Les Claypool Tickets

About Les Claypool

Les Claypool who was born Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool has also worked his skills in songwriting, record producing, film making and of late, he is also a novelist. As a kid, Les Claypool was influenced by musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Led zeppelin, thanks to schoolmate and current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett. Like every musician worth his weight in gold, Claypool too started with the school band for which he learned bass guitar. His career in music began when the young Claypool played for an R & B band that covered big R & B hits called the Tommy Crank Band. Les Claypool owes his unique slap technique to musicians like Stanley Clarke and Larry Graham, whose music and performances he diligently watched and heard.

The busy Mr Les Claypool will be performing at venues like Summer Camp 2007, Eagles Club, House of Blues, Bogart's, The Roxy, Nokia Theatre Times Square, Electric Factory, Rams Head Live, The Orange Peel, The Pageant, The Vic, Wakarusa, Vogue Theater, Variety Playhouse, Jannus Landing, House of Blues, Stubb's, Ogden Theatre, The Depot, Marquee Theatre, 4th and B, Henry Fonda Theatre, The Warfield, McDonald Theatre, Roseland Theatre, The Showbox, High Sierra Music Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, All Good Music Festival and Gathering of the Vibes, to name a few.

South Of The Pumphouse is Les Claypool's first novel, a dark description of an array of issues like racism, drugs, brothers, murder and fishing. Astonishingly, South Of The Pumphouse is in its 5th printing. In 1998, Les Claypool appeared on Metallica's Garage Inc record where he played banjo for Metallica's cover version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone". Claypool also appeared in Limp Bizkit's Significant Other in the song, "Trust?" and also in the rare bonus track "The Mind of Les". On other occasions, Claypool has worked with Tom Waits ("Earth Died Screaming"; "Big in Japan"; "Hoist That Rag", "Shake It" and "Baby Gonna Leave Me" and mostly on Tom Waits' 3 CD-set "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards"), Kenny Wayne Sheppard Band, Rob Wasserman, Alex Lifeson, Jerry Cantrell, Bloem de Ligny, Gov't Mule, Adrian Belew, Gabby La La and Jack Irons, to name a few.

Claypool is settled in his home called "Rancho Relaxo"(a name which was inspired from a spa in The Simpsons) with his wife Chaney, daughter Lena Tallulah Claypool and son Cage Oliver near Occidental, Sonoma County, California.

An eccentric showman, fans and music lovers buy tickets to gigs where Les Claypool is performing to not only relish the music but also to enjoy what Les Claypool's attire would be. However, this does not mean he's a comical entity. If anything, Claypool is a drive, multi-talented musician and of course a very colorful personality, everyone adores.