PRAXIS Live @ The Belly Up Tavern 1998

PRAXIS Live at The Belly Up Tavern Sept 17, 1998 San Diego, CA. Band: Buckethead, DJ Disk, Bill Laswell, Brian “Brain" Mantia. Full 1hr 14min set, board audio source. Enjoy & support the artists!
(Buckethead) bucketheadstoys...
(Brain) travisdickerson...
(DJ Disk) www.turntablist...
(Bill Laswell) www.mod-technol...

[@Frankincensedjb123]

As you listen to this, you realize how much a great drummer maximizes the Buckethead experience.

[@travisthomas9124]

yeah his guitar alone would suck as fuck lmao

[@caelenselke-minogue]

@@travisthomas9124 Nah, it's still good, just needs to be playing the right stuff.

[@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758]

@@travisthomas9124 "would suck as fuck" good one einstein

[@prajnachan333]

A powerful drummer is key, the foundation. I've played with drummers that don't have a strong rhythm and trying to solo is a nightmare. But when they're really good- look out, the notes just fly out seemingly on their own. Buckethead plus Brain = 🌩 ⚡️ ⛈️ ☀️ 🔆 🎉 🕉 🥁 🎸 heaven.

[@lucidshadows666]

I've seen Bucket many times over the years - not only does he sound better with a live band but he regularly gets energized further by the musical symbiote thing going on, further propelling the sound - just like you see here. It's still amazing without but noticeable if you've experienced the former 👍🏻

[@alexanders-life]

My god, the part that starts 37:11 and goes on, wtf! Best guitar playing ever heard!! He's a master

[@caelenselke-minogue]

Interworld and the New Innocence is a masterpiece.

[@jedwing]

Never heard this band. Vaguely know Buckethead. This is sick. What I always imagined hip hop influenced psychedelic rock to sound like. Viva KZbin.

[@prajnachan333]

Buckethead- guitar 🎸 Bill Laswell- bass, producer extraordinaire Brain- drums 🥁 on fire 🔥 DJ Disc- sick scratch; sound fxs 'Praxis'

[@andrenascimento9427]

00:00 - Intro 04:30 - Meta-Matic 08:35 - Jowls (Jam Session) 14:40 - Machete 23:32 - Low Time Machine (?) 32:30 - A pirate's life for me 35:00 - Giant Robot 37:38 - Interworld/Animal Behaviour 44:30 - Duck's Decay 53:30 - ? 59:04 Crash Victim/Black Science Navigator

[@jamesislan]

Thanks man

[@noob_bucketbot]

Machete starts at 12:14

[@davidmayo3368]

Buckethead's fingers at times remind me of the part in the old Inca Roads video where Frank Zappa's fingers turn into snakes.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

arf

[@Dslasher99]

I love that version of _Machete_!

[@joem527]

Dele Xovich ayee

[@davidheywood4082]

That performance of Interworld was one of the best I've seen.

[@dzizas]

I'm just marking the best moments, (IMO), so when I open it later, I wouldn't have to seek through the whole gig ;) 12:14 - Machete 22:56 - Low Time Machine (?) 37:11 - The Interworld And The New Innocence

[@RiPP2_The_Core]

Ty! Been looking for the live version of Machete for years. A sincere thank you to you sir!!!!👌👌👌👌👌🔥🔥🔥

[@noob_bucketbot]

Thank you!

[@serega4087]

I can’t believe he was so talented being so young. True born music genius

[@corbinmartinez7206]

I didn't even know this concert happened. Thank you so much for sharing, this is pure gold...

[@mmlight]

Yeah, it's the shit.

[@rocabilly1]

Hey Chance, would you be interested in doing a trade for this footage? :)

[@mmlight]

For what?

[@rocabilly1]

Other Praxis or Buckethead shows?

[@mmlight]

That's it.

