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Of Fungi And Foe
''Of Fungi and Foe'' is the second solo album by Les Claypool. The album was released on the March 17, 2009. The album featured Eugene Hütz, Paulo Baldi, Mike Dillon, Lapland Miclovik, Sam Bass, Cage Claypool, and Bryonn Bain. Claypool stated: All Lyrics Written by Les Claypool Track listing #"Mushroom Men" – 3:15 #"Amanitas" – 4:27 #"Red State Girl" – 3:05 #"Booneville Stomp" – 4:57 #"What Would Sir George Martin Do" – 5:50 #"You Can't Tell Errol Anything" – 3:55 #"Bite Out of Life" – 4:34 #"Kazoo" – 4:12 #"Primed by 29" – 3:26 #"Pretty Little Song" – 4:09 #"Of Fungi and Foe" – 1:52 #"Ol' Rosco" – 5:58 Personnel * Les Claypool – bass guitars, percussion, penny whistle, "uber-dogs of doom", vocals * Mike Dillon – tabla (3), marimba solo (5), vibraphone (6, 8) * Sam Bass – cello (8, 10, 12) * Paulo Baldi – drums (7) * Eugene Hütz - vocals (7), acoustic guitar (7) * Cage Claypool – slide whistle (5) * Bryonn Bain – additional lyric/v ...
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at   rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s, sharply declined during the 1990s and had largely disappeared ...
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Mike Dillon (musician)
Mike Dillon (a.k.a. Mike D) is an American percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, and vocalist born in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Garage A Trois. He has performed with many musicians including Ani DiFranco, Galactic, Brave Combo, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Marco Benevento, Claude Coleman Jr., and New Orleans musicians Kevin O'Day, Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton. Dillon's love of playing percussion was born out of his love for the band Rush as a teenager. He originally performed in the 80's with local Dallas and Denton favorites Ten Hands. At the time, he was a casual drug user. Later when he led the 1990s Dallas-based Billy Goat, he and his girlfriend (who he later married) became heroin addicts who began missing gigs and eventually were "on the verge of death". The band's management sent him to rehab, but he "only lasted three days". In the late 1990s, Billy Goat disbanded and he performed in the Kansa ...
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2009 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2009. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2009 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2009 albums Albums 2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; Protests ...
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Zoltron
Zoltron is an American rock music poster designer, street artist, and creative director. His posters are included in the collections of Victoria Albert Museum, London, de Young fine arts museum, San Francisco, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, the US Library of Congress, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Although he is secretive and carefully conceals his identity behind his pseudonym, Zoltron is known for his iconic rock art for bands like Primus, Iggy Pop, Blondie, Black Keys, NIN, Jerry Garcia, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Dweezil Zappa, Queens of the Stone Age, Ween, The Melvins, Les Claypool, Pussy Riot, Jerry Cantrell, PJ Harvey, Die Antwoord, Widespread Panic, Devo. He has been awarded a 2006 Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA) certified gold disc for his work as producer of the grammy-award nominated alternative rock band Primus album Hallucino-Genetics, and a 2004 RIAA certified platinum disc for the Primus a ...
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Whamola
The Whamola is a bass instrument used in funk-jazz styles of music. The name is a portmanteau of whammy bar and viola. The Whamola is a direct descendant of the washtub bass, an American folk instrument popular with skiffle and jug bands, and features a single string which is manipulated via a pulley-and-lever system. The pulley mechanism is mounted in place of the tuning pegs at the top of a double-bass-style neck, which is attached to a wooden or metal body featuring a bridge, pickup and stand. The Whamola is played by hitting the string with a drum stick and either fretting it against the neck with the other hand or using the lever to alter its tension and change the pitch. Whamolas are rare, and are usually made by musicians for personal use, as opposed to professional luthiers, though the instrument has gained mass exposure and growing popularity in recent years due to its being played by contemporary bassists like Les Claypool Leslie Edward Claypool (born September ...
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Pig Hunt
The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus scrofa'' (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) or a distinct species. The pig's head-plus-body length ranges from , and adult pigs typically weigh between , with well-fed individuals even exceeding this range. The size and weight of hogs largely depends on their breed. Compared to other artiodactyls, a pig's head is relatively long and pointed. Most even-toed ungulates are herbivorous, but pigs are omnivores, like their wild relative. Pigs grunt and make snorting sounds. When used as livestock, pigs are farmed primarily for the production of meat, called pork. A group of pigs is called a ''passel'', a ''team'', or a ''sounder''. The animal's bones, hide, and bristles are also used in products. Pigs, especially miniature breeds, are kept as p ...
