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NO GOOGLING - who is this?

Would be hard enough listening properly to that many albums in a year, let alone making that many.
He doesn't really write songs. He just plays weird poop on his guitar, and records it.

One album could just be him playing to a drum track, and soloing for 30 minutes. Then, chop it up into parts, and press them all as seperate tracks.

It's believable. Being as there are 48 half hours in a single day.
 
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If you’re composing for film, TV, and video games, you got to prolific. Kind of seems like what Buckethead is doing. You can earn a good income from licensing your tunes to film and TV, and especially video games being a massive growth industry.
 
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Just a little related info……might be relevant

Years ago I was socializing with some Paiute Indians in far northeast California and they were referring to the Pit River Indians as Bucketheads. Apparently a slight and a tease.
 
With a well equipped (home) studio, a bucket full of creativity and either 24/7 access to talented musicians or ability to play multiple instruments well, you can absolutely do 100+ albums in a year.
If you do three albums per week, you get to go on holidays twice, have the weekends off and have five weeks as a buffer for the time when your creativity runs thin.


I randomly clicked a few of his albums and they seem legit. Multiple tracks (more than an EP), name, cover artwork, it's all there.
I think this is more of an art project than actual musical output in the common way. I mean, you obviously can't write material, arrange it, select ten songs, record them, master them, produce them, have marketing going and go on a tour 118 times in one year.
But you absolutely can record stuff, master it and put it on an album three times a week. It'll be more of a jam session nature. Having an idea, maybe one that spans several albums, and improvise along certain lines - when you're quite good you can get all that down fast.

It kind of blurs the line on what an album is and what is not, and it asks the question what an album has become in the age of the internet and music streaming. In the old days where you had to release stuff on a physical medium all this would be close to impossible - and it would be a huge waste of money and resources because the cost involved would be massive - you'd need a religious following for people to run into the record store, spending 15 bucks on your new CD more than 2 times a week every week for a year and still burn money.
Today, you can release an album on the internet through multiple channels with basically no cost involved and the logistics are lightning fast and simple. You hit the upload button, those people interested hit the download button. Done. From your studio to your fans in a matter of minutes.
 
What made it so bad? I’m guessing a lack of direction with the set list?
Yeah, man. I’m always open to new experiences, but it really was just a dude noodling on a guitar by himself for like, two hours. No backing band, no bass, no groove, no pocket. It was more like listening to someone play a video game than a concert. A lot of people seemed to like it, though.
 
I went down a YouTube rabbit hole like a month ago listening to other musicians talk about buckethead and he is probably the most interesting musician out there.

I listened to an interview with Brain (praxis, primus) where Brain said that Buckethead is obsessed with Disneyland and goes there constantly. Buckethead apparently takes a Walkman with him filled with his own guitar renditions of each rides theme song to listen to while he goes on the rides. Brain asked him what he listens to on space mountain, which doesn’t have a song. Buckethead replied that he just listens to one of his own guitar solos for that ride. I find that pretty hilarious.

He learned guitar from Paul Gilbert, bass from bootsy collins and and all he really wants from life is to create his own horror movie themed amusement park.

He won’t talk to anyone while wearing his costume. He only speaks through a hand puppet. Brain talks about being there when Buckethead met Bootsy for the first time and they were just sitting on a couch with Buckethead using a hand puppet to talk to Bootsy, and bootsy of course loved it.

Just crazy stuff like that.

According to Josh Freese this behavior happened even when he joined GnR and the lawyers hated him for it.

Gotta love someone out there living their best life.

Buckethead has a ton of stuff I can’t really listen to, but he also has a ton of stuff with groove and emotion.

I can’t see him being very many peoples cup of tea though. But I’ve loved a lot of his work since Bootsy led me to Praxis in the early 90s.

Also, I don’t think I could do a solo Buckethead show. It’d be too much.


I saw G'n'R, and the most memorable part of the show was when Buckethead had a solo spot, where he was stood on what looked like a kindergarten school chair, playing the theme from Star Wars, before ditching the guitar entirely, and performing a Nunchaku solo.
 
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That’s not how licensing your music works. The music goes into a library after it distributed and published. It’s seperate from all the commercial streaming platforms. And most of it is instrumentals. From there someone obtains license to use it, that could be for film, tv, or a video game. If a film studio wants to use Bucketheads music, they don’t go directly to him.


But first, somebody has to want to put your music in their film, tv show, or video game.
 
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That’s not how licensing your music works. The music goes into a library after it distributed and published. It’s seperate from all the commercial streaming platforms. And most of it is instrumentals. From there someone obtains license to use it, that could be for film, tv, or a video game. If a film studio wants to use Bucketheads music, they don’t go directly to him.


No, but if you're submitting music to a libary, the library has to want to incorporate your music, and the rates are pretty crappy.
 
You don’t “submit” anything, it’s part of the distribution and publishing deal you get with a recording contract. Don’t know what you mean by rates are pretty crappy. That’s not true. If you’re distributing to several streaming platforms and licensing your music, you can make a descent living out of it. Gotta write what people want though, and be prolific. So Buckethead distributing 118 albums in a year, he’s doing that for a reason, not just a flex, IMHO.

No, but if you're submitting music to a libary, the library has to want to incorporate your music, and the rates are pretty crappy.
 
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