''Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo'' is a

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film by Primus lead-man

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, featuring himself as well as others using

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s. The band Electric Apricot played occasional shows in 2004 and 2005, unannounced, in the California area for footage. The Electric Apricot also made an appearance at the SXSW music festival in Austin, TX in 2007. The movie has been screened at film festivals internationally, including the

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and The Raindance Festival in London. The movie tells the story of a UCLA filmmaker making a music documentary. Claypool himself plays the role of drummer-singer Lapland "Lapdog" Miclovik of rising jam-band Electric Apricot, heading to the holy grail of festivals, Festeroo. Besides the leads, notable names in the cast include

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, Seth Green,

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and

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. The

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album was released on March 18, 2008, while the DVD was released May 13, 2008.Soundtrack Album to Les Claypool's Jam Band Mockumentary 'National Lampoon Presents Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo' Features the Fictional Band Plus Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Gov't Mule, and More
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and Dave Hunter.

Crew

* Director - Les Claypool * Executive Producer - Matthew J. Powers * Producer - Jason McHugh * Associate Producer - Anthony Mindel * Director of Photography - Matthew J. Powers * Editor - Agent Ogden

Cast

Adam Gates Adam Gates is a graphic designer and musician from Orinda, California. Music Early Years (1978-1980) Gates played with many bands in his formative years, establishing relationships that would inform his entire musical career. Some of his earl ...

as Steve Hampton Trouzdale, a.k.a. Aiwass (

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/vocals) * Bryan Kehoe as Steven Allan Gordon a.k.a. Gordo (lead

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

/vocals) *

as Lapland Miclovich a.k.a. Lapdog (

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/vocals) * Jonathan Korty as Herschel Tambor Brillstien (keyboards/vocals) * Jason McHugh as "Smilin'" Don Kleinfeld * Kyle McCulloch as Drew Shackleford *

as Skip Holmes * Brian Kite as Dr. Brian "Bucky" Lefkowitz * Oz Fritz as Oswald George * Arj Barker as the Cube * Derek Walls as Duck the band technician * Jason Thompson as Jake the band technician * Seth Green and

as the

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Guys *

as a photographer *

as Mai Pang *

as a bartender * Matthew J. Powers as Davis Mindelhof * Fred Heim as a police officer * Chaney, Cage, and Lena Claypool as the coffee shop family * Slawek Michalak as the Hydroponics salesman * Betty Biodiesel as Festeroo MC * Lawrence Brooke as the narrator *

as himself *

References

External links

* *
Home page

Electric Apricot News Site

Trailer (for the DVD)
* *
Electric Apricot Blog Posting on Twan's List
{{National Lampoon American mockumentary films