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    Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:06
Incredibly versatile and excellent guitarist, he plays a highly original fusion, and you never get the same thing by him twice.  Does anybody here like him? or think he should be added to the archives like me?

(By the way, I'm so certain that he's prog that I'm not even going to post this thread in Non-Prog)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:17
Exceptional player. One of my favourite guitarists. His best efforts, in my opinion, are Colma Electric Tears and my favourite, Population Override. I listened to his latest album (Cuckoo Clocks from Hell) and I was a little disspointed. Never the less he is capable of playing extremely fast technical licks and very soleful moving solos. He even combines the two on some songs. For anyone interested here's a link to his website where you'll find a free internet only download, Nottingham Lace:

http://bucketheadland.com/attractions.html
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:46
His work with Primus also deserves some attention.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:57
His work with Primus also doesn't exist.

Well, he's played with them live on occasion, for a song or two.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2005 at 20:06
I havent had a chance to hear him yet, and this clinches it, im ordering some.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2005 at 20:09
Well I sure as hell own a bootleg and a video.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 00:35
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Does anybody here like him? or think he should be added to the archives
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[/QUOTE .  Does anybody here like him? or think he should be added to the archives like me?


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Ye, hes a really good musician. but first they should add primus to the archives, or what the hell, add


Ye, hes a really good musician. but first they should add primus to the archives, or what the hell, add them both!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 01:45
Colma is of interest!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 06:32
Colma is very good Dallas.

Add Primus and Buckethead now!

Also, things like Giant Robot, Oysterhead, Frog Brigade, C2B3, Jonas Hellborg/Buckethead, Arcana, hell, all of the Buckethead and Les projects, they're ALL prog and gravely overlooked here.  Especially Praxis, Praxis has to be here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 06:35

If you dig Buckethead, you might want to check out Bumblefoot (Ron Thal), too ... but you probably already know him.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 07:19
Buckethead, interesting shreader and fusionist, with a broad range of musical outputs; e.g.  Bill Laswell's Praxis (as opposed to Primus, unless you mean Colonel Claypools Buck Of Bernie Brains - which could be called "Primus meets Praxis"), solo work from the eclectic Colma to the odd metally thumpers. However, Octave Of The Holy Innocents with Hellborg and Shrieve, is way out ahead for me, as one of the great jazz rock fusion albums of the 90's, which was reissued, recently remastered/remixed by the Bardo label .
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 07:20
Ron Thal's Can't Play The Blues is a special track
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 07:25

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Ron Thal's Can't Play The Blues is a special track

 Ron Thal - Hermit, Bumblefoot - 9.11 and Bumblefoot - Hands are quite amazing albums. They contain a lot of progressive elements. But Thal has too broad a range to be considered a prog artist. He's truly inventive on the guitar, and developed a lot of unique styles - on the fretless guitar, or using special "tools".

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 12:24

Originally posted by Retrovertigo Retrovertigo wrote:

Colma is very good Dallas.

Add Primus and Buckethead now!

Also, things like Giant Robot, Oysterhead, Frog Brigade, C2B3, Jonas Hellborg/Buckethead, Arcana, hell, all of the Buckethead and Les projects, they're ALL prog and gravely overlooked here.  Especially Praxis, Praxis has to be here.

I just recently got Oysterhead.Damn good cd.Les Claypool,Trey Anastasio and Stewart Copeland...what a lineup!!!!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 13:31

Buckethead is amazing.  Every album is something different, and he's always doing new things that for the most part havent been done before.  And it's all done with a silly humor that makes it that much more enjoyable.  hooray for buckethead!

when I saw Primus a few years ago, he came out on stage at one point and did a blistering solo by himself, then came out later and started nunchucking onstage.  what a madman. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2005 at 05:04
Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Buckethead is amazing.  Every album is something different, and he's always doing new things that for the most part havent been done before.  And it's all done with a silly humor that makes it that much more enjoyable.  hooray for buckethead!

when I saw Primus a few years ago, he came out on stage at one point and did a blistering solo by himself, then came out later and started nunchucking onstage.  what a madman. 

 

As luck had it, it received a "red cross parcel" of musical goodies from the USA, when I got home last night. This included the remixed Hellborg Buckethead, Shrieve Octave Of The Holy Innocents (Bardoo Records). Half the album is changed significantly and the rest has some obvious minor changes, but I haven't made my mind up for better or for worse? It is good piece of acosutic jazz rock fusion, in places considerably remixed with loops, samples etc. included, plus added flute, voice and I guess bowed double bass.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2005 at 15:22

Excellent guitarist. One of the few innovative guitarists left.

Colma is soothing and delicate.

Electric Tears has powerful dreamy ambient atmospheres.

Population Override is awesome soulful blues prog-rock.

Cuckoo Clocks From Hell makes Zappa look like Lou Reed.

Do check out http://tdrsmusic.com/musicpreviews.html for free mp3's.

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