Les Claypool (live) - Whamola jam - 06-04-09

[TAYLORHWALL]

NICE!

[SystemFreaKk13]

hahahaha hes staring RIGHT AT THE CAMERA

[akerswizard779]

Like number 100.

[murdblackdahliamurd]

2 people had an abusive father..

[KreiderJr]

Just saw Les n the boys at All Good this weekend. Fucking epic.

[karinazoe]

talent.

[eelexa]

When he starts up at 0:50 it's such a deliciously sleezy sound.

[ArgHamster]

Why is he dressed like Dubya?

[nic235235]

I've actually been trying to make one of these.

[eccho13]

This is probably one of my favorite jams ever

[renegades1106]

i plan on building a whamola of my own, but i'm having trouble finding materials can someone give me a good website. i'd appriciate it.

[MrJas1991]

I wanna see les claypool live on acid

[cluckstick]

ok wait. everyone who enjoyed this needs to look up That1Guy. he's a one man band who creates all his instruments out of junk. look up his version of somewhere over the rainbow, its orgasmic.

[alpenbum]

Love the Whamola! Got to see him play this twice. Blew my mind both times!!

[MrAbawmidabull]

dude could play a solo on a cereal box and sell a platinum record of it

[jessedyck1]

@MrAbawmidabull he really could

[aysonator]

can someone please explain how that works? its really weird, love it tho, the way les walks off-stage is so funny XD

[Slapbass19]

This is sick!

:D

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[YouNeverMind00]

6;35 is fuckin funny

[hentajus]

@YouNeverMind00

yeah 6:35 was real funny >_<

[maxbindt]

on 2;32 he is walking normal!!!!!!:o

[yonz1111]

i saw this show in calgary and it was the sicked show i have ever seen . les in a genius with any stringed instrament . and the masks were rad he wore like 4 .

[JordanMcReilly]

lol 2:18 i love the monkey dance

[nickhlosat]

WHAT A SPAZZ!!!!!

[steviefabulous1990]

what is this thing he's playing???? does anyone know how to make one??

[enterthetoucan]

no. he invented it though, its called a whamola... its basically a bass string attached with a whammy bar at the end..

[AliceBendz]

It's a whamola, his own invention.

[Chunkadook]

i don't think he invented it.

[AliceBendz]

I think you might be right. But the one he uses is of his own craft.

[Dashizz327]

@Chunkadook he reinvented it.

[sociopathix]

he didnt come up with this but as far as i know he came up with the idea for a banjo bass. (there were banjo cellos tho)

[mrjonthehat]

Fairly easy to make - I built one using the instructions given by youtube user NapoleonXV - in his clip, called 're: how to make a whamola'

Claypool didn't invent it, he was given one.

[zben504]

@steviefabulous1990

It has the low string from an upright bass basically attached to a long stick with one pickup mounted on it. The handle is attached to the string then counter-balanced with a heavy spring. He's just hits it with a drumstick. A friend of mine made one a couple years ago. His was pretty ghetto though.

[gabbledegak]

Fans made it for Les and asked him to play around with it and see what he could do with it. Les didn't come up with the Whamola, but he sure as hell mastered the strange contraption. Primus Sucks!

[BeardedBuddhist]

@gabbledegak "Fans made it for Les and asked him to play around with it and see what he could do with it. Les didn't come up with the Whamola, but he sure as hell mastered the strange contraption. Primus Sucks!"

Awesome, thanks for that info!

[askmemyusername]

@BeardedBuddhist so he is like mcgyver rubberband a chewing gum type deal?

[skatinsince97]

has buckethead been in any of these?

im going to a les claypool show in feb.that would be sweet to see a les/buck jam

[usulkane]

its hilarious when i tell my parents: guys, this is today's jimi hedrix!

[tossingmidgetsforfun]

Amazing still.

[brawler7755]

You can't beat the best. :D

[cedney25]

freakfest

[ndean555]

les for president...great jam

[askmemyusername]

he did a show in albuquerque and it was awesome i was right there and him and chelo guy were fucking awesome

[RegulasDark]

I went to that same show. it was really awesome

[shaftablaze]

pass the lsd please

[caingerdanger]

you win this comment thread.

[renandstumpd]

That show was awesome. Anyone know if they have the matisyahu set on here?

[MANdouche]

It was a kickin show

[therednex]

Any idea what his setlist was?

[YRtist]

Highball w/ the Devil David Makalaster > Southbound Pachyderm > David Makalaster II Amanitas Dutchess and the Proverbial Mindspread Red State Girl Hendershot Mr. Krinkle Tease > You Can't Tell Errol Anything Drums > Whamola Jam Booneville Stomp Buzzards of Green Hill D's Diner Up on the Roof

[therednex]

Awesome thanks!

[hashsmk4life]

holy shit that set list is freakin awesome. and i thought the bonnaroo 08 set of his was the best for a while