[@prankstereddy]

best thing on the internet! i thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@ufudontlovebucketheadicant5610]

Awwwww......you are awesome 😊💙♥️

[@prajnachan333]

Truly. Heaven sent. 🕉 🎉 🌟

[@60secondreviewer79]

Wow! First, Interworld & New Innocence has changed here & there, but even back then with an undersized strat Buckethead sonically assualted the universe with his dips & dives and vibrato! Not to mention Brain churning a maelstrom of fantastically epic skin beatings! Wow, almost 20 years ago and this song is timeless!

[@Rorshaq]

So stoked to see these guys in August!!!

[@jamessheppard1203]

truly a freak of nature completely mind blowing!

[@josejones7025]

How cool to find this!!! The miracle of KZbin.... I recall I had just found out about Praxis and recall how jazzed I was at the prospect of seeing them live at the Belly Up. The show completely lived up to my expectations. It as my first time seeing the immortal Buckethead live... one word, he's stunning live. He blew away packed club last night, solo with a drum machine (there's a high qualIt's video of that already posted on KZbin Buckethead-Music Box San Diego 6/21/16. I've seen Buckethead with a band. 3 times and solo, 6 times. I much prefer to see hm play with a full band. aGain, I'm so grateful someone recorded this and took the time to upload. Thank You.

[@prajnachan333]

Interaction is powerful for sure, and instruments. However, I saw him at the Great American Music Hall for a New Years Eve show by himself- Totally captivating. I almost didn't know one way or the other. His guitar was three dimensional, completely filled the room. Not a slack moment. One to remember. Just like the Totally enthusiastic Chinese family with a sweet daughter next to me in the balcony. It was hysterical how into Bucket they were. Music fans everywhere (!)

[@josejones7025]

Watched it again.. for the fifth time... I am grateful to whoever recorded this and posted it. Thank you... I've commented earlier... as I was at this show, standing in front of Laswell. This is a stunningly enjoyable watch!!

[@prajnachan333]

Right on! Awesome experience. Lived again and again here! 🎉

[@Jesse3dmond]

damn...so I have been missing out on this for 3 years...this might be my start of the day for the coming 3

[@prajnachan333]

Here, here Welcome aboard friend, the Praxis galactic train 🚆

[@Christian-vk3iu]

this is so dope never seen this one someone must have been holdin on to this one for awhile

[@mmlight]

+Christian Weigler Yes. A copy was shared from a friend of the venue's AV tech in the early 2000s. Just posted yesterday!

[@prajnachan333]

​@@mmlight righteousness 🕉

[@robfox6103]

1:00:47 LMAO I found it!! the moment buckethead brings out the nunchucks, imagine not knowing who this was and then he brings out fucking nunchucks. buckethead is actually god

[@prajnachan333]

And he hands out little toys and trinkets sometimes out of a bag!

[@luisloya1120]

No, buckethead is Not God, but he is Excellent.

[@caelenselke-minogue]

First time I've seen Bucket play strat. Absolutely amazing.

[@prajnachan333]

Except it isn't a strat (!) It's like an Ibanez or some such Fender looking, but different pick-ups etc.

[@KingCrimson_X]

@@prajnachan333 it's actually an esp, esp m-ii deluxe lol

[@caelenselke-minogue]

@@KingCrimson_X Nope. It's a Kramer. And when I said strat, I meant strat-style, not a literal Fender stratocaster.

[@KingCrimson_X]

@@caelenselke-minogue Dude, it's an ESP M-II Deluxe 1992, solid purple, just google it. 1 volume knob, ESP logo in the 12th fret, 1 humbucker and 1 single coil.

[@tenlayer]

What a wild ride of a show this must have been

[@josejones7025]

A wild ride. Indeed. I was lucky enough to catch this show

[@matteogaravaglia8458]

Nice to see pinkface watchin’ Brain 5:45

[@ringingnote]

Just a big thanks

[@Tonefiend]

Thanks for posting this! I was there right in front of Bill. When He started to play it was literally so loud he cleared out a wedge of people in front of his bass amp. My ears were hit with a stab of pain It was so loud and I had to GTF out of there LOL Great show!

