Ask Les Claypool what makes North Texas special, and you’ll get the most disarming answer in rock ‘n’ roll: a shrug.
“I don’t know that it is different,” he says by phone, sitting in a parked bus outside a Chicago venue he’s played more times than he can count. “Once I get in tour mode, it all becomes one big blur, to be honest with you.” He went further, cheerfully filing himself under unreliable narrator. “You should do this interview with [guitarist Larry LaLonde], because I am literally the worst.”
He hadn’t even gone inside the venue yet. He didn’t remember what it looked like in there…