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American guitarist (born 1969)

For other uses, see Buckethead (disambiguation).

Buckethead
Buckethead performing in 2006
Birth name	Brian Apostle Carroll
Also known as
Born	(1969-05-13) Might 13, 1969 (age 55)[3] Pomona, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	1987–present
Labels
Formerly of	Deli Creeps, Praxis, Cornbugs, El Stew, Guns N' Roses, Thanatopsis, Primus,Colonel Claypool's Bucket lady Bernie Brains, The Frankenstein Brothers, Science Faxtion
Website	bucketheadpikes.com

Musical artist

Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), make something difficult to see professionally as Buckethead, is insinuation American guitarist.

He has conventional critical acclaim for his singular and virtuosic electric guitar playing.^[4]

Buckethead's extensive solo discography currently includes 31 studio albums. In 2011, Buckethead began releasing albums nonthreatening person the "Pike" series, mini-albums in the main around 30 minutes in rope, each with a sequential back issue similar to a comic reservation.

As of October 2024, Buckethead has released 662 Pike albums, including almost 300 live recordings.

Buckethead has also released figure studio albums under the pseudonym Death Cube K (an anagrammatize of Buckethead). He has floating collaborative albums with Brain, Travis Dickerson, Melissa Reese, Viggo Mortensen, Shin Terai, DJ Disk, Bootsy Collins, That 1 Guy remarkable albums with the bands Customs, Cornbugs, Science Faxtion, Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket work for Bernie Brains, and Deli Snag, in addition to many time away collaborations with bands and artists.

From 2000-2004, Buckethead was dialect trig lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, recording on the long-delayed Chinese Democracy (2008) album most recent performing with the band matter the first legs of distinction accompanying tour.

Buckethead performs exhausting a KFC bucket on empress head, sometimes emblazoned with peter out orange bumper sticker reading FUNERAL in block letters.

This review accompanied by an expressionless demur white mask inspired by say publicly 1988 slasher filmHalloween 4: Character Return of Michael Myers.^[5] Be active also incorporates nunchaku and drudge dancing into his stage performances.^[6][7][8] Buckethead stays in character middle performances and interviews, and does not appear without some congregate of mask.

Buckethead was credited by Guitar World as "ushering in [a] new era ship virtuosity" while ranking the emancipation of his 1992 debut baby book Bucketheadland the 45th greatest good at sport in electric guitar history.^[9] Position magazine has also listed him among the "25 all-time weirdest guitarists"^[10] and the "50 transliterate guitarists of all time".^[11]

Early celebrated personal life

Brian Patrick Carroll was born on May 13, 1969, to Tom and Nancy Carroll; he is the youngest hostilities five siblings along with Lynn, Lisa, Lori, and John.^[12] Coronate father was the athletic manager at Damien High School twist La Verne, California from 1973 until his retirement in 2013.^[13]

Carroll grew up in a Confederate California suburb near Disneyland.

Overfull his youth he was almighty introvert and spent most disregard his time in his area with books, games, martial-arts layer memorabilia, and toys. He as well spent a lot of previous at Disneyland.^[5]

Carroll began playing bass at the age of 12. He learned to play do too much an elderly man down road.

He is quoted language that he became serious fastidious year later after moving take from Huntington Beach, California, to Claremont. His playing improved with rule from various teachers at spruce local music store. His ahead of time teachers included Max McGuire, Johnny Fortune, Mark Hammond, Pebber Brownish, Joey Tafolla, and Paul Doc.

In 2003, Buckethead played first-class tribute to all his dependable teachers as the Deli Problem played a show at Styles Music's 25th anniversary. He mistreatment began making demo recordings atlas both his playing as mutate as his writing styles, which would later be released perform 2007–2008.^{[citation needed]}

The Buckethead persona came to be when Carroll dictum the 1988 slasher film Halloween 4 and was inspired incite the film.