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Mushroom Men
The ''Mushroom Men'' video games were developed for Nintendo DS and Wii systems. Both games were developed by American company Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock Media Group. The story revolves around a civil war between Mushroom Men in a human world. According to the game's designer ''Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi'' for the Nintendo DS is a side-scrolling platformer as well as a prequel to ''Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars'', the Wii version, which is a full 3D platforming game. Red Fly Studio used Gambitious to try to crowdfund a sequel, known as Pax's Truffle Trouble for PC, which eventually came out on Steam a Mushroom Men: Truffle Troubleon March 10, 2015. Story The story begins when a comet crashes to the Earth, raining down a strange green dust in its wake. The space dust is harmless to humans and goes unnoticed, but they failed to notice that flora, fauna and fungi including mushrooms, cacti, and kudzu gained sentience. Also, this strange green dust mutated some of t ...
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Bryonn Bain
Bryonn Bain is a poet, actor, prison activist, scholar, author, hip hop artist and professor of African American Studies and World Arts & Cultures in the School of the Arts and the School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles. His one-man show, ''Lyrics From Lockdown'', won "Best Solo Performance" from the ''LA Weekly'' and NAACP. Executive produced by Harry Belafonte, the show tells stories of wrongful incarceration through spoken word poetry, hip hop theater, calypso, comedy and classical music. Bain founded the Prison Education Program at UCLA in 2015. In 2019, the program and his performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts were featured on the debut episode of ''LA Stories'' which won an Emmy Award. Bain hosted ''My Two Cents'', a current affairs talk show on BET for five consecutive seasons, and starred in ''Pig Hunt'', the last film directed by Academy Award winner James Isaac. A Tony nominated theater maker, Bain was a producer of the Broadway ...
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Quest For Festeroo
A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure prominently in the folklore of every nation and ethnic culture. In literature, the object of a quest requires great exertion on the part of the hero, who must overcome many obstacles, typically including much travel. The aspect of travel allows the storyteller to showcase exotic locations and cultures (an objective of the narrative, not of the character). The object of a quest may also have supernatural properties, often leading the protagonist into other worlds and dimensions. The moral of a quest tale often centers on the changed character of the hero. Quest objects The hero normally aims to obtain something or someone by the quest, and with this object to return home. The object can be something new, that fulfills a lack in their life, or something that was s ...
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Paulo Baldi
Paulo Baldi is an American drummer and percussionist best known as a former member of the band CAKE. Baldi currently plays with The Claypool Lennon Delirium consisting of Sean Lennon and Primus' Les Claypool. Other bands Baldi has worked with include Les Claypool's Fancy Band, Deadweight, The Faraway Brothers, The Eric McFadden Trio and world music artist Ali Khan.http://www.paulobaldi.com/ 15 February 2007 CAKE In 2004, Baldi drummed on two songs for the alternative rock band Cake, " No Phone" and "Carbon Monoxide," both of which appeared on the band's fifth studio album, '' Pressure Chief''. Baldi formally joined shortly after and drummed on their ''B-Sides and Rarities'' album as well as 2011's ''Showroom of Compassion''. Baldi left the band in Fall 2015. Equipment Baldi endorses Ludwig drums, Evans drumheads, Istanbul Agop cymbals, and Promark drumsticks. Selected discography *The Claypool Lennon Delirium – '' Lime and Limpid Green'' (2017) *Cake – ''Showroom of Com ...
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Les Claypool
Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and author. He is best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the rock band Primus since its formation in 1984. Frequently considered one of the best bassists of all time, his playing style is well known for mixing tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends, and slapping. Outside of Primus, Claypool has also been involved in a number of side projects, including supergroups such as Oysterhead (with Trey Anastasio and Stewart Copeland) and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (with Buckethead, Bryan Mantia, and Bernie Worrell). He also fronted the experimental rock projects Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade and Les Claypool's Fancy Band. He has self-produced and engineered several solo releases from his own studio, Rancho Relaxo, in California. In 2006, he wrote and dir ...
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Eugene Hütz
Eugene Hütz (; uk, Євген Гудзь, Yevhen Hudz, ; born Yevgen Oleksandrovych Nikolayev-Symonov, ua, Євген Олександрович Ніколаєв-Симонов, on 6 September 1972) is a Ukrainian-born singer, composer, disc jockey and actor, most notable as the frontman of the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. Early life Hütz was born in Boyarka, to a Ukrainian- Lithuanian father, a butcher by profession, and a Ukrainian mother who was of half Servitka Roma ancestry. His father also played guitar in one of Ukraine's first rock bands, Meridian. When Eugene was 14, he and his father made his first guitar of plywood, his first distortion pedals out of radio parts, and his first drum set from large metal fish cans, skinned with layers of Scotch tape. Hütz learned English through his musical "mentors" because, as he put it, "Russian rock always had lyrics that were superb and more advanced than the original Western rock ‘n’ roll, I think. Of course, We ...
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