BucketHead Posters
Concert Poster for a BucketHead show.
December 30, 2008 at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland.
Buckethead Concert Poster
Size 11 x17 – 28 x 43 cm
price $9.99
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From Wikipedia
Brian Patrick Carroll,[1] better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter.[1] He has released 24 solo albums and performed on over 50 more. He has also made guest appearances on 44 different albums by various artists. His music spans such diverse areas as progressive metal, thrash metal, funk, electronica, jazz, bluegrass and avant-garde music.
When performing in his theatrical persona, Buckethead used to wear a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket (emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker that reads FUNERAL in black block letters) on his head and a plain white costume mask (commonly found in costume shops and used primarily for dramatic theater productions). More recently, he has switched to a white bucket, and he no longer wears a KFC-brand bucket. Whenever dressed like this (most of the time during performances) he represents a character who was “raised by chickens, and has made it his mission in life to alert the world to the ongoing chicken holocaust in fast-food joints around the globe”.[1]
Although a multi-instrumentalist, Buckethead is best known for his electric guitar playing. He has been voted number 8 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the “Top 20 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time”.[2] In addition to guitar, drums, piano, organ, mandolin, and banjo, Buckethead is adept in the art of nunchaku.[3]
Buckethead performs primarily as a solo artist. He has collaborated with a wide variety of high profile artists such as Les Claypool, Tony Williams, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Iggy Pop, Serj Tankian, Guns N’ Roses, Saul Williams, Mike Patton, Viggo Mortensen and with Bill Laswell in Praxis. Buckethead has also written and performed music for major motion pictures, including: Saw II, Ghosts of Mars, Beverly Hills Ninja, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Last Action Hero and the soundtrack of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.
Career
Early life
Brian Carroll began playing guitar at the age of twelve. He has been quoted as saying, however, that he did not begin playing seriously until the following summer when he moved from Huntington Beach to Claremont. His playing began improving with lessons from various teachers, most notably Paul Gilbert, with whom he studied for over a year. He began making demo recordings of both his playing as well as his writing styles.
1988–1994: Early solo career and Praxis
In 1988, Carroll entered a song called “Brazos” into a Guitar Player Magazine contest; it was a runner up:
An astonishingly skilled guitarist and bassist, he demonstrates post–Paul Gilbert speed and accuracy filtered through very kinky harmonic sensibilities. His psychotronic, demonic edge is very, very far removed from the clichés of classical metal and rock. A real talent to watch, also known as “Buckethead”.[4]
In the same year the magazine’s editor Jas Obrecht came to know of Buckethead when Brian and his parents left a demo recording at the magazine’s reception desk for Obrecht. Impressed with this demo he rushed into the restaurant where Buckethead and his parents were having lunch and encouraged him to make the most of his talent,[5] they soon became friends. In 1991 Buckethead moved into Obrecht’s basement (this is also where the “Buckethead in the Basement” footage for the Young Buckethead DVD was filmed). The song “Brazos” was eventually released on the 1991 demo tape of his band Deli Creeps, titled “Tribal Rites”, and again as bonus material in Buckethead’s Secret Recipe DVD in 2006.
After his first two demo tapes called Giant Robot and Bucketheadland Blueprints, Buckethead released Bucketheadland on John Zorn’s Japanese Avant record label in 1992. Though available only as a pricey import, the record received positive reviews and earned some attention. At about this time, Buckethead fell into the orbit of prolific bassist/producer Bill Laswell (himself an occasional Zorn collaborator); as either a performer, producer or composer, Buckethead was introduced to Laswell with the help of Limbomaniacs drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia who gave Laswell a video of Buckethead playing in his room. [6] Buckethead soon became Laswell’s second staple guitar player besides Nicky Skopelitis.
In 1992, Buckethead, with Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins and Bryan “Brain” Mantia, formed the supergroup, Praxis. Their first album Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), released the same year, was well received. The project was Bill Laswell’s concept, and has since involved other guests such as Serj Tankian of System of a Down, among many others. Buckethead did participate in all releases but the initial 1984 release and Mold’ (1998).
