That guy who stands outside the Arndale Centre in Manchester throwing his guitar in the air and swearing?
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)
John McLaughlin
He proably has the highest chops to decent music ratio of the high grade string wailers. Although I have to say I haven't heard an album of his made since the early 80s.
― earlnash, Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
Haha, Buckethead has like 5 licks that he keeps playing over and over. He's pretty frustratingly uncreative sometimes. It's like "wow, djcrap, how creative! *Buckethead plays that damn lick again!*"
OK, maybe not THAT bad, but he's pretty dull a lot of the time.
Hrmm, I dunno, of currently active guys, I think Ron Thal is pretty mad, yet fun too. McLaughlin I'll gladly second, though I too haven't heard much he's done in a long time.
Come to think of it, I don't know if Thal has "most chops" and "most hot licks", he just comes up with a lot of really whompykeen stuff, and plays like a horny bunny.
I'm sure "most licks" would fall on someone really boring, heh.
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)
Haha, Buckethead has like 5 licks that he keeps playing over and over.This is utter bullshit. Maybe on the recordings you've heard, but you've got to realize the guy has over 50 albums out under different names, spanning styles from ambient-new-age (and even those span a lot of styles, from tranquil to nightmarish to sunshiney/joyous to brooding) to funk funk (his work with Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell) to monstrous make-you-puke metal (Deli Creeps, Cornbugs) to loop-based grooves (some more on the DJ-type tip which you've obviously heard, but other projects [like Thanatopsis] hitting on more of a hybrid IDM-classical approach) and on and on. Saying Buckethead has "like 5 licks that he keeps playing over and over" is the equivalent of saying "there are only 2 emotions that humans can experience".
But you did give me a hearty chuckle with this, and I thank you for it.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
You're welcome, Nickalicious :)
You're probably right, I definitely haven't heard more than a smidgeon of his output. But hey, aren't these messageboards all about sweeping generalizations and hyperbole? That's why messageboards are the best things on the internet!!
I think what I've liked the most of Buckethead's output, is the Praxis thingies he bunned on.
Worst is probably "Monsters & Robots", though there is one track towards the end that has a very neato solo.
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Friday, 4 April 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)
I got turned on to him by Praxis'
Transmutation almost 9 years ago. It was a landmark moment in my teenagerhood.
Actually, Monsters & Robots is prob'ly my least fav of his albums, except for maybe Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse.
And this...
But hey, aren't these messageboards all about sweeping generalizations and hyperbole? That's why messageboards are the best things on the internet!!
= da troof for sure.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)