Les Claypool
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184 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Les Claypool’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now it'd be like having an eight year old and a 10 year old son, daughter, daughter, daughter, son, son, whatever you want to do, man. And say, Hey, I'm going to leave for the day, but could you guys build a deck? It's a shed with a bunch of tools right there. And then you came back at 5 o'clock and they tried to build a deck and used your stuff. The materials were all on site.
That's kind of how I think Jordan Poole plays basketball. I'll close with this. That was longer than 15 minutes. I had this conversation.
I think it's pretty clear how I feel about LaMelo. He's, he's not the option. He's more talented than some of the other options. Is Cam Thomas in the conversation? Is Vooch or Kobe White in the conversation? Cause then it can become like a little bit like, who do you want or who is it right now? I'm, I'm open to suggestions.
Like somebody offered up Lori Markin and I was like, come on, dude, that's, that's, I think sharp is good enough with Portland that I would put them ahead of some of these other dudes. Um, I mean, Toronto does not have an option because I think I'd rather have Scottie Barnes than everybody that I've just mentioned.
So let's strike that from the record as if he was even suggested because he wasn't suggested by a team. I'm just going through, okay, here are the bad teams. Because if you go through the other teams, like, you know, Bam is still a hell of a lot better than the worst team's best player. I'll submit Poole. Yeah, I think Jordan Poole.
But from a talent standpoint, there'd be teams that'd be like, no, there's no way. But do it. Go through the exercise. Look at every team. List the 30 best players on each and every team. And then tell me who actually has the worst best player. So is it even an insult? It's like, no, you're just not as good as the best player on every other team. I think it's Poole.
This is a real pleasure for me as a guy who has been a fan for decades and first opening Frizzle Fry. He is the bassist of Primus and generally considered one of the best bass players in the world. So quite the introduction, Les. Thanks for doing this. How are you?
All right. Efficient. So this drummer search, it's not something that you've not had to do before. So it's covered territory with the history of Primus. But what was different about this?
Yeah, the tryout part of it. How many different drummers did you try out? Because I know there were kind of different stages of the tryouts, but I loved reading about the journey of this.
So, yeah, it felt it was just a very classic Primus thing to do where I was like, I don't know if they're going to put this on Craigslist, but it it feels like once we were over 6000 applicants, it was it was similar. But now this is for a drummer who not only knows your music, but understands the level of musicianship that you bring in the history.
I have to imagine those tryouts, like as much as they're just supposed to play and impress you, it had to be kind of like noticeable to you, like who's playing freely and who's trying to win the job.
Because of your playing style, and I think there's almost like a joke where the older brother gets the guitar and the younger brother gets the bass. And there's just so many bass players. It's like, you just hang out in the back. We don't want to hear from you. We don't want you having any of the stage presence or anything. And you've been the opposite of that, which I want to get into.
But based on how powerful your playing is, is there something that you look for in a drummer that maybe other bass players aren't looking for?
I'd love to go back to some of the beginning stuff. I was watching all these YouTube clips the last couple of days in preparation for this. I was watching your Stanford radio gig, I think in 89. Oh my God. Shirt off.
I'm just thinking like, man, the fun and the freedom and you're about to, you know, become I know you were doing well locally and you're about to, you know, as the pivots towards the 90s, you know, take on a whole nother level of success. But I'd like to go back to the very beginning of it, because as an aside, When you look at different actors, actresses, it's like you can only do this, right?
There's certain movies I may not even like, but I'm like, I'm glad they made that one. It happens in a lot of kind of front facing industries where you're out there, your work is your performance. And people are like, these are the rules. Thinking about your approach. Hey, I'm a bass player. This is how I'm going to sing. These are the things I'm going to sing about.
And I want to have the bass be the lead attraction of this band, right? How many people told you you were out of your fucking mind in the beginning?
When did it click for you? I mean, first of all, that was an incredible answer. So it's what I wanted to dig into. I think I probably have a follow-up to that, but I have a follow-up before that one. It's just, I think those of us that can see somebody master something to the level that you have playing bass...
was there, I know all of us want to be like, did you just pick it up one day and you were, you were a natural and you were just a genius. Obviously that's not the answer, but what was the moment where it was like, Oh shit.
No, but I do understand it. I understand. I think that's one of the most amazing things about instruments is the first time you try to mess around with something, you go, what am I thinking? What am I thinking? And then there'll be that moment where the next day you'll go, wait, my finger just went there. It just went there automatically. And I don't care who you are.
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