Col. Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains, an all-star collaboration put together by bassist Les Claypool, will be performing in Eugene Friday as part of its first-ever national tour. The group features the legendary Les Claypool on bass and Buckethead on guitar, as well as former Primus drummer Brain, and Bernie Worrell, the original keyboardist and primary collaborator with George Clinton in both Parliament and Funkadelic, who has also performed and recorded with Talking Heads.
Originally assembled as a one-time-only, improvisational performance at the 2002 Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee, Col. Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains went on to play a few exclusive club performances and record a live album. On Sept. 21, Claypool released a full-length album on his own record label, Prawn Song. Claypool describes the album as “a traveling, oversized sock-puppet show spawned by the characters of a Tobe Hooper film and scored by Danny Elfman on bad acid.”
Col. Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains will perform tomorrow at the McDonald Theatre. The doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale online at McDonald Theatre Ticketing and at all Safeway TicketsWest outlets for $18.50. If not sold out, tickets will also be available at the McDonald Theatre Box Office on the day of the show for $20 beginning at 5:30 p.m.

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