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#407:Les Claypool/Primus

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

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The Importance of the Bass in Songwriting

I've never thought of myself as a vocalist. I was like you know trying to be more like Mel blank than anything and so guys like listening to John Leiden and even Jello back in the day it's like well I can do that. It wasn't like oh I'm gonna think of my bass as as as this instrument that has these parameters on it rightYeah yeah absolutely I mean you're still if I was playing a accordion or guitar or whatever the hell I would still be writing similar things it would just have a different timbre to ityou know. With primus it was always it was always here's what I what's in my head I'm trying to get

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