Les Claypool, 54, is a funny type: grey goatee beard, straw hat, black clothes, round glasses and an almost philosophical flow of speech. If you didn't know better, you might think you have a painter, writer or university professor in front of you. But the man from San Francisco is a musician. Rock musicians. And what one: Since the mid 80s he is mastermind, frontman and bassist of Primus, has released nine studio albums with the trio and at least as many with various side projects as well as composed the title melody for the cartoon series "South Park". In spite of his enormous popularity, he has not yet experienced the great commercial breakthrough. But he didn't miss it either: "We swam on the alternative rock wave of the nineties for a few years, but we basically had nothing to do with it. And we were never the band that got a lot of airplay. We did too much nonsense for that, with crazy concepts and nonsense songs. When it got boring, we took a ten-year break."
