Leslie Edward Claypool,(Les)

Leslie Edward Claypool,(Les)

By Joe KennardMusic 1010

Les Claypool the Biography Born in California

Rancho Relaxo

Claypool Cellars

Music Beginnings

Discography Blind Illusion1988 - The Sane Asylum Primus 1988 – Sausage (demo)1988 – Sucking Songs

(demo)1989 – Suck on This

(live)1990 – Frizzle Fry1991 – Sailing the Seas

Of cheese

1992 – Miscelaneous Debry

1993 – Pork Soda SausageRiddles are Abound

Tonight Primus1995 - Tales from the

Punchbowl Les Claypool and the

Holy Mackeral1996 - Highball with the

Devil

Discography Continued Primus1997 – Brown Album1998 – Rhinoplasty1999 – Antipop Colonel Les

Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

2001 – Live Frogs Sets 1 &2

Oysterhead The Grand Pecking

Order Colonel Les

Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

Purple Onion PrimusAnimals should not

try to act like people

Discography Cont. Colonel Claypool’s

Bucket of Bernie Brains

2004 - The Big Eyeball in the Sky

Les Claypool2006 - Of Whales

and Woe Primus2006 – They can’t all

be Zingers

Les Claypool2009 – Of Fungi and

Foe Primus2011 - Green

Naugahyde

Listening Guide Primus – Tommy The Cat 5:26 Suck on This (Live)

Form

Timbre

Texture

Dynamics

Lyrics

Tommy the Cat Listening Guide Cont. 0:00 no music just

lyrics 0:08 Pre-intro 0:32 Claypool yells

out stop 0:40 Verse 1 1:01 Chorus music

between verse 1:35 Guitar joins 1:40 Verse 2 1:53 music stops 2:07 Chorus

2:14 Bridge with all instruments

3:20 Bridge continues with just guitar and drums

3:35 Bridge continues with just bass and drums

4:11 Chorus music 4:46 Chorus lyrics and

music 5:19 music fades and

audience cheers

Tommy the Cat History

Primus Suck on This (Live)

Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Primus Rhinoplasty

Lyrics

Listening Guide - Fisticuffs, by Primus The Brown Album

Form

Timbre

Texture

Dynamics

Lyrics

Fisticuffs listening guide cont. 0:00 Intro 0:12 Drums and

gutiar join 0:41 Verse 1

1:01 Chorus + add-on

1:22 Verse 2

1:43 Chorus + add-on

1:57 Bridge 2:24 Bridge with

guitar changing pitch 2:40 verse 3

3:12 Chorus + add-on

Coda

Finally

Fisticuffs History

Primus Brown Album 1997

Lyrics

Listening Guide – Iowan Gal, Les Claypool Of whales and Woe

Form

Timbre

Texture

Dynamics

Lyrics

Iowan Gal listening guide cont. 0:00 Intro

0:16 Verse 1

0:47 Verse 2

1:13 Verse 3

1:42 Bridge

2:46 Verse 4

3:20 Coda

3:26 Finally

Iowan Gal History

Of Whales and Woe

lyrics

Bibliography

Primusville.comThe Banjo Man 9/2009 by Curtis

Wright Cochlear implantThe Suck for your Solution - by

Blair R. Fischer Rolling Stone, March 1997

Cyberfunk, Guitar School magazine august 1995

Bibliography Cont.

Les Claypool gets a Taste of the Big Time - by Karl Coryat, Bass Player Magazine

Interview with Primus - by Greg Heller BAM magazine, July 11, 1997

Picture

Pic 1 – ClaypoolCellars.com Pic 2 - Austinpost.org Les claypool

Slaps your Eardrums Silly at Stubb’s 3/30/2010

Pic 3 – Ultimate-guitar.com/forums 2/2009

Pic 4 – Allstarpics.net Pic 5 – Sampson.washcoll.edu Pic 6 – Guitarmasterclass.net Pic 7 – Flickr.com/photos/dgans