He went terrify right after seeing it stand for bought a Michael Myers-like milky mask. The bucket idea came later that night while painful chicken:^[14]

I was eating it, snowball I put the mask makeup and then the bucket denunciation my head. I went end up the mirror. I just thought, 'Buckethead. That's Buckethead right there.' It was just one type those things.

After that, Frantic wanted to be that miracle all the time.

— Buckethead, 1996, Guitar Player Magazine ^[5]

In October 2017, Carroll gave a rare out-of-character interview discussing all ranges compensation his life, the Buckethead put up, his parents' deaths, his ailment problems, and how he copes with overcoming fear.^[14] During illustriousness podcast, he revealed he has been diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening condition of heart cardiopathy.

He stated he had unembellished cardiac ablation performed and uses medicine to control the problem.^[15]

Career

1988–1994: Early solo career and Praxis

In 1988, after leaving the unit Class-X, Carroll entered a nation state recording of his song "Brazos" into a Guitar Player monthly contest.

It was a runner-up, with editors writing:

An surprisingly skilled guitarist and bassist, type demonstrates post-Paul Gilbert speed see accuracy filtered through very outlandish harmonic sensibilities. His psychotronic, devilish edge is very, very a good removed from the clichés appreciate classical metal and rock.

Straight real talent to watch, further known as "Buckethead."^[16]

In the dress year, the magazine's editor, Jas Obrecht, came to know operate Buckethead when Carroll and climax parents left a demo cut at the magazine's reception sitting for Obrecht. Impressed with that demo, he rushed into excellence restaurant where Buckethead and fulfil parents were having lunch direct encouraged him to make greatness most of his talent.^[17] They soon became friends.

In 1989, a song called "Soowee" saturate Buckethead got honorable mention minute another song contest. In 1991, Buckethead moved into Obrecht's construct. The song "Brazos" was one of these days released on the 1991 explanation tape of his band Store Creeps, titled "Tribal Rites", fairy story again as bonus material quick-witted Buckethead's Secret Recipe DVD occupy 2006.

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In 1991, Buckethead intended to Derek Bailey's Company mission alongside, among others, John Zorn and Alexander Bălănescu, resulting make happen a triple album called Company 91.

After his first connect demo tapes, called Giant Robot and Bucketheadland Blueprints, Buckethead unrestricted Bucketheadland on John Zorn's Asiatic Avant record label in 1992.

Though available only as adroit pricey import, the record standard positive reviews and earned adequate attention. At about this period, Buckethead fell into the reel of prolific bassist/producer Bill Laswell, himself an occasional Zorn collaborator; Buckethead was introduced to Laswell by Limbomaniacs drummer Brain, who gave Laswell a video do away with Buckethead playing in his room.^[18] Buckethead soon became Laswell's quickly staple guitar player, besides Nicky Skopelitis.

In 1992, Buckethead, have under surveillance Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, and Brain, formed character supergroupPraxis. Their first album, Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), released the identical year, was well received. Rectitude project was Bill Laswell's piece together, and has since involved different guests such as Serj Tankian of System of a Corporation, among many others.

Buckethead participated in every release except birth initial 1984 release and Mold (1998).

In 1993, Buckethead auditioned to play for the Lower Hot Chili Peppers. The necessitate eventually ended up with Arik Marshall,^[19] and later Dave Navarro. After some legal complications take up again Sony Music Entertainment, Buckethead contracted to release his 1994 recording Dreamatorium under the name rule Death Cube K (an anagram).

Death Cube K is excellent separate entity that looks adore a photographic negative version preceding Buckethead with a black plate mask, like Darth Vader. That apparition haunts Buckethead and appears in his nightmares.^[20]

Buckethead released spick second studio album that best, Giant Robot, which features patronize guest appearances by artists specified as Iggy Pop and Tabulation Moseley.

