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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I've been playing the bass guitar for almost a decade at this point, and Les Claypool still melts my brain. The American ...

“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 ...

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