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Quote from Axl;

Q: Who is in the band?

A: It’s more about who’s on the album right now.

1. I don't care he does some solo's on GnR's latest release.

If you believe that all he contributed to the CD era tracks was a handful of solos then you're delusional.

I don't know any such thing.

Neither do I.

Username - if this thread were about a former member that wasn't a part of CD or any unreleased CD sessions tracks, I'd agree with you.

Fact is though, this is about someone that was an absolute integral part of that album, and it's almost a certainty that he will be on the next.

For the same reason I have no problem talking about Robin in here, and Brain.

At the end of the day it's up to the mods of course, but that's my take on it.

Normal and Abnormal it is then.

Cheers.

What about collaborations? I loved his solo on Erotic Cakes, are there others that i should be looking at?

Got a bit of spare cash and want to get an album or two.

What's your favorite album and why?

Cheers.

Now, can't we movie this thread to the ex-gunners section where it belongs?

Alright, I think it's pretty clear this belongs in former members, eh?

Yes! Please work your modding-magic on this one!

How about we just move you there instead?

To quote someone who once said this about Buckethead..

Why does he have to look like such a fucking retard? I cant even take that guy seriously with a KFC tub on his head...good riddance.

"He wears the Bucket to keep shallow fucks like you out of his fanbase.

Works a treat."

That was me.

i thought one of madisons strong points was not perpetuating false information, regardless of its impact on GN'R.

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Thanks for the laugh Jackie.

Let's not forget about all the true information that was immediately shut down by her because she didn't like it (mostly Buckethead related).

Madison, despite what many Buckethead fanboys believe, was completely right in her decisions regarding threads about him. Whether you liked it ot not, ex-member.

Spoken like a true Madison fanboy.

i thought one of madisons strong points was not perpetuating false information, regardless of its impact on GN'R.

:rofl-lol: :rofl-lol: :rofl-lol:

Thanks for the laugh Jackie.

Let's not forget about all the true information that was immediately shut down by her because she didn't like it (mostly Buckethead related).

May I ask, why does he have that bucket? It makes him look like a retard. I think he would have gotten a lot more respect if he had normal clothes.

"I had just seen Halloween IV", he recalls of a dark night in 1989, "and as soon

as it was over I went into a store across the street and said 'Do you have any

Michael Myers masks?' They had a white mask, which really wasn't like a

Michael Myers mask, but I liked it a lot. That night I was eating chicken out of

a bucket that my dad brought home. It wasn't a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket

either. It said "Deli Chicken" on the outside. I was eating it, and I put the mask

on and then the bucket on my head. I went to the mirror. I just said

'Buckethead. That's Buckethead right there.' It was just one of those things.

After that, I wanted to be that thing all the time."

The combination of Buckethead the friendly ax murderer with Buckethead the

guitar wizard and robotic stage performer was practically instantaneous. "I

thought it made sense with the way I play", he explains. "I play all this weird

stuff, but if I just look like me, it isn't going to work. But, if I'm like this weird

freak..." If anything, Carroll feels that becoming Buckethead has allowed him to

express himself more freely than he would as unassuming Brian Carroll. "It

opened the door to endless possibilities", he concurs as fireworks erupt in the

Tomorrowland sky. "I can work anything into that character and make it totally

work: all the thing I love in my life, like Disney, Giant Robot, Texas Chainsaw.

Even though I'm wearing a mask and have a character, it's more real, more

about what I'm really like, because I'm too shy to let a lot of things out. Every

reason I became Buckethead and am Buckethead has to do with the way I live.

It's not because I thought it would be successful. I never use anything that isn't

part of what I really loved as a child or love right now."

http://qfg2.info/misc/destroyallmonsters.txt

This new Buckethead track http://bucketheadland.com/ is awesome. He could write a kick ass new album for Axl in like a week.

This is a good point Randy, which leads me to another point: for those of you with blue balls from waiting for more Chinese Democracy era tunes, you could do a lot worse than to start following Buckethead. He'll keep you thoroughly entertained until the next guns album drops, with tunes that are very much in the same vein - a lot of it even features Brain on drums.

New song just released today, fucking rocks;

http://bucketheadland.com/

It was hillarious, that's what it was.

MP3 releases sound like shite. It's a good thing for EPs or bonus tracks but too compressed for a whole record.

Agreed, but no one has mandated that a digital release must be MP3.

Reznor has released 24bit lossless PCM audio in the past. Check out bandcamp.com where releases are available in any format you like - mp3, WAV, even ALAC.

The Radiohead album will have WAV files up for download - that's full CD quality.

All you Bumble apologists make me sick.

Slash - Built the GNR sound with Izzy and Axl and Duff and Steve. The disrespect that this guy gets on a daily basis is just ludicrous. He helped make one of the best albums ever made. PERIOD. I personally find his works post-GNR to be an embarrassment and his conduct unethical and dishonest at best, but fact remains - he made Appetite. Without him that record does not exist. Put aside your bias and bullshit and realize he is one of the all-time greats.

Bucket - This dude is the new Guns N' Roses, are you kidding me? He built the backbone of every song that you heard on Chinese Democracy with help from Pitman, Axl, and Robin. Any music cred or respect for the new GNR was because of this guy yet you exiled him because of what? He wore a fucking mask? You smallminded philistines.

Bumble hasn't done SHIT yet he gets all the praise? Oh that's right, he ruined SR and Rhiad with some elephant noises. Forgot about that. You guys are ridiculous.

This, a thousand fucking times this.

Bloody well said mate.

Bumblefoot has more chops, more musical knowledge, and is a better composer.

Based on what?

How do you know how much musical knowledge Bucket does or does not posess?

Composition wise Bucket absolutely slays Bumble - fact.

but since I heard studio version of Riad I've loved that solo, it's the best solo on album.

This is a joke right?

Hands down the lowest point on the album, even worse than Finck's abortion of a solo on TIL.

Watch any live version of Soothsayer. All he really does for that once beautiful solo is repeat patterns live.

Oh my god, this is really laughable.... So the whole near nine minute song is just "repeating patterns" to you? I heard him use a similar lick about 3 times, and that was to build up the solo. That is your argument? Good lord, stop the press, this just in, a guitarist CANNOT use a similar lick more than once if he wants to be better than Bumble!!!

Guthrie Govan shits on Bucket ( technically speaking ) at any hour of the day with one hand tied in the back.

Figure 6 in the above video is equally as technical as anything Guthrie/Bumble has ever done.

Easy to say, I don't see it. Same patterns? Please show us an example of Bucket re-using a pattern.

He does re-use licks, as do all guitarists. However, although some people here would like to have you believe, his playing style is by no means based on these "signature" patterns.

On the other hand Buckethead signature techniques : killswitch and 3 finger tapping. They are..mmh...let's say, not really hard to master...He has very distinctive patterns with both of these techniques but even though they sound impressive, they don't really require much work. Just Youtube "chromatic tapping" on Youtube for Buckethead's best known technique, pick up your guitar, do the lesson, and I'll bet that 3 hours from now you'll be playing chromatic tapping better than Bucket himself because, as I said, it's very easy. . .

Don't you mean 4 (or 8, depending on how you look at it) finger tapping?

And I wouldn't say it's "very easy", maybe for someone like yourself who's very comfortable with the instrument it is easy, but not for mere mortals.

See this video at 1:42, for most of us it doesn't even come close to easy. Also, playing it is one thing - but writing it is what separates the men from the boys;

No, Govan is much (and by much I mean so fucking much) above Bucket's level.

Now look who's claiming their opinion as fact. The hypocrisy is amazing.

One area that Bucket wipes the floor comprehensively with Govan (in my opinion) is his effortless compositional ability. Now, Govan might have the same or higher potential, I don't know - until he actually creates more output, we can't know for sure. I wish he'd stop teaching and focus on recording for a few years, it's a fucking shame he won't do this.

No, there's no hypocrisy here. In fact you simply don't know what you're talking about. There's the subjective side of the music... then there's the objective. You may light Bucket's sound better, but Ron is a better guitarist and all around musician.

So, do you really think that Bucket is a better composer than Govan? Yeah, sure, because his recycled music and the same patterns being played over and over give him the lead. Erotic Cakes is probably a better album musically than any of Bucket's album. I said 'probably' because I haven't listened to all of Bucket's work, but a good part of it. Technically (and musically for that matter), though, Govan wipes the floor completely with Bucket. Ron, on the other hand, easily matches him musically - possibly even technically... and Govan is probably the best guitarist of his era.

You sir are a complete fucking tool, and the definition of hypocrite.

When you get a free moment from swinging on Ron and Guthrie's nuts, listen to the rest of Bucket's body of work and then you'll realise that this bile you're spewing is exactly that.

^ good timing.

Do you have to be American to play in GnR?

No, Govan is much (and by much I mean so fucking much) above Bucket's level.

Now look who's claiming their opinion as fact. The hypocrisy is amazing.

One area that Bucket wipes the floor comprehensively with Govan (in my opinion) is his effortless compositional ability. Now, Govan might have the same or higher potential, I don't know - until he actually creates more output, we can't know for sure. I wish he'd stop teaching and focus on recording for a few years, it's a fucking shame he won't do this.

Guitarists on Bucket's level include Chris Broderick of Megadeth and Guthrie Govan.

To the people who automatically say BBF(which is their opinion and thats cool) but then proceed to shit on Bucket. This is for you. Bumble's Riad solo was shit, there was a vote here and the majority liked Bucket's initial solo. Fact. Bucket's TWAT solo is one of the defining moments on Chidem, Fact. Bucket's solos on Sorry, If the World, TWAT etc were all praised, none of Ron's were. Ron's Shackler's solo sucked and recieved alot of backlash(elephant noises etc) Fact. Bumble can do acoustic sweeps? Big fucken deal, im sure Bucket has never done those before. Bumble uses a fretless so it automatically makes him a better guitarist? WOW, i should just learn "Happy birthday" on the fretless and that would make me better than Yngwie Mamlsteem. Someone said Ron knows more theory? Um how do you know this? Is it just because Bucket never says "ok this is a C minor arpeggio started at the fifth"??

Can you imagine if Ron was to do the TWAT solo, it would have been a disaster, all squeals, thimble harmonics, elephant noises and shredding wankery. I do think Ron is a really nice guy and a very very good guitarist. But Bucket is on a different level.

Funking well said bro.

Honestly,

Bumble is extremely talented and anyone who's listened to his solo stuff knows this.

But better than Bucket? No chance in hell.

Agreed.

I'd choose Bumbles mate, Guthrie Govan.

ANYONE HAVE PHOTOOOOOOOOOOOS?????????????

I've got photos of Bucket, but not Bumble.

Duff was there too holy shit!

http://iheartguitarblog.com/2011/01/namm-2011-starspottin.html

Never thought I'd see the day where they were both in the same room at the same time.

I wonder if they talked or had a jam.

Good read.