10 Rock Supergroups You Had No Idea Existed
2. Colonel Claypool’s Bucket Of Bernie Brains
The utterly unhinged name of this group formed in 2002 actually serves as a clue to the identities of its five members.
It was formed by Primus' Les Claypool, which honestly explains a lot.
Then there's the "Bucket" part, which is due to the involvement of cult guitar icon Buckethead.
"Bernie" is referring to Bernie Worrell, a keyboard player with Parliament-Funkadelic who also worked with Talking Heads. And "Brains" is in honour of Bryan "Brain" Mantia, a drummer who has worked with Primus, Guns 'N Roses, and Godflesh to name but a few.
Phew, that was a lot of work.
The four men all met at the Bonnaroo festival in 2002 and quickly hit it off. As a band, they put on either the greatest or worst live shows of all time, owing to the fact that they intentionally didn't rehearse anything beforehand.
One night, they made a bunch of sandwiches on stage and then served them to audience members.
Sadly, this could only continue for so long, and the bad folded in 2004. With Worrell's sad death in 2016, there'll be no more sandwiches for Colonel Claypool and his troops.