1994–1995: Death Cube K and Giant Robot
In 1994, Buckethead released an album called Dreamatorium under the name of Death Cube K (an anagram of “Buckethead”) created by Tom “Doc” Darter to circumvent legal complications with Sony Records. About his style, the official FAQ says:
Many believe, however, that Death Cube K is a separate entity that looks like a photographic negative version of Buckethead with a “black chrome mask, like Darth Vader.” This apparition haunts Buckethead and appears in his nightmares.[7]
Science fiction author William Gibson later borrowed “Death Cube K” as the name of a bar in his novel Idoru (1996). Gibson explained the reference in an interview for Addicted To Noise:
Death Cube K is actually the title of an album. I’m sorry I can’t remember the name of the group but Bill Laswell who I don’t really know but out of the kindness of his heart occasionally sends me big hunks of his output, groups that come out on his label. And Death Cube K was the title of some vicious ambient group that he had produced. And when I saw it, I thought: a Franz Kafka theme bar in Tokyo.
Also in 1994, Buckethead released his second studio album Giant Robot which features many guest appearances by artists such as Iggy Pop and Bill Moseley. The name of the album came from the Japanese series Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot of which Buckethead is a fan.[8] He also released another album with Praxis, their second and third studio efforts Sacrifist and Metatron.
According to Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography, Scar Tissue, Buckethead once auditioned to play guitar for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, shortly after John Frusciante left the band, without having heard any of their songs. The band’s bassist Flea noted that:
When he finished the band applauded raucously. He was “sweet and normal,” but they wanted someone “…who could also kick a groove”.[9]
1995–1998: Collaboration work, movie soundtracks and Praxis
In 1995, Buckethead didn’t release any solo albums, but collaborated with several artists like Jonas Hellborg and Michael Shrieve (Octave of the Holy Innocents) plus contributing to several movie soundtracks such as Johnny Mnemonic and Mortal Kombat.
Later in 1996, Buckethead released his solo album Day of the Robot with the help of English producer DJ Ninj and Laswell plus another album with Brain and keyboardist Pete Scaturro on the small Japanese label NTT Records, called Giant Robot. Both albums were only printed in small quantities and are collectors’ items now. A second demo tape by the Deli Creeps was also recorded.
In 1997 Buckethead began working on the album Buckethead Plays Disney, but yet the album has not been released. According to his web page:
This highly anticipated album, once listed in an Avant catalog, has yet to be completed. It is Buckethead’s most precious personal project so he won’t record or release it until he knows he is ready.[10]
Also in 1997 Buckethead continued to contribute to movie soundtracks, appearing on Beverly Hills Ninja and the sequel to Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
Further releases were Arcana’s second and final studio album Arc of the Testimony and the one-off project Pieces with Brain. Two live albums by Praxis, called Transmutation Live and Live in Poland and featuring recordings from European concerts were also issued.
Death Cube K released an album that year called Disembodied.
Buckethead in 1998 released Colma, an album dedicated to his mother who was sick during this time of colon cancer.[11] The same year saw a compilation album by Praxis called Collection.
1999–2004: New projects, Guns N’ Roses and public recognition
In 1999, Buckethead released his fifth album, a collaboration with Les Claypool from the band Primus entitled Monsters and Robots, currently the best-selling album of his career. This album includes the song “The Ballad of Buckethead” for which his first music video ever was made.[12]
Buckethead performing live.
Also in this year he started three new projects, the first being the band Cornbugs, a collaboration with actor Bill Moseley, drummer Pinchface, and later also keyboardist Travis Dickerson. Another project, Cobra Strike featured Pinchface, “Brain”, DJ Disk, and Bill Laswell. Buckethead also recorded with actor Viggo Mortensen who he first “met” through a recording project called Myth: Dreams Of The World [13] in 1996. Together they released One Man’s Meat, One Less Thing to Worry About, and The Other Parade. Those releases are quite rare now but a compilation album called This, That, and The Other was issued in 2004 to compensate this. A re-worked version of Live in Poland by Praxis called Warszawa plus the soundtrack of the movie Mighty Morphin Power Rangers also came out this year.
A third Death Cube K release followed, entitled Tunnel and featuring Travis Dickerson. In 2000 he only released a second and last album by Cobra Strike called Cobra Strike II.