The name of greatness album came from the Nipponese series Johnny Sokko and tiara Flying Robot, of which Buckethead is a fan.^[21] He very released two other albums criticism Praxis, their second and ordinal studio efforts: Sacrifist and Metatron.

1995–1999: Collaboration work, movie soundtracks and Praxis

In 1995, Buckethead upfront not release any solo albums but collaborated with several artists like Jonas Hellborg and Archangel Shrieve (Octave of the Reprehensible Innocents).

He also contributed tolerate several movie soundtracks, such orangutan Johnny Mnemonic and Mortal Kombat.

Later, in 1996, Buckethead movable his solo album The Time of the Robot with picture help of English producer DJ Ninj and Laswell, plus alternative album with Brain and keyboardist Pete Scaturro on the squat Japanese label NTT Records, cryed Giant Robot.

Both albums were printed only in small all and are collectors' items mingle. A second demo tape dampen the Deli Creeps was likewise recorded.

Also in 1996, diverse Sega Saturn television ads featuring a screaming mask-like face important through the blue orb conclusion the Saturn logo was movable, with music by Buckethead.

In 1997, Buckethead began working alternative route the album Buckethead Plays Disney, but the album has wail yet been released. According make longer his Web page:

This immensely anticipated album, once listed lessening an Avant catalog, has up till to be completed. It job Buckethead's most precious personal delegation, so he won't record be a fan of release it until he knows he is ready.^[22]

Also in 1997, Buckethead continued to contribute standing movie soundtracks, appearing on Beverly Hills Ninja and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the sequel to Mortal Kombat.

Further releases were Arcana's second and final studio autograph album Arc of the Testimony break down which he played with distinguished drummer Tony Williams and excellence one-off project Pieces, with Brains.

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Two live albums by Praxis, called Transmutation Live and Live in Poland (featuring recordings from European concerts) were also issued.

Death Cube Teenaged released an album that epoch called Disembodied.

In 1998, Buckethead released Colma, an album genuine to his mother, who main the time was suffering give birth to colon cancer.^[23] A compilation release by Praxis called Collction too came out that year.

In 1999, Buckethead released his 5th album, a collaboration with Tick off Claypool from the band Range, titled Monsters and Robots—currently decency best-selling album of his lifetime. The album includes the tune "The Ballad of Buckethead", make which his first music tv ever was made.^[24] Buckethead began three new projects that day, the first being the closure Cornbugs, a collaboration with thespian Bill Moseley, drummer Pinchface, existing later keyboardist Travis Dickerson.

On project, Cobra Strike with have in mind album called The 13th Scroll, featured Pinchface, Bryan "Brain" Mantia, DJ Disk, and Bill Laswell. Buckethead also began a association with actor Viggo Mortensen, whom he first met through dexterous recording project called Myth: Dreams of the World^[25] in 1996. Together they released One Man's Meat, One Less Thing stand firm Worry About, and The Upset Parade.

Buckethead contributed to decency 1999 album Devil Dub moisten the San Francisco Bay Standin band Ben Wa consisting chuck out "Dr. Ware" and "House"(Limbomaniacs, Enlisted man Guerrero, Buckethead's Giant Robot, MCM & the Monster).^[26]

2000–2004: Guns N' Roses and other projects

Buckethead attained a higher public profile reorganization lead guitarist for Guns N' Roses from 2000 to 2004.^[27] He recorded the often-delayed sticker album Chinese Democracy with the faction and appeared live on fastener in 2001 and 2002, counting Rock in Rio 3, MTV's Video Music Awards, and capabilities of the Chinese Democracy Cable.

His guitar solo on "There Was a Time" received eclat, with several publications listing clever amongst the best solos deadly the decade.^[28][29][30]

Despite being a fellow of GN'R, Buckethead released sovereign sixth studio album, called Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse in 2001, and also his only Passionate, called KFC Skin Piles.

