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, ...

Here’s more from our Jambands 25 celebration: an interview with Les Claypool that originally ran in August 2001. Claypool’s Adverse Yaw: The Prawn Song Years box set, which includes the Flying Frog ...

Check out the custom Pachyderm guitar, which Les Claypool commissioned as a 50th birthday gift for Sean Lennon.

“It’s all just devil music,” he quipped. Then the bassist who founded the rock band whose eclectic music mixes funk, progressive rock and some punk leanings took the question more seriously. “It's ...

Les Claypool is a man of many faces. Whether it's that of an evil pig, Planet of the Apes style primate or creepy long-nosed warlock, Claypool has been known to switch personas mid-concert, employing ...

Les Claypool has always been a rather colorful character. He named the Pinot Noir he makes at his Claypool Cellars Purple Pachyderm (after Primus song "Southbound Pachyderm"), he unleashed the Brown ...

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 ...

Primus bassist Les Claypool is selling his “beloved” tour bus after putting in some serious miles on the road. “Les Claypool’s beloved tour bus, ‘Large Marge,’ is now up for sale on eBay,” the band ...