Buckethead is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Buckethead's extensive solo discography currently includes 31 studio albums, one live album, two extended plays, five special releases, six demo tapes, & four DVD releases. Since 2011, Buckethead started releasing albums in the "Pikes" series, mini-albums usually around 30 minutes in length, each with a sequential number similar to a comic book. Buckethead has released 655 Pike albums, 175 of which are live albums.
Buckethead has also released seven studio albums under the alias Death Cube K (an anagram of Buckethead). He has released collaborative albums with Brain, Travis Dickerson, Melissa Reese, Viggo Mortensen, Shin Terai, DJ Disk, Bootsy Collins, That 1 Guy and albums with the bands Praxis, Cornbugs, Science Faxtion, Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, and Deli Creeps, in addition to many other collaborations with bands and artists.
Solo
Studio albums
Pike Series
The Pike Series are mini-albums that Buckethead began releasing rapidly in 2011,[20] usually around 30 minutes in length. Each has a sequential number like a comic book. Live Pikes are listed separately under Live albums. Several Pike albums are unreleased (286, 289, 290, 295, 513, 525); preview tracks from Pikes 286 Nautical Twilight, 289, and 290 are available online.[21] Buckethead has released 380 studio Pikes
Special releases
EPs
Live albums
Singles
- 1999: "The Ballad of Buckethead"
- 2004: "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment"
- 2005: "We Are One" (feat. Serj Tankian)
- 2006: "Jordan"
- 2006: "I Like it Raw" (Dedicated to Ol' Dirty Bastard)
- 2010: "The Rising Sun" (Dedicated to Japan Disaster Victims)
- 2018: "Mirror in the Cellar" (free download for Halloween)
- 2018: "Missing My Parents" (free download for Christmas)
- 2020: "Guest of Honor: Paul Frees"[38]
- 2020: "Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee in Honor of Cameron Boyce"
- 2020: "Beach Fire Pit"
- 2020: "The Whispering Metals"
- 2020: "Beyond the Visable"
- 2020: "Stump City Breakers"
- 2021: "Skylight"
- 2021: "Chicken Sticks"
- 2022: "Idea"
- 2023: "Butterfly Eyes"
- 2023: "My Tree Friend"
- 2023: "Tree Friend for All"
- 2023: "Beautiful Moments that Last"
Spoken word albums
- 2022: Musical Alchemy (with Red Sulphur)
- 2022: Pelican (with Red Sulphur)
Demo tapes
- 1989: Brazos (Given to Guitar Player Magazine)
- 1991: Giant Robot
- 1991: Bucketheadland Blueprints
- 1995: Grab Bag#1
- 1996: Grab Bag#2
- 1998: Grab Bag#3
Solo DVD videos
DVD videos with Cornbugs
- 2007: Quackers!
- 2007: Headcheese
Music videos
Unreleased albums
- Buckethead Plays Disney[39]
- Super Diorama Theater[40]
- Warm Regards (with Brain and Melissa Reese)
Bands and projects
As Death Cube K
- 1994: Dreamatorium
- 1997: Disembodied
- 1999: Tunnel
- 2007: DCK
- 2007: Monolith
- 2009: Torn from Black Space
- 2022: Sub Sea Hollow
- TBA: Mirror Interval
- TBA: Magmabot
- TBA: Bennu Mountain
- TBA: Salamander Sanctuary
With Alix Lambert and Travis Dickerson
With Azam Ali
With Barry Michels
- 2020: Contemplation Corner
With Brain
- 1997: I Need 5 Minutes Alone (As Pieces)
- 2007: Kevin's Noodle House
- 2010: Brain as Hamenoodle
With Brain and Melissa
- 2010: Best Regards
- 2010: Kind Regards
With Brain and Travis Dickerson
- 2008: The Dragons of Eden
With Jonas Hellborg and Michael Shrieve
With Madeline Cyrille Miller
- 2024: Veins of Institution
With Prismo
- 2022: Overload (Single)
- 2022: Chemical Cage (Single)
With Travis Dickerson
- 2006: Chicken Noodles
- 2007: Chicken Noodles II
- 2009: Iconography
- 2010: Left Hanging
With Viggo Mortensen
- 1997: One Less Thing to Worry About
- 1998: Recent Forgeries
- 1999: The Other Parade
- 1999: One Man's Meat
- 2003: Pandemoniumfromamerica
- 2004: Please Tomorrow
- 2004: This That and The Other (Compilation)
- 2005: Intelligence Failure
- 2008: At All
- 2011: Reunion
- 2013: Acá (two tracks only)[41]
