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Buckethead.. the mighty.. the wizard.
Love all his music.
What are some of your faves?

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I like the pretty stuff he does like whitewash:

Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.

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Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

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HA! Love my comment on that thread!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.

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Whitewash is good.
I like a lot of his pike stuff too.
But for a heavy album ya cant go past Elephant Mans Alarm Clock.

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Has he upgraded his bucket yet?

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Yeah well he has released a shit ton of material, over 260 studio albums actually. I've listened to a lot of it and I think the good majority of it awesome. (Don't really get into his halloween stuff tho)
The guy lives in the studio pretty much. A lot of the guitar work he did on Chinese Democracy was great I thought too.
Try and tell me this isn't awesome..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO6FzkQ-N28

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I'm quite enjoying his stuff, been playing Colma quite a lot, but liking that album you linked too!
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griff7628 wrote: Try and tell me this isn't awesome..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO6FzkQ-N28
That's easy, because it isn't awesome (YMMV etc :D ). Pretty generic 80s shred in that example, nothing that jumps out as particularly original.

I do like some of his stuff but even on Chinese Democracy there's parts where it's all chops and no style.
The older I get, the more disappointed in myself I become.

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That's easy, because it isn't awesome (YMMV etc :D ). Pretty generic 80s shred in that example, nothing that jumps out as particularly original.

I do like some of his stuff but even on Chinese Democracy there's parts where it's all chops and no style.[/quote]

Ok thats fair enough. Here's another fave of mine..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npu-_7qnACc
Actually one of the only albums that can be obtained on Vinyl.
But listen to a number of his pikes, and he's mixing things up all the time. Here's one of his later ones..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qie_gYCOd38

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Zillatron with Bootsy Collins and Bill Laswell is pretty good

Laswell's Black Arc line released some cool stuff.
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Not a KFC fan. Of all the main fast food outlets, they're most likely to give me the shits.

Back on topic.

I actually bought the first Buckethead album as a new release. Or rather, I think (too lazy for google) it was a Bill Laswell project under the name Praxis, with Buckethead on guest solos and various P-Funk alumni involved. I was on a Funkadelic kick at the time (early 90s) and tracking down anything associated, plus I read a magazine article hyping Bucket as the Next Great Guitarist, hence the purchase. I swiftly learned that anything involving P-Funk and not stamped in the 1970s is best avoided.

Thereafter I only heard one Buckethead album (bought on CD, in the CD era), which I'm reminded of above; it was COLMA. I only liked one track on it, the generic 80s shred one.

I don't doubt he's good and would welcome suggestions for the best generic 80s shred moments amongst the 118 albums he released in 2015.

Pop quiz: would Buckethead be more/less revered if he was called Joe Smith and wore a baseball cap?

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HappyEnding wrote:Not a KFC fan. Of all the main fast food outlets, they're most likely to give me the shits.

Back on topic.

I actually bought the first Buckethead album as a new release. Or rather, I think (too lazy for google) it was a Bill Laswell project under the name Praxis, with Buckethead on guest solos and various P-Funk alumni involved. I was on a Funkadelic kick at the time (early 90s) and tracking down anything associated, plus I read a magazine article hyping Bucket as the Next Great Guitarist, hence the purchase. I swiftly learned that anything involving P-Funk and not stamped in the 1970s is best avoided.

Thereafter I only heard one Buckethead album (bought on CD, in the CD era), which I'm reminded of above; it was COLMA. I only liked one track on it, the generic 80s shred one.

I don't doubt he's good and would welcome suggestions for the best generic 80s shred moments amongst the 118 albums he released in 2015.

Pop quiz: would Buckethead be more/less revered if he was called Joe Smith and wore a baseball cap?
Really like 3 or 4 tracks on the Praxis Axiom Funk record.
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

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