| Bucketheads, see Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales.Buckethead is best known for his electric guitar playing, characterized by diverse playing styles spanning thrash guitar, fingerpicking, and slap guitar.Although Buckethead now works primarily as a solo artist touring the United States with a trio, he has had a wide variety of high profile collaborations with such artists as Les Claypool, Tony Williams, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Serj Tankian, Guns N' Roses, Saul Williams, Mike Patton, Viggo Mortensen and with Bill Laswell on Praxis.Career
2 Current projects
3 Discography
4 Buckethead's bands
4.Career
As a teenager in 1988, Buckethead entered a song called 'Brazos' into a Guitar Player Magazine contest; it was a runner up, and eventually released on the Deli Creeps' demo tape in 1991, titled 'Tribal Rites'.Also known as "Buckethead".This, also, is how Guitar Player Magazine editor Jas Obrecht came to know of Buckethead.Impressed with his demo recording he got in contact with Buckethead and they soon became friends.In 1991 Buckethead moved into Obrecht's basement (this is also where footage for the Young Buckethead DVD was filmed).Bucketheadland was released on John Zorn's Avant record label in 1992.Bill Laswell (himself an occasional Zorn collaborator); as either a performer, producer or composer, Laswell was involved in many of the albums listed in the discography below, and Buckethead made many more appearances on albums by Laswell's collaborators.In 1992 Buckethead with Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell and Bryan "Brain" Mantia formed the supergroup, Praxis.This project was the idea of Bill Laswell and consist on music with other guest like Serj Tankian of System of a Down, Les Claypool of Primus among other guests, Buckethead did not participate in all the albums, their first album Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) released in 1992 was a very aclaimed album.One such Laswell project was Death Cube K (an anagram of "Buckethead" he created to circumvent legal complications with Sony Records, with which he was signed to in 1994 to release Giant Robot.And Death Cube K was the title of some vicious ambient group that he had produced.In 1997 Buckethead began work on an album titled Buckethead Plays Disney, but the album has never been released.According to Anthony Kiedis' autobiography, Scar Tissue, Buckethead once auditioned to play guitar for the Red Hot Chili Peppers shortly after John Frusciante left the band.Buckethead achieved a greater public profile as a member of Guns N' Roses from 2000 to 2004; however, the band only toured in 2001 and 2002 during this era.During his tenure with the band, Buckethead has been inconsistent and erratic in both his behavior and his commitment, despite being under contract, creating uncertainty and confusion and making it virtually impossible to move forward with recording, rehearsals, and live plans with confidence.His transient lifestyle has made it near impossible for even his closest friends to have nearly any form of communications with him whatsoever.Despite this, Buckethead's guitar parts were found intact on leaked Chinese Democracy tracks "I.However, it is uncertain if Buckethead's guitar parts will be present on the final product.Since that time, his cult following in the underground music communities has steadily increased.He frequently performs at festivals and in clubs nationwide, and often tours as the feature performer.In an interview with Revolver, Ozzy Osbourne stated that he had offered to have Buckethead play guitar in his band at Ozzfest.Look, just be yourself'.He says, 'No one calls me Brian except my mother'.So I said, 'Pretend I'm your mum then!I'm already playing fucking mind games with the guy.What happens if one day he's gone and there's a note saying, 'I've been beamed up'?He plays like a motherfucker.Friends called Enter The Chicken.Released by Serj Tankian's label Serjical Strike, the album features Tankian, Maximum Bob, Death By Stereo singer Efrem Shulz, and others.The album is marked by its leaning towards more traditional song structure, while still featuring Buckethead's guitar skills.In 2005 Buckethead released his first DVD "Secret Recipe", originally sold only on tour; the only places for other fans (those who either didn't go to a show or live abroad) to get hold of the DVD were auction sites such as eBay.When entries were closed he picked 200 names at random from those who entered and they were allowed to buy a copy of the DVD from his website.In March 2006 the DVD was finally made widely available.The video game version is the only known studio recording of the song, though he had played it for years before live.However, the Guitar Hero II version contains a special solo specifically for the game.The solo version has been played live only once by Buckethead at the James Brown tribute concert Decemeber 22nd, 2007.In late 2006 Buckethead released a two volume DVD entitled Young Buckethead featuring rare footage from 1990 and 1991.The DVD also contains three complete Deli Creeps shows, a sound check, backstage footage and solo footage of just Buckethead.All the artwork was drawn by Buckethead himself.In the year 2007, Buckethead released more than 20 albums.Buckethead CD, entitled Pepper's Ghost and was released on the 1st of March, also in February Buckethead tdrsmusic.CD, finally in October he released 2 new albums:Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot and Cyborg Slunks and in mid December a standard CD was being printed.Buckethead also released an album with the group Shin Terai called Light Years, another CD that Buckethead released this year was Kevin's Noodle House featuring drummer Bryan Mantia.They haven't released any albums but the first one is expected in 2008.Buckethead didn't only released music albums, in October he released in the label TDRS 5 paintings.Current projects