[@g.wizsensei760]

that dj guy fcked epicness

[@noob_bucketbot]

Thanks for uploading this gem!

[@mmlight]

Sure. It came from the doorman who made copy tapes for his collection, who made us a copy. Enjoy!

[@mauriciom5555]

Thanks for share this awesome piece of beautiful and experimental music, this is a little help to save the human culture!!!

[@skymind4738]

hahahaha the finale cracked me up, especially when Buckethead sticks a jack into his own eye!

[@amanuelamanuel]

Sweet baby back jesus, this is awesome, great sound quality as well!

[@prajnachan333]

Thank the virgin mary

[@mook2478]

That solo in Machete was killer. Would love to see BH in 2021 or 2022 playing this...

[@REMcVey]

I remember a lot of people saying that Buckethead was Paul Gilbert but turned out to some tall, nerdy kid from Huntington Beach who shreds on guitar!!! Brian Carroll.

[@zickityz6549]

lol I close my eyes and I just hear the ultimate bubbling sensation.

[@levihinman4202]

thank you for the upload. I can say I've watched this at least 100 times in 4 years. all I listen to is buckethead 24/7

[@mmlight]

Ha! What is wrong, or maybe right with you?

[@prajnachan333]

He is satisfying. Sonically Musically Vibrationally! (For a faceless robot!)

[@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758]

Wish this had some sort of stereo master and album release

[@Huge4Fish]

Thank you

[@davidjlosi]

This is great! Thanks for sharing!

[@prajnachan333]

The stretching strap Bucket 🪣 🤣 has is hysterical. 🎉 🎸 Bill is playing some righteous Bootsy rubber bass 🔊

[@loyd5763]

Praxis is so tasty!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@blazerk9614]

Pure art

[@kequelvitoria3570]

Som muito bom ! \m/

The band following that improvised riff at 1:00:20 is really impressive

[@jarodreddig63]

Thanks for posting this. Love Praxis

[@meegobuckethead]

Incroyable

[@CokeYupanqui]

La foto pegada en el amplificador es de una escena de "El Topo" de Jodorowsky. static.filmin.es/images/media/3424/1/still_0_3_790x398.jpg

[@FatPeaceman]

That jam at 18:34 sounds so ahead of its time.

[@f.jideament]

"Time is a flat circle"

[@cookmoore3736]

Always a joy and adventure seeing old performances! 1:04:33 Bucket really knows how to put on a show! Just all out, MAN! Put the African mask on the dj and two guitars and the wildest I even seen on the nunchucks-but everything is spared. It's so extreme and ridiculous, you laugh, but it's a good hearty, enjoyable laugh!

[@prajnachan333]

Say what? #*&^

[@captainbart]

Just when you think you know.......Saw Brian a month ago. Imagined him to be what he truly is. Amazed, all the way home. But wait theres more, and I find this. Bill Laswell????? Ultra-talented producer of everything, playing bass? For Buckethead? Look at this early Brain pounding with precise beats!

[@prajnachan333]

You didn't know Bill played bass?! Or that they played together in Praxis? Wow, well nice surprise.

[@colonelmotorov5854]

Praxis is Bill Laswell's band lol😂 He pretty much took Buckethead to the big stage in early 90s

[@JosephWatkins-u8w]

I named my cat Praxis six years ago.😊

[@xaviruezga6750]

59:04 Crash Victim/Black Science Navigator

[@holly079782]

Buckethead hasn’t aged one bit!

[@prajnachan333]

He's immortal. Robots tend to be.

[@EUGENECUB]

there's pinchface off the stage near Buckethead

[@ErwaAngler]

Yeah just wanted to post this too xD

[@davidheywood4082]

You could see he was admiring Brain's drumming.

