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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Scott Legato/Getty Images Les Claypool sits comfortably in the pantheon of bass greats, ...

Primus got plenty of of airtime on MTV and college radio in the 1990s, thanks to songs like "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver." By the start of the next decade, though, the San Francisco band was ready for ...

Battle of the basses! Metallica's Robert Trujillo and Primus' Les Claypool went against each other in a bass battle in a new western-themed video called Precious Metals, which was directed by Claypool ...

As Primus prepare to launch their Rush tribute tour, frontman Les Claypool revealed that he’s been taking lessons from none other than Geddy Lee. Claypool posted a picture to Instagram of the ...

Leslie Edward Claypool is an American musician, best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the funk metal band Primus. Frequently considered one ...

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 ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Les Claypool (far right) has had plenty of extracurricular pursuits since the last Primus album. Green Naugahyde is the band's first long-player in over a decade. Primus got plenty of of airtime on ...