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Les Claypool Partying With Astronauts in San Francisco

Bay Area native Les Claypool doesn't have any plans etched in stone when it comes to Primus' performance at the first annual Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco. However, he does know one thing: "There will be astronauts involved," he said at a press conference. "I think we might play songs from Van Halen 'One,'" he joked.

Although they haven't exactly been performing Van Halen albums in their entirety, as threatened, the Primus fellas have actually been accompanied by giant inflatable astronauts as of late. "The astronauts are glorious," Claypool said, noting that they had them in tow this past June for Quebec City's 400th Anniversary Celebration. "I think it was touching for them to have an element of NASA and space at their celebration." Canada, of course, has never had a space exploration program to call their own (although some could make an argument involving Neil Young). Acknowledging this, Claypool said, "It could have been puzzling for them being that we were there to celebrate 400 years of Quebec City and we show up with ... 'In your face, Quebec!'"

Given all the space cadets in San Francisco, we predict Primus, at Outside Lands, will be a hit.

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Michele

Les will be performing at the 3rd annual We the People Festival in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now at Ticket Master. Also performing: Tom Morello, RZA, Barrington Levy, Suicidal Tendencies and more.

September 10 2008 at 5:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply