“Les Claypool and Sean Lennon bid you welcome to their planet. Let the Delirium take hold,” wrote Wilco guitar god Nels Cline in the intro for the cover Q&A he did with the Claypool Lennon Delirium for MAGNET in 2016. Delirium did take hold of the Brooklyn Steel crowd (including Sean Ono Lennon’s proud mother, Yoko) when the psych/prog/art duo and band—supporting South Of Reality (ATO)—ripped through a 16-song set (complete with a cover of “Tomorrow Never Knows,” making this a true Ono/Lennon family affair). As for bass master Les Claypool, the Delirium closed with a cover of “Southbound Pachyderm” by his main band Primus. MAGNET photographer Wes Orshoski was taken to the moon and back.
