Guitar Payer Listens to Bucket Head Songs for the First Time

[@alessiopanu8022]

To answer 3 questions/curiosities: -The button is actually a genuine Sanwa OBSF-24mm which is used in competitive arcade gaming controllers. You simply connect two jump wires that go from each side of the guitar jack to each connector of the button so when you press it they're grounded and no sound is heard. -The strap is a Levi's Stretch strap, it's elastic and it's honestly the most comfortable strap I've ever had. -The sweep tapping is a technique where you hold your pick between your middle and thumb so you can sweep and still tap with all the other fingers. Hope it helps, keep rockin guys 🤟🏼

[@speed.editzSss]

Buckethead live on PBS! Is fuckin amazing

[@cyberpotato63]

There is a guy that does amateur Buckethead videos on the Natternet channel. There are also a lot of informational videos there along with stories from people that have worked with him. A fun video on Natternet is titled "In the Bin - Buckethead (Music Video)" It's B horror movie themed from Pike 20 Thaw album. I'll try posting a link. Sometimes that works, sometimes not.

[@cyberpotato63]

An actual Buckethead video made around 1995 has been posted on the Buckethead Archive channel. It is an Eddie Hazel style impromptu jam. My information is they did this cold. Nothing was written or worked out prior. Bucky just starts off by laying down a melody line, than the drummer Brian 'Brain' Mantia adds in a rhythm. They both proceed to work off of it. During the later portion of the jam Bucky kind of backs off and lets Brain have at it. Oh and there is a minute of goofing around at the beginning of the video. It's on Buckethead Archive titled Buckethead & Brain - I'm Thirsty and Scared | HD I'll try a link below.

[@rofyle]

BH's gimmick is that he's a robot who grew up on a farm and was cared for by chickens. They liked him so much that they scratched his face off so he could wear a mask everyday like it was Halloween. One day the evil farmers killed and fried his chicken friends. They placed the fried chicken in a bucket and threw the bucket into the coop where he lived. He was so distraught that he put the empty bucket on his head and then headed for the nearest cemetery to play his guitar for all the chicken souls who had been killed and fried. After that he just kept traveling and playing his guitar. The button is a killswitch. Moving his guitar up and down like that plays into the robot gimmick. You'll notice he moved his arms and body all stiff at one point to mimick a robot.

[@truthseeker7794]

I believe his guitar strap is actually elasticated.

[@joshmastiff1128]

Please do a part 2!!!!

[@metamorphhhcrawford5756]

I'm a Buckethead fanatic and hadn't seen this vid before. Thanks! Subscribed.

[@talknrock9005]

Thanks 👍

[@nickhaas9185]

Pretty sure this video is called strictly hardly bluegrass and it also shows the nunchucks if im not mistaken

[@jennyk1014]

Part 2 PLEASE!!!! Buckethead is life! Buckethead=Subscribe

[@talknrock9005]

Thanks I'm glad someone wants a two because I really want to make a part two. 🤔🤣

[@jennyk1014]

@@talknrock9005 YAY!!!

[@cyberpotato63]

The button is a kill switch. I think the actual button is adapted from a gaming button.

[@robertjohaneklund4744]

Ca over 100 band procjekt!!!! and 400 ca solo album !!!!!! buckethead played in guns and roses after slash.kvitt!!!!!

[@jamescourtney2318]

To see Buckethead live is on my BUCKET list!!

[@benjaminsmith6674]

The last time I saw him was not even an hour drive from where I live. I got front row. Both my wife and I got a toy, she got a match box car and I card alphabet flash cards and I got to play the kill switch! Best show I've been too.

[@jamescourtney2318]

Awesome!!

[@roberttaylor8906]

buckethead: i'm assuming people have recommended nottingham lace to you by now. his "best" (when weighing accessibility, writing, and listenability), imo, albums ironically are more notable for being chill as hell instead of just raw shredding. these include colma, electric tears, electric sea, a real diamond in the rough, shadows between the sky, population override, the dragons of eden, captain eo's voyage, and a number of his pike albums. elephant man's alarm clock and inbred mountain have some great tracks too. i'm sure i'm missing some and some of his heavier stuff is pretty accessible too, but i think listening to this kind of stuff kind of sets the groundwork for his more obscure stuff.

[@steincr622]

Buckethead - For Mom and Buckethead - Hold me forever, two amazing songs you should listen, For Mom was written for his mother to listen in the hospital when she was sick, Hold me forever was written a few years later when she passed away.