According to IMDB, Buckethead will appear as himself in an upcoming movie entitled American Music: Off the Record, due out in January 10 of 2008.The first album of Science Faction is expected to be released in 2008 with no specific date yet known.The name Death Cube K is an anagram for Buckethead.Beneath The Bucket, Behind The Mask: Kurt Loder Meets GN'R's Buckethead.DVDs: Young Buckethead Vol.Well every once in a while people ask me about Buckethead.Why does he wear a mask and bucket.What happened to his parents.First of all you gotta understand Buckethead grew up real lonely on that farm.The only thing they understood about him was how to treat him bad.To this very day, believe it or not, Buckethead does not like to be shocked with a cattle prod.It wasn't all bad, though, on the farm.All he heard was chickens when Leatherface would slam the big metal door shut.So when he got to be about THIS tall Buckethead started playing his little guitar.Buckethead practiced so much he started to get real good.But the people on the farm still made fun of him and smashed his family's eggs.Try as he might, Buckethead couldn't put the chicken back together again.So he put the bucket on his head, picked up his guitar and ran to the cemetery.Buckethead was real sad but it seemed like he played guitar better than ever.All the grey people and angels in the cemetery listened to the music and it was so beautiful they just stood still and speechless.And some folks say Buckethead had chicken grease and barbecue sauce smeared around the mouth hole on his mask.Whatever happened that night, the bucket stayed on his head, and in the morning it was filled full of chicken bones.When they found him curled up in a grave like that the people on the farm felt real bad, so they tried to be kinda nice to him for a while.For Christmas he even got an old shovel so he could look for more friends in the cemetery.But the best thing of all was when the farmhand showed him how to sneak into Disneyland disguised as a Pirate of the Carribean or a Haunted Mansion ghost.For the first time in his life, Buckethead knew what he had to do.Disneyland was the greatest city he'd ever been to.He learned all the songs and movements but every time he tried to get a job as an animatronic, they pulled him through a trapdoor.Well if he couldn't live in Disneyland he had to live somewhere.He knew that if he built a park like Mr.Disney did, people all around the world would come visit him.He'd allow chickens inside, and he'd build a huge cemetery in the middle with the statues and tombstones specially lined up to create the best acoustics.When Bucketheadland opened quietly in 1989 most people couldn't even tell it was a park.Its humble rides were made mostly out of rusty tractor parts and a bunch of sticks and animal bones tied together with spider silk.For the next 13 years, Buckethead travelled around the world playing guitar, recording records, making friends, and learning the secrets of embalming, theme park engineering and martial arts.Michael Kamen, George S.All of these adventures strengthened Buckethead's imagination and helped the Bucketheadland park grow into the world of dreams and nightmares that we all love.Nowa days you can still see Buckethead wandering around the park at night, or peeking through a crack on the other side of a wall you don't remember being there before.In Bucketheadland he never gets lonely.He's had a tough life and he's worked hard getting where he is.So what if he looks confused up there.Don't stare at him or overcompensate and be too nice.Come on people lets use some common sense here, we don't want to set him off.He has been a leading expert on Bucketheadland since 1992.NOTE: Few details of Buckethead's life are known.Some individuals may have been composited and events may have been altered chronologically.Bucketheadland attempts to keep this attraction as close to current scientific consensus as possible, within or without reason."Are you sure you want to block this user?Enter The Chicken Available Now At ITunes Store!Buckethead has opened the doors to his famed Bucketheadland once again, and this time, he has asked his friends to help him provide thrills and chills to his guests.As the arcane story goes, Bucketheadland was opened back in 1989 as a refuge for himself and the chickens that had raised him in a coup from an early age.That safe haven, Bucketheadland grew into a world where both dreams and nightmares intertwined into a creative force that drove the guitarist to channel that energy into some of the most unique and innovative music to ever be created.Over the past 16 years, Buckethead has not only managed his theme park, but has also had time to exercise his love of guitar playing and music by traveling all over the world playing in front of audiences and has recorded over 13 records.Throughout 2004, Buckethead was writing and recording the musical tracks that would comprise the titles for Enter The Chicken with engineer and programmer Dan Monti.In early summer of 2004, when he felt that he had a solid stable of innovative songs, Buckethead approached Tankian with the tracks and asked if he would be interested in releasing them through his own Serjical Strike Records.What makes Enter The Chicken unique among all other Buckethead albums is the contribution of different singers throughout the body of work.Saul Williams, Efrem Schulz (Death By Stereo), Maura Davis (Denali, Bella Lea), Azam Ali (Vas, Niyaz), Bad Acid Trip, Maximum Bob (Deli Creeps), Gigi, Shana Halligan and Ani Maldjian.Even Tankian himself lends his vocals on the album.When all was said and done, a total of 11 different vocalists specializing in musical styles ranging from opera, metal, rap, indie rock, grindcore, world and everything in between found their way onto Enter The Chicken."