"CSII" and "Somewhere Over The Slaughterhouse," I had fashioned some tracks forīuckethead to play over and told him if he liked them, he was welcome to Strike" and "CSII," "Somewhere Over The Slaughterhouse" and some others. Worked on Viggo's record "One Less Thing To Worry About," and I did "Cobra We used the flying V (left),Īnd then he got his custom white Les Paul sometime in the mid-2000s.īelow is our setup for "Chicken Noodles." Note that the Tele is plugged into no pedals - very rare. He used my 1968 Les Paul and my brother's black Telecaster. We did the "Cobra Strike" records with Jackson customs. The take ultimately used was played in one unbroken, unedited pass. I don't know how many takes, while ripping away while the tape was rolling, he would just stop mid-note then, plugging, unplugging, stomping and so on.Ī lot of solos on the records we made were taken from multiple passes and cut together to create the perfect solo.īut one of the great feats of musicianship I've witnessed was while doing the solo for the song "Jordan," which is several minutes long. I think anyone who has seen Buckethead live may have witnessed the incredible balancing act of keeping his chain of FX working. Fortunately, he had a box of alternatives, which he dumped on the floor (shown).įor most sessions, the floor would be covered in pedals, and between takes there would be a blitz of cables, loud buzzing, frustration, plugging, clicking, stomping, unplugging, tossing aside, walking over and recovering, more plugging, pops, sizzles and, finally, incredible sounds. The photo at left is from the session we did for Viggo's "Pandemoniumfromamerica." When Viggo arrived at the studio, he told us we would be visited by three hobbits from "Lord of the Rings."īuckethead had arrived without a bucket and mask, and since pictures would be taken, a mask was needed. We have spent countless hours together in the studio under all kinds of circumstances. Mostly I'm concentrating on music produced here, but whenever I can, I'll try to point you in the right direction for music we carried here at one time but no longer do. Go to the Buckethead Pikes website for those. I get asked about this because there is some confusion when those CDs can't be found here. Recently, Buckethead has concentrated on producing and distributing his music on his own Pikes website. Others are, I'm afraid, just hard to find and have become collectors' items. The ones we do carry will be linked to our store. Others are no longer in print but still can be had as downloads from iTunes. Most of those we no longer carry, but we do have a few, and they are listed in the TDRS music store. TDRS also distributed other Buckethead CDs for a period when he had no other distribution. Of the projects we worked on here and links to our store or other stores where you can get them. Some CDs that we carried are on other labels, and some of those labels are gone, as are the CDs. I have tried to maintain as many CDs in print that were put out on TDRS music as I can.
The "Chicken Noodles" CDs and many others. Over the years we made Death Cube K "Tunnel," "Funnel Weaver," "Somewhere Over The Slaughterhouse," Thanatopsis "Axiology" and "Anatomize," "The Dragons of Eden," "Population Override," He did, and that track was included on "CSII," and that was theīeginning of more tracks that became the first Thanatopsis CD. While working on that CD, I played Buckethead a track I was working on and asked if he would like to play on it. We all had a good time, and later Buckethead asked if I would produce the first "Cobra Strike" CD. While working on Viggo Mortensen's "One Less Thing To Worry About," Viggo invited Buckethead to the studio to contribute guitar to the CD. Buckethead started working at TDRS in 1996.
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