Re: (idm) Buckethead

From KaisrSolze
Sent Sat, Apr 18th 1998, 19:59

>Is this something to be interested in?
>
>Has anyone on this list been exposed to his work?
Just go see him live...  I saw him in Praxis:Transmutation (a bill laswel=
l=0Aproject which included DJ Disk from the skratch piklz, soulslinger fr=
om jungle=0Asky, bernie worrell from pfunk, and maybe a few others)...   =
 It was really=0Aamazing, the loudest thing I've ever heard.  If you can =
imagine ambient heavy=0Ametal, you're halfway to figuring out what praxis=
 sounded like...  I think=0Athey have an album or two out with a similar =
lineup...  I know Laswell has a=0Awebsite somewhere, and there was an art=
icle on Buckethead in a recent Wire...=0ABuckethead was unreal, both in h=
is playing, and sheer theatricality =97 he plays=0Aguitar with all manner=
 of odd objects (hell, he plays with a bucket on his=0Ahead... hence the =
name), he looks like some horror-movie refugee and he just=0Arocked hard =
 ;-)

Sam=0A