Buckethead

[CJ]

nottingham lace= one of the greatest instrumentals of all time.

[Muzzzz]

I'm so glad this hasn't turned into some ridiculous "shred is tasteless" topic. Buckethead is absolutely fantastic, and I think that his music, great deal of which is amazing music is overshadowed by people who want to label him as some kinda tasteless showoff.

Go the bucket!!!

Oh by the way, 2:40 into The Treeman, from the Cuckoo Clocks of Hell is the greatest riff ever.

[silentrage]

nottingham lace= one of the greatest instrumentals of all time.

+1
My girl, who doesn't listen to rock/metal normally, instantly fell in love with this track when she heard it.


Now she wants me to learn it. /shoots_self_in_head

[CJ]

yeah on the contrary, i think buckethead is far from tasteless shred. i haven't listened to all of his stuff, but the stuff i've heard i feel like he's playing nowhere near his potential technically speaking, because he seems to focus on all melody and good music. he's one of the very few who can pretty much do anything.

[maverickf1jockey]

I am going to say that the vast majority of Buckethead's solo stuff I have heard sounded like he was throwing the guitar down some stairs, breaking the jack socket en-route. (now there's avant-garde and there's shite quite frankly).
This has really put me off of him despite what other people rave on about him and his music.

I do hazard the odd look on youtube but I still get the same toneless cr@p.
could someone link to a video of him playing something melodic for me as I can never seem to find it?

I feel he often gets too tied up in being avant-garde and forgets he's meant to be playing the guitar.

However I was impressed with the video of the solo he did playing with Axl Rose's backing band where he goes through various styles and actually plays some melody.

I much prefer Mattias 'IA' Eklundh for experimental guitar stuff.

Why does 's h i t' become 'shite' when 's h i t e' becomes 'shitee' on the language filter?

[CJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYxrdrzmuUw

he dicks around a lot more on the live version... but still great. make sure you listen past the 2:30 mark, thats where it gets good.

[FELINEGUITARS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGt4J9oBKKo&feature=related

Night of The Slunk
I really liked this track - has a similar melodic sense to the riff as Michael Schenker sometimes comes up with.

[DeanS]

I've only been into Buckethead for a little while but I'm loving the trippy hip hop rhythms and shredding with a modern hendrixy feel-if you catch my drift!! 8)

[Philly Q]

I'm so glad this hasn't turned into some ridiculous "shred is tasteless" topic.

I haven't heard very much of his music, but what I've heard I really like - even though he can shred like bejesus he also has great melodic sense, great tone and his music grooves.   But maybe I wouldn't like his more esoteric stuff...

The guy does creep me out, though.  I don't know how he can be comfortable wearing that mask and a KFC bucket on his head... especially on stage!  It'd be so claustrophobic, I'd be going crazy wanting to tear it off after about 5 seconds.

[CJ]

I'm so glad this hasn't turned into some ridiculous "shred is tasteless" topic.

I haven't heard very much of his music, but what I've heard I really like - even though he can shred like bejesus he also has great melodic sense, great tone and his music grooves.   But maybe I wouldn't like his more esoteric stuff...

The guy does creep me out, though.  I don't know how he can be comfortable wearing that mask and a KFC bucket on his head... especially on stage!  It'd be so claustrophobic, I'd be going crazy wanting to tear it off after about 5 seconds.

yeah i was thinking about how crazy hot he must get. you start sweating real fast wearing masks like those.