Latest about Les Claypool
Les Claypool: “The Pachyderm bass has one knob on it, a volume knob: I don’t want any tone”
Primus’ bass wizard tells us all about his Pachyderm bass and exactly what naugahyde is
The 10 best covers of Charles Mingus songs
From Keith Richards to Joni Mitchell, we chart the 10 best takes on ‘The Angry Man of Jazz’, Charles Mingus
![[L-R] Les Claypool and Willow Smith](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Gha8XtUxotzQgeKzvEV92n-840-80.jpg.webp)
Les Claypool praises Willow Smith's Primus cover: “Fine guitar pickin’ there young fiery lass”
Willow donned her one-of-a-kind St. Vincent signature model to play one of Larry LaLonde's signature avant-garde leads
Les Claypool says he was on acid during Primus’ 1992 MTV Spring Break performance – “everything I saw was just orange”
The bassist extraordinaire has been reflecting on Primus’ early years amid the 90s alternative boom, in which the band got picked up by MTV before Metallica... It was quite literally a trip
Primus cancel European leg of A Tribute To Kings tour due to “unavoidable logistical challenges”
The mammoth Rush tribute tour comes to a premature end
Rush’s Geddy Lee on A Farewell To Kings, Les Claypool the bassist, and what he thinks of Primus playing the album live in its entirety
Playing A Farewell To Kings in full is not for the fainthearted. Even Geddy Lee, the man who recorded it, thought Les Claypool “was a little bit nuts” for attempting it
Les Claypool: “Singing Geddy Lee parts and playing bass, or just singing Geddy Lee parts period, is f**king hard, because it’s up in the upper stratosphere”
Primus are currently on the road, playing the Rush album A Farewell To Kings in its entirety. We ask Claypool what made him embark on such a mad endeavor
![[L-R] Les Claypool, Eugune Hütz and Volodymyr Zelensky](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DYX5SsknWPkjWsQmVWtawi-840-80.jpg.webp)
Primus's Les Claypool teams up with Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hütz for Volodymyr Zelensky tribute song, The Man With the Iron Balls
The charity single also features The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, John Lennon's son Sean, Billy Strings and Hütz’s bandmate, Sergey Ryabtsev
![The Night Flight Orchestra all glammed-up in stage clothes and photographed against a green backdrop: guitarists Rasmus Ehrnborn [second from left] and Sebastian Forslund [fourth from right]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wy6UcSKUxjjiWvEWzYf3y3-1280-80.jpg.webp)