[@deancrow3525]

I just ask if that was him lol I knew it was

[@josejones7025]

Don’t need no stinking ‘ Pinchface

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Buckethead probably began doing the dancing, martial arts stuff, and monster heads because he got bored when the other guys were jamming. lol

[@No_Use_For_A_Name1981]

Had to look it up, mix master mike on stage with bucket? Greatness.

[@gmcsrbosavl6964]

That’s DJ Disk

[@mikemartin6554]

1 dislike? "you don't get the show!"

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Mike Martin commenting on dislikes is like the guy that gets a level tattoo on his arm

[@g.wizsensei760]

disliked because this shit dj

[@g.wizsensei760]

he literally didnt stop fck good art there.

[@seanmurphy26]

Dude, i dislike videos all the time by accident. These cases are from people who dont know they are actually clicking it

[@jeffankton9175]

Anyone who loves KUNG FU movies, HORROR movies , BASKETBALL, and plays the HELL out of a guitar. 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@io.l.6463]

14:40 Machete

[@sambaedankhanal343]

Man this the best tone he ever had especially at interworld.his tone nowadys doesnt even compare to this.

[@camgood3097]

Reginald...I disagree!

[@howies5265]

My thumbs up was 420 Fcking Sweet 🍀

[@waisinet]

Pinchi in the back :)

[@josejones7025]

No need for pinch face

[@holly079782]

Bass player is 😈

[@josejones7025]

That classic custom “Buckethead Les Paul” ca be purchased on line straight from Gibson. www.guitarcenter.com/Gibson/Buckethead-Signature-Les-Paul-Electric-Guitar.gc It’s outfitted with all of Buckethead’s favorite customizations. Kill switches and such

[@Bigboss1432Lol]

is that Pinchface back there?

[@ringmasterblaze]

As good as Buckethead is, he needs Mantia holding down the groove. Way to play the pocket, Brain.

[@prajnachan333]

I saw him at the Great American Music Hall for a New Years Eve show by himself and he blew the place away! Everybody was ecstatic. So he can do both. But this is next level for sure (!) 🕉

[@tobiasfatherbornkingthejed1344]

WOW BUCKETHEAD!!!!!

[@noahhuneycutt4861]

Much like nuclear meltdowns, the distortion in the camera is actually there because of the ambient radiation he produces

[@georgepierce6125]

Gladly that whole gigro ks the fck out...Especially Buckthead

[@JimVarneyHaHa]

He broke the internet at 16:04-16:07

[@jimmucha8503]

Good

[@deancrow3525]

At 5:45 isn't that the guy that played drums for him for a while after this?

[@axis5150]

Buckethead solo 30:54

[@michaelnichols9916]

Does anyone know that robot's name cause hes a fucking machine

[@prajnachan333]

"Buckethead"

[@hmstv5556]

PRAXIS　Great❕❕❕❕👏👏👏

[@josejones7025]

Praxis live!!! with brain And Buckethead

[@josejones7025]

And Bill Laswell him self on bass

[@josejones7025]

I was at this concert. First time seeing buckethead

[@Kezguitar]

14:30

[@mcondor2510]

BUCKETSHRED

[@sotirzvanidjubre4109]

His guitar strap is elastic

[@wizardswordbearded1575]

Pinch face behind bucket with the Hawkeye on brains drumming👽

[@vitamin.c9778]

WiZaRdSwOrdBeaRD ed1 just saw that too lol

[@skymind4738]

That bass sound, the same as other Bill Laswell's songs (e.g. Aisha)

[@noob_bucketbot]

Anybody knows What song is that at 23:00?

[@jawclencher]

does anybody know of a live version of Nine Secrets?

[@etvaeril9020]

11:10

[@bucketheaddatabase522]

Is there anyway you could please upload this to MediaFire or Google Cloud and I could download it? I have lots to trade if you want, thanks in advance.

[@Slunkzillla]

Just write "ss" before youtube in link.