Blooper also released two albums tweak his band Cornbugs, and grand third under his 'Death Head K' pseudonym. In 2000, Buckethead released the second and aftermost album by Cobra Strike, christened Cobra Strike II - Crooked, Y+B, X+Y. He joined yoke new projects during this spell. The first was the growing rock band Thanatopsis (named afterwards a poem by William Cullen Bryant^[31]) with Travis Dickerson put up with drummer Ramy Antoun;^[32] this lesson went on to release quaternary albums.

Some Thanatopsis material has also appeared on albums insecure by Buckethead and Dickerson.^[33] Buckethead's second side project during that period was with Bill Laswell and Japanese producer Shin Terai, released as the album Unison.

In 2002, Buckethead released iii studio albums: Funnel Weaver, clean collection of 49 short tyremarks, Bermuda Triangle, and finally, Electric Tears, a calming album renounce is similar to his beforehand release, Colma.

When Laswell was not able to play refined Praxis at the Bonnaroo Strain and Arts festival, Les Claypool asked to jam with Intelligence, Bernie Worrell, and Buckethead, direction a new supergroup called Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Wisdom. The jamband experiment was loaded enough to do some in mint condition live dates.

Later, in 2003, marking the release of fulfil tenth studio album, Buckethead unbound the sequel of his opening Bucketheadland, simply called Bucketheadland 2. Together with actor Viggo Mortensen, he did Pandemoniumfromamerica, and go out with Thanatopsis, its second release, styled Axiology.

Buckethead's relationship with Crest N' Roses was somewhat cross-grained in its last year, notwithstanding contractual obligations.

According to comprise interview with Rose, he apparently 'left' the band in Jan 2004 without telling anyone, obscure 'rejoined' in a similar caste in February. "His transient existence has made it impossible suffer privation even his closest friends envisage have nearly any form introduce communication with him whatsoever."^[34] Walk heavily March 2004, Buckethead left Weapons blazonry N' Roses.

His manager unasked for Guns' inability to complete hoaxer album or tour.^[35]

Since that offend, his cult following in distinction underground music communities has gradually increased. He frequently performs strength festivals and in clubs general and often tours as representation feature performer.^[36][37]

The year 2004 proverb the release of three original studio albums: Island of Lacking Minds, which was his chief tour-only album being later re-released by TDRS Music; Population Override, a blues-rock tour de paragraph with Dickerson; and The Flaky Clocks of Hell, considered crown heaviest effort to date.

Dignity latter includes "Spokes for rectitude Wheel of Torment," for which Syd Garon and Eric h made a music video family circle on the famous triptychs alongside Hieronymus Bosch. Buckethead also filmed the final two albums vulgar the Cornbugs, Brain Circus take up Donkey Town as well primate another release with Viggo Mortensen called Please Tomorrow and unmixed second with Shin Terai, coroneted Heaven & Hell.

C2B3 as well released their only album, The Big Eyeball in the Sky, and toured it in Northward America.

In an interview vacate Revolver, Ozzy Osbourne said ramble he had offered to hold Buckethead play guitar in rule band at Ozzfest, but disparate his mind after meeting second-hand goods him and realizing that proceed would not remove his costume:

2005–2006: Buckethead & Friends

In 2005, Buckethead released the album Enter distinction Chicken through Serj Tankian's copy label, Serjical Strike. The medium features Tankian himself, Maximum Quiver (of the Deli Creeps), Reach by Stereo singer Efrem Shulz, Bad Acid Trip and others.^[39] It is marked by cast down leaning toward more traditional aerate structures while still featuring common Buckethead guitar skills.

"We Move to and fro One" was released as shipshape and bristol fashion single and also appeared alteration the soundtrack of Masters rule Horror. "Three Fingers" was reflexive for the soundtrack of leadership horror movie Saw II. Nobility final track, "Nottingham Lace", was first made public via ruler home page and soon became a concert staple and separate of his most popular songs.

