Despite slapping down the years on a variety of bass guitars, most of which have been custom jobs from Brooklyn luthier Carl Thompson in various string and fretted/fretless configurations, in 2011 ...

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Primus got plenty of of airtime on MTV and college radio in the 1990s, thanks to songs like "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver." By the start of the next decade, though, the San Francisco band was ready for ...

Leslie Edward Claypool is an American musician, best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the funk metal band Primus. Frequently considered one ...

“It’s all just devil music,” he quipped. Then the bassist who founded the rock band whose eclectic music mixes funk, progressive rock and some punk leanings took the question more seriously. “It's ...

RUSH’s longtime bassist, Geddy Lee, has announced the upcoming Paramount+ docuseries dubbed Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? The program will roll out in four parts beginning on Dec. 5.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

PITTSBURGH ― It was all about that bass Thursday at a sold-out Stage AE, with Les Claypool and his truly alternative rock band Primus eclectically rocking 5,500 fans under the clouds. Claypool's ...

Les Claypool (far right) has had plenty of extracurricular pursuits since the last Primus album. Green Naugahyde is the band's first long-player in over a decade. Primus got plenty of of airtime on ...