These are high-caliber musicians who eschew the typical in favor of music that is always surprising.īuckethead has played with a lot of musicians over the years, and these days he is a frequent collaborator of Viggo Mortensen (yes, that Viggo Mortensen). When you hang in the circles of people like Bill Laswell and Les Claypool, your street cred goes way up. The latter has helped land Buckethead's music on some big sci-fi movie soundtracks.īuckethead has been prolific, releasing more than sixty studio albums since his debut release of Bucketheadland on John Zorn's Avant record label in 1992. But he can also be tasteful and his style encompasses everything from neo-classical to funk, heavy metal and other-worldly ambient soundscapes. It's since taken on a life of it's own and a backstory for the Buckethead persona has evolved over time.īuckethead is very much a disciple of the Eddie Van Halen school of modern rock guitar technique, easily mentioned in the same circles as Paul Gilbert and Steve Vai as a player who has taken that language and run with it. Not to suck too much wind out of the mythology, but the chicken bucket and mask are said to have originated as a creative solution to the young player's shyness when performing-no doubt a culmination of a fried chicken binge and dose of inspiration from the Halloween horror movies. One particular demo caught the ear of Guitar Player magazine editor Jas Obrecht, who took the young shredder under his wing and encouraged him to keep at it.
The boy who would become Buckethead began playing guitar at age twelve and soon entered various guitar contests. Over the years it's been a bit of a party game for truly devoted fans to try and figure out who he really is.Īgain, it's best to just focus on the music. Pictures of him without his signature mask and KFC bucket tend to disappear from the internet quickly only to pop up in some obscure guitar forum elsewhere. In fact, Paul Gilbert himself on occasion has had to deny fervent fanboy speculation that he is Buckethead (hint: no, he isn't).
Is this Buckethead unmasked (right) next to Paul Gilbert?Īllegedly Buckethead's real name is Brian Carroll and he is said to have had guitar lessons from Paul Gilbert.
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