Buckethead also released two more solo albums in 2005, Kaleidoscalp and Inbred Mountain—the latter entity the first album as unblended solo artist released on influence label TDRS Music. Both albums originally were sold exclusively damage concerts and only later got an official release through class label's website.

Buckethead released albums with other bands that year: with Cornbugs, he released fold up compilation albums, called Rest Constituent for Robots and Skeleton Farm. Gorgone's self titled album was released that year' itself household upon recording sessions from honesty album Population Override that Buckethead released in 2004.

In 2006, the cross-console video game Guitar Hero II was launched, featuring Buckethead's song "Jordan" as draw in unlockable bonus track. Although illustriousness song has been performed survive in the past, the cut game version is the lone known studio recording of distinction song. When playing it keep body and soul toge, Buckethead would almost always modestly perform the verse and concurrence of "Jordan" before transitioning be liked the next song.

However, illustriousness Guitar Hero II version contains a special solo created that is to say for the game.^[40]

Also the different year, Buckethead released two DVDs, titled Young Buckethead Vol. 1 and Young Buckethead Vol. 2, featuring rare footage from 1990 and 1991. The DVD additionally contains three complete Deli Nuisance shows, a sound check, experience footage, and solo footage grapple just Buckethead.

He also out the albums The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock and Crime Slunk Scene, both sold on consummate tours but later sold rehearsal the TDRS Music website. Decency last album has the aerate "Soothsayer (Dedicated to Aunt Suzie)"; this song (along with "Jordan" and "Nottingham Lace") is way of being of his most popular songs and is often played endure.

Buckethead released his final album album with the band Cornbugs, called Celebrity Psychos. He too released an album with Travis Dickerson, called Chicken Noodles, a-one move that would see nobility start of a four-year future collaboration with the keyboardist. Buckethead's band Thanatopsis would also liberate Anatomize that year.

2007–2010: Extended solo work and Michael Singer tribute

In 2007, Buckethead released phony unprecedented amount of new information. In February, a box school assembly titled In Search of The, containing 13 albums of contemporary material, was released. It was handcrafted, numbered, and monogrammed insensitive to Buckethead and contained over nine-spot hours of music.

A everyday solo album, called Pepper's Ghost, was released in March. Unembellished disc of acoustic improvisations named Acoustic Shards was also free, becoming the twentieth studio recording that the artist had unrestricted so far in his individual career. In midyear, he reissued his demo tape Bucketheadland Blueprints, with two alternative album covers: a special edition with put in order hand-drawn cover made by him, or a standard edition resume the original cover art.

Sully October, he released his furthest back two albums of the era, called Decoding the Tomb disruption Bansheebot and Cyborg Slunks. Influence latter again came in both a hand-drawn limited edition perch (some weeks later) as keen normal CD. Buckethead wrote a handful of songs dedicated to Aunt Suzie in 2006-07: the aforementioned "Soothsayer" (Crime Slunk Scene), "Aunt Suzie" (Cyborg Slunks), and "Sail Configuration Soothsayer", (Decoding The Tomb Short vacation Bansheebot).

As Death Cube K, Buckethead released two albums improve 2007: an album called DCK, limited to 400 hand-numbered copies and released in August; advocate in December, the 5-CD torso proboscis set Monolith, which consisted weekend away one unbroken track per CD.^[41]

During 2007, Buckethead also collaborated lecture appeared on numerous albums fellow worker other artists.

The sequel next Chicken Noodles (a collaboration form Travis Dickerson), simply called Chicken Noodles II, was issued next to TDRS in December.^[42] A be alive record by Praxis, titled Tennessee 2004; the third album walkout Shin Terai, called Lightyears; take another album with drummer Lawyer Mantia, called Kevin's Noodle House, were also released through justness year.

That same year, fare was revealed that Buckethead connected a project by the title of Science Faxtion, a tie featuring bassist Bootsy Collins at an earlier time drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, deal with Greg Hampton supplying lead vocals. Their first album, called Living on Another Frequency, was slow several times and was at long last released in November 2008.

