Les Claypool

'Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?' Has No Rhythm and Contributes Nothing

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2023

Geddy Lee, a Canadian icon for the past 50 years, is admired for his immense musical talent, gentle quirky energy and unabashed nerdiness....

Geddy Lee Covers All the Bas(s)es in Docuseries with Members of Nirvana, Metallica, Hole, Primus

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2023

Rush singer/bassist, memoirist and Murdoch Mysteries scene-stealer Geddy Lee has questions. Well, one in particular: do bassists qualify as...

Les Claypool Reflects on His "Heavy" Metallica Audition

PUBLISHED May 18, 2021

Before Metallica named Jason Newstead as their new bassist following the death of Cliff Burton in 1986, the band auditioned a series of oth...

Josh Homme Details 'Desert Sessions: Vols. 11 & 12'

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2019

After plenty of teasers and speculation, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has lifted the curtain on two new volumes in his Deser...

Sean Ono Lennon

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2019

By his own reckoning, Sean Lennon is only famous for being the only child of Yoko Ono and her husband, the late John Lennon. But he's been...

Les Claypool Develops the World's First "Soothing Soda"

PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2016

Twenty-three years after first spraying Primus's Pork Soda all over our eardrums, fluttery-fingered funksmith Les Claypool has announced he...

Death Grips

"More Than the Fairy" (ft. Les Claypool)

PUBLISHED May 31, 2016

After unleashing their Bottomless Pit earlier this month, Death Grips have pulled out an extra track from the experimental abyss. The avan...

Les Claypool to Get Slap-Happy in Canada This Summer

PUBLISHED May 28, 2009

As all bass guitar freaks, musical prodigies and general oddball miscreants already know, Primus/Oysterhead member and solo artist Les Clay...