[@talknrock9005]

Wow thanks I'll check them out

[@KytexEdits]

@@talknrock9005 Seriously do hold me forever, possibly his best song ever, which means a lot.

[@CoasterCoat]

Listen to pike 65. Its quite a ride

[@garypaige8387]

Bucket heads pike # 166

[@lilwendigo8252]

you asked if was in a band, he was actually in guns n roses for 4 years from 2000 to 2004

[@WooffaT]

hammer ons muted by the kill switch and its a stretchy strap

[@talknrock9005]

Thanks

[@francescojimi1704]

Buckethead is a complete guitarist Great reaction!

[@talknrock9005]

Thanks that means alot 🙂

[@ahmedmukit7571]

just 1 song erie canal_51 pike. remembere

[@timheller8475]

His strap is made of rubber or some stretchy stuff

[@adoniswimo19]

There are lots of great live performances on KZbin... Check these out: BH Live, plays a bunch of different songs, including some bass playing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moDXkoCbgcp9hqs Jordan live, one of his most famous songs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpLWXpaDqLx8na8 "Lesson" video showcasing some techniques: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZLRn2qhbrhjedk

[@aquan4sir]

please React to jordan by buckethead! its. an insane song.

[@talknrock9005]

Thanks I'll look into it

[@roberttaylor8906]

i saw buckethead live, and it was one of my favorite shows that i've been to, and it is extremely impressive to see him pull this stuff off live. he seems to usually mix up the solos live - it's not the same as the album version. and while these performances are great and i'm glad we have some on video, i still think for most of his material the instrumental version is probably best to hear as your introduction to the songs. it's nuts considering how he's released hundreds of different albums and that's just solo work, not including collaborations.

[@MrEinSteiger]

damn im jalous...... you are blessed.

[@roberttaylor8906]

@@MrEinSteiger i didn't even mention that i saw him in a small indoor venue with standing room only and was within about 10-15 feet of him, and that he passed toys out to the audience...unfortunately i didn't get a souvenir lol. still a super cool show, surprisingly small crowd (although still pretty packed up close like that).

[@Person-cv9dj]

Buckethead is using a special strap that lets him move the guitar up and down and all the craziness you hear is down with a lime 6 fm4 pedal

[@ragglefraggle9111]

Buckethead was in Guns N Roses for their Chinese Democracy album. Also he was in a band called Praxis which is some of the weirdest shit you've ever heard. Imagine 80's hip hop with like acid metal and improvisation.

[@aquan4sir]

cant forget about cornbugs hahah. that band is insane

[@talknrock9005]

Wow that sounds pretty crazy I need to check it out

[@jokerjames5262]

@@aquan4sir Or the Deli Creeps

[@nickhaas9185]

he was in guns and roses for 4 years and wrote some of their Chinese Democracy album. He was also in a band called Praxis that was kind of a supergroup. He's been in probably dozens of projects over the years and has over 400 albums! Yes over 400!!! BUCKETHEAD - EERIE CANAL BUCKETHEAD - FINAL WARS

[@talknrock9005]

Yeah I couldn't believe it the first time I discovered he had 400 albums 🤯

[@dbcooper5609]

10 mins of buckethead lol bruh Thts not enough time for this legend

[@Person-cv9dj]

Buckethead was in following bands: praxis, deli creeps, guns n roses and claypools bucket of bernie brains

[@talknrock9005]

Thanks

[@lilwendigo8252]

you forgot cornbugs

[@Person-cv9dj]

@@lilwendigo8252 yeah and a couple mor but i just wanted to give him the basics

[@vinograd74]

What`s the link to the original vid?

[@JohnDoe-ru5qv]

Psyopus - Imogen's Puzzle Pt. 2 (playthrough) Most underrated guitarist

[@eniph2953]

Damn you missed meta matic which was right after the part where you stopped. You would’ve probably loved that part. More buckethead man

[@Person-cv9dj]

He is using hammer ons everytime he does his Killswitch riffs and solos

[@talknrock9005]

thanks

[@busk43r3f8]

please react to some dream theater. I recommend Dream Theater - The Shattered Fortress with Lyrics [Breaking the Fourth Wall

[@talknrock9005]

thanks ill check it out

[@DK-wr6qs]

What's a guitar payer? Do you pay for guitars or something?

[@talknrock9005]

Lol yeah I do. my elite editing team must have messed the title up I'll have to get after them 🙄

[@Person-cv9dj]

10:00 thats the same song

[@talknrock9005]

Oh thanks it was alot to take in and I kept getting lost 🤔🤣