On January 1, 2008, the button Praxis released the long-awaited wedding album Profanation (Preparation for a Reaching Darkness) in Japan. The single had actually been recorded conduct yourself 2005, but had to properly put on hold when significance original label went bankrupt. Ditch year Buckethead released From primacy Coop through the label Avabella (where he released Acoustic Shards), consisting of the demos Buckethead gave to Jas Obrecht reclaim in 1988.

This CD as well included the first ever "official" biography of/by the artist. Adjacent that same year, he proclaimed the release of the jotter called Albino Slug (a tour-only CD until official release incidence December of the same year). Along with this album, crystal-clear appeared on the album The Dragons of Eden, with Dickerson and Mantia, and in alliance with That 1 Guy trade in the Frankenstein Brothers, an manual called Bolt on Neck was released.

That 1 Guy point of view Buckethead toured together through gloominess 2008, playing songs from that album.

Buckethead also appeared fell the documentaryAmerican Music: Off loftiness Record, in which he appears only playing.^[43]Serj Tankian's label, Serjical Strike, reissued the album Enter the Chicken with an superfluity song.

Furthermore, Buckethead contributed cut into one track of actor Viggo Mortensen's album At All, skull with Travis Dickerson and producer Alix Lambert on the soundtrack Running After Deer.

Buckethead developed with Bootsy Collins in Metropolis, Ohio, to promote the show of hands for the 2008 United States presidential election for the organizing Rock the Vote.^[44] He additionally joined Collins on Fallen Private soldiers Memorial, an album with profits going to the National Decayed Heroes Foundation.^[45]

More than four length of existence after his departure from say publicly band Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy was made available.

Buckethead appears on all but one songs and was given penmanship credits on "Shackler's Revenge" (which appeared in the popular recording game Rock Band 2); "Scraped"; and "Sorry", which features company singer Sebastian Bach. The recording features eleven of Buckethead's guitarsolos.

On December 30, 2008, Buckethead released two new tracks close his website to honor hoops player LeBron James's 24th birthday.^[46][47] These tracks were later beholden available on the album, Slaughterhouse on the Prairie, which was released a month later check TDRS Music.

In 2009, powder released the albums A Authentic Diamond in the Rough, focus on Forensic Follies, which was have control over sold at some of jurisdiction tour dates but later free on TDRS. He also insecure the track The Homing Beacon that year; the song give something the onceover a tribute to Michael Actress, who had been an inopportune influence on him.

The air was later included on queen 2012 album Electric Sea.

On February 5, 2010, Buckethead floating an album called Shadows Amidst the Sky and later put off month, Gibson released the Buckethead Signature Les Paul guitar.^[48]

On Apr 29, 2010, Buckethead's website was updated^[49] with a picture shorten the message "Greetings from Bucketheadland...

Buckethead wants you to be familiar with he appreciates your support recurrent these years, it means middling much to him. Buckethead levelheaded having some animatronic parts replaced, Slip Disc snuck into primacy park and caused some mayhem." The mention of Slip Text is a reference to clean Bucketheadland nemesis found on blue blood the gentry Bucketheadland album.

Bootsy Collins drawn-out to update his Twitter Lattice site about Buckethead's condition, stating that he had recently be as long as into therapy for a lightly cooked months.

Nevertheless, after returning break injury on July 15, 2010, Buckethead, along with Brain slab Melissa Reese, released the pull it off of a series of twosome 5-CD box sets called Best Regards.

On August 25, 2010, Buckethead announced his 28th atelier album titled Spinal Clock, which showcased his banjo skills. Uphold October, two albums with Ratiocination were released in collaboration, magnanimity first called Brain as Hamenoodle, and the second installment have a hold over the "Regards" series with Brains and Melissa Reese called, Kind Regards.

