All four of these are beautiful albums. Electric Tears and Acoustic Shards are serene and will make you tear up, while the other two are just plain out ****ing cool. None of these I would considered overproduced by any means.

Thanks for the advice. I found 'em all okay, so I guess "they're pretty good" is the general consensus.

Let me know what you think of them when your done listening.

I'm a huge fun of Buckethead. He's easily my favourite guitarist. Electric Tears is probably my favourite album, although I like pretty much all of his albums.

I thought Acoustic Shards was very good until about 10-15 minutes in when it disintegrated into him just wanking on guitar. I listened to it all the way through but the rest of it seemed so boring. Hopefully the others will be okay.

If you're not a fan of the wankery, then you should definetly try Electric Tears.

Population Override is fantastic, I didn't think I would enjoy a pure instrumental guitar album so much, but he brings alot to the table besides wankery.

I don;t believe there is any wankery in any of it. Just drum, guitar, and keyboard solos.

And to be honest, what many of you call wankery from Buckethead, I feel is the speed of wankery but if listened to closed sounds nothing like wankery at all.

No, I agree with you, fast guitar work does not equate wankery. I had avoided listening to him before because of some preconceived notion that I picked up in a different forum. I'm definitely going to check out some of his other stuff.

:):hphones:

Ive been listening to alot of him lately, since the comp. I think he is incredible and speak through his geetar, but I really cant get over the whole image thing.

I dont like him. Ive listened to three of his albums now and the only word i can use to describe the music i hear is tacky. I appreciate the experimentation, the diversity from albuym to album etc, but it just does nothing but repel me. Im not huge on shredding and solo's anyway.

i think the problem is that when he deviates from a structured song (like say his ballads) it has the capacity to sound like self-indulgent wankery. and it happens on every album. for every Soothsayer there's a pile of garbage sitting next to it.

hes a pretty good guitarist if your speaking technical things

Buckethead owns...period.

tell me why you think he is so good

Tell me why you think he is so good?



Hmmmmmmm



Why do you like A7X? huh?

do I have to give an explanation to everything I like and don't like?

he's one hell of and artist/musician, but he's a bit too stiff for my liking


i'm more a Bumblefoot man myself

Buckethead is quite possibly the next Jimi Hendrix...In my eyes.

do you know who Jimi Hendrix is? do you know what he sounds like?

Buckethead sounds nothing, NOTHING like Hendrix and there are no elements which i could ever trace back to Hendrix's music. he's built along the lines of Prince, EVH, and Paul Gilbert more than anyone else. he doesn't draw from funk at all and not much psychedelia. where's the connection?

i swear you don't think before you post. you need to stop doing that.

nah.....just nah. Buckethead's a good guitarist, but he will NEVER be Hendrix

i like him and think hes good because his music is different and more of a unique style of that of what you normally here and i think he is pretty good at technical stuff, sweeping, and some of his solos are pretty sweet.

why do i like avenged sevenfold
i like avenged sevenfold mostly for synyster gates and the rev, he is a pretty amazing drummer, synyster gates is an amazing guitarist when it comes to technical stuff like sweeping. i like almost every avenged sevenfold song and he doesnt scream all that much and i dont like screaming but even from their albums like Waking The Fallen and Sounding the Seventh Trumpet i like them

anyother questions?

and as much as you saying that buckethead is the next jimi hendrix, not many people will say this but i think hes better than hendrix, when it comes to playing bucketheads style of music of course he is better. but jimi hendrix is better at his style and how the hell could you really compare the two their styles are nothing alike

coryallen and pahuuuta can go listen should go get 3 'Head albums as a prerequisite to posting in this thread again. No one came here to here about Avenged Sevenfold.

i am not the one that brought it up he tries to make me look like a fool and ask me a question that he doesnt think i will have an answer for but i proved him wrong now didnt i

He tried to make you look a fool one way, and then you went and helped him do so in another.

at least he didnt succeed in his way. i dont feel like arguing with or about someone like him

Buckethead is fake

Nice. Rarely do I see people acknowledging his softer side. I think this is what makes him such a great musician. Although he can shred like no other, he still makes an appoint to sensitize his music. I'm quite fond of the eerie Bermuda Triangle. BTW, there's already a Buckethead thread by tore with an awesome interview:
Buckethead Interview

How do you figure?

because i saw him in concert and it seemed really fake.

Yes, Buckethead is a character. Congratulations on noticing.

Buckethead is good because he's got the subtle approach. The opposite approach is something like Yngwie Malmsteen, who straight up busts into a song and takes it over (man why wouldn't he anyway, he's Yngwie.) Buckethead plays nice with others; you can listen to his albums with Praxis or Bootsy and he shares energy with the other players, picks up on their ideas and reflects them.

So it's not just excessive amounts of technical prowess; it's good musicianship, good bandmembership. Something like "Endtime" on the Praxis album Profanation really highlights his low-key approach.

his guitar playing is just fake it doesn't seem real man.

Sorry he can't really shred like Jerry Cantrell and Kim Thayil :(

GTFO

how does his guitar playing sound fake its not that hard of music to play its just he has hell lot of effects on it. take jordan for instance the main riff for that song is simple its just mad amounts of effects. yes the solo is crazy i give him credit there but other than that his main riffs are really easy.

Your dumb. So dumb that almost every post you have made has been equally dumb. You dont even explain your dumb claims with dumb explanations. Now thats pretty dumb.

http://www.musicbanter.com/search.php?searchid=1302455 -:(

You should listen to his accoustic album, it has NO effects at all. If you want a link Id be happy to send it. Also Electric Tears is pretty good and I believe most of not all of that is played clean.

Not trying to agree with Cory, but parts of Population Override have a decent funk influence to my ears.

I've got no idea why do you guys like him so much...

That album is the perfect blues/progressive rock listen.