Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), better known by his stage name Buckethead, is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who has worked within many genres of music. He has released 114 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists. His music spans such diverse areas as progressive metal, funk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, ambient, and avant-garde music.
Buckethead is famous for wearing a KFC bucket on his head, emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker reading FUNERAL in capital black block letters, and an expressionless plain white mask which, according to Buckethead, was inspired by his seeing Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
On May 15, Buckethead started to release albums under the concept of a kiosk within Buckethead's fictional "abusement" park called "Buckethead Pikes". The albums released within this concept were to resemble a comic book style and be shorter in length than his previous works at around half an hour in length.
In the past 2 years, he has released 75 albums, mostly digitally, but a limited number of physical versions are made made available. His solo albums add up to over 68 hours of music. Has any other musician been this prolific?
Some of my favorite tracks of his:
Whitewash
All in the Waiting
Soothsayer
Carpal Tunnel Slug
Rim of the World
Beginning Putrification
Hold Me Forever (In Memory Of My Mom Nancy York Carroll)
The Closed Triptych
- Twisterlend "Pike 39" is available free here
Some may know him from his time in the new GNR
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