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MonkeyphoneAlex 
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 Topic: A Les Claypool surprise
Posted: November 21 2007 at 09:48 |
 sean wrote:
MonkeyphoneAlex wrote:
Oysterhead has an excellent lineup: Claypool, Trey Anastasio of Phish, and Stewart Copeland of The Police! Bucket of Bernie Brains is awesome as well, with an equally excellent lineup, the only weak link being the drummer, Brain.
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i'm not too familiar with brain's drumming, other than on brown album and antipop by primus and i think he plays on cuckoo clocks of hell by buckethead, although i'm not completely sure. by those albums i can tell his drumming is certainly not bad, but not up to par with someone like tim alexander or stewart copeland.
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Yeah, he's certainly passable, but not necessarily impressive, technically, and I do believe he did a stint with Buckethead at some point.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 18:07 |
A B Negative wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
A B Negative wrote:
Starvsnr wrote:
Does anyone know of newer bands that cover prog bands? |
When I saw Mostly Autumn, they played a set of Floyd covers before doing a set of their own music.
I've never taken to Primus (had to endure them in concert twice), are Les Claypool's other projects very different? |
I'd be surprised if the other Les projects would appeal to you if Primus doesn't. Primus could pretty much be considered a Claypool project.
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Thanks for that, reckon I'll steer clear. |
No problem, I wouldn't advise anyone to buy something just because I love it and I am a heavy Claypool/Primus fan.
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A B Negative
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 12:38 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
A B Negative wrote:
Starvsnr wrote:
Does anyone know of newer bands that cover prog bands? |
When I saw Mostly Autumn, they played a set of Floyd covers before doing a set of their own music.
I've never taken to Primus (had to endure them in concert twice), are Les Claypool's other projects very different? |
I'd be surprised if the other Les projects would appeal to you if Primus doesn't. Primus could pretty much be considered a Claypool project.
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Thanks for that, reckon I'll steer clear.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 12:36 |
A B Negative wrote:
Starvsnr wrote:
Does anyone know of newer bands that cover prog bands? |
When I saw Mostly Autumn, they played a set of Floyd covers before doing a set of their own music.
I've never taken to Primus (had to endure them in concert twice), are Les Claypool's other projects very different? |
I'd be surprised if the other Les projects would appeal to you if Primus doesn't. Primus could pretty much be considered a Claypool project.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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A B Negative
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 11:28 |
Starvsnr wrote:
Does anyone know of newer bands that cover prog bands? |
When I saw Mostly Autumn, they played a set of Floyd covers before doing a set of their own music.
I've never taken to Primus (had to endure them in concert twice), are Les Claypool's other projects very different?
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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sean
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Posted: November 15 2007 at 21:30 |
MonkeyphoneAlex wrote:
Oysterhead has an excellent lineup: Claypool, Trey Anastasio of Phish, and Stewart Copeland of The Police! Bucket of Bernie Brains is awesome as well, with an equally excellent lineup, the only weak link being the drummer, Brain.
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i'm not too familiar with brain's drumming, other than on brown album and antipop by primus and i think he plays on cuckoo clocks of hell by buckethead, although i'm not completely sure. by those albums i can tell his drumming is certainly not bad, but not up to par with someone like tim alexander or stewart copeland.
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MonkeyphoneAlex
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Posted: November 15 2007 at 21:23 |
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Oysterhead has an excellent lineup: Claypool, Trey Anastasio of Phish, and Stewart Copeland of The Police! Bucket of Bernie Brains is awesome as well, with an equally excellent lineup, the only weak link being the drummer, Brain.
Edited by MonkeyphoneAlex - November 15 2007 at 21:24
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sean
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Posted: November 15 2007 at 21:20 |
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the only non-primus work of claypool i have is his solo album "of whales and woe", and i've yet to hear bucket of bernie brains, which i'd like to because buckethead is one of my favourite guitarists. i'm kind of curious to hear oysterhead as well because of the lineup and sausage because it is the early primus lineup.
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MonkeyphoneAlex
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 20:29 |
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Claypool is a genius... I was fortunate enough to catch Primus Live about a year ago. It kind of blows your mind. The Animals covers are spectacular, as is everything else I've ever heard by him.
Edited by MonkeyphoneAlex - November 14 2007 at 20:29
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST."
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 03:36 |
Mmmm, Bucket of Bernie Brains, must eat more brains! 
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Drakk
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Posted: November 03 2007 at 21:54 |
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Good stuff, really. Both the live set's are spectacular, and Purple Onions isn't bad either. I just hope he does more soon, I've been enjoying his work a lot lately.
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I'm disappointed - neither of these players are avant-garde!
Al di Meola.
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haha i know. but the poll itself is avant-garde
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micky
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Posted: November 03 2007 at 21:37 |
Starvsnr wrote:
I just purchased one of Claypool and the Frog Brigade
live CD because I seen he covered Thela Hun Ginjeet and Shine on you
crazy diamond. When I got it off amazon I only seen a track list
for one CD, but there is a second CD. The whole second CD they cover
Pink Floyd's Animals. Has anyone else heard this? It absolutely
incredible!
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it is.... i heard it some time back.. he is a real freak of nature... 
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Starvsnr
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Posted: November 03 2007 at 21:32 |
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Does anyone know of newer bands that cover prog bands?
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crimhead
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Posted: November 03 2007 at 20:07 |
Starvsnr wrote:
I just purchased one of Claypool and the Frog Brigade live CD because I seen he covered Thela Hun Ginjeet and Shine on you crazy diamond. When I got it off amazon I only seen a track list for one CD, but there is a second CD. The whole second CD they cover Pink Floyd's Animals. Has anyone else heard this? It absolutely incredible!
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Yeps, I got Frog Brigade set 2. It is a good cover of PF Animals and I would recommend it.
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Starvsnr
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Posted: November 03 2007 at 19:53 |
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Yeah, of all things I did not think his singing style would transfer, but it is done very well.
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magnus
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Posted: November 02 2007 at 19:12 |
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They did a good job covering Animals. Even Claypool's vocals work quite nicely.
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mrcozdude
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Posted: November 01 2007 at 04:44 |
I've only heard Purple Onion and the animals cd by the frog brigade,its pretty dam awesome i feared the worst with claypool's vocals but theres a few vocalists.but anway yeah its good!
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 31 2007 at 23:45 |
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Frog Brigade 1 is excellent. Haven't heard the Animal's cover disc. He also has many other good non-Primus projects worth checking out.
Actually, it was the Live Frogs that led me to Claypool and Primus/
Edited by Slartibartfast - October 31 2007 at 23:59
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Starvsnr
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Posted: October 31 2007 at 23:06 |
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I just purchased one of Claypool and the Frog Brigade live CD because I seen he covered Thela Hun Ginjeet and Shine on you crazy diamond. When I got it off amazon I only seen a track list for one CD, but there is a second CD. The whole second CD they cover Pink Floyd's Animals. Has anyone else heard this? It absolutely incredible!
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