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      LES CLAYPOOL
Special Selection August 09 Decades from now, when historians begin studying the development of the bass guitar in our generation, they will look to one man. That man is Les Claypool. Beginning with his 90’s jam band Primus, Les has played with a countless number of bands playing a multitude of instruments. His bass selection ranges from an old family banjo strung up bass stylies, to his classic six-stringer, to a wooden hinge-like instrument Claypool may or may not have invented called the Whamola. Claypool's funky, creative playing style on the electric bass mixes finger-tapping, flamenco-like strumming, and slap techniques. He is a multi-instrumentalist, novelist, music producer, actor, film director, fly fisherman, and indeed an awesome dude.
Nominated by Frizzle The Farout
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Les Claypool was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Chewbacca  The Couch Dress  Moustache Balaclava  Shaved Ball Cap  Giant Nintendo Controller  Little Superstar  Meat Suitcase  Mock Apple Pie  BigDog Robot  Dwight K. Schrute  Mister Rogers doing The Wave  The Hamburger Bed  Bob Ross  Beer Maids  Hedgehogs  Paul Bunyan  Space Invader Invasion  Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Literal Video Versions  Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  The Lone Ranger  Marilyn Manson  Daft Punk  Danny Way Jumps the Great Wall  Emperor Norton  Competitive Eating  Afro Samurai  The Motherland Calls  Jackalopes  Capes  Georgia Guidestones  Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide  Los Pikadientes De Caborca  Wienermobile  Holy Hand Grenade  Manticores  Shreddin Les Claypool was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Jesus Riding A Dinosaur  Jesus Christ  Theo Jansen's Art  Nikola Tesla  Crop Circles  Roller Derby  Freerunning  Miracle On Ice  Aurora Borealis  Flying Spaghetti Monster  Rollerman  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  The Man with No Name  Banksy  MST3K  Extent of the Universe  Mark Twain  Walking on the Moon Walking on the Moon  Napoleon
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   SHAVED BALL CAP
1st Place October 08 This image was just found on some anonymous Australian funny photo site. We have no idea who the hell this guy is, but we would like to meet him. I really didn't know a haircut could be this good. A lot of people will go with weird stripes, patterns, shapes, curls, etc... but interpretive shape cutting is really unheard of. This entry will destroy a lot of others...
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Shaved Ball Cap was voted MORE AWESOME than:
The Couch Dress Moustache Balaclava Moustache Balaclava Moustache Balaclava  Side Stache Giant Nintendo Controller  Horse Moustache Jesus Christ Jesus Christ  K.I.T.T. Meat Suitcase  Mullet Family  Smurfette  Spam  Pimpy Cars  General Lee 01 Mock Apple Pie  El Chupacabra BigDog Robot Mister Rogers doing The Wave The Hamburger Bed  Zombies Space Invader Invasion Shaved Ball Cap was voted LESS AWESOME than: Chewbacca Little Superstar Little Superstar Little Superstar  Venus Fly Traps Crop Circles  Robocop on a Unicorn Freerunning Miracle On Ice  President Obama Aurora Borealis Flying Spaghetti Monster  Badass Mountain Men Hedgehogs  WAKE n' BACON Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator  The Brick Testament Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Captain James T. Kirk The Man with No Name Banksy  Teddy Roosevelt  Library of Congress James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Death Star  Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Hunter S. Thompson MST3K Extent of the Universe Emperor Norton Jesus Riding A Dinosaur Les Claypool
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I've been meaning to make one thing perfectly clear. I will never, EVER vote against Shaved Ball Cap.
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Tell us how you really feel!
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I've said it before and now I'm going to say it again--there is absolutely no scenario in which I would vote against shaved ballcap. There has never been anything more aweomse than this.
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I will never, EVER, vote against Shaved Ballcap
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No bassist in history has ever been recorded slapping the strings of a bass guitar as fast as Claypool can.
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Its been interesting to see how some musical entries get worked, and others take off. Seems to me Les Claypool does something that most people understand--he plays bass guitar. We know that that instrument does, what it is used for, what its general limitations are. When we see what he can do with a bass in his hand, it is undoubtedly awesome. Marilyn Manson pops up, and well, he's more of a freak personality than a mind bogglingly talented musician. He may stand for something, and some people may really respond to that, but being a symbol is apparently just not as awesome as exuding talent. Claypool is getting a lot of votes from me, because I simply can not believe he can play a bass like that. He's like Danny MacAskill with a guitar.
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Not even Victor Wooten?
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After the death of Metallica's bassist Cliff Burton, Les Claypool auditioned for the empty space in the band. Claypool did not earn the spot because James Hetfield said quote "He was too good".
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Hell yeah. If you're too good for Metallica, you must be some sort of godlike figure.
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not really, metalica in facts suck bigtimes. the only reason they a revered like gods is that their music went mainstream and a few of their songs were acceptable for mainstream radio-stations. Metalica has nothing on Megadeth or Iron Maiden.
( don't hate me i'm a troll! )
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I actually agree. Metallica is a bunch of sellouts. They had one or two good albums, but then they kicked me off Napster, and I hate them for it.
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clearly an unbiased opinion.
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Stache is cool, but who wouldn't want to pull a ball cap hairstyle off if they could?? Seriously, most of us only dream of something this cool.
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agreed on the hairstyle. I used to have a pretty good afro, but nothing like that. Just imagine the possibilities you could sculpt... I am sooo jealous.
But then you have to still hand it to Side Stache on a few levels. Both hairstyles were optional, but Side Stache rocked his in everyday life for 17 days. For all we know the shaved ballcap might have been a single hour event.
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I would have loved to seen the fro before he shaved it. huge
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Is this thing on ??
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