#407:Les Claypool/Primus

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🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On today's Let There Be Talk my guest is the legendary Les Claypool musician, singer, songwriter, composer, author and actor best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the band Primus.

Les is one of the most original musicians i have ever met.

His Approach to songwriting and life is completely outside the box.

1 of the first times i ever saw Primus was at the Omni Nightclub in Oakland way back in the day and i was completely Blown away and i have been following them every since especially over the last 10 years.

Sit back and enjoy our conversation on Music,Songwriting,Comedy,Cars and of even Fishing.

Make sure you catch Primus on tour all this summer with Mastodon starting May 6th 2018 in Boulder Colorado at the world famous RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATER

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0:00.0	Hey what's up everybody thanks for tuning into another episode of Let the Re Talk
0:05.1	today is Monday February 12th and we are here in your speakers. I'm in your
0:12.6	speakers man. Anyway I hope you guys are doing good what is happening what an
0:19.8	insane guest today. Insane guest. My guest today is the man less
0:26.2	Claypool and I want to give you a little heads up on Claypool here. I
0:32.3	interviewed him the same day that I interviewed Tim which was the day
0:40.7	primus was playing at the will turn and I believe it was the last day of the
0:47.0	first run of their tour but anyway the way this show works is I just
0:52.7	constantly try to hustle guests and sometimes they happen and sometimes they
0:57.6	don't. Sometimes they have less minute and this particular day I was hoping to
1:05.5	get Tim on had Tim scheduled then it wasn't gonna happen then it might happen
1:11.6	because you know he was traveling with his family so and then let's said that
1:17.5	he would do it but I had not heard back from anybody so I just figured okay
1:22.0	I'm not going to be interviewing less and maybe I will interview Tim so I went
1:27.6	to the hotel and after a few hours the Tim episode happened and then while I was
1:36.2	doing the Tim episode I ran into less and he goes oh yeah I'll do it too so all
1:42.1	sudden here I am gonna do two hours of interviewing and I'm like oh fuck and
1:48.4	and that could get you know blurry I was going in with about 45 minutes of
1:54.7	time and just scrambling trying to cover a guy whose career is you know 35
2:04.9	years probably you know 30 35 years trying to cover that in 45 minutes and
2:11.0	most of you that listen to my podcast know that I like to go way deep and get
2:16.9	way into the person's career especially somebody that I am really respect and
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