It’s almost too easy to make fun of hippies. But Les Claypool, the Primus bass player who directed the mockumentary Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo, says making movies isn’t so simple.
The first-time director describes filmmaking as "a nonstop kick to the testicles" in a video interview with Sun TV.
The National Lampoon movie, which continues its limited run at a handful of theaters in early 2008, attempts to do for jam bands what This Is Spinal Tap did for aging metalheads: milk ’em for laughs.
The flick follows the fictional band Electric Apricot as its members gear up to play an equally fictional festival called Festeroo. Claypool wrote the movie and plays drummer Lapland "Lapdog" Miclovich. South Park ‘s Matt Stone is also in the movie, as are musicians Bob Weir and Warren Haynes.
We haven’t seen the film, but the trailer and other clips available on Brightcove show some promise (although some people obviously aren’t digging the on-screen scene). The title of a song featured in the movie, "Hey, Are You Going to Burning Man?," should give you a taste of where the whole thing is headed.
