so much gratitude!
This is amazing. Great work on figuring out these bass lines! Greatest bass channel on TH-cam!!
I learned so much just watching this one. Epic episode folks!
"I'm gonna send this to my enemies..." - Did you notice the 'friendly' beef Danny Sabko only recently started (just to make it to this comment section I suppose ;-) )
I wonder if he got it
Most bad ass intro of any video to date.
Ive seen him live several times and still cant comprehend what he does
Just a cro-mag guitarist here… but I f-ing love this channel.
This type of video is pure motivation. I love that
Thanks for the video, guys! This is a great way to help unlock some of those legendary lines.
Glad you enjoyed this one!