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Les Claypool

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 29, 1963

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

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Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

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Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

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You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

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Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That's how you learn and grow.

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I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

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I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.

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For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

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I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

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I think Phish will come back. I just think it's time for a breather.

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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

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Music in general is looking for something new overall.

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My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.

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San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

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Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

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We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

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I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

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I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

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To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master.

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