The Claypool Lennon Delirium
06/14/2016
Crossroads KC
Kansas City, MO

Source: AT 853 (sub-cards) > SP Batt. Box > R-09HR @ (24/48)
Location: Center, 40-50 ft ftom stage, Front of Board / HRTF
Lineage: Edirol R-09HR > Steinberg Wavelab 6.0* > .Wav > .Flac16
Taped, transferred and mastered by: KCMoeJoe (jhutchison@kc.rr.com)

Approx. 1 hr 47 min.

01. Cricket And The Genie (Movement I, The Delirium) >
02. Cricket And The Genie (Movement II, Oratorio Di Cricket) >
03. Breath of A Salesman^
04. The Monolith of Phobos
05. Cosmic Highway@ >
06. Bubbles Burst
07. Mr. Wright
08. Boomerang Baby >
09. Ohmerica
10. Oxycontin Girl
11. Astronomy Domine% >
12. Captain Lariat >
13. Tomorrow Never Knows!

Encore:
14. Southbound Pachyderm$

Notes:

^ Les calls out a young kid (with glow sticks on his arms) up on his dad or friend's
shoulders. He names him 'Light Boy', and dedicates a bass solo to him and the crowd.
The setlist was given to him after the show, and their is pic included from that moment.

@ Les Claypool's Frog Brigade
% Pink Floyd
! The Beatles
$ Primus

*DSP performed on master 24bit wave file: iZotope Ozone 3 (Exciter 3 band) + UV22 HR

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The Claypool Lennon Delirium at Crossroads KC

BY TIMOTHY FINN
tfinn@kcstar.com

Generations and worlds collided Tuesday night at Crossroads KC.
The headliner was The Claypool Lennon Delirium, a collaboration between Les Claypool, the unfettered (and often delirious) bass player for Primus and a long roster of side projects, and Sean Lennon, whose music resume includes a few solo albums plus work with Cibo Matto, With the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.
He is also the son of Yoko Ono and the late John Lennon of the Beatles.

Tuesday�s show drew a surprisingly modest crowd, given Lennon�s heritage and Claypool�s status as a jam-band hero.

Nonetheless, they entertained a crowd of 500-plus with a mix of songs from the duo�s debut album, �Monlolith of Phobos,� a whirlwind of progressive rock, space rock, Eastern music and classic rock whose foundations dip into early Pink Floyd and more recent psych bands like Tame Impala and other inspirations.

The set list drew heavily from �Monolith,� but the duo dropped in a few covers that enlivened a crowd that seemed as interested in onlooking as it did indulging in the music.

Lennon wore an ersatz military kind of uniform (which Claypool equated with a Girl Scouts uniform), including what looked like a general�s hat brimmed. He played lead guitar.

Claypool wore his typical derby, and his bass, whether an electric or acoustic or stand-up electric, dominated many of the compositions. They were backed by Mark �Money Mark� Ramos Nishita on keyboards and Paul Baldi on drums.

The two brightest highlights were covers of two seminal psychedelic songs: Pink Floyd�s �Astronomy Domine,� a Syd Barrett-era tune that was right in this band�s wheelhouse, and then �Tomorrow Never Knows,� from the Beatles� sea-changing �Revolver� album. Lennon�s vocals on that were daringly close to his father�s.

The rest of the set visited the duo�s album and songs like �Mr. Wright,� Captain Lariat� and �Bubbles Burst,� plus songs from other projects, like �Cosmic Highway,� a Les Claypool�s Frog Brigade Song.

After sweeping the crowd into a state of transcendence with �Tomorrow Never Knows,� they concluded with a Primus favorite, �Southbound Pachyderm.�

That would have felt anti-climactic, but Claypool doesn�t take a moment off and his unbridled enthusiasm spread to his bandmates and the crowd, most of which remained to see what other quirky, unexpected but fulfilling surprise might erupt from this collaboration.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/back-to-rockville/article83861887.html#storylink=cpy

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