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Heading into a nicely mind-melting weekend with The Claypool-Lennon Delirium, recorded in concert at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York on July 7, 2019.
This is one of those collaborations where you find yourself asking “what took you so long?” – it’s the perfect fit where the interplay of just the right amount of weirdness and psychedelic mayhem make for a thoroughly engrossing experience demanding numerous listenings.
I mean, what can you say when a show opens with the classic Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett-era Astronomy Domine and makes it their own in the process?
This melding of elements from Primus and Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger into The Claypool Lennon Delirium might be a temporary one though, since reading about a tour in 2019 to coincide with the release of South Of Reality it’s been quiet. COVID may have done its level best to put a big foot on things, but nothing is certain.
Sean Ono Lennon has since gone on to work with the UK Psych band Temples, producing and writing their latest single which has been getting a lot of audience buzz and signifies something of shot in the arm for the band, since they too had been laying low for a while.
I doubt very strongly this is the last we’ll hear of this gathering of tribes, unless it was purely intended as a side-trip and nothing else – in which case at least we have this gig (and several others which were, thankfully, recorded), two albums and an ep to dive into and keep us occupied until we hear more grumblings from The Claypool Lennon camps. Update: According to Les Claypool, another album is on its way, so not to fear.
Still, further evidence things are always happening and if you dig around you will realize there is a whole world of amazing music out there, just dying to climb into your head and screw around a bit.
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