Les Claypool of Primus performs on the opening night of their "Tour De Fromage". Photo by J. Shearer/WireImage) Les Claypool’s use of chords on bass guitar, his technically brilliant right-hand ...

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 ...

Renaissance Man. Those probably aren't the first words that come to mind when people see a man wearing a pig mask on-stage.[split] But this is Les Claypool, a bass playing god from his days with the ...

If you thought Les Claypool couldn’t get any stranger, think again. A new album inspired by the music he made for the movie “Pig Hunt” and video game “Mushroom Men” has led to a one-of-a-kind, ...

Metallica and Primus wouldn’t exactly make great bedfellows, the aggressive, angular riffs of one in stark opposition to the psychedelic experimentation of the other. But Claypool, then a bright-eyed ...

The 60-year-old musician and performer Les Claypool is considered to be one of the greatest bass players ever. Off-kilter and quirky, the frontman for bands like Primus and Colonel Les Claypool’s ...

Aside from acting, Jason Momoa has also been known to slap some bass. He celebrated his 41st birthday in August, and to mark the occasion, Fender sent him a custom Fender Precision Bass. Now he’s ...