les claypool fearless flying frog brigade free download An Overdose Of Fingal Cocoa. Remember, even Cathy Berberian knew that you don't do it without your fez on! Get this crazy baby off my head! 4.10.11. Colonel 's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Live Frogs Sets 1 & 2 - 2001 - Prawn Song. Live Frogs Set 1 is a live album by Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, released by Prawn Song Records on 10 April 2001. It chronicles the first part of the 8 October 2000 show the Frog Brigade played at the Great American Music Hall in , the second part released as Live Frogs Set 2. It is primarily composed of originals by the various side projects of Claypool and his fellow band members, sandwiched by two covers. Featuring legendary Les Claypool, original Primus (and later, Sausage) members and , on keyboards, Eenor ("the world's first guitar playing redwood tree") on guitar, and saxophonist , this jam album does not completely revolve around the bass of Claypool. The seven song set, featuring the classic "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", keeps the jam session going for at least 5 minutes a song, rotating solos between Claypool, Huth, Chimenti, Eenor and Skerik. This album was the winner of the Best Live Album at the Second Annual Jammy Awards show in 2001. Live Frogs Set 2 is the second set of live recordings by Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, released on July 24, 2001. The album is a complete performance of the Pink Floyd studio album Animals. It is introduced at the end of Live Frogs Set 1 as "more Pink Floyd than any human being should ever withstand", as the band's version of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" comes to an end. Taking a welcome break from Primus, this Les Claypool side project finds him reunited with Sausage bandmates and original Primus members Todd Huth (guitars) and Jay Lane (drums), but this time they've brought a few friends along for the ride. Keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, who's also in Ratdog with Lane, has played with jazz legends like Pharoah Sanders and James Moody; saxophonist Skerik has played with funksters Galactic and world music experimentalists Tuatara; and guitarist Eenor was chosen by Claypool from submissions he received from musicians around the Bay Area after placing an ad in the paper. Together, they tackle an hour-long, seven-song set that's long on prog rock-style jamming and short on "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver"-like accessibility. As if to reinforce the prog connection, the group's live debut opens with a 14-minute cover of 's "" and closes with a 12-minute version of Pink Floyd's "Shine on You Crazy Diamond." The five songs sandwiched in between are expanded versions of Sausage and Holy Mackerel tunes, but with the additional instrumentation and extended noodling, only "Riddles Are Abound Tonight" sounds much like the original version. Even if your wankery tolerance is low, Claypool fans will enjoy hearing the ol' boy obviously having the time of his life jamming with some mighty fine musicians. It may not make you forget the brilliance of Sailing the Seas of Cheese, but Live Frogs should help you forget the blandness of The . © Bret Love © 2011 Rovi Corporation. All Rights Reserved http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-frogs-set-1-r526982/review. If it takes serious chutzpa to play a legendary band's classic album live in its entirety, what type of cojones are required to record said performance and release it on your own label? That's precisely what the Flying Frogs' frontman Les Claypool has done with Live Frogs: Set 2, paying homage to Pink Floyd's dazzling (but underrated) 1977 conceptual epic, Animals. And although purists may bristle at the mere thought, it's actually not half- bad. Sure, it's a bit strange to hear Claypool's nasal twang tackling the pastoral balladry of "Pigs on the Wing," but when his crack ensemble launches into their sizzling version of the 14-minute "Dogs," all is soon forgiven. The sound stays surprisingly faithful to the original songs, making the album sound more like the work of a tribute band (albeit the greatest one since covered Quadrophenia) than musicians best known for innovative bands like Primus, Ratdog, and Tuatara. But open-minded Floyd fans will realize that Claypool's imitation is the sincerest form of hero worship -- er, flattery. © Bret Love © 2011 Rovi Corporation. All Rights Reserved http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-frogs-set-2-r541718. Tracks 1-7 Set 1 were recorded on October 8th and 9th, 2000 at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco. Tracks 1-5 Set 2 are covers of songs from Pink Floyd's "Animals" album. N.B: Both these sets were released as two separate albums. Quirky and