[@bucketheaddatabase522]

Paweł Szczerbiński ?🤔

[@Slunkzillla]

@@bucketheaddatabase522 if you want download yt wideo just type "ss" that you will have ssyoutube.com

[@smk6650]

Look it’s PINCH behind buckethead

[@JimVarneyHaHa]

16:03

[@gurkansoykanstudent7126]

you might want to put this link www.bucketheadpikes.com/ instead of bucketheadstoystore.net/

[@richardrichard5680]

Any chance of a setlist please

[@Hobbit183]

15:13 sneaky looking eyes ;)

[@meegobuckethead]

Dj Disk is Drunk

[@robertcook2680]

When this took place, Bill Laswell's prior supergroup LAST EXIT was already in the past! As pyrotechnic of a player as Buckethead is, this is FAR MORE SEDATE and conventional than LAST EXIT, which featured WILD free jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock. CHECK THEM OUT! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGewe2CBhKt1fLM

[@a.a.1253]

I wish Buckethead would get as heavy as LAST EXIT. Watching Praxis tomorrow in NYC.

[@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758]

damn great find

[@BarrickMacready]

Is that a picture of maximum Bob on buckets amp?

[@deancrow3525]

There's a video called 10 things you didn't know about Buckethead or something like that that tells who that is and why he did it

[@handler803]

Holy shit, I can't believe Mantia toured with Axl considering he is THIS good while Axl is shit. Mantia is too much of a talented drummer to be in a band with Axl Rose, good thing he left

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Guns 'n' Posers is a hack, fake rock act looking only for $$$$

[@YorsTruL33]

Frankincensed you're wrong. Axl is a genius. & GnR is one of the greatest bands of all time. You clearly haven't listened to any of their music.

[@tsmith1487]

I’m sure axl was paying well and money is money. But, to be sure, compared to these cats, axl rose is a total piker. He couldn’t hold Laswell’s jock strap

[@leapyear9460]

All the hate on Axl isn’t warranted, he kept AC/DC alive, gave Buckethead room to breath and grow while in guns, has a voice no one will ever be able to top, and is still rocking and is clean and sober. None of his haters can top any of that shit.

[@prajnachan333]

​​@@leapyear9460 right on bro! I always think: what have the people that spout all of that ever done? What creativity have they offered the planet. Negativity is cheap and easy. Creativity takes work and devotion (!) 🕉

[@e.h5136]

Whats the song at 32:50 ?

[@FatPeaceman]

a pirates life for me

[@camgood3097]

What does that sign say?? "Fucking your-" what?? Lmao

[@AFIROCK100]

Does anyone know what guitar is using Buckethead?

[@bucketheadrox]

byte after that is a sweet ass ibanez rocket roller ii.

[@danielhalligan424]

Gibson les Paul

[@prajnachan333]

​@@danielhalligan424 ?

[@prajnachan333]

Man or robot? Machine or sentient being? No one knows for sure. He's simply called Buckethead (for the Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket 🪣 on his "head"). Which raises another conundrum: is he really into the secret recipe; or is it a mockery of meat consumption, in favor of vegetarianism- or even Veganism! But I digress; whatever he is, he is godlike at the manipulation of electric guitar 🎸 strings. Someone has programed him for perfection and insanity. Buckethead- guitar Bill Laswell- bass Brain- drums DJ Disk- records, effects Praxis is back

[@Eliasp22]

anyone know what song is being played starting at around 35:02? Thanks

[@Slunkzillla]

Giant Robot

[@sb4816]

Why does the DJ have that cloth up there? Its irrelevant.

[@stevenixx3595]

very childish dj

[@NicholasNorway]

sodomite lol

[@vincevanderperre6484]

Brain sucks big time. ain't loose enuf, too stiff for this kinda music. worst drummer Primus ever had

[@erenanidem3479]

those fkin scratches so annoying.

[@g.wizsensei760]

yea...

[@fenderstratguy]

That DJ damn near ruined everything

[@BarrickMacready]

If it wasn't for the other 3 he would be unlistenable

[@g.wizsensei760]

yes man he literally ruined.

[@Kezguitar]

15:52