Fancy Friday

This is top notch fancy this week. Les Claypool and the Fancy Band performing "D's Diner" at Bonnaroo 2006. I know...hippies. Look, Les somehow always manages to headline these petchulli-twirly-mudbath festivals for some reason. He mocks the entire neo-hippie lifestyle through pun and sarcasm in the recently-released (and S&U recommended) "Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo", yet these showerless wonders love the guy for it.

Be it Oysterhead, solo, Fancy Band, Bucket O Bernie Brains and of course Primus, Les Claypool is awesome. Sometimes you just have to work at it to find the awesome...

This track is extra fancy and extra long. Enjoy the first weekend of 2009!

I Hear Matt Good's A Real Asshole...

Which fucking rules because after nearly eight years of being a fan, he's finally doing a US Tour, stopping in SF on March 7th! The brick has been shit people. Apparently, he's not really an asshole, just a slogan than has followed him around for years, making its way onto bumper stickers and t-shirts, similar to "Primus Sucks" chants, or to "Linkin Park Sucks" chants at their shows...Although I think the latter is a different story altogether. 

So at $15 a pop for tickets in a tiny cafe/venue, acoustic and solo, I'm pretty stoked. His later opus, Hospital Music is a painfully beautiful trip into the past year of his life (divorce, near death, being Canadian, etc) and is a very experimental piece of work. 

I'm so excited (and my wife is being a saint and tagging along, even though she's not a fan) that I'm not going to write a book here...The music has always spoken just fine.