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Monday, November 16, 2009

Buckethead Signature Les Paul

Guitar manufacturer Gibson has mentioned about Buckethead Signature Les Paul in their official website recently.

"From his prolific solo work, to his prominent memberships in the supergroup Praxis and rock legends Guns N’ Roses, Buckethead has displayed one of the most fiery creative personas of our times, and has continually affirmed his stance in the upper echelon of contemporary shredders. Equally attention-grabbing as his incendiary chops, Buckethead’s stage show and visual presence remain unique among the rock field, and his Gibson guitars—a white Les Paul in particular—have always been a big part of that. As Gibson continues to roll out the Rocktober action, the Buckethead Signature Les Paul celebrates this unparalleled artist’s achievements. With an oversized, chambered Les Paul body, a marker-less ebony fingerboard, and Buckethead’s choice of Gibson’s contemporary ceramic humbucking pickups—complete with modified electronics and “arcade” style kill switches—this is a Les Paul like none to have come before. It’s primed to get you noticed, and designed for utmost performance for the contemporary rock, metal, and shred performer."

Read the complete news at Gibson.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Buckethead's Tribute To Michael Jackson

Guitar virtuoso, Buckethead has made a tribute song for the late Michael Jackson. The song, entitled "The Homing Beacon" is available for streaming at bucketheadland.com .

Buckethead, real name is Brian Patrick Caroll has released 27 solo albums and performed on over 50 more. He released his latest album "A Real Diamond In The Rough" on 1st of May 2009. The album is dedicated to Buckethead's legal representative, Stan Diamond. This is his second album this year, he released "Slaughterhouse On The Prairie" on January 30 this year.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Buckethead Released A Real Diamond In The Rough

Buckethead the guitar virtuoso has released his new album, A Real Diamond In The Rough on 1st of May 2009. The album is dedicated to Buckethead's legal representative, Stan Diamond. This album which have 13 tracks of songs has a lot more emotion than other buckethead previous albums and shows that buckethead does not need to shred to be good. This album is also good for fans that are new to buckethead because there are no unusual songs on the album that only hardcore buckethead fans are going to like.

This is his second album this year, he released Slaughterhouse On The Prairie on January 30 this year. A Real Diamond In The Rough is not classed as rock but as avant-garde. This is a must buy album if you are a fanatic fan of Buckethead. Since there are no lyrics there is nothing to say about them except that this album would not be very good with lyrics just like all previous buckethead albums. The tracks are as follow:

1. "Broken Mirror"

2. "Big D's Touch"
3. "Separate Sky"
4. "Dawn Appears"
5. "A Real Diamond in the Rough"
6. "Sundial"
7. "Squid Ink"
8. "Four Rivers"
9. "Allowed to Play"
10. "Formless Present"
11. "Squid Ink Part 2"
12. "The Miracle of Surrender"
13. "The Return of Captain EO"

The album is available at TDRSmusic

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Buckethead

Great and virtuoso guitarist.His real name is Brian Patrick Carroll and born in 1969 (same age with Jason Becker). His music spans such diverse areas as progressive metal, thrash metal, funk, electronica, jazz, bluegrass, and avant-garde music. I really like his insane guitar sound, I think the sound is based on the diminish scales, correct me if I'm wrong.

He has been voted number 8 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the "Top 20 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time" as well as been included in Guitar World's list of the "50 fastest guitarists of all time".

When performing, he will wear a white mask and a hat made from the KFC bucket. His face already been hidden for nearly 20 years under, lot of people are wondering how exactly his face looks like? But for me it actually doesn't matter, He also incorporates nunchaku, robot dancing, and toy trading into his stage performances. Also, he claimed that he has been raised by chicken! Not believe it? You better believe it, Ripley's believe it or not. Haha. This guy rocks dude.

Further reading:
Buckethead bibliography
Buckethead Official Website

Buckethead Chicken Theme