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title: "Purple Onion"
brand: "colonel les claypool's fearless flying frog brigadeles claypool"
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# Purple Onion

**Brand:** colonel les claypool's fearless flying frog brigadeles claypool
**Price:** $U2378
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- **What is this?** Purple Onion by colonel les claypool's fearless flying frog brigadeles claypool
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.com          One year after erstwhile Primus leader Les Claypool reemerged as the leader of the jammy Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade, the bass wrangler throws another curve. With Purple Onion, Claypool reigns in much of the free-floating improvisation of FFB's initial releases in favor of something more akin to a proper Primus album, complete with bizarre comic voices, eccentric scenarios, and funky interludes. But this isn't a true Primus album, since there are absolutely no seafaring references on any of the 12 songs. In fact, many of the numbers are less songs than loosely connected chapters of a concept album somewhat akin to Alice Cooper's grim 1975 classic, Welcome to My Nightmare. But instead of Cooper's disturbed Steven, Claypool chronicles David Makalster, "a 10 o'clock newscaster" whose broadcasts of doom are worthy of Frank Zappa in his prime. Claypool here demonstrates that he has the daring to take Pink Floyd's excesses and fuse them with his own nerdy paranoia to create a singular album. --Jaan Uhelszki

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An onion that makes you laugh, not cry
  

*by A***I on Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012*

This is quite possibly Claypool's finest effort both in terms of lyric and in terms of melody.  After the opening track is done you are given one great track after another with only a few weak points.I say best in terms of melody because this album shows Claypool unleashed from the guitar-bass-drums constraints that came with Primus (not to say that Primus is bad; I actually love Primus but I love diversity of instruments more).  In addition to Claypool's usual bass guitar, upright bass and whamola there are drums, marimbas, vibes, guitars, banjos, violins, violas, and cellos all making appearances.  It's an absolutely engrossing album just for that sake alone because of all the different layers of instruments used.But even better than the instruments is the lyrical content.  There is some mild profanity, but the topics of most songs are meant to make you think or to really notice the irony of a situation.  The first example is track number 2, David Makalaster, written from the perspective of a news anchor who does his once-over-lightly on serious topics and then moves on, with the whole song pointing out that caring about what you hear in the news is not nearly as important or useful as actually doing something about what you hear in the news.  Another excellent example is Ding Dang, a song meant to condemn hateful slurs and remarks--he uses some of them in the lyrics but always to prove his point, which is that society's problems are created by society and all those who insist on alienating those who are even only mildly different from the mainstream.If that sounds too serious for your taste, don't worry.  You have track 3, Buzzards of Green Hill, a good jam tune where just the beat from the lyrics could work as a solid rhythm section.  Then you have D's Diner, panegyric of one of Claypool's favorite restaurants, and the very final track Cosmic Highway which tells the story of a family's vacation in outer space from the perspective of the child.This album stands out among Claypool's work, and anyone who wants to claim Claypool fan-ship needs to get it, or at least listen to the tracks a few times.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A varied and layered onion with much to offer.
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018*

Every once in a while an album comes along that completely catches me off guard with how amazing it is, and a perfect example of that is Purple Onion by The Les Claypool Frog Brigade. The songs are playful, complex and both fun and brutal in what they talk about.To me this is this man at his ultimate best, vocally, lyrically and musically. There's also a feeling of movement through the album, with a sort of narrative taking you though the songs.I highly recommend checking it out, either on digital or vinyl, as both sound great. Over all, this is a 5/5 album in every way.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It's OK and has It's moments,  but not for everyone.
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2021*

For Les Claypool fans a must, it has that unique Claypool sound. Not my favorite,  I'm a Flying Frog Brigade guy.

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