Add Buckethead?

Sean Trane wrote: I used to have a negative slant on this guitarist, because of his shredder moments and his Roses collaborations...    but the two solo albums I've heard of him are lightly prog...     it's mostly when Buckethead plays in other people's albumùs that seems to bring out his proggier side (notably with Hellborg)   I wouldn't object anymore if he was included in PA

Speaking of Hellborg, he is already here already.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: He has more than 100 albums, a few of which may be related to Prog, but due to the fact that we should add all his discography, we would have in Prog AQrchives this artists:_ Viggo Mortensen (Not even a musician) Praxis (BTW: You are giving a definition of the word progressive from the dictionary that has no relation with the term Progressive Rock)

It's kind of funny but when I first looked up his discography on the internet.  I was like Viggo Mortensen???  Isn't he that actor from Lord Of The Rings.   I can not attest to Vigo being or not being a musician.  Praxis should be on this site though.  Also, you might want to check out Octave Of The Holy Innocents if you haven't.  You may enjoy that one.  The shreddier stuff he's done has gotten stale with me.  Still I think there are other of his solo albums that might appeal to you.

And yeah, it really bugs me when people try to equate the dictionary definition with the music.  Slightly related but not definitively.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 29 2010 at 20:39

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: [QUOTE=timothy leary] Al what I heard by him, is IMO not related with Prog, even when it's obvious I haven't heard most of his works, but the experts of Avant and Prog Metal have spoken, and I trust them.

Could we just add the bucket and leave out the head?

I think I may have already done this, but here is my take on my solo titled Bucketheads:
Giant Robot - nice debut.
Colma - nice and mellow.
Monsters and Robots - favorite so far.
Funnel Weaver - eh.
Bermuda Triangle - eh.
Electric Tears - nice and mellow, though less so than Colma perhaps.
Bucketheadland 2 - eh.
Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, The - really eh.
population override - eh.

By the way, eh = I wished I had listened to them before I bought them.  One listen would have been fine. 


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 29 2010 at 20:47

Why is this such a hard fight? I don't get it. This site has gone out of its way to be spuriously inclusive, but this is where the big stand is made? This is what I have determined based on certain PA additions.

Bjork - Everything is prog
Tori Amos - Everything is rock
Metallica - Nothing else matters

harmonium.ro wrote: Tapfret wrote: Why is this such a hard fight? I don't get it. It isn't as much as hard fight as it is a difficult artist to evaluate (too large and too diverse an output).

I completely understand. I would have a similar problem with Senmuth.

^yes the argument to include Bhead would open the door to all the folks who have appeared on his album on the surface seems correct but a lot of prog artists have included artists from other genres on their albums, two that come to mind are Santana and Steve Hackett, we all know when Willie Nelson sings on Santana's Havana Moon that willie is not a prog artist and the same for Richie Havens on Steve Hacketts album, to placate Ivan we can rest assured that Bhead is not in any way symphonic, and as you stated it would be nice to have reviewers respond to the cases where Bhead is showing his progressive side, I am not a die hard fan but I sure like his collaboration on Octave and Colma has always been a favorite album

timothy leary wrote: ^yes the argument to include Bhead would open the door to all the folks who have appeared on his album on the surface seems correct but a lot of prog artists have included artists from other genres on their albums, two that come to mind are Santana and Steve Hackett, we all know when Willie Nelson sings on Santana's Havana Moon that willie is not a prog artist and the same for Richie Havens on Steve Hacketts album, to placate Ivan we can rest assured that Bhead is not in any way symphonic, and as you stated it would be nice to have reviewers respond to the cases where Bhead is showing his progressive side, I am not a die hard fan but I sure like his collaboration on Octave and Colma has always been a favorite album

who?

Slartibartfast wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Tapfret wrote: Why is this such a hard fight? I don't get it. This site has gone out of its way to be spuriously inclusive, but this is where the big stand is made? This is what I have determined based on certain PA additions. Bjork - Everything is prog Tori Amos - Everything is rock Metallica - Nothing else matters Hang on a second, here. It's not THIS SITE that has gone out of their wayt to include these artistes you cite. It is some fanboys using their colllabs status and abusing their prerogatives and privileges that incluuded these against 90% of the other collabs' better judgment (and dare I say the Admins' as well) to fit their own private agenda and include anything they like as prog,  thus making Xover a joke and become some kind of prog-related-related-related-related farce I don't know Bjork well nor Metallica, but any controversial addition has to get approval from the higher ups.  I will only advocate for or oppose additions if I know their music well and I'll defend the addition of Tori to the end.  I don't see this site as being spuriously inclusive.  I do however see some people being seriously narrow minded.  As long as you have people of varying opinions and tastes there isn't a line you draw, it's more of weird twisty curve.  There's a huge gray area and that is the nature of music.  Deal with it.

No I wont have that! Whats wrong with Metallica!