I really like buckethead and i want to get a cd but i dont know which one?!
Question: where is a good place to start
Answers: where is a good place to start
First get Colma, Giant Robot, and Pepper's Ghost. If you like those then get others.
It really depends on what you like.
Very heavy: 1. *Inbred Mountain 2. *Kaleidoscalp 3. *Cuckoo Clocks 4. Funnel Weaver 5. Island of Lost Minds
Medium heavy: 1. *Elephant mans alarm clock 2. *Pepper Ghost 3. *Giant Robot NTT (legally avaible for free download on buckethead.tk) 4. *Crime Slunk Scene 5. *Transmutation (Praxis) 6. *Monsters and Robots 7. *Giant Robot 8. *Tennessee - Praxis
Mellow: 1. *Colma 2. *Electric Tears 3. *Acoustic Shards
Jazz/Blues: 1a. *Population Override 1b. any of the 3 *Thanatopsis CDs 1c. *Chicken Noodles 6. Gorgone - Gorgone
Heavy and electronic: 1. Both *Cobra Strike Cds 2. *Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse 3. Day of the Robot 4. I need 5 Minutes Alone - Pieces 5. KFC Skinpiles
Mellow and Erie: 1. *DCK 2. Dreamatorium 3. Disembodied 4. Tunnel
Experimental/avant garde: 1. *The Rehearsal - el stew 2. *No Hesitation - el stew 3. *Live at Slims - Psychographicdisc 4. Bermuda Triangle 5. Metatron - Praxis 6. Eyeball in the Sky - Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains 7. Scarifist - Praxis
Heavy with a story telling or singing 1. Bucketheadland 2. Bucketheadland 2 3. Bucketheadland Blueprints 4. Dawn of the Deli Creeps 5. Enter the Chicken 6. Any Cornbugs (less heavy more zany)
Mellow and poetry - Any Viggo Cds
Jazz Fusion: 1. *Arc of the Testimony - Arcana 2. *Octave of the Holy Innocents - Hellborg, Buckethead, Schieve
Ambient: 1. *Unison - Shin Terai 2. *Lightyears - Shine.e 3. Devil Dub - Ben Wa 4. Heaven and Hell - Shine
You can always read reviews on buckethead.tk, listen to songs on YouTube, or hear previews on the Internet ;)
acoustic shards is by far is his best album
it was recorded entirely on the spot in one go.. and there are only a handful of mistakes