Buckethead
Biography
Buckethead is one of the most bizarre and enigmatic figures in American underground and experimental music since Parliament-Funkadelic birthed their bevy of cosmic characters in the mid-'70s. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist best known for his virtuosic command of the electric guitar, Buckethead is one of the instrument's most recognizable contemporary innovators, his rapid-fire riffing, near-robotic fretwork, and idiosyncratic lead lines combining elements of Yngwie Malmsteen, Adrian Belew, Slayer's Kerry King, P-Funk's Eddie Hazel, and avant-improv artist John Zorn's Scud-attack sax abuse. His first group, the San Francisco-based metal-funk combine the Deli Creeps, were a regional success, but disbanded before they could release anything. Buckethead's solo career has been more productive, thanks mostly to the motivation of Zorn and Bill Laswell, the latter of whom Buckethead has also recorded and toured with in Praxis. Laswell has also produced a number of Buckethead's solo albums (including Dreamatorium and Day of the Robot) and included him on more than a dozen one-off recordings with the likes of Hakim Bey, Bootsy Collins, Anton Fier, Jonas Hellborg, and Bernie Worrell.
Selected Discography
Buckethead is 100x the guitar player Satriani is. Personally, I don't get the Satriani thing. He's very overrated.
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what if god isn't around and we would have to make this music together?
what would it sound like? clapton, beck, king, who? you all sound like God to me and thanks for that. Stewart |
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Joe Satriani is a great guitar player, but in terms of skill level buckethead is so much better you can not even make a comparison
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umm... "s"... Joe Satriani and Buckethead sound similar, which is why they're in the Similar Artists category... Joe Satriani is definitely a great guitar player. i think once you reach a certain point, it's hard to say one god is better than another god
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No mention here of the earlier MacPlay game "Descent II", where Buckethead was featured in the game's soundtrack. Great game for its time, and I still listen to the music from it. It's all I can do now, since Classic is gone off of Mac's new computers. Oh well...at least I've still got BH's guitar smashing!
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Similar artists, Joe Satriani! Yeah right. Joe sucks dick compared to Big B. Buckethead is more skilled and he writes much better music. Don't even get me stared on Killswitch Engage. Emo f**got music.
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does anyne miss the buckethead years before the 00s when buckethead was an underground figure and not too many people liked him (bucketheadl a n d - m o n s t e r s and robots) when nobody liked him but a small amount of people and i had to rec him. but now its cool to think he is the s**t and stuff but nobody thinks he is truly as weird as he once was
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"Buckethead is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined" - Dave Mustaine
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to comments below: there is a heated debate going on on youtube about who is the best. I think this is unfair to any of guitar virtuosos who dedicated their life to excellent playing. All have one in common: hard work. Buckethead possesses extraordinar y feel for melody and mood that arives from it. That's what makes him so untypical. We can argue about who has better skills, but I think that at such high level, such argument does not hold any value. Personally, I love his music, but I love music
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loriwesterma n n says: 07-09-2009 this is the best guitarist in the world by a mile. Lol, hell he's awesome, no doubt. However you can't drop this statement on anyone in reality. |
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Simply one of the best around today. Not only can he play just about anything, but he can play it better than the virtuoso players of that genre...
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Buckethead is brilliant. I love everything about him. His music is just amazing and beyond compare. It's just mind blowing how diverse his styles can be. I'm an atheist, but if someone told me he was God I'd believe them! He completes himself with his bucket, mask, and story. I love his entire identity; it's genius and truly makes up who he is. His offbeat charm hooks me. I liked him as soon as I saw him, and loved him as soon as I heard him play that guitar. He reminds me of my friends. ;)
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I hate to admit, but I was put off by Buckethead's "persona" (KFC hat, horror film obsession GNR sessions, etc.) When I heard his music on Pandora unaware, I thought, who the hell's that, it's really good sh*t? I sadly realized I pre-judged the man. That's the beauty of music. Just when I think it's become predictable, I get a knock on the head. I don't care what who your haberdasher is Mr. Buckethead, keep playing!!
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i never believed Jesus was the son of god, but i am still a believer...i f god had a son, it would be Buckethead.
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Pandora stop slacking! The man has over 40 albums. At least get some more up there jeez.
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This is my first exposure to Buckethead. The man is an artist. Thanks again Pandora.
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Buckethead Isn't that famous...and he doesn't really want to be, so mostly to that reason is why Pandora doesn't have much of his good songs and albums. But Buckethead is still pretty crazy, I mean the guy can shred a guitar pretty nice and keep it up for a good amount of time. That takes skills.
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i am not too fused because pandora has the albums i dont but it would be nice to get them all on pandora
goin to see him on the 30th ha ha suckers XD |
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I added a Buckethead station specifically for Soothsayer. Can't believe it isn't on here.
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Buckethead is great. for more info about Buckethead go to www.buckethe a d l a n d . c o m
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this guy is awesome. but he has quite a few albums, we need more than this. the more bucket we get, the better off we are :)
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Need more Buckethead than this. Someone needs to visit http://www.t d r s m u s i c
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He's the best thing I've heard since Hendrix and Jeff Beck. It's great to hear people really play music again. Rocking in the sixties was great, but he's proof that better is possible.
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