Author Topic: What If Les Claypool would have gotten the job @ Metallica in '86? (Read 146 times)

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

Featuring my '90 Elan and '06 Fretless

(There's always a good excuse to spam these pics) :-)

rraymond · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2011, 03:24:18 PM »

Dang, Flip! Those are two gorgeous basses!

tbrannon · « **Reply #2 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.

811952 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:53:27 PM »

David Houck · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:11:28 PM »

Cool!

bigredbass · « **Reply #5 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

bigredbass · « **Reply #6 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

slicknickhaas · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2011, 05:21:55 PM »

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

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #8 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!

FC Bass · « **Reply #9 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