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Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: FC Bass on July 16, 2011, 03:04:22 PM

I was in a corny mood today: What would have happened if Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?  
Watch and shiver...  Youtube link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdUc1_-ufTM target=_blank)  
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Featuring my '90 Elan and '06 Fretless  

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Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: rraymond on July 16, 2011, 03:24:18 PM

Dang, Flip! Those are two gorgeous basses!

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: tbrannon on July 16, 2011, 05:17:35 PM

NIce work Flip!  I can't play repetitive triplets like that and stay anywhere near on beat.

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: 811952 on July 16, 2011, 06:53:27 PM

:-D

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: David Houck on July 16, 2011, 07:11:28 PM

Cool!

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: bigredbass on July 18, 2011, 10:54:42 PM

I imagine he'd have hung himself in a few years, as Lars Ulrich wouldn't have the slightest bit of funk or soul in his drumming, even if he had regular injections of fried chicken grease from a greasy spoon in Arkansas.  The ESP knockoffs of the Thompsons would have been interesting though . . . .
 
J o e y

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: bigredbass on July 18, 2011, 10:58:12 PM

And, oh yeah, NICE Elans, Flip.  
 
Myself, I've always admired that 'biga-da-bigida'
triplet pattern that Les kinda made his own.  Good on ya for spending tha much time in the woodshed !
 
J o e y

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: slicknickhaas on July 20, 2011, 05:21:55 PM

here you guys go, Les on his metallica audition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS6gwp6SeXM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS6gwp6SeXM)

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: mario_farufyno on July 21, 2011, 09:42:47 AM

I've said once, but I'll repeat myself anytime I see that Bass:  
 
Flip, you've got one of the finest, that fretless is awesome!

Title: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86?
Post by: FC Bass on July 22, 2011, 08:40:02 AM

Thanx all!
 
The fretless is only two holes away from getting Signature electronics, should make it even more awesome! :-) (now I must learn to play it in a proper manner)
 
Here's a nice one, from the master himself: Les Claypool playing a part of Master of puppets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDdrUi1HzI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDdrUi1HzI)