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Bucketheadland has more then 400 rides, and not all of the rides are for everyone. This is a buyer's guide to figure out where to start or continue with your Buckethead collection.

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The Miskatonic Scale Pike #55

Line Up: Buckethead

Uptempo, Scales, Odd Structures, Shred
The first part of the album is good half way through this album becomes great than it goes off the rails in a fansastic way. 
Favorite Tracks S, K , O  and N is a defining track. 

Hourglass of Visions   - Pike 424

Line Up : Buckethead

Acoustic Guitar, really nice elctronic drums and nicely mixed in samples and I think some keyboards. 
Heart and soul floating through a half hour long masterpiece. 

 Doctor Lorca's Work: Pike 322
 Line Up: Buckethead - everything

      Heavy Shred for the most part.
26 minute long masterpice. Strange spooky Keyboard affects, Strange wammy affect comes to a head at the 17:00 minute mark. Really some nice work here. This guys lives to write music. 

Holding the Ones you Love        Pike #395
Line Up: Buckethead - Guitar

Acoustic/ Instrumental

2 Lengthy acoustic Tracks. Nice relaxing tracks straight from the Buckets heart.

Yarn Pike #96
Line up: Buckethead -everything 
Instrumental, Bass driven, hard and heavy experimental tracks. 

Track #2 Spindle part 1 is a masterpiece. This track is an example why Buckethead is second to none. 
Spindle part 2 has some killer experimental guitar work. 

Footsteps Pike #60
Line up: Buckethead  Everything
This ride I like to call a touch of Santana. Killer natural Harmonics 

City of Ferris Wheels Pike #53
Line Up: Buckethead -everything
Album Description: title track sounds like Hendrix Band of Gypsys. This album is filled with heart and soul. Bucket really shines on the bass.
I would rate track 1 and 2 as perfect.

Ydrapoej Pike # 59
Line Up : Buckethead
Instrumental Experimental concept release. This should of been one long song.    Track 4 and 5 are perfect tracks. 
This E.P. is a good strarting point for a new fan.   Killer release!

Cabs Pike 229
Line Up:   Buckethead
Instrumental Prog Rock Tracks simular to the Satch style.
Track 1 rating is 10 
Track 2 rating is 9
Track 3 Rating is 8 
Track 4 pating is a perfect 10.5

A Real Diamond in the Rough

2009 Hatboxghost Music

Line Up: Buckethead-Invisible Scalp, guitar     Dan Monti: Drum Programming and Bass   Bryan (Brain) Mantia Drums on tracks 2, 4, & 7

Album Description: Nice, Mellow, Well written tracks, Clean Electric Guitar sound and some baritone guitars 

Favorite Tracks:  #3 and 5

Bermuda Triangle

Line Up: Buckethead; Guitar and bass   Bobafett; Bass on #16   Clicker on #11   Brain; Drums on #3  Extrakd: All MPC 3000 bass, SH101 turntable, SP808                                                                                                                 Album Description:  Experimental, Electronica, Hip Hop, Rock, Ambient   One of his most Diverse releases                                                                                Favorite Track's: #4 "Mausoleum Door",#12 " Jabbar on Alcatrzz Avenue"  and #19 "911" 

Blueprints

1991 Demo, re-released 2007 TDRS

Buckethead Demo Tape 1991                                                       Includes Riffs and early forms of some Bucketheadland tracks. Each track is a an attraction at Bucketheadland. A fun park were you can lose your head.  Includes Rock, Metal, Funk and experimental sounds.                                                                       Favorite Tracks: #2,9,20 (Robotic Chickens) and #22 (Swamp Boy Square Dance)

Colma

CyberOctave (March 24, 1998)

Line up Buckethead with Bill Laswell and Brain.                                                                                                               Album Description: Nice Mellow stuff: Experimental Rhythms: Nice Melodies

ElectricTears

2002 Meta

Line Up: Buckethead                                                                                                                                                                           Album Description: Clean Electric Guitars, Incredible Rhythm Lead combo, Ambient, sometimes simple with tech bursts, Music to think to                                                        Favorite Tracks: Sketches of Spain, Mustang, and a track that is reminiscent of Led Zep Mantaray

The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock

2006 TDRS

Line Up Buckethead and Dan Monti
                                                                                                     Album Description: Heavy: Fast: Prog Metal: Drum Machine

Crime Slunk Scene

2006 Bucketheadland

Line Up- Buckethead- Bionic cattleprod ;Dan Monti- Programming and production ;Travis Dickerson- Additional guitar recording ;Chris Jones - Slunkwrangler ;P-Sticks - Documentation; Chicken painted by Momma Buckethead; Buckethead figure crafted from a nice man out down Texas way        Album Description-  Experimental, Rock, Metal, Avant Garde, Funk                                         Favorite Tracks- 2,3,4,5,11                                  One of Bucket's top ten Releases

Empty Space

2011 Hatboxghost Music

Line up Buckethead Bass and Guitar with Del Rey Brewer Programming and additional bass                                                                                                                              Album Description: Experimental: Electronic: Metal: Rock: Jazz: With some killer bass parts  A ride at bucketheadland                                                                                                           Killer tracks: #1 and 9

From the Coop

1988 Avabella

Line Up: Buckethead-Bass, Guitars and Drum machine
Album Description: Bucketheads first serious demo's, 19 Years old, Country, Funk, Spanish and Rock
 According to producer Jas Obrecht and The Morbid One Agrees. He was working with one of those small portable multi-track recorders, like a Tascam Portastudio, and a drum machine, but his playing is so clearly head-and-shoulders above what others were doing in 1988.
Stand Out Tracks #5 and 13 

Forgotten Library

Pike#11 June 2013

Line Up: Buckethead; Guitars, Dan Monti; Co wrote, Co Produced,Mixing and Bass
Album Description: Track#5 is a prime example of how this release is the best of both worlds, Hard electric mixed in with clean electric guitar sound. Alot of the track remind me of the direction Hendrix was heading at the time of his death. Track #3 has one of his best solo Hendrix groove's going.
Stand Out Tracks #1,3 and 5    Solid Release from top to bottom

Funnel Weaver

2002 Ion Records

Line up Buckethead   Recorded by Travis Dickerson                                                                                                                    Album Description: Heavy: Drum Machine: Some electronic stuff: 49 Tracks: alot of 60 second songs

It's Alive

Pike#1 2011 Bucketheadland

Line Up:  Buckethead: Feathers and Bass  Dan Brewer Monti: Producer, programming and Bass   Albert: Producer  PSticks: illustrations                                         Album Description: Metal, Experimental, Rock and Jazz                                                                                                  Favorite tracks : 6 out of the 8 tracks knock it out of the park  Track 8 Picking the Feathers is one of his best                                                                                                    One of Bucket's top 10 albums

Monsters and Robots

1999 CyberOctave, Higher Octave Music

Line up: Buckethead Guitars and Bass (tracks 1,8,11) Les Claypool- Bass and Vocals track 3 : Brain- Drums: Phonosychograph Disk- Turntables : Bootsy Collins Vocals on tracks 1,4,7,9: Ovi Wey-rap vocals on 9: DJ Eddie Def — turntables (tracks 4 and 9): Max Robertson — vocals (track 11): The Chicken Scratch Choir — background vocals (track 3)
Description: Maybe his best release: Rock: Metal: Funk: Rap 

Pike# 49 February 2014 Bucketheadland

Line Up; Buckethead                                                                                                                                                               Album Description: Border line Mellow with some killer melodies                                                                                                                                                                                      Favorite Tracks; #3 Attic Floor and #4 Lirtson Nostril

Needle in a Slunk Stack

TDRS 2009

Line Up Buckethead (Guitars, Infinite Beak) Dan Monti (drum programing) 
                                                                                                   Album Descipition: Experimental: Xenochrony: Half of the L.P. is Heavy: Some Electronic:                                                                                                                                                   Favorite tracks: # 4,8,10                 

Pepper's Ghost

Hatboxghost Music 2007

Line Up Buckethead (Ice Scraper) Dan Brewer Monti (programming, bass, rhythm guitar) Kody Haggerty (Drums)                                                                                                                     Album Description: Perfect Mix of Heavy and mellow: Prog : Instumental (SatchBucket): Super solid album                                                                                                                           Favorite tracks Pepper's Ghost, Imprint, The Hills Have Headcheese, Callbox and "Embalming Plaza"

Pike #21 Bucketheadland 2013

Pike #21 Spiral Tracking   Line up:Buckethead
                                                                                              Album Description:  Electronic/ Industrial/ Experimental/ Chop n Screw/ Funk/Avant Garde
                                                                                      Favorite Tracks: 2 Center Platform, 6 Symphony of the Seed, 7 Micro and Macro World and 8 Hyacinth

Pike #23 2013 Bucketheadland

Album Descripition; Experimental, Raping parts,  a nice trippy journey                                                                            Favorite Tracks; #1 and 4

Pike #279 2020 Bucketheadland

Pike #279 Skeleton Keys    Line up : Buckethead
Descpiption :  Accessible, thoughtful tracks in the vein of Satch ( Joe Satriani).

Enter The Chicken
Maybe the most diverse album ever recorded