At this point i'm quite jaded towards and the guy and in some cases have become downright disillsuioned-every record you're going to be guaranteed some epic shredding but not every album guarantees outstanding songs. I own about 35 Buckethead albums, probably hovering around 50 if you include the Praxis material and other divers hellos and pop-ups. Along with this hard-won fame has come a dearth of new albums at last count Buckethead's just over 50 or so SOLO studio recordings (if you factor in band/guest appearances his discography easily eclipses 100 releases.) This makes it really fucking difficult to be a Buckethead fan, timewise as well as financially. His star has risen exponentially thanks to his tenure in Guns n' Roses as well as various projects with Les Claypool and scores of video game soundtracks.

I have vivid memories of forking over $50 at Let It Be to acquire the 2 CD 'Bucketheadland' record on John Zorn's Avant label and being all pie-eyed about how fucking awesome it was going to be (it was, and i still have it, almost 15 years later.) Now things are different everyone knows who Buckethead is, most everyone's probably heard something by him and if not they at least know he's some sort of guitar player. I remember a long time ago Buckethead albums used to be very hard to find.

Crime slunk scene by buckethead.