Buckethead discography

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

2005: Secret Recipe
2006: Young Buckethead Vol. 1
2006: Young Buckethead Vol. 2
2018: Soothsayer

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

2008: Running After Deer

With Azam Ali

2024: TBA

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

1993: Octave of the Holy Innocents (Re-released in 2003)

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)

1999: The 13th Scroll
2000: Cobra Strike II: Y, Y+B, X+Y <hold> ←

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

(Buckethead, Brain, Bernie Worrell, Les Claypool)

2004: The Big Eyeball in the Sky

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)

2008: Bolt on Neck

Giant Robot

(Buckethead, Brain, Pete Scaturro)

1996: Giant Robot

Gorgone

(Buckethead, Travis Dickerson, Pinchface)

2005: Gorgone

Guns N' Roses

(Buckethead, Brain, Axl Rose, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Paul Tobias, Dizzy Reed, Chris Pitman, Richard Fortus)

2008: Chinese Democracy

Praxis

(Buckethead, Brain, Bill Laswell)

1992: Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
1994: Sacrifist
1994: Metatron
1997: Live in Poland
1997: Transmutation Live
1998: Collection
1999: Warszawa
2005: Zurich
2007: Tennessee 2004
2008: Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)
2015: Sound Virus

Science Faxtion

(Buckethead, Brain, Bootsy Collins, Greg Hampton, Tobe Donohue)

2008: Living On Another Frequency

Shin Terai / Shine / Shin.E

(Buckethead, Shin Terai, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell)

2001: Unison
2004: Heaven & Hell
2007: Lightyears

Thanatopsis

(Buckethead, Travis Dickerson, Ramy Antoun)

2001: Thanatopsis
2003: Axiology
2006: Anatomize
2015: Requiem

Zillatron

(Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell)

1993: Lord of the Harvest

Guest appearances

Multiple appearances with artists

Anton Fier

1993 – Dreamspeed
2003 – Blindlight 1992–1994

Bernie Worrell

1993 – Pieces Of Woo: The Other Side
1997 – Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey

Bill Laswell

1993 – Axiom Collection II: Manifestation
1993 – Divination – Ambient Dub Volume 1
1994 – Axiom Ambient – Lost in the Translation
1995 – Axiom Funk – Funkcronomicon
1995 – Axiom Funk - "If 6 was 9" (Single)
1996 – Alien Ambient Galaxy
1996 – Myth – Dreams of the World
1997 – Valis II – Everything Must Go
1998 – Telesterion – Hall of Mysteries
2001 – Points of Order
2007 – Method Of Defiance – Inamorata

Bootsy Collins

2006 – Christmas Is 4 Ever
2008 – The Official Boot-Legged-Bootsy-CD
2011 – Tha Funk Capital of the World
2017 – World Wide Funk
2019 – Bootzilla Records Archives: Volume 1

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

1993 - "Big Wheel" (Single)
1993 – Spin One (EP)
1994 – Full Circle
1994 - "Great Southern Land" (German single)
1997 – Masterfile (Japanese release)

Lawson Rollins

2011 – Elevation

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)

1991 – Henry Kaiser – Hope You Like Our New Direction
1992 – Will Ackerman – The Opening of Doors
1993 – MCM and the Monster – Collective Emotional Problems
1993 – Psyber Pop – What? So What?
1994 – Jon Hassell and Blue Screen – Dressing for Pleasure – Buckethead plays the Electric Bass on Track 10.
1994 – Hakim Bey – T.A.Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone)
1995 – Buckshot LeFonque - "No Pain No Gain" (Single with remixes)
1995 – Julian Schnabel – Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
1997 – Arcana -Arc of the Testimony (guitar on three tracks)
1998 – Bastard Noise – Split W/Spastic Colon
1998 – DJ Qbert – Wave Twisters
1999 – Banyan – Anytime at All
1999 – Ben Wa – Devil Dub
2000 – Double E – Audio Men
2000 – Tony Furtado Band – Tony Furtado Band
2001 – Meridiem – A Pleasant Fiction (re-release in 2009)^[42]
2001 – Gonervill – Gonervill
2002 – Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Friendliest Psychosis of All
2003 – Gemini – Product of Pain
2005 – Bassnectar – Mesmerizing The Ultra
2006 – Gigi – Gold & Wax
2007 – Melissa Reese – Lissa
2017 – Gaudi – Magnetic – guitar on Nocturnal Sonata
2018 – Asterism – Ignition

Soundtracks

1993 – Last Action Hero (soundtrack)
1993 – Last Action Hero (score)
1995 – Johnny Mnemonic (soundtrack)
1995 – Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers The Movie: Original Soundtrack Album (soundtrack)
1995 – Mortal Kombat (soundtrack)
1996 – Stealing Beauty (soundtrack)
1997 – Beverly Hills Ninja (soundtrack)
1997 – Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (soundtrack)
2001 – Ghosts of Mars (soundtrack)
2001 – Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (soundtrack)
2002 – Scratch (soundtrack)
2004 – Flesh for the Beast (Score)
2005 – Masters of Horror (soundtrack)
2005 – Saw 2 (soundtrack)
2009 – Brüno (Unreleased track "Divide and Conquer" by Giant Robot II)
2012 – Twisted Metal ("Ready to Die" by Buckethead and Brain – re-worked track "Peak" from "Kind Regards" album)
2019 – Sigil for Doom (soundtrack)
2021 – Falling (soundtrack, with Viggo Mortensen and Skating Polly)

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

1992, 2000 – Six String Giant, a bootleg CD

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

Axiom Funk - "If 6 Was 9"
Deli Creeps - "Deli Creeps" [1991 Live VHS tape]
Bootsy Collins - "Funk Express Card"
Bryan Mantia – Brain's Lessons
Bryan Mantia – The worst drum instructional video ever DVD
DJ Qbert - "Inner Space Dental Commander"
DJ Qbert – Wave Twisters
Freekbass - "Always Here"
Guns N' Roses - "Better" (unreleased)
Praxis - "Animal Behaviour"
Praxis - "Inferno / Heat Seeker / Exploded Heart"
Primus – Videoplasty
Primus – Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (DVD easter egg)
Snoop Dogg - "Undacova Funk"
Thanatopsis - "Pyrrhic Victory"
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains – Les Claypool's 5 Gallons of Diesel
Serj Tankian - "We Are One"
Bootsy Collins - "Minds Under Construction"
Bootsy Collins - "Monster Mash"

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External links

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