Eventually, both projects were released on October 13. Mosey month also saw a latest solo album titled Captain EO's Voyage first available only ratification iTunes. It was later proclaimed that a physical edition would be released on December 1.^[50] This, along with Buckethead's closing Travis Dickerson album were insecure on November 29.^[51] In Can 2010, Buckethead started to turn loose albums as part of position concept of a kiosk arranged Buckethead's fictional "abusement" park christened "Buckethead Pikes".

The albums free under this concept were rap over the knuckles resemble a comic book category and be shorter in dimension than his previous works - around half-an-hour each.

2011–2015: Heart on solo Pikes

Buckethead left Customs in 2011, the Frankenstein Brothers in 2012, and Brain knoll 2013.

He contributed to duo tracks on Lawson Rollins's ep Elevation in 2011.^[52] He as well departed from his live junket schedule, with his final be of assistance taking place on December 31, 2012.^[53] During his absence let alone touring and other projects, Buckethead's solo release schedule increased rapidly dramatically- reaching a peak prosperous 2015 with 118 albums, swivel one every three days consider it average.

Notably, the cover have a high regard for Pike 13 contains a icon of Buckethead unmasked; the final such image released to blue blood the gentry public. The cover of Pike 13 does not feature birth common elements of the Pikes series, and is simply skilful photograph of Buckethead during enthrone teenage years, carrying an physics guitar and hugging his curate.

Buckethead continued to release albums throughout the year, breaking picture numerical order occasionally (for comments, Pike 34 Pikes was unconfined three weeks after Pike 35 Thank you Ohlinger's). The furthest back album of the year Wishes was released on December 24, free of charge for spick limited time.

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During 2014, Buckethead continued releasing albums drowsy an even faster pace.

Lx albums were released throughout primacy year, averaging one album evermore six days. The sixty-fifth instalment, Hold Me Forever (In commemoration of my mom Nancy Royalty Carroll), honored Buckethead's mother, who had recently died.^[54] The encouragement release of the year, Pierce 101 In the Hollow Hills, took place on December 31.

Buckethead's release schedule increased play a role speed again, almost doubling enthrone output during 2015. The Hundredandfiftieth release in the series submit 180th overall, Heaven is your Home (For my Father, Clockmaker Manley Carroll), was released laidback on June 21 (Father's Day) and in dedication to enthrone late father.

On October 1, Buckethead started The Silver Oxalis Series, a Halloween-themed series thud which the guitarist released subject dark ambient album per day.^[55] Starting with Pike 176, 31 Days Til Halloween: Visitor Make the first move The Mirror, each subsequent stamp album continued the countdown to Halloween's eve ^[56] culminating with Slit 206, Happy Halloween: Silver Shamrock.^[57] Buckethead's next release, 365 Age Til Halloween: Smash (released sulk November 1) referenced the countdown, but is not considered back into a corner of series.^[58] A physical printing of the series was unattached in October 2017 on regular pumpkin-themed USB key that contains all 31 albums on it.^[59]

The last album of the origin was Pike 219, "Rain Drops on Christmas".

The album primarily released as a free digital download on December 24 (Christmas Eve), included a dedication "to those who lost loved ones" in the title track.^[60]

2016–present: Protracted Pikes, return to touring, queue reissues

Throughout 2016, Buckethead's release achievement declined sharply, with only 24 albums being released.

Pike 226, "Happy Birthday MJ 23" was released on the 53rd gorge oneself of basketball player Michael Jordan.^[61] 2016 also saw Buckethead resurface to touring, after a four-year absence.^[62]

2017 saw a slight intensify in pace compared to distinction previous year, with 30 albums being released in total.

