Post Description

Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and author. He is best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, primary songwriter of the band Primus since its formation in 1984. Frequently considered one of the best bassists of all time, his playing style is well known for mixing tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends, and slapping.


Outside of Primus, Claypool has also been involved in a number of side projects, including supergroups such as Oysterhead (with Trey Anastasio and Stewart Copeland) and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (with Buckethead, Bryan Mantia, and Bernie Worrell). He also fronted the experimental rock projects Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade and Les Claypool's Fancy Band. He has self-produced and engineered several solo releases from his own studio, Rancho Relaxo, in California. In 2006, he wrote and directed the mockumentary Electric Apricot and released his debut novel South of the Pumphouse. More recently, he has formed musical duos such as Duo de Twang (with Brian Kehoe) and The Claypool Lennon Delirium (with Sean Lennon).

1988 - Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum
1993 - M.I.R.V. - Cosmodrome
1994 - Sausage - Riddles Are Abound Tonight
1996 - Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel - Highball with the Devil
2001 - Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - Live Frogs Set 1
2001 - Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - Live Frogs Set 2
2001 - Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order
2002 - Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - Purple Onion
2004 - Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains - The Big Eyeball in the Sky
2006 - Les Claypool - Of Whales and Woe
2008 - Electric Apricot Quest for Festeroo
2009 - Les Claypool - Of Fungi and Foe
2014 - Les Claypool's Duo de Twang - Four Foot Shack
2016 - The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Monolith of Phobos
2017 - The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Lime and Limpid Green
2018 - Beanpole - All My Kin
2019 - The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South of Reality
2022 - Blind Illusion - Wrath of the Gods
2026 - Colonel Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Return Of The Live Frogs Volume 1
2026 - The Claypool Lennon Delirium - The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy