i searched and i never found any threads about this guy. it's a shame because i checked him out yesterday and hes a fucking nut on guitar, he does alot of cool melodies and incorperates alot of heavy shredding and solos. I love the overall wierdness too. Anyone else like him but me?

Haven't heard him. I hear he is nuts, but his playing is what should be remembered about him, not the fact that he wears a bucket on his head as a gimmick.

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haha, yeah, the gimmick is pretty silly. but i dig his playing. i'll have a link to solo in a seck.

It's hard as fuck to find any of his shit, but nightrains him jamming with another band or something.

http://www.newgnr.com/band/bheadvideos.html

I have a few cds of his he is fucking great! He is so relaxed while playing too just makes it look like its nothing big

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THATS BECAUSE HE IS WEARING A BUCKET ON HIS FUCKING HEAD!

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He kicks ass. I've seen a couple of videos of him.

Hes so relaxed, he just has this smooth plasticy expression on his face while he plays

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My thoughts exactly.

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I heard rumors that buckethead is actually Paul Gilbert.
Kind of makes sense because he's badass at guitar and Paul Gilbert is wierd enough to dress like that.

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No he's not Gilbert.. his name is Brian Carroll http://metalsludge.com/main/modules...dBuckethead.jpg

He was taught by Gilbert though.

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It is a FACT that paul gilbert is not buckethead. Paul Gilbert TAUGHT Buckethead, and his real name is Brian Carroll.

Check him out: http://www.geocities.com/stringcheese242001/

His long pinky on the guitar, isnt his real pinky by the way.

Edit: Lol i was making this just as the guy above posted his. wasnt fast enough.

What I meant was that he just stands there and does his little robotic moves and doesn't even look at his guitar. Yet he still puts emotion into his playing.

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Gasp! Well this is quite the surprise. I always thought that buckethead was just a mediocre guitarist simply because well...he had a bucket on his head and theres the fact that all that I've heard from him were G'n'R covers. This was quite the pleasant surprise. I still say he should loose the bucket though. He's far from needing any sort of gimmicks with chops like that.

I once heard that he's part of the new Guns N Roses? Anyone wanna second that?

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He was but then he left. My guess is he couldn't deal with Axl's ego.

I thought buckethead was a newb. Well good news that he isn't.

i really love the acoustic album colma. one of my all time favorite cds

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Hmmm, well he must be gettin damn near 40 now. Anyways, I downloaded some his stuff, hes got some really slow eerie stuff too thats pretty atmospheric. Why the hell did he start wearing a bucket anyway? Anyone know anything besides cheesy gimmick?

hahaha he says its cuase he lived with chickens, and they affectionately picked at his face. one day while he was in his chicken coop, somebody threw a kfc bucket into his coop with him and he put it on his head!

and yes, the eerie stuff is off colma

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Hey woa, is it this dude?



I found this picture ages ago and kept it because it was a crackup.

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yeah its that dude.

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No, its just a cheesy gimmick, and i hate when artists do stuff like this. I mean i know its just to put on a show, but some artists goa bit too rediculous. I mean the stuff posted here is the only stuff anyone knows on the guy, and if you go to his site, he actually made up a fake backstory to make him look more eerie and hard. I mean thats rediculous. When he plays on his solo albums, you can really see his Paul Gilbert influence, not only in his licks, but he has feel on his albums that like 2 other NEW shredders have today(i just pulled a number out of my ass, he might be the only one to me). There is no way that the robotic-type show he puts on during live performances is the way he plays on his albums. Not saying he has no feel live, but he definately has worlds more feel on his studio stuff.

PS - Does anyone know who that other guitarist is in Guns' n Roses? On one of those clips earlier in the page, he plays at the end of the Buckethead thing, and its not the first time i hear him play. He seriously sucks so bad, and i wonder if he does it on purpose to make Buckethead look better, not that he needs it. I am sure that guy is good in his own right to get a job like this, but everything i have heard, he blows, big time.

I don't think he is doing the skit to be errie or hard...just for fun. Kind of like how GWAR dresses up in suits and calls themselves aliens from another planet.

The other thing about the 2nd guitarist in GnR...I saw a better video of the chicken pickin' on stage thing. It was so funny to listen to the other guitarist try to upstage buckethead...hahaha...lamer

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Its a joke people, you dont like it then oh well..

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yeah, a pretty lame gimick. perhaps he absorbed a little too much of paul gilberts sense of humour in lessons? haha...

I read somewhere that he said that he used to live with chickens and even plays and practices in a fucking chicken coop. However, he left GnR frustrated with their inability to put out an album or get a show together.
When I read that I cracked up becasue how fucking .ame must your band be if a guy who practices in a chicken coop left it? I knew nothing about the guy, I just read that stuff about him for the first time and thought he was just some random fucking nutcase who could play a guitar.
I think that since he is already famous for wearing that fucking bucket on his head he might as well try to get KFC to hire him as a spokesperson or something. That could be a pretty sweet little endorsement. That way, when PETA sues KFC, they'll be able to get out on an insanity plea.

It seems like all you guys are talking more about his appearance than his guitar playing.

that's of course what is the most important! you can't like someone unless they look cool of course! I already stated he rules...people keep ranting about his appearance...bastards.

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No i love his studio stuff, and i think hes seems like a cool guy, but all this stuff about him making up a FAKE backround just to seem hard is getting rediculous. I am sure he worked hard when coming up, but the story on his site makes it seem like he had a horrible life growing up, and thats how he turned the way he did, which is just rediculous. Hes trying to get more people to like him by saying he would go to a drive-in movie and play guitar to it all the time, then go burn down his chicken coop. Its fine to have a cool costume like he has, but making up a stupid backstory and changing the way he acts is going way to far. I would find it much much more inspirational to hear what he REALLY did growing up to achieve the level of guitar he got to. Steve Vai's life story is more or less why i decided to get serious about guitar.

Exactly, its like Gwar. The guy above me is taking it a bit far. Some people do it to look hard (slipknot, etc.), but other people do it just for fun.

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lol shut up mad crewatewafdfag

its a personality, a persona. its quite entertaining and everbit as creative as his actual music. some bands and artists have an aura around them and some are just regular guys. he chose to make up a story, so stop bitching about it and just enjoy it!

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Well ill stop bitchin, but i still dont like it. i think its past having fun, its just stupid to me, but i still LOVE his solo stuff, so ill just let the guy do what he wants and be quiet. I am talking like a young guitarist, and not an adult, and im sure if i was in the same situation i would do whatever it would takes to make more money , as stupid as that may sound now, but later in life i see my mindset changing.

If someone Dressed up in a KFC bucket, a white mask and a raincoat to look hard they would probably get the shit kicked out them lol. I know you mean hes doing it for fun, But it would be funny if they did do it to look badass.

By the way, whats your favorite song by him? Mines For Mom.

that whole album man...wondering, big sur moon, for mom.... i heard her wrote the colma album for his mother while she was in the hospital. nice guy, eh?


and i bet more than anything buckethead made up his story to either hide his identity (ive heard that hes actually a famous shredder in disguise, to gain more attention/credibility) or just to amuse himself.

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yeah man, For mom is a heartwarming peice.

Has anyone heard any of the stuff Buckethead did with Les Claypool?

I saw him playing with guns'n'roses a couple of years back at Leeds. Didn't care too much for waching guns'n'roses after Buckethead had his own stage time, probably cos my cock went hard whilst he had his own stagetime.

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I hate virtuoso shredders such as gilbert and the like, but Buckethead is just so much more interesting than any of them, and if it is a famous shredder in disguise then he should stick to writing his buckethead stuff.

The thing is that buckethead doesn't just shred all the time...he can when he wants but not all of his songs are shredding from 0:00-X:XX. Maybe other shreds don't shred all the time too...but i don't know I never listen to them because they get boring fast.

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http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx...+In+The+Sky.htm
there are some short sound clips on there if anyone's interested.

People say this about Gilbert, but hes one of my favorite guitarists. He has alot of feel, and if you hear him talk, he knows its not all about speed. Also he is from around where i live, and my teacher saw him when he was 15 at a concert, and at the gallery about a quarter mile from my house a guitar teacher named nick was taught by paul gilbert, and i am not sure if he still keeps in touch, but i know he talked to him alot after he got out of GIT and what not. I just thought all that might be cool to you, but basically i am saying, he is a great musician as well as a great guy, so i hear.

i think this guys music sucks, altho he is skilled. his creativity factor is all skill over substance. accompanying music is always basic backbeat shit thats utterly forgettable, his music sounds like a more extreme musak. the guy plays elevator music. i dont even care about the bucket and mask, that shit costs like 8.99 at a joke shop. whereas gwar went to art school to learn all that costume shit and did everything themselves, which takes a vast amount of time, resource and skill

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i heard something from him. even by myself i was too embarassed to listen to it. and i couldnt believe that people like it just cause hes fast on guitar. thats pretty sad.

theres his gay stuff with audio clips and drum machines. taht stuffs weak. you cant mock buckethead untill you hear colma, time dragon. its acoustic guitar and real drums...its a really great album man

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so anyone know where the bucket thing came from?

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KFC.

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go die

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People say its just a gimmick, but i want to know where he got the gimmick from. I bet it would be quite the story.

i explained it earlier in the thread

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maybe i heard the worst from him. it was some really stupid wacky pop sounding stuff with the singer saying "buckethead" over and over. i just couldnt stand it. so theres better stuff???

well thats a fucking lame story, i would have made up a better one

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yes. theres lots of that whacky crap that you described, under albums like "bucketheadland" and other crap like that. thats just shredding irritation..although he has a couple good songs in that vein they are not anywhere near as good as his album "colma". colma is recorded with a guy name "brain" in drums who is very VERY simple but makes very good beats,and buckethead handles all the guitars and bass guitars. its as great album man, really worth looking into

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Ahahaha! Oh man, that was classic.

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Fucking high five!

ok. now things make more sense. i had only heard the first song on "bucketheadland" and it was a joke. Maybe ill check out that "colma". are there vocals? im hoping not.

no vocals. i dont think theres a voice on that album, not even samples!

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thats cool. instrumentals can be very nice

I think it's all explained in The Ballad of Buckethead (with Les Claypool). Apparently he was brought into the world by chickens.

Going to see buckethead live tonite at 9 p.m. Gonna try to get some pictures. Gonna fucking rock!

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