eccentric at times, with a few "madcap" vocals thrown in, but great musicianship on both discs, and HR by A.O.O.F.C . If you like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, etc., you should find something here to interest you. It makes a change to hear Pink Floyd's great "Animals" re-interpreted. DSOTM has been covered to death at this stage ! Listen to Primus' extraordinary"Sailing the Seas of Cheese" album. [ 2 x rar files: All tracks @ 192 Kbps: Set 1 = 90.6 Mb: Set 2 (Animals) = 58.5 Mb ] TRACKS / COMPOSERS / TRACK INFO. 1. Thela Hun Ginjeet - , Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, (originally recorded by King Crimson) 2. Riddles Are Abound Tonight - Les Claypool, Sausage (originally recorded by Sausage) 3. Hendershot - Les Claypool (originally recorded by Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel) 4. Shattering Song - Les Claypool, Sausage (originally recorded by Sausage) 5. Running The Gauntlet - Les Claypool (originally recorded by Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel) 6. Girls For Single Men - Les Claypool, Sausage (originally recorded by Sausage) 7. Shine On You Crazy Diamond ( Version) - David Gilmour, Richard Wright, (originally recorded by Pink Floyd) 1. Pigs On The Wing Pt. 1 - Roger Waters (originally recorded by Pink Floyd) 2. Dogs - David Gilmour, Roger Waters (originally recorded by Pink Floyd) 3. Pigs (Three Different Ones) - Roger Waters (originally recorded by Pink Floyd) 4. Sheep - Roger Waters (originally recorded by Pink Floyd) 5. Pigs On The Wing Pt. 2 - Roger Waters (originally recorded by Pink Floyd) Eenor (aka Jim Bush) - Guitar, Cümbüş, Vocals Todd Paclebar Huth - Guitar, Vocals Les Claypool - Bass, Vocals Jeff Chimenti - Keyboards, Vocals Jay "Rhino Boy" Lane - Drums, Vocals Skerik (aka Marvin Pickles) - Saxophone. Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. Twas a magical night in the Warfield Theater. It's truly a great place, old-fashioned balconies and nice, airy atmosphere. I arrived late enough to catch the end of Boomshank and endure the B-Side Players. I purchased a Live Frogs CD, returned and saw a familiar-looking bald drummer toying with a drum-set onstage. Then, after half an hour, Les, clad in his customary antiquated military garb, odd hat, and joke glasses, took the stage with the brigade. It's going to be a good one tonight, he said. Just thought I'd let you know. He nodded at Eenor, and they hopped into Thela Hun Ginjeet, which stirred up a mosh pit, prompting Les to say I'm glad you're having fun, but respect the people around you, especially those of you in the mosh pit. Things died down, but every time he returned to the main bass line it started up again. He was a sight, bounding around with his tasseled epaulettes and the frills on his chest bobbing up and down. How does a thirty-seven year old man hop up and down for so long? Then Sgt. Pepper/A Little Help From My Friends keyboardist Jeff Chimenti filling in for absent saxophonist Skerik which is fast becoming their theme song. Jay Lane, who was sporting a bull/pig's mask sang A Little Help with altered lyrics such as, Are you sad because you're on your own/Fuck no! I get by with a little help from my friends. Ken Brooks played saxophone during Climbing Up the Ladder. Shattering Song: the second best song of the night. The bass was much clearer than the relatively muted sound from the album. During the heavy parts the mosh pit opened up so Les had to say Ya know, I see a couple of boneheads, and we don't want boneheads. Respect the people around you. This is the last time I'm going to say this. Brian Kehoe, (and it's rumored that MIRV himself is somewhere in the building) was introduced and proceeded to shred. 16 Shells From a Thirty Ought Six. Boring. But I knew what other song they would do on the upright, and that was Hendershot, which included a truly marvelous solo by Eenor, after which Les asked a bespectacled man Mr. Carney, I hear you know something about surf saxophone. Can you give us a sample well, more than a sample, how about a slab? The song ended with El Sobrante called him Hendershot. Berkeley called him Hendershot, and so forth. Hair, a song, had the most outrageous bass line. People did what may best be described as grooving; a gentleman called Houseman provided some vocals. I only same some' because Les stopped him in the middle with Hey Houseman, Houseman, Houseman, let me, let me tell you something: I say it's not fair to judge Houseman by the length of his hair. Houseman looked suitably baffled. Highball with the Devil: not as heavy as the album track. And Les played the acoustic guitar parts on his bass. I had hoped for the audience to sing along at the end, like the album, but alas! Les did the you brought this upon yourself, my boy, in a Scotch grandmother sort of voice. Ah yes, the greatest song of the night. Whamola. Jay played a techno/dance like beat on the drums and Les called bring out El Whamola-stick! or something to that effect, and was presented, on a laced pillow, what looked like a long metal rod with one string. The Whamola Stick has the best sound I have ever heard, akin to an electric razor being sawed in half. Les smacked it to death with his drumstick. DJ Disk added to the techno/dance feel and very suddenly robot-ed on stage and soloed. 