Everyone talks about Buckethead's incredible technical playing skills, which are obvious, but I don't think he gets enough credit for his amazing compositional skills. Yes, he has well over 400 albums of original material, but he's not just churning out a bunch of filler crap. He has so much fantastic material. No one else even comes close.

Virtuoso, savant, guitar god, the goat, Unparalleled Blew all my favorite guitarists out of the water

The guys unique. Can play virtually any style with the right feel. And he’s a super chill, super nice guy in person. All he wants to do is his thing - doesn’t care for the business. Or fame or any of that stuff.

Congrats on discovering Buckethead.

No-one comes close. Congratulations on discovering your favourite guitarist’s favourite guitarist. He just released Communicating Through the Stars (aptly named) last week as his 540th pike, and it is absolutely sublime. Just when you think he can’t get any better, he ascends to another level.

You should thank the person that put you up to this. They've given you the gift of Buckethead, Enjoy it 2015 he averaged 2 solo releases a week, with sundays off Bucket is love

Buckethead is the absolute best metal guitarist that most people have never heard of. His shows are amazing. A great supergroup album was Col Claypool Bucket of Bernie Brains. Les Claypool, Buckethead, Bernie Worrell from Parliament Funkadelic and Talking Heads, and Brain, a long time drummer for Les.

Brian Carroll a.k.a. Buckethead is one of the greatest guitar players on the planet. When you watch more of his videos, you’ll see some of the things he does are unbelievable. His fingers are like spiders running up and down the neck of that guitar. He plays all kinds of music, and he’s great to listen to you. Try listening to Buckethead- Jordan live at the Culture Room it’s amazing. Buckethead is a huge martial arts fan who does nunchucks on stage, he does the robot on stage, and he goes to local stores buys toys and hands them out at all his shows. The man has an endless supply of music to listen to. Fun reaction 👏👏👏🤙🤙🤙. You should check out more Buckethead

the mask and bucket are merely a way of dealing with stage fright. i could write endlessly about this guy. even if you don't react to his stuff, do not deny yourself and look further (a lot further) into this guys music. in my little corner of the world he is the best guitarist at this point in history by a long shot

Speaking of Guitar Gods: Joe Satriani, 'Surfing With the Alien' is a pure musical journey.

YESSS! My man Buckethead a.k.a. Brian Patrick Carrol is my absolute favorite guitarist. He has worked on over 50 albums by different artist and has 400+ albums on his own. G&R is a very small part of his body of work.

My mother passed in 2008. Buckethead fan club shared a post office with her in Vlaremont, CA. I found this out 3 years after sending her his Electric Tears. She was a huge fan.❤

Technically he's world-class. Musically, for me, he either has amazing songs or songs that do absolutely nothing for me. He's a great all around guitar player. A jack of all trades.

As long as you're checking out guitar gods, be sure to react to Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover (Live). One of the greatest guitarists of all time!

Helluva shred guitarist and what impressed me was it was all picking and 0 finger tapping. A great melody as opposed to mindless shredding. Really enjoyed all of it, the guy is OP.

I've had the pleasure seeing him live 3 times. Definitely an experience to check out, with Japanese action/superhero type movies playing in the background, his robot dancing, nunchuk displays and finally exchanging toys with the audience. For other songs/videos to check out I would recommend Jordan live at the Culture Room (recommended below as well) and Ozzfest 99 with Primus. Buckethead was also a lead guitarist in Guns N Roses for 4 years, back when Axl Rose was the only original member left (around 2000). There's a good video of Guns N Roses at the 2002 MTV Video Awards with Buckethead playing in that show. The thing about Buckethead....he plays ALL types of music. Mainly rock, but he's got a ton of slower, jazzier/bluesy songs, as well as country/chickenpickin type songs like Hog Stomp B!tch. With 400+ albums, there's a ton to check out. Buckethead also had the opportunity to be the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, but Ozzy thought he was "too weird." He would not break character and take off the mask to talk with Ozzy.

Its crazy bc he was very famous within the guitar community for some time. He did quite a few collaborations with other artists and bands. Then he joined GNR and became a lot more well known. Then they put one of his songs "Jordan" on guitar hero 2 and he really blew up. One of the most unique guitar players ever.

