Is There A New Oysterhead Album And Tour Coming Soon?

If you don’t know about Oysterhead you should certainly do some digging and check them out.  Oysterhead is a supergroup consisting of Trey Anastasio (Phish), Les Claypool (Primus) and Stewart Copeland (The Police).

Back in the year 2000 at Jazz Fest Oysterhead was formed.  They played an incredible show and then a tour and album followed in 2001.  I was lucky enough to catch one of the concerts and it was as awesome as you would expect.

Recently drummer Stewart Copeland spoke with Radio.com about the possibility of a follow up album and tour.  As you can imagine fans have been waiting for some new material but it’s now been over a decade without a sound from the group.  It’s gotta be difficult getting everyone together considering that Trey and Les and both in bands that still tour and make music.  Copeland has also been busy with his own studio and other projects.  Fingers crossed that they free up some time to make the album and hit the road.  You can bet I’ll be there!

Here is an excerpt from the Copeland interview.

“We haven’t actually all been in the same room at the same time for quite a while. I saw Trey not too long ago, I see Les all the time, and we all say, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do it, we’re gonna do it!’ And we all love the idea, but the two other guys have working bands. I’ve got what I’m doing, but I’m probably a lot more available than they are. But when a hole in both of their schedules emerges, we’ll probably do something.”

You can read the full interview at Radio.com.

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