Primus legend Les Claypool famously auditioned for Metallica following Cliff Burton’s death in 1986. In a new interview, Claypool clears up some misinformation about the audition and claims he ...

Primus‘ Les Claypool has shared a western movie-inspired short film in which he appears alongside Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo – you can watch it below. The five-and-a-half-minute Precious Metals, ...

Metallica and Primus wouldn’t exactly make great bedfellows, the aggressive, angular riffs of one in stark opposition to the psychedelic experimentation of the other. But Claypool, then a bright-eyed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Les Claypool backstage on August 4, 1995 in New York City, New York. Lars Ulrich of Metallica performs at Royal Arena on February ...

Bass Magazine celebrated all things bass at their annual awards on Thursday night (1/23), which happened at The Observatory in Santa Ana. Les Claypool was one of the evening’s honorees, and he ...

Fans of the 1990s funk-metal band Primus can’t forget that famous live footage from Woodstock ’94. In it the band’s resident bass god, Les Claypool, dexterously covered Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” ...

Battle of the basses! Metallica's Robert Trujillo and Primus' Les Claypool went against each other in a bass battle in a new western-themed video called Precious Metals, which was directed by Claypool ...

Primus frontman Les Claypool infamously auditioned for Metallica following the death of Cliff Burton. As talented as Claypool is, it seems like everyone agrees that would have been a bad fit, and ...

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