Buckethead achieved a higher public profile as lead guitarist for Guns N’ Roses from 2000 to 2004; however, the band only toured in 2001 and 2002 while he was a member. Guns N’ Roses response after Buckethead’s departure as follows:
During his tenure with the band, Buckethead has been inconsistent and erratic in both his behavior and his commitment, despite being under contract, creating uncertainty and confusion and making it virtually impossible to move forward with recording, rehearsals, and live plans with confidence. His transient lifestyle has made it near impossible for even his closest friends to have nearly any form of communications with him whatsoever.[14]
Since that time, his cult following in the underground music communities has steadily increased. He frequently performs at festivals and in clubs nationwide, and often tours as the feature performer.[15][16]
In 2001, he released his sixth studio album called Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse and also his only EP called KFC Skin Piles. He also released two albums with his band Cornbugs, Cemetery Pinch and How Now Brown Cow. He joined to two new projects, the first being Thanatopsis with Dickerson and releasing a self-titled debut album, the other one with Laswell and Japanese producer Shin Terai, releasing Unison.
In 2002, Buckethead released three studio albums, Funnel Weaver which only features a bunch of very short tracks, Bermuda Triangle and finally Electric Tears, being one of his very calm works. When Laswell was not able to play with Praxis at Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival, Les Claypool asked to jam with Brain, Bernie Worrell and Buckethead, forming a new supergroup called Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains. The experiment was successful enough to do some further live dates.
Later in 2003, marking the release of his tenth studio album, Buckethead released the sequel to his debut Bucketheadland, simply called Bucketheadland 2. Together with actor Viggo Mortensen he did Pandemoniumfromamerica and with Thanatopsis their second release called Axiology.
2004 again saw the release of three new studio albums, Island of Lost Minds which was his first tour only album, later was re-released by TDRS Music, Population Override, a blues rock tour-de-force with Dickerson, and The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, considered his heaviest effort to date. Included was the song “Spokes for the Wheel of Torment”, for which Syd Garon and Eric Henry made a music video based on the famous triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch. Buckethead also recorded the final two albums by the Cornbugs, Brain Circus and Donkey Town, another release with Viggo Mortensen called Please Tomorrow and a second with Shin Terai entitled Heaven & Hell. C2B3 also released their only album The Big Eyeball in the Sky and toured it in North America.
In an interview with Revolver, Ozzy Osbourne stated that he had offered to have Buckethead play guitar in his band at Ozzfest. Ozzy quickly changed his mind after meeting with him, and realizing that Buckethead would not remove his costume to be accepted by Ozzy:
I tried out that Buckethead guy. I met with him and asked him to work with me but only if he got rid of the fucking bucket. So I came back a bit later and he’s wearing this green fucking Martian’s-hat thing! I said, ‘Look, just be yourself’. He told me his name was Brian, so I said that’s what I’d call him. He says, ‘No one calls me Brian except my mother’. So I said, ‘Pretend I’m your mum then!’. I haven’t even got out of the room and I’m already playing fucking mind games with the guy. What happens if one day he’s gone and there’s a note saying, ‘I’ve been beamed up’? Don’t get me wrong, he’s a great player. He plays like a motherfucker.[17]
2005–2006: Buckethead & Friends
In 2005 Buckethead released an album as “Buckethead & Friends” called Enter the Chicken through Serj Tankian’s record label Serjical Strike. The album features Tankian himself, Maximum Bob (of the Deli Creeps), Death By Stereo singer Efrem Shulz, Bad Acid Trip, and others. It is marked by its leaning towards more traditional song structures, while still featuring typical Buckethead guitar skills. “We Are One” was released as a single and also appeared on the soundtrack of Masters of Horror. “Three Fingers” was used for the soundtrack of the horror movie Saw II. The final track “Nottingham Lace” was made public via his homepage first and soon became a concert staple and one of his most popular songs. Buckethead also released two further solo albums in 2005, Kaleidoscalp and Inbred Mountain, the latter being the first album as a solo artist released on the label TDRS Music. Both albums originally were sold exclusively at concerts and only later got an official release through the label’s website.
Also the same year, Buckethead released his first DVD Secret Recipe, originally sold only on tour; the only places for other fans (those who either didn’t go to a show or who live abroad) to obtain it were auction sites such as eBay. Eventually Travis Dickerson held a raffle for copies of the DVD on his website. Those who wanted to “win” a copy had to enter their name and email address. When entries were closed he picked 200 names at random from those who entered and they were allowed to buy a copy of the DVD from his website. In March 2006 the DVD was finally made widely available.
