Buckethead has some serious giant robot dance skill up his spandex sleeves. Though, the chops aren’t the only machine-like part of the performance. The swift metal solos live up to their reputation and make you feel as though structures are collapsing down around you in the wake of a mechanical monstrosity. In fact, it makes the entire experience feel much more intimate.īuckethead’s musical style ranges from entire instrumental albums of dark, twisted metal to funk to melodic ambiance to soulful rock, so it’s safe to say that there is a piece in the bucket for everyone.Īfter resurfacing from the shockwave of note flurries, you are sucked in by the fat riffs and robotic execution.
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The absence of a full band is not a negative side to the show in any way. He takes his solid white guitar to jam a metal groove and then proceeds to shower the audience with arpeggios. The near 7-foot figure strolls out in his infamous headgear with an all-black outfit. Wasting no time, the 1960’s narration is cut and the playlist begins. Buckethead’s “band” is an arrangement of amps through which his backing tracks play from a tape or playlist. Another 10 minutes of the strange narration, and then out comes the bucket himself. 45 minutes late to start the set, fans at House of Blues: New Orleans were getting anxious, when finally one of the stagehands starts testing each guitar pedal one-by-one to the audio of Monsanto’s Adventure Thru Inner Space from 1967. The live show aspect of his music is not quite what you’d expect. Buckethead’s musical style ranges from entire instrumental albums of dark, twisted metal to funk to melodic ambiance to soulful rock, so it’s safe to say that there is a piece in the bucket for everyone. His creativity also knows no bounds, as he is well on the way to 300 studio albums and has recorded with dozens of other talented artists like Les Claypool and Bootsy Collins. He is ranked in GuitarOne’s “Top 10 Fastest Guitar Shredders of All Time” and Guitar World’s “50 Fastest Guitar Players of All Time”. With fingers like spider legs, he redefines the speed and precision one would think possible on the instrument. If he does speak, it is usually in the form of a character or through a hand puppet. There are very few images of the man without his disguise, and he is not known for speaking directly. Bucketheadland is a dreadful, circus fusion of an amusement park, equipped with the ability to transform into a colossal mecha, and a slaughterhouse with a horrible cast of creeps to join you along the rides. His influences in horror are obvious with the mask, which he ran out to buy immediately after watching Halloween 4, but also with his concept albums like Bucketheadland and its sequel, Bucketheadland 2. That’s Buckethead right there,” and since then he has burned his image into the minds of music lovers and freaks everywhere. He dawned himself with a Michael Myers mask and a KFC bucket as a youth, saying aloud to a mirror, “Buckethead.
“If he was raised by chickens, that’s what they say, why does he like to eat chickens?” As tall as he is weird as he is skilled, Buckethead is a giant robot walking among mortals.
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