@barsandbarbells2022 Nice reaction vid. I always enjoy watching how people unfold when listening to Buckethead. Make no mistake Buckethead is the G.O.A.T. He is not from this solar system. One day Brian Patrick Carroll was eating some KFC while watching his favorite horror movies and decided to wear the bucket with a mask. He was promptly teleported to a chicken coop on another planet where he acquired his powers to evoke emotions through his music. His compositions are called Pikes which number in the hundreds. He can also play a few instruments although his guitar playing is not just god-like, he is the God of Guitar and creates soulful music as well as hard kickass riffs. Pike 65 was dedicated to his late mother. Close your eyes and feel Pike 234. Many get hung up on the self-image, money and fame Buckethead never cared for any of that. No one can find him. He comes back to Earth now and again to release a new Pike. A phenom musician and a good human being. We are fortunate he shares his music with the world 🕉️ 💙 Mr. Carroll thank you for sharing yourself with us!

He is the best guitarist in the world, no more to say 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Check out the original O.G shredder. Steve Vai "tender surrender" won't be disappointed. You may have to called the police for what he does to that guitar 🎸😂

The control he has just with his pinky blows me away

Love Eddie , but man Bucket is the king by far , a great musician and music composer

Didn’t hear much giggling about his bucket at the end, just amazement as most do.

Buckethead is so cool. Haha. Nobody seems to be reviewing the newest queensryche album, the song behind the walls is so heavy and good. Would love to hear a review on it

So ... this guy is quite into Disney Land, rides n music. Made Axel Rose sign him on his favourite ride ... Lovely anti guitar hero 💕

Saw him shred in a little club in Victoria, BC about a decade ago

Brian Carroll aka Buckethead started out young. Brian came up with the idea of Buckethead after he seen 4th movie of original Halloween seeing actor portraying Michael Myers while eating bucket of KFC Chicken in 1988. Brian put white mask of Myers and KFC bucket on his head....click! Brian lost both of his parents with a song tribute to your mother. My favorite song from Buckethead is Machete.

IMHO, most skilled guitarist of all time. Certainly no one is better or more skilled.

The reason why he wears a mask is that he suffers from anxiety and the mask for him has always been a comfort barrier. Kinda ironic when you think about the fact that he is 198 cm (6'6) but hey after all physical traits have nothing to do with mental insecurities

He wears the bucket for all the dead chickens that kfc kill. It’s the dead chickens talking through his guitar. Words from bucket himself.

His shows are usually just him and a drum track. And nunchucks.

Thank you so much guys!!!

The most underrated and under appreciated artist of all time.

Buckethead is the greatest. Truly a natural born-genius, and a very sweet and shy guy. He's the absolute Guitarist. Every song from him is a treasure.

He's always been his own member. Of himself Amazing man

I just found Buckethead too 🪣 He has over 400+ albums display his chops.... very wide range of styles (not all metal)....he even did a rendition an ODB song...he loves the Wu. Great reaction 🔥

You could pick every song from the past decades, combine them & there still wouldn't be as much emotion as this song has...

Buckethead one of the greatest ever and probably one of the nicest people on the planet

Awesome reaction, nice choice!

He makes it look effortless is what gets me...

Wow , can’t believe your on Buckethead. 👍🏼👍🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼. Name dropping but, Brian (buckethead) was my singers guitar teacher way back in the day . Super chill dude , last brother you would imagine as that performer . Love it . Keep up the musical journey

Yesterday, March 27, 2024, Buckethead produced their 656th album. He is the most prolific, talented and modest musician alive. I recommend Animal Behavior, Siege Engine, Interworld and the New Innocence, etc. Thank you for the post and the reactions

Buckethead is amazing he has 542 Pikes

I really love the guitar playing on this. 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤🇬🇧✌

When it comes to the best guitarist Buckethead’s name never comes up. Why not?

Great playing

Love Buckethead. Master of his craft. Spectral brother.

Every time you think he's peaked, there just couldn't be more, he finds a new level to bring it up to. Gotta love Buckethead.

when I heard "we've never heard of Buckethead before" I said, "oh boy, they're in for it now!" One of the greatest guitarists that's ever lived in my opinion. He's one of my heroes.

Perfection has a name, and that name is Buckethead. Thanks for the post and the reactions. 🙏

At 3:29 you guys where hooked. Welcome to Buckethead world.

Hell yeah, this dude is my hero of the last 2 decades, glad more ppl are finding him. Disclaimer, idk if I'm alone in this, but I dont ever mention guns an roses, I think his solo work is much much better than GnR could ever be

The most impressive thing about Bucket is not his left hand but his right. It's a thing of beauty how he weaves in notes with his left while his right is going absolutely insane.

He is a big guy. Huge hands. His guitar is huge too.

When you see a guitar. Bucket head comes to mind

Amazing guitarist😊 👌👏.

The KFC bucket is his way to express the inhuman slaughter of chickens. He used to wear a KFC bucket that had Funeral across it.

