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Originally Posted by FireInCairo
Major wanker.
Heaps of technical proficiency,but zero musicality.
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I don't agree with the zero musicality bit. Like other purely instrumental guitar wankers, he has to rely on the aesthetics of his music. Take this song "rain forest" f.ex from his debut as a solo artist, "No Boundaries" from 1995 - here played as an instruction vid (still pretty close to the studio recording).
Maybe it's not your taste, but you can't say he's got no musicality. I don't think anyone who can play guitar like that gets there without knowing music.
edit :
If the above comment was about Buckethead, then I'll go along with Boo Boo and say that he's much more than a shredder. He has a lot of beautiful acoustic guitar pieces (an album full actually and then some) for example, something most other "guitar wankers" don't. Part of what makes Buckethead interesting is the duality of the character and the emotional guitar songs he puts out.