Travis Dickerson Recording