To me he is more than a guitarist, instrumentalist. Awesome to listen too.

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Amazing reaction. Love to rediscover buckethead thru reaction videos. Makes me feel like the first tim I heard him

Will go down as one of the greatest maestro composers. Ever. 600+ albums and counting. All genres. Never heard him? Listen to Coupon.

Probably such a short tenure because it's been said that AXL is pretty difficult to tolerate/ work with.

There's Buckethead, and then there's everyone else.

Everytime Buckethead plays his guitar,,it's an album ✌🙂

W sensie że są jeszcze ludzie z branży którzy nie znają Bucka? Przecież to top1 ever

The fastest guitarist in the world for real

😀👍 ... Standards are slipping guys, only one video upload today ! 😆😂😂 ... apologies, you have dropped another video, my bad 🙈😂

BUCKETHEAD- NORTHERN LIGHTS AND FLARE

I have a poster in my room of buckethead 😂

I don't see a comment saying this In Guns and Roses, Slash kept getting drunk and canceling performances. Buckethead got tired of it and flew back to the coop.

❤ Buckethead

Quite possibly THE best guitarist in the world

I truly love buckethead, they can do anything. Thanks.

Самый лучший гитарист, музыкант 🤟🤟💫💫Buckethead🎸

One of the most diverse guitarist ever. If you want to hear him go even harder listen to his song "The coats of Claude". it's 13 minutes something so I wouldn't recommend that for a reaction video but give it a try...

This song will grab your GD MOFO SOULLLLLL BRO FRFR..!!!

His stint with GnR was short because Slash knew he was a better guitar player albeit him writing the songs, he took it done sorry of way. Slash is a great guitarist but when it comes to musicality, Buckethead is way above his league. He's honestly one of the best guitarist ever in our lifetime no question

He shredded the SHIT out that guitar! Like WOW!

Wow...These two have never heard of Brian Patrick Carroll (AKA BUCKETHEAD) started playing at the age of 12...played with Guns and Roses. You have a talk show on KZfaq!

He is techically top notch. He can play everything and thats it. S tier guitar player. As musician, he could done it better but its hard to write songs.

One of the GOAT technical guitarists next to the likes of Jason Becker

Hey I subscribed after watching this reaction and your other to Beth Hart .i like yalls Cheers from Vancouver Canada 🇨🇦 🍻

Buckethead is the goat

I see buckethead as a western kabuki performer, where the mask/costume takes the person away so you can focus on the art instead

the Alpine gibson talk in his hands,i discovered him few years ago and dont even knew he was in guns roses,how da fak they preferred slash at him ,still mistery.

Sorry, I don’t know your names but the man looks soooo much like a grown up Bud Bundy it’s crazy! Good show, guys.

Couple of guitarists that ya'll probably haven't heard of. 1. MAX OSTRO- BLITZKRIEG AND GROOVE ON 2. DAMIAN SALAZAR - ARPEGGIOS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

Steve Vai Teeth of the Hydra.

He has a song called "Jordan" that is like 90% him just rapidly hitting the killswitch on his guitar. That's it. Just the killswitch, no strings. But get this, the song still manages to be so good that Guitar Hero put it in one of their games. It's one of his most popular songs, just him playing the killswitch. The actor Viggo Mortesen (Aragorn, Lord of the Rings) appears on a couple of his albums as a background musician. They're close friends and have been collaborating together in the studio for over twenty years. He also collaborates with bassist Les Claypool (Primus), and even has a side project with him called Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Beans.

He has so many solo albums now close or over 600 now

He left GnR because he got fed up with how long it took them to finish an album. While he was a member of Guns I think he released like 25 solo albums while they finished only one.

Buckethead is a legend. Do Jordan live

He is "Him".

Kensington maybe? Dutch rock band. Got great songs like Sorry, St. Helena, Uncharted, No Me etc

Eddie Van Halen you say?! Buckethead pike 113 pays respect to Eddie near the first couple minutes. Pike 113, Herbie Theater. 😎 Many of his pikes take on themes and pay homage to other musicians and athletes. Thanks for the videos.

He also played with the SUCKIEST band ever, PRIMUS.

Buckethead the soul soother,😊

537 Pikes and new one's coming on a weekly basis....... WOW!!!!

If you ever want a history lesson on Buckethead, I recommend the KZfaq channel Natternet were he does a deep dive on everything Buckethead related. To date, Buckethead has released almost 600 solo albums. If you want to include bands, soundtracks, side projects, etc then he's released about 700

He was in Primus and Guns n Roses but didnt stay long he is a individual and like Jimi Hendrix cant play in a band they prob holding him back