Les Claypool Just Announced His Most Ambitious Tour Yet

The Claypool Gold Tour is one of Les Claypool’s most stupefying runs in a nearly forty-year career.

The world’s most outstanding bassist will be bringing three of his bands on the tour, and his fans are in a frenzy over the announcement. Primus! The Claypool Lennon Delirium! The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade!

In other words, it’s a complete Claypool fest, considering that he fronts all of the bands. Primus just christened its new drummer, John Hoffman, on tour last year, which included a mind-blowing Red Rocks show that featured back-to-back songs from the Brown Album. The Frog Brigade also came through Colorado in recent years; the project initially formed for a music-festival stint when Primus was on hiatus in the ’90s, only to be resurrected in 2002 for a tour and album, and then again in 2023. He started the Claypool Lennon Delirium with Sean Ono Lennon in 2015, after Lennon’s band the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger opened for Primus on tour; Lennon also plays in Frog Brigade.

The Delirium just released a new track, “WAP (What A Predicament),” for the tour announcement. And Colorado is lucky as hell with a two-night run: The Claypool Gold Tour will come to Dillon Amphitheater on Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28. See more below for ticket information.

All bands are different, but in Claypool fashion, they have one thing in common: unfettered creativity. He doesn’t know a different approach, as he told me in an interview a few years ago. “It sounds glib, but it’s life. That’s why I go and learn to fly airplanes and why I drive my own tour bus and why I go out on the ocean and grab my excavator and go move trees around and hang out with really interesting people and make wine and swing gourmet wieners around,” Claypool said. “All these are experiences in life that you bring to your creativity and your output. You know, my favorite people have always had this kind of rich life. Some of them are dark. That’s life sometimes, but I find that the most interesting, creative people I know tend to reflect interesting, or I should say unique, life experiences.”

Dillon Amphitheater Tickets

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, January 23, at lesclaypool.com.

Claypool Gold Tour Dates

Wednesday, May 20 – Reno Events Center – Reno, NV
Friday, May 22 – Hayden Homes Amphitheater – Bend, OR
Saturday, May 23 – Marymoor Live – Redmond, WA
Monday, May 25 – KettleHouse Amphitheater – Bonner, MT
Tuesday, May 26 – The Lot at the Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
Thursday, May 28 – Starlight Amphitheatre – Kansas City, MO
Saturday, May 30 – The Factory – St. Louis, MO
Sunday, May 31 – Meadow Brook Amphitheatre – Rochester Hills, MI
Tuesday, June 2 – Jacobs Pavilion – Cleveland, OH
Wednesday, June 3 – Salt Shed – Chicago, IL
Friday, June 5 – The Caverns Outdoor Amphitheater – Pelham, TN
Saturday, June 6 – KEMBA Live! Outdoor – Columbus, OH
Tuesday, June 9 – Thompson’s Point – Portland, ME
Wednesday, June 10 – Leader Bank Pavilion – Boston, MA
Friday, June 12 – Saratoga Performing Arts Center – Saratoga Springs, NY
Saturday, June 13 – Stone Pony Summerstage – Asbury Park, NJ
Sunday, June 14 – All Good Now Festival – Columbia, MD
Tuesday, June 16 – The AMP Ballantyne – Charlotte, NC
Wednesday, June 17 – Firefly Distillery – North Charleston, SC
Friday, June 19 – St. Augustine Amphitheatre – St. Augustine, FL
Saturday, June 20 – Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park – Atlanta, GA
Monday, June 22 – Walmart AMP – Rogers, AR
Tuesday, June 23 – ACL Live at Moody Theatre – Austin, TX
Thursday, June 25 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory – Irving, TX
Saturday, June 27 – Dillon Amphitheater – Dillon, CO
Sunday, June 28 – Dillon Amphitheater – Dillon, CO
Tuesday, June 30 – Arizona Financial Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, July 1 – Gallagher Square – San Diego, CA
Friday, July 3 – Long Beach Amphitheater – Long Beach, CA
Saturday, July 4 – Meritage Resort & Spa – Napa, CA