BW&BK; has received the following press release:

On May 29th, renowned bassist and legendary PRIMUS frontman LES CLAYPOOL will release Fancy (Prawn Song), his first solo live concert DVD from his 2006 summer tour with his latest group of accomplished players. A major market tour commences May 23rd in Minneapolis and wraps July 14th at the All Good Music Festival in Masontown, WV. Claypool will also perform at the Wakarusa and High Sierra festivals (a full itinerary is below).

Fancy shows the latest band at its peak performance. With long time associates Skerik on sax and Mike Dillon on vibes, marimba and percussion (both of Garage a Trois and Critters' Buggin'), the band is rounded out by Cake drummer Paolo Baldi and multi-instrumentalist Gabby La La. The 2006 tour was in support of Claypool's then-current CD release, Of Whales And Woe, and thus material from this album is favored here. Other songs are drawn from 2002's Purple Onion and the 1996 Interscope release Les Claypool And The Holy Mackerel: Highball With the Devil.

In other exciting news, National Lampoon has announced its first feature film acquisition, Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo, the directorial debut of Les Claypool. Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo is a comedy that takes an endearing yet twisted look at the American cultural phenomenon known as the Jam Band scene. Claypool compares the film’s comedic style less to Spinal Tap and more to Ricky Gervais’s seminal BBC comedy, The Office. Look soon for the theatrical release of the “mockumentary” which follows four head-strong musicians and their desire to make a big splash.

Long acknowledged as one of rock's leading bassists, Les Claypool began branching out from the alt-rock sound of Primus in 2000, starting Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, courting the jam band audience. Selling over 500,000 CDs since then under a few different band names including Oysterhead (with The Police's Stewart Copeland and Trey Anastasio of Phish), Les put out the career-spanning DVD, 5 Gallons Of Diesel, in 2005. This disc captured the complete myriad of band projects Les has worked with outside of Primus.

Les Claypool’s Fancy tour dates are as follows. For more information, visit: www.prawnsong.com and www.lesclaypool.com

May

23 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
26 - Chillicothe, IL - Summer Camp 2007
27 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave/Eagles Club
29 - Cleveland, OH - House Of Blues
30 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart’s

June

1 - Boston, MA - The Roxy
2 - New York, NY - Nokia Theatre
3 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
5 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live!
6 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
8 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
10 - Lawrence, KS - Wakarusa Festival
12 - Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue
13 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
15 - St. Petersburg, FL - Jannus Landing
16 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House Of Blues
17 - New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
19 - Austin, TX - Stubb’s BBQ
20 - Dallas, TX - House Of Blues
22 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
23 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
25 - Tempe, AZ - The Marquee Theatre
26 - San Diego, CA - 4th & B Concert Theatre
27 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda
29 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield
30 - Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre

July

2 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
3 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox
7 - Quincy, CA - Plumas County Fairgrounds
8 - Quincy, CA - Plumas County Fairgrounds
14 - Masontown, WV - All Good Music Festival