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"You, sir, are incredible.Hi Buckethead, thanks 4 add, youre great and super bizarro, nobody is like you, youre crazy guitar king.You Should TOUR in CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!!!Appreciate the post Buckethead!!Buckethead, you can Shred!!!Thank you for being a part of the Kahler Militia and playing Kahler bridges.Buckethead and Friends are the best!Monty Python's Meaning of life.Buckethead, you are really an inspration to my freinds and I, I love your guitar skills and all your albums.You are, a living guitar legend.PS I EVEN LOVE PLAYING JORDAN ON GUITAR HERO!!!Hope your having a great time this week!Only word there is to describe Buckethead.Is this really buckethead?Buckethead, man i just want to say you are one wierd mothafucker but you kick so much ass, it makes my face hurt!!!If I don't get this back, I understand.But I have a game for you.Once you read this letter, you must send it to 15 people that you really care about, including the person that sent it to you.Tonight, right at 12:00am, your true love is going to realize that they LOVE you!Then something is going to happen to you between 1:00 and 2:00 a.Tomorrow, be ready for the greatest shock of your life.If you break this chain, you are going to have bad luck in love for the next years of your life.Send this to 15 people in 15 minutes.I'll see you in the slaughter zone when I go to sleep.When will I get the opportunity to see Buckethead in concert?We can buy music from your page now!!"Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Rating affects your music played in LAUNCHcast and Music Videos.SiteCatalyst code version: H.Plugin: Days since last Visit 1.Buckethead (read more)
2,549,090 plays scrobbled on Last.Buckethead, (born Brian Carroll), is an American guitarist and composer.With his signature white plastic mask and KFC bucket, Carroll created a persona in order to emphasize his music over his personal identity.He is a prolific composer, having released 36 solo albums and performed on over 50 more.Buckethead is best known for his electric guitar, characterized by diverse playing styles spanning thrash guitar, fingerpicking, and slap guitar.Although Buckethead now works primarily as a solo artist touring the country with a trio, he has had a wide variety of high profile collaborations with such artists as Les Claypool, Tony Williams, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Guns N' Roses and with Bill Laswell on Praxis.MTV interview revealed that his real name is Brian Carroll.In Search Of set as Buckethead's best creation.Nothingham Lace is by far his best creation.Jordan is so boring
it in the top only becouse of guitar hero..We wait for you in Russia!!!Bermuda Triangle is pretty awesome.Bucketheads manager at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz CA.Web Site Support
Last.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.Hours() * 3600 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.See all 69 customer reviews...Ships from and sold by Amazon.Music (See Bestsellers in Music)Popular in these categories: (What's this?Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Visit our audio help page for more information.On his third solo album, Colma, Buckethead has refined his fluid, impressively articulate guitar style, exacting a precise and occasionally jazzy tone from his instrument.Encompassing a tremendous range in both tempo and expression, Buckethead is an ideal guitar hero for the year 2000.Buckethead engages in instrumental guitar warfare like no other.Instant Ringtones in 30 Seconds.Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
a9AdsViewNamespace.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.If you're a Buckethead fan, you're invariably drawn to his inventive technique, his furious yet tasteful blend of speed, heaviness, and melody, not to mention his quirky sense of humor.This is a testimony of how expressive Buckethead's guitar playing is.This is just a wish however, and the lack of a piano doesn't detract from the music.The music is great, although diversity is a problem.Usually it doesn't bother me, but there are times when I find myself unwittingly giving them too much attention and I am a little irked.In the future, I hope Buckethead makes another album like this but with more visceral drumming and a little more attention to song variety."Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."Nothing to add except the music can be played and appreciated in an elevator, grocery store or shopping malls.Have you ever noticed that when someone writes a review and doesn't give 4 or 5 stars, how he or she gets slammed in the votes?Was this review helpful to you?Riddled with pleasant melody but for the most part drab.Was this review helpful to you?One of my favorites of Buckethead
I have recently started collecting Buckethead albums, and just to get this out of the way: he is AMAZING!Published 24 days ago by Mr.BH, I would hate to see the skeletons in your closet ...Buckethead is a genius.Colma is simply amazing.Great, emotional album
This is a great acoustic album, and is very emotional because Buckethead composed this album for his mother when she was very sick.Any Buckethead fan should like this.Not a good introduction to Buckethead
This was the first Buckethead CD I ever heard, and it is much slower and more chill than his usual offerings.This was the first Buckethead CD I bought, based on the videos I saw of him on Youtube, shredding like a master.Published 6 months ago by J.This is one of 2 buckethead acoustic albums that i know of (the other is electric tears, also great).Ambient and heartful
This album really captures a great deal of mood and portrays an immense measure of pathos and ethos.This guy can practically play any genre of music and be good at it.Slow music for fast player
Yes this is a slow song album but Brain on many of the songs makes the slow sound pretty funky.Stop Thriving on Musical Tends?Best Guitar Instrumental Albums Ever: A list by N.Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Off Your StairMaster and Nautilus Purchase
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