Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumtalist. He has received critical acclaim for his innovative virtuose electric guitar playing.
His music spans several gres, including progressive metal, funk, blues, bluegrass, ambit, and avant-garde music. He performs primarily as a solo artist, although he has collaborated with a wide variety of artists such as Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Iggy Pop, Les Claypool, Serj Tankian, Bill Moseley, Mike Patton, Viggo Morts, That 1 Guy, Bassnectar, and Skating Polly. He was also a member of Guns N' Roses from 2000 to 2004. He has recorded 435 studio albums, four special releases, and one EP.
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He has performed on more than fifty albums by other artists. Buckethead has writt and performed music for major motion pictures, including Saw II, Ghosts of Mars, Beverly Hills Ninja, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Last Action Hero, Falling, and contributed lead guitar to the track Firebird featured on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie soundtrack.
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Buckethead performs wearing a KFC bucket on his head, oft emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker reading FUNERAL in block letters, and an expressionless plain white mask inspired by the 1988 slasher film Hallowe 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
He changed to a plain white bucket without a KFC logo, but subsequtly reverted to his emblematic KFC bucket without the funeral sticker. He also incorporates nunchaku and robot dancing into his stage performances.
Buckethead was credited by Guitar World as ushering in [a] new era of virtuosity while ranking the release of his 1992 debut album Bucketheadland the 45th greatest momt in electric guitar history.
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Brian Patrick Carroll was born on May 13, 1969, to Tom and Nancy Carroll; he is the youngest of five siblings along with Lynn, Lisa, Lori, and John.
Carroll grew up in a Southern California suburb near Disneyland. In his youth, he was an introvert, and spt most of his time in his room with books, games, martial-arts movie memorabilia, and toys. He also spt a lot of time at Disneyland.
Carroll began playing guitar at the age of 12. He learned to play from an elderly man down his road. He is quoted saying that he became serious a year later after moving from Huntington Beach, California, to Claremont. His playing improved with lessons from various teachers at a local music store. His early teachers included Max McGuire, Johnny Fortune, Mark Hammond, Pebber Brown, Joey Tafolla, and Paul Gilbert. In 2003, Buckethead played a tribute to all his early teachers as the Deli Creeps played a show at Styles Music's 25th anniversary. He th began making demo recordings of both his playing as well as his writing styles, which would later be released in 2007–2008.
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The Buckethead persona came to be wh Carroll saw the 1988 slasher film Hallowe 4 and was inspired by the film. He wt out right after seeing it and bought a Michael Myers-like white mask. The bucket idea came later that night while eating chick:
I was eating it, and I put the mask on and th the bucket on my head. I wt to the mirror. I just said, 'Buckethead. That's Buckethead right there.' It was just one of those things. After that, I wanted to be that thing all the time.— Buckethead, 1996, Guitar Player Magazine [6]
In October 2017, Carroll gave a rare out-of-character interview discussing all ranges of his life, the Buckethead character, his parts' deaths, his health problems, and how he copes with overcoming fear.
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During the podcast, he revealed he has be diagnosed with the pottially life-threating condition of heart arrhythmia. He stated he had a cardiac ablation performed and uses medicine to control the problem.
In 1988, after leaving the band Class-X, Carroll tered a song called Brazos into a Guitar Player magazine contest. It was a runner-up, with editors writing:

An astonishingly skilled guitarist and bassist, he demonstrates post-Paul Gilbert speed and accuracy filtered through very kinky harmonic ssibilities. His psychotronic, demonic edge is very, very far removed from the clichés of classical metal and rock. A real talt to watch, also known as Buckethead.[17]
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In the same year, the magazine's editor, Jas Obrecht, came to know of Buckethead wh Carroll and his parts left a demo recording at the magazine's reception desk for Obrecht. Impressed with this demo, he rushed into the restaurant where Buckethead and his parts were having lunch and couraged him to make the most of his talt.
They soon became frids. In 1989, a song called Soowee by Buckethead got honorable mtion in another song contest. In 1991, Buckethead moved into Obrecht's basemt. The song Brazos was evtually released on the 1991 demo tape of his band Deli Creeps, titled Tribal Rites, and again as bonus material in Buckethead's Secret Recipe DVD in 2006. Luke Sacco was his teacher.
In 1991, Buckethead contributed to Derek Bailey's Company project alongside, among others, John Zorn and Alexander Bălănescu, resulting in a triple album called Company 91.
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After his first two demo tapes, called Giant Robot and Bucketheadland Blueprints, Buckethead released Bucketheadland on John Zorn's Japanese Avant record label in 1992. Though available only as a pricey import, the record received positive reviews and earned some atttion. At about this time, Buckethead fell into the orbit of prolific bassist/producer Bill Laswell, himself an occasional Zorn collaborator; Buckethead (as a performer, producer, or composer) was introduced to Laswell with the help of Limbomaniacs drummer Bryan Brain Mantia, who gave Laswell a video of Buckethead playing in his room.
In 1992, Buckethead, with Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, and Bryan Brain Mantia, formed the supergroup Praxis. Their first album, Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), released the same year, was well received. The project was Bill Laswell's concept, and has since involved other guests such as Serj Tankian of System of a Down, among many others. Buckethead participated in every release except the initial 1984 release and Mold (1998).

And later Dave Navarro. After some legal complications with Sony Music tertainmt, Buckethead decided to release his 1994 album Dreamatorium under the name of Death Cube K (an anagram).
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Death Cube K is a separate tity that looks like a photographic negative version of Buckethead with a black chrome mask, like Darth Vader. This apparition haunts Buckethead and appears in his nightmares.[21]
Buckethead released a second studio album that year, Giant Robot, which features many guest appearances by artists such as Iggy Pop and Bill Moseley. The name of the album came from the Japanese series Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, of which Buckethead is a fan.
In 1995, Buckethead did not release any solo albums but collaborated with several artists like Jonas Hellborg and Michael Shrieve (Octave of the Holy Innocts). He also contributed to several movie soundtracks, such as Johnny Mnemonic and Mortal Kombat.
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Later, in 1996, Buckethead released his solo album The Day of the Robot with the help of glish producer DJ Ninj and Laswell, plus another album with Brain and keyboardist Pete Scaturro on the small Japanese label NTT Records, called Giant Robot. Both albums were printed only in small quantities and are collectors' items now. A second demo tape by the Deli Creeps was also recorded.
Also in 1996, several Sega Saturn television ads featuring a screaming mask-like face pressing through the blue orb of the Saturn logo was released, with music by Buckethead.
In 1997, Buckethead began working on the album Buckethead Plays Disney, but the album has not yet be released. According to his Web page:
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This highly anticipated album, once listed in an Avant catalog, has yet to be completed. It is Buckethead's most precious personal project, so he won't record or release it until he knows he is ready.[23]
Also in 1997, Buckethead continued to contribute to movie soundtracks, appearing on Beverly Hills Ninja and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the sequel to Mortal Kombat.
Further releases were Arcana's second and final studio album Arc of the Testimony in which he played with noted drummer Tony Williams and the one-off project Pieces, with Brain. Two live albums by Praxis, called Transmutation Live and Live in Poland (featuring recordings from European concerts) were also issued.
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In 1999, Buckethead released his fifth album, a collaboration with Les Claypool from the band Primus, titled Monsters and Robots — currtly the best-selling album of his career. This album includes the song The Ballad of Buckethead, for which his first music video ever was made.
Buckethead began three new projects that year, the first being the band Cornbugs, a collaboration with actor Bill Moseley, drummer Pinchface, and later keyboardist Travis Dickerson. Another project, Cobra Strike with an album called The 13th Scroll, featured Pinchface, Bryan Brain Mantia, DJ Disk, and Bill Laswell. Buckethead also began a collaboration with actor Viggo Morts, whom he first met through a recording project called Myth: Dreams of the World

In 1996. Together they released One Man's Meat, One Less Thing to Worry About, and The Other Parade. Buckethead contributed to the 1999 album Devil Dub by the San Francisco Bay Area band B Wa consisting of Dr. Ware and House(Limbomaniacs, Tommy Guerrero, Buckethead's Giant Robot,
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