2000 Light Years Away a quieter song; left of Eenor, and therefore barely onstage, wandered a hunched man with a large black jacket and an electric guitar. It was Adam Gates (AKA Bob C Cock), though I could barely hear him. Les saw him and stumbled over, mouth hanging open, and played with him for a bit. And Brian Kehoe played with his teeth. Shine on You Crazy Diamond Both Herb and Jay on this one. A truly wonderful rendition, the bright white lights completely illuminating the audience every time Les sang the chorus. Then they left. People started chanting Les, and he came back, singing, Come on, kiddies, gather round there's a new sensation in the town, it's called the Frog Brigade A-heuh-heuh A-heuh-hueh It's called the Frog Brigade. Taxman This version was pretty sloppy. joined. (Is this the only song he ever comes on for?). But after Eenor, Buckethead, Todd Huth, and Brian Kehoe, he wasn't too impressive. Tomorrow Never Knows This is the part in the show I like to call the clusterfuck. It's where we get every possible musician from backstage on for your entertainment. And what a clustery fuck it was. There was one bassist, one keyboardist, two drummers, two saxophonists, one yaili tambour player, five guitarists MIRV finally came on and one DJ. The song ended with people just each of the musicians walking off, one by one, starting with Les, who pointed at the audience repeatedy before doing so. In the end it was Jay and Herb playing in unison with an odd, looped note in the background. Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA. February 21, 2001. Opening act, Drums and Tuba were awesome. All instrumental. One guy playing the tuba (and occasionally the kazoo or trumpet), a guitarist playing thru some crazy effects and occasionally playing a standup guitar, and a drummer. The music was fantastic. If it weren't for the huge line at the merchandise stand I would have bought their disc. they played about 45 minutes. Colonel Claypool and Frog Brigade took the stage at just about 9pm. It was a huge lineup and I think the band must have had a competition among themselves on who could look the strangest. The drummer was wearing what looked like a white karate outfit and sort of a viking helmet; one guitarist was wearing a costume that looked right out of star trek; the other guitarist had longass dreadlocks and was wearing this strange black and yellow ex-metalhead outfit which was cut off around his shins to reveal his white sneakers; the keyboardist looked just like bob cat golthwait with a big tophat, shades, and trenchcoat; the sax player had this long blue coat (really looked like a bed spread wrapped around him) and this giant white afro wig with the hair in the middle of the wig pulled together and painted yellow to form a big yellow spike; and Les was wearing a blue revolutionary war jacket (with gold shoulderpad tassle things) and light brown on the rest of the uniform.. complete with the lttle bib thing they wear.. and of course.. sneakers and.. like the last time i saw Primus, his biker helmet. Musically, as expected, it was mostly a big jam session. The first song was 15 minutes long and amazing the whole way. Second song of the night? Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band..only with a Les twist and lyrics and redone as, "Colonel Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade".. too funny. very well done too. The band even went into "A Little Help From My Friends." Despite me being familiar with all of Primus, Sausage, and the Holy Mackerel CD, I only knew about half the songs. It really wasn't important to know any of the music, as the majority of the show was a fantastic jams session. Of the rest of the songs, most were songs from the Holy Mackerel album or cover songs (maybe the whole show was cover songs for all I know). They only played one Primus song.. "Harold of the Rocks": the perfect jam out tune which ended the show. "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver" was sort of played; well, not really: basically Les just drummed one string on the biker helmet. Musically, as expected, it was mostly a big jam session. The first song was 15 minutes long and amazing the whole way. Second song of the night? Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band..only with a Les twist and lyrics and redone as, "Colonel Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade".. too funny. very well done too. The band even went into "A Little Help From My Friends." Despite me being familiar with all of Primus, Sausage, and the Holy Mackerel CD, I only knew about half the songs. It really wasn't important to know any of the music, as the majority of the show was a fantastic jams session. Of the rest of the songs, most were songs from the Holy Mackerel album or cover songs (maybe the whole show was cover songs for all I know). They only played one Primus song.. "Harold of the Rocks": the perfect jam out tune which ended the show. "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver" was sort of played; well, not really: basically Les just drummed one string on the bass and spoke about half the lyrics in one straight breath.. real real fast. so. it wasn't the song at all. just the lyrics. very amusing. A major musical highlight had to be when Les brought out the standup fretless electric bass for "Calling Kyle." To add to the oddity, Les donned his mask to play this song (if you haven't seen it, his mask is an odd cross between pinnochio, a pig, and the phantom of the opera. creepy looking). Between the mask, the creepy sound of Les playing the upright with his boe, and the song itself, it was a very eerie, yet incredible song to hear played. Another highlight was his playing part of Cygnus X-1 (an old rush tune. it opens with some babbling about spaceships and I think I was one of the few who knew what song was about to be played after hearing that intro.. sure enough, the main Cygnus bassline came in a second later).. and the other big moment: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." Amazing. The crowd went wild when the guitarist, out of nowhere, played that opening signature lick. Les sang the whole song and there were a few jamout minutes between each verse. All told it was a great show. I didn't stay for headling act "Galactic". I almost wish I stayed to see Galactic only see how they could have possibly followed up the performance Les and the guys put on. Les and the Brigade played for an hour and 45 minutes. I had a great spot about 10' from the stage and the crowd was very mellow, and very appreciative of the jam session going on at House of Blues The crowd seemed to enjoy the show and there was very little moshing going on; it wasn't the wild pit area that I've been around other times I've seen Primus. As far performances go, Les claypool live is truly amazing to watch. If there is a "must see" act in music, its Primus. I've seen Rush my share of times, but with Rush the band sticks more to the album and doesn't come close to the jam out stage show that Les and the guys put on (reminds me of the Allman Brothers). The amazing thing about Les is how effortlessly he seems to play. I've recently started to learn bass (after having played guitar for four or five years) and I can't help but watch in awe at the sheer speed he plays (not to mention his ability to conjure up amazing bassline after bassline time and time again). Every song is an adventure. Central Gear. What a wonderfully inventive album. Les Claypool, perhaps best known for his work with Primus, branches off into the experimental, with Todd Huth, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti, Skerik, and Eenor joining him. It’s hard to describe a work this bizarre. It is the latest album from the band, after Live Frogs 1 and 2. The sound ranges from the childlike, to jazzy, to something entirely different. It is a good album though, and definitely worth a download. (I’ve taken the liberty to include 3 samples from the album–full tracks–that you can listen to if you’re not convinced. This will remain a permanent feature of the website) Note: The band also goes by “Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade” Les claypool fearless flying frog brigade free download. From the warped mind of Primus� frontman comes the official RSD Black Friday release of Colonel Les Claypool�s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade�s Live At The Great American Music Hall. This two-set, 12 track collection was recorded live over two nights in San Francisco and is available for the first time ever on three 140g transparent green vinyl LPs. Set 1 includes five Claypool originals bookended by superb King Crimson and Pink Floyd covers, while Set 2 is comprised of an unabridged performance of Pink Floyd�s legendary 1977 concert album, Animals. This release is limited to 3000 copies worldwide and serves as both a whimsical and potent homage to some of Claypool�s biggest musical influences.� �Thela Hun Ginjeet�/�Riddles Are Abound Tonight�/�Hendershot�/�Shattering Song�/�Running The Gauntlet�/�Girls For Single Men�/�Shine On You Crazy Diamond�/�Pigs On The Wing�/�Dogs�/�Pigs (Three Different Ones)�/�Sheep�/�Pigs On The Wings 2