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The Bakerton Group is Clutch’s instrumental side project. Their 2009 release, El Rojo, sports this beautiful cover of a hoplite soldier constellation. I’m a classics major, so the heroism of hoplites is indoctrinated into my soul, and this album’s art plays really well into my upcoming Persian War post.
If a list of King Hobo’s line-up doesn’t make you want to listen to this song, god help you.
Jean-Paul Gaster of Clutch (drums)
Per Wiberg of Opeth (keyboards, vox)
Thomas Andersson of Kamchatka (guitars, lead vox)
Ulf Rockis Ivarsson of Beat Under Control (bass)
Gaster and Wiberg, while performing at Sounds of the Underground 2005, decided they wanted to get their funk on and held open jam sessions near the tour buses. King Hobo rolled out of that and in 2008 these guys got together for a week and jammed out this fantastic record with a basically blank slate. I really hope this band becomes these guys’ main project, and I love them in their respective bands.
I don’t know how I went so long without hearing about The Bakerton Group while being such a big Clutch fan.
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