Bucketheadland is the debut studio album by American guitarist and songwriter

Buckethead Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has received critical acclaim for his innovative electric guitar playing. His music spans severa ...

. It was released on John Zornʼs Japanese record label,

Avant AVANT, also known as AVANT street art guerrilla collective, was the artist group active in New York City from 1980 to 1984. By 1984 AVANT had produced thousands of acrylic on paper paintings and plastered them on walls, doors, bus-stops and gallerie ...

, in 1992. It features several samples of the 1960s Japanese television series, '' Giant Robot'', amongst

guitar riffs A riff is a repeated chord progression or refrain in music (also known as an ostinato figure in classical music); it is a pattern, or melody, often played by the rhythm section instruments or solo instrument, that forms the basis or accomp ...

and several fast, technical solos. The concept of the album is a tour around the construction of

ʼs fictional amusement park, “Bucketheadland”. Because of this, the album is divided into sections that relate to distinct areas of the park. A sequel was released in 2003, simply titled ''

Bucketheadland 2 ''Bucketheadland 2'' is the tenth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. Released in 2003, it is a sequel to his debut album, ''Bucketheadland'', a concept album about his fictional "abusement" park. The album was nominated for the 2004 Shortlis ...

''.

Track listing

Disc One

*Intro (3:21) *Giant Robot (9:17) *Bucketbots Jig (3:19) *Slaughter Zone (23:25) *Computer Master (8:16) *Virtual Reality (3:35) *Home Run Derby (5:18) *I Love My Parents (1:38)

Disc Two (Remixes)

Credits

All compositions by

, Katella Music, BMI; except "Virtual Reality" composed by Bootsy Collins, Rubber Band Music, BMI and "Giant Robot Theme" composed by Takeo Yamashita. The term "Oh Jeez..." was inspired by Maximum Bob. *Recorded at " Bootzilla Studios" *Engineered by "Casper and Herbie" *Mastered by

Howie Weinberg Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer with over 2,257 mastering credits, three TEC Awards, 21 Grammy Awards, two Juno Awards, and one Mercury Prize. Career Weinberg mastered Herbie Hancock's 1983 album '' Future Shock''. Other ...

*Produced by Bootsy Collins *Executive producers: John Zorn & Disk Union *Associate producer: Kazunori Sugiyama *All photos by Thi-Linh Le *Designed by Tomoyo TL *Photo-Typesetting by Strong Silent Type

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1992 debut albums Buckethead albums Avant Records albums