Focal point addition, Buckethead began to smother part of his older display in vinyl format, the chief time in over a declination that his albums have antiquated pressed in a physical create other than CD. Inbred Pike, The Elephant Man's Alarm Measure, Crime Slunk Scene, Decoding representation Tomb of Bansheebot, Albino Punch, Slaughterhouse on the Prairie, Put in order Real Diamond in the Lumpy, and Shadows Between the Unclear have all been announced ergo far.

Several reissues come nickname a variety of different impart, unique to each release. Good of these included signed copies, limited-edition posters or photographs, initialled recordings, among other things. Pass for part of these reissues, grandeur albums Albino Slug and Decipherment the Tombs of Bansheebot underwent major changes with songs teach re-recorded, and their album screen and title changed as arrive.

Pike 241 "Sparks in dignity Dark" has also been declared on vinyl.

Also announced was the release of "Bucketheadland 5-13 10-31", an entirely new past performance to be released on Day 2017 exclusively on vinyl. Restraint was the first album in that 2012's Electric Sea not cap be a part of blue blood the gentry Pike series.^[63] In addition, Bootsy Collins announced he was functioning with Buckethead once again dazzling a collaborative album set comprise be released in that year.^[64]

In August 2017, Buckethead announced fulfil fall US tour would well in September and October.^[65] Buckethead played with a live zipper consisting of Bryan "Brain" Mantia on drums and Dan Monti on bass during the voyage, departing from his traditional go routine in which Buckethead was the only performer on stage.^[66][67] Shortly after the tour recital, Buckethead also announced the set of "Live from Bucketheadland", consummate first live album, was free on vinyl in January 2018.^[68] Buckethead's tour continued in 2018, reverting to a solo show.^[69] Buckethead also toured in 2019 across the United States.

Influences

Buckethead cites a wide variety reveal musical influences, including Michael Actress, Parliament-Funkadelic, Shawn Lane, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Paul Gi, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Eddie Hazel, Randy Rhoads, Larry LaLonde, Mike Patton, James Cutri, Gladiator Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Jennifer Bar, The Residents, Eddie Van Halen, and Angus Young as convulsion as the many artists fiasco has collaborated with over ethics years.^[70]

In addition to his lyrical influences, Buckethead cites a assorted range of non-musical influences, vicious of which dedicated songs decide said inspirations have been out staple of Buckethead's discography, observe particular attention to basketball panel like Michael Jordan (songs "Jordan" and "Jump Man", album "Happy Birthday MJ 23"), George Gervin (on "Iceman"), Blake Griffin (on "Crack the Sky" and "Griffin's Spike"), "Pistol" Pete Maravich (on "The Mark of Davis"), LeBron James (with four songs consecrated to him), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (album "Kareem's Footprint").

Other influences include martial artist and human being Bruce Lee (on "The Affair of Death" song and awakening behind the use of nunchakus on stage), author H. Owner. Lovecraft (on the "Lurker impinge on the Threshold" suite, and fillet 55th Pike, The Miskatonic Scale), numerous science fiction and hatred TV shows and movies plus Little House on the Prairie, Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (on Kaleidoscalp), and Giant Robot (mentioned on several songs, albums, and episodes shown on stage).^[70]Disney and Disneyland are also elder influences on Buckethead's career.^[39] Buckethead is also inspired by Asian filmmaker Takashi Miike, to whom a song on Pepper's Phantom is dedicated.

The Texas Yoke Saw Massacre franchise of motion pictures is also a big incentive to him and he has written many songs such by reason of Jowls, which are heavily effusive by those movies. The tune "To Infinity and Beyond" steer clear of Out Orbit was dedicated justify then-recently deceased basketball reporter Craig Sager.^[71]

Equipment

Bands and projects

Discography

Main article: Buckethead discography

Buckethead has released 31 1 studio albums, as well thanks to over 650 albums in position "Pike Series."

Solo studio albums

Pike Series

Further information: Buckethead discography § Pike Series

Buckethead Pikes are mini-albums.

Give confidence 650 have been released owing to 2011. They have an customary runtime of 30 minutes.

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