Also Buckethead released albums with other bands, with Cornbugs released two compilation albums called Rest Home for Robots and Skeleton Farm, he also released with the band Deli Creeps their first and only album called Dawn of the Deli Creeps. Buckethead also released the self-titled album Gorgone with the studio project Gorgone. This album was recorded from one of the recording sessions from the album Population Override that Buckethead released on 2004. The guitarrist also released an album with the actor Viggo Mortensen called Intelligence Failure and with the band Praxis released a live album called Zurich.
In 2006, the highlight of the year was the cross-console video game Guitar Hero II featuring Buckethead’s song “Jordan” as an unlockable bonus track. Although the song has been performed live in the past, the video game version is the only known studio recording of the song. Also, the live version almost always contains just the verse and chorus of “Jordan”, then goes into another song, usually “Post Office Buddy”, then returns to the verse and chorus of “Jordan”. However, the Guitar Hero II version contains a special solo specifically for the game.[18] Since late 2007, Buckethead has been known to perform the Guitar Hero version of “Jordan” within his concerts, including the solo.
Also the same year, Buckethead released a two DVDs entitled Young Buckethead Vol. 1 and Young Buckethead Vol. 2 featuring rare footage from 1990 and 1991. The DVD also contains three complete Deli Creeps shows, a sound check, backstage footage and solo footage of just Buckethead. He also released the albums The Elephant Man’s Alarm Clock and Crime Slunk Scene both sold on his tours but later sold on TDRS Music website, the last album has the song “Soothsayer (Dedicated to Aunt Suzie)”, this song along with “Jordan” and “Nottingham Lace” is one of his most popular songs and often played live.
In the same year Buckethead released his final compilation album with the band Cornbugs called Celebrity Psychos. He also released an album with the producer, keyboardist and owner of the label TDRS Music, Travis Dickerson called Chicken Noodles, this album was inspired by the track “Cruel Reality Of Nature” from the album Population Override, and released an album with the band Thanatopsis, called Anatomize.
2007–present: Continued solo and band work
The massive In Search of The box set, a set of 13 albums by Buckethead, along with each copy’s cover being hand drawn differently.
In 2007, Buckethead released 28 albums. In February a box set called In Search of The, containing 13 albums of original material was released. It was handcrafted, numbered, and monogrammed by Buckethead and contains over nine hours of music. His regular solo album Pepper’s Ghost was released in March, a CD of acoustic improvisations called Acoustic Shards was released, this is the twentieth studio album that the artist has released on his solo career. In mid-year he reissued his demo tape Bucketheadland Blueprints, with two different options for album cover, a hand-drawn cover made by him or the normal CD. In October he released his final two albums of the year called Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot and Cyborg Slunks. The latter again came in both a hand-drawn, limited edition and some weeks later as a normal CD.
Buckethead also released albums under his alias Death Cube K, in August an album called DCK, limited to 400 hand-numbered copies was released and in December the 5-CD box set Monolith followed,[19] consisting of one unbroken track per CD.
Also in 2007, Buckethead appeared on albums by other artists; the sequel to Chicken Noodles (a collaboration with Travis Dickerson) was issued by TDRS in December, simply called Chicken Noodles II.[20] A live record by Praxis entitled Tennessee 2004, the third album with Shin Terai called Lightyears, and another album with drummer Bryan Mantia called Kevin’s Noodle House were also released through the year.
Buckethead not only released music this year but also five paintings, limited to 100 reproductions each, also sold through TDRS.[21]
Finally, on January 1st 2008 the band Praxis managed to release the album Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness), but only in Japan. The album was recorded in 2005 but put on hold when the original label went bankrupt.
That same year, it was revealed that Buckethead joined a project by the name of Science Faxtion, a band featuring bassist Bootsy Collins, drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia and Greg Hampton supplying lead vocals. The album called Living on Another Frequency was delayed several times and finally released in November of 2008.
2008 started with Avabella (where he released Acoustic Shards) releasing From The Coop, consisting of the demos Buckethead gave to Jas Obrecht back in 1988. This CD also included the first ever “official” biography of/by the artist.
September saw the release of his solo album Albino Slug, again a tour only CD until official release on December 1st. Along with this album he appeared on the albums The Dragons of Eden with Dickerson and Mantia, and on a collaboration with That 1 Guy as the Frankenstein Brothers, an album called Bolt on Neck. That 1 Guy and Buckethead toured together through fall 2008, playing also songs from this album.
