Sean Lennon and Les Claypool searched and found each other. One has a family tree, the other a story. But this bon mot is not quite fair: Sean Lennon is not only the son of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. With the song "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" the famous parents already set a monument to their son on the album "Double Fantasy" in 1980, when Sean was just five years old. Already in 1998 he released his first own album "Into The Sun", a shy mix of neofolk, bossa, grunge and jazz elements, in which many exponents of the New York jazz avant-garde were involved. At the same time he attracted more attention with the shrill avant-garde pop band Cibo Matto, whose linchpin, however, was Lennon's then girlfriend Yuka Honda. But it wasn't until 2010 that he really got away in the USA with the psychedelic pop band The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, which for inexplicable reasons hasn't been distributed in Germany yet.
Les Claypool cannot rely on comparable family connections, but he has written rock history himself with his bizarre crossover troupe Primus. Primus was always ruled by madness. The combination of weird humour, highest virtuosity and absolute precision reminds in a certain way of Frank Zappa. In addition Claypool together with Stewart Copeland and Trey Anastasio temporarily formed the supergroup Oysterhead. Again and again the bassist from San Francisco is also associated with the mysterious avant-garde band The Residents, who also live there, but there is no proof of this.