- 2016: Seventeen Odd Songs
- 2018: Godzilla Sleeps Alone
Cobra Strike
(Buckethead and DJ Disk)
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
(Buckethead, Brain, Bernie Worrell, Les Claypool)
Cornbugs
(Buckethead, Bill Moseley, Pinchface, Travis Dickerson)
- 1999: Spot the Psycho
- 2001: Cemetery Pinch
- 2001: How Now Brown Cow
- 2004: Brain Circus
- 2004: Donkey Town
- 2005: Rest Home for Robots
- 2005: Skeleton Farm
- 2006: Celebrity Psychos
Deli Creeps
(Buckethead, Maximum Bob, Pinchface, Dan Monti)
- 1990: Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1990
- 1996: Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1996
- 2005: Dawn of the Deli Creeps
El Stew
(Buckethead, Brain, Eddie Def, DJ Disk, DJ Extraked)
- 1999: El Stew "Extended Play 1.0"
- 1999: No Hesitation
- 2003: The Rehearsal
- 2011: The Dark Night Of A Million Stains – The Rehearsal #2
Frankenstein Brothers
(Buckethead & That 1 Guy)
Giant Robot
(Buckethead, Brain, Pete Scaturro)
Gorgone
(Buckethead, Travis Dickerson, Pinchface)
Guns N' Roses
(Buckethead, Brain, Axl Rose, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Paul Tobias, Dizzy Reed, Chris Pitman, Richard Fortus)
Praxis
(Buckethead, Brain, Bill Laswell)
Science Faxtion
(Buckethead, Brain, Bootsy Collins, Greg Hampton, Tobe Donohue)
Shin Terai / Shine / Shin.E
(Buckethead, Shin Terai, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell)
Thanatopsis
(Buckethead, Travis Dickerson, Ramy Antoun)
- 2001: Thanatopsis
- 2003: Axiology
- 2006: Anatomize
- 2015: Requiem
Zillatron
(Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell)
Guest appearances
Multiple appearances with artists
Anton Fier
- 1993 – Dreamspeed
- 2003 – Blindlight 1992–1994
Bernie Worrell
Bill Laswell
Bootsy Collins
Company 91
- 1992 – Company 91 Volume 1
- 1992 – Company 91 Volume 2
- 1992 – Company 91 Volume 3
Phonopsychograph Disk
- 1998 – Ancient Termites
- 1999 – Live @ Slim's / Turbulence Chest
- 1999 – Unrealesed (Cassette Only)
- 2009 – Marsupial's Belly Flop Breaks (Remastered version)
- 2013 – Unrealesed (CD version)
Freekbass
- 2003 – The Air is Fresher Underground
- 2007 – A Sliver of Shiver (Live DVD)
- 2008 – Junkyard Waltz
Icehouse
Lawson Rollins
Mike Patton with Buckethead and DJ Flare, forming Moonraker
- 2000 – Live @ The Knitting Factory (Bootleg only)
Refrigerator
- 1997 – Somehow – Buckethead plays the guitar as well as the samples (cut 3)
Single appearance with artist(s)
Soundtracks
Compilations
- 1997 – Guitar Zone
- 1997 – Guitars on Mars
- 1998 – Night and Day
- 1998 – Guitarisma 2
- 1998 – Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan (otherwise unreleased cover of "20th Century Boy")
- 1998 – New Yorker Out Loud: Volume 2
- 1999 – Crash Course in Music
- 1999 – Horizons
- 1999 – Music for the New Millennium
- 2001 – Innerhythmic Sound System
- 2001 – Bomb Anniversary Collection
- 2001 – Gonervill presents: The Freak Brothers
- 2002 – Guitars for Freedom
- 2002 – The Meta Collection (otherwise unreleased track "Remember")
- 2002 – Urban Revolutions
- 2002 – Live from Bonnaroo 2002 – Volume 2 (otherwise unreleased C2B3 song "Number Two")
- 2005 – Blue Sueños (otherwise unreleased track "Planeta")
- 2006 – Guitar Hero II ("Jordan")
- 2006 – The Longest Yard (Jack and the Ripper)
- 2008 – Fallen Soldiers Memorial (otherwise unreleased track "Buckets of Blood" with Bootsy Collins)
- 2008 – Guitar Hero III ("Soothsayer")
- 2008 – Rock Band 2 ("Shackler's Revenge" with Guns N' Roses)
Other
Videography
- Buckethead – Binge Clips (series of seven VHS tapes)
- Buckethead – Killer Grabbag of Shards (CD-ROM featuring footage of live shows)
- Buckethead - "Viva Voltron"
- Buckethead - Guitar One Magazine Instructional Video (CD-ROM, 2006)
With other artists
See also
References
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"Buckethead Pikes". Retrieved 12 August 2015.
External links
- Bucketheadland official website