Buckethead also appeared on the documentary, American Music: Off the Record in which he appears only playing.[22] Serj Tankian`s label Serjical Strike re-issued the album Enter the Chicken with an extra song and also hinted towards another album possibly released in the near future. Furthermore Bucketehad contributed to one track of actor Viggo Mortensen’s album At All, and with Travis Dickerson and filmmaker Alix Lambert to the album Running After Deer.
Buckethead appeared with Bootsy Collins on Cincinnati, Ohio to promote the vote for the United States presidential election, 2008 for the organization Rock the Vote. [23]
More than four years after his departure from the band Guns N’ Roses, Chinese Democracy was made available. Buckethead appears on all but two songs and was given writing credits on “Shackler’s Revenge” which appeared in the popular video game Rock Band 2, “Scraped” and also “Sorry” which features guest singer Sebastian Bach. The album features eleven of Buckethead’s guitar solos.
Current projects
Bootsy Collins stated that Buckethead will collaborate in a new group called “The Z-Class”; their first album is scheduled for a release in April 2009.[24]
Equipment
Throughout his career Buckethead has used a wide range of different guitars, effect pedals and amplifers.[25] [26]
Guitars
* Gibson Les Paul Custom – Baritone neck, enlarged and chambered body, white hardware, killswitch, 24 frets, DiMarzio Air Norton in the bridge and DiMarzio Tone Zone in the neck position.
* Jackson Y2KV – “Coopwood” custom made, reverse neck, with larger body and headstock due to Buckethead saying normal guitars looked like toys in his hands.
* Jackson Y2KV – “KFC” same as the “coopwood”, only with the KFC red stripes, DiMarzio X2N Pickups, kill switch and an Original Floyd Rose.
* Jackson doubleneck – A custom doubleneck half guitar, half bass.
* ESP MV custom – Used throughout his concert in the Wetlands, broken as seen in one of the Binge Clips.
* Heartfield Talon II – Midnight blue with Pink DiMarzio X2N Pickups. Used in Early Deli Creeps shows.
* Fender Telecaster – Used on various albums, mainly projects with Travis Dickerson.
* Yamaha AES620 – Sometimes used live with C2B3.
* Steinberger GS “Kaiser’s Gift”
* Ibanez X Series Rocket Roller II – Used throughout the Praxis era.
* Gibson SG
* Gibson SST
* Gibson Chet Atkins
* Takamine Acoustic
* Vigier Guitars Excess Indus 4-String Bass
Effects
* Digitech Whammy II (and IV)
* Dunlop Cry Baby 535Q
* Snarling Dogs Mold Spore Wah
* BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
* BOSS NS-2 Noise Suppressor
* BOSS RC-20 Loop Station
* BOSS OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion
* Roger Mayer Octavia
* DOD Electronics FX-25B envelope filter
* Alesis MidiVerb II
* Roland SE-50 multi-effector
* Zoom multi-effects
* AnalogMan BicompROSSor
* MXR EVH Phase 90
* Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler
* Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer
Amplifiers
* Peavey Renown
* Peavey 5150 head on a Marshall 1960 Slant 4×12 cab
* Diezel Herbert
* Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier
* VHT Pittbull 50 watt heads
* Matt Wells 17 1/2 watt head wired through a Harry Kolbe 4×12 cab
Picks
* Dunlop .73mm
* Dunlop Nylon Jazz III
Buckethead’s bands
Note: As well as being a solo artist since 1992, Buckethead often releases albums as Death Cube K — he has used this name as an alias since 1994 (most recently used in 2007).
Bands
Current
* Praxis (1992–present)
* Shine/Shin Terai (2001–present)
* Thanatopsis (2001–present)
* Buckethead & Friends (2005–present)
* Science Faxtion (2007–present)
* Frankenstein Brothers (2008-present)
Former
* Deli Creeps (1991–2005)
* Zillatron (1993)
* Cornbugs (1995–2007)
* Giant Robot (1996)
* Pieces (1997)
* Cobra Strike (1999–2000)
* El Stew (1999–2003)
* Guns N’ Roses (2000–2004)
* Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains (2002–2004)
* Gorgone (2005)
With artists
Current
* with Viggo Mortensen (1999, 2003–2005, 2008-present)
* with Travis Dickerson (2006–present)
* with Brain (2007-present)
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