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View Poll Results: John Entwistle or Flea?
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Old 07-31-2009, 01:18 AM   #51 (permalink)
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on the plus side, it seems we can both definitely agree on flea (although i prefer freaky styley over the self titled )
Oh I def do too, but I much prefer the album art from the first. Freaky Styley and Uplift Mofo are two of my all-time favorite albums. Although I prefer Les Claypool over "the squarepusher"...
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Old 07-31-2009, 02:00 AM   #52 (permalink)
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Oh I def do too, but I much prefer the album art from the first. Freaky Styley and Uplift Mofo are two of my all-time favorite albums. Although I prefer Les Claypool over "the squarepusher"...
have to agree on that album cover as well hehe. with the exception of blood sugar sex magic their album cover art never did much for me.

as for claypool, as you said earlier different strokes heheh. it's not that i don't like him or admire his talents i just don't find his output to really stretch out that much. he plays rock songs with freak out bass and that's about it. he has tons of ability but i find him almost lacking in diversity. it's like he created his own style and now he's stuck playing it forever.
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:45 PM   #53 (permalink)
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as for claypool, as you said earlier different strokes heheh. it's not that i don't like him or admire his talents i just don't find his output to really stretch out that much. he plays rock songs with freak out bass and that's about it. he has tons of ability but i find him almost lacking in diversity. it's like he created his own style and now he's stuck playing it forever.
Have you heard his solo work? I think it's right up your ally then haha...
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i've heard some of claypool's more recent output (not sure if anything was totally 'solo') but unless he stops 'singing' and just focuses on playing cool instrumentals i'm pretty sure i'd just as soon go back to my old primus discs.
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I don't think he lacks diversity, guy has like a hundred different side projects and they all do something a little different.
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mr. dave is right though, he just won't give up the mic (I like unique voices, even if they suck, cuz I don't give a **** about vocals). If I had to suggest something for him I guess it would be Oysterhead because Les doesn't handle all of their vocals or the Frog Brigade because they are way more jam oriented and thus less singing...
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I don't think he lacks diversity, guy has like a hundred different side projects and they all do something a little different.
this is what i'm getting at though. take a handful of his tracks from various projects and play them for someone who never really paid attention to claypool or primus besides when 'wynonna's big brown beaver' was all over tv? ultimately how different are those groups to a casual listener? that's what i mean by diversity, not that he's not prolific, but that it's just more of his stuff, you need to be well versed in his material to be able to see the subtleties that divide the other groups.

if the side projects are just a little different than i don't think they really need new names. from what i heard of oysterhead and frog brigade it sounded like more primus with a slight twist, i suppose they needed to use new names due to legalities involved with prior groups but still.
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It would be stupid to call all of it Primus, they're all completely different bands with different lineups.

With Oysterhead for example, it dosen't sound to me like Anastasio is imitating Lerlonde, he's being himself, so it's not Primus.

Even if he always plays in that distinct slapping/muddy tone style, he implements it into a lot of different styles of music and that's not as easy as you're making it out to be.
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i'm not saying it's easy, i'm saying it's claypool straight across the board. regardless of who's drumming or noodling on a guitar, it's still a claypool outfit. it still ends up sounding like a claypool outfit. i call it similar to primus because that's the one i know best.

the biggest challenge in that situation is not applying the odd style to a slightly different way of playing a rock song but getting over the attitude that applying an odd style to a slightly different way of playing a rock song has to be complex or challenging. it's a common failing with so many amateur musicians, the physical ability is rarely the true limiting factor.
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