Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Les Claypool sits comfortably in the pantheon of bass greats, thanks to his off-kilter slapping-and-tapping playing style and bold ...

Les Claypool remembers being 14 years old and in algebra class. Behind him was another guy, a friend who often had guitar magazines. Claypool’s compatriot would thumb through the pages and show him ...

Tim Alexander of Primus was an innovator in the alternative music genre and helped move along the idea of less being more. He ...