Despite slapping down the years on a variety of bass guitars, most of which have been custom jobs from Brooklyn luthier Carl Thompson in various string and fretted/fretless configurations, in 2011 ...

Primus has long been known for creativity in the live environment, doing shows that paid tribute to the many influences that ...

May saw the reissue of Fender's best-selling bass, a custom Rickenbacker for Geddy Lee, and a supersized version of the daddy ...

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost a decade at this point, and Les Claypool still melts my brain. The American bassist, singer, and songwriter of Primus fame has been destroying the confines ...

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Explore the eccentric world of Les Claypool as he brings his unique projects to life in a wild musical performance.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Les Claypool is an unlikely alt-rock star. The gangly, nerdy, wholly unique bassist and songwriter’s style ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost a decade at this point, and Les Claypool still melts my brain. The American bassist, singer, and songwriter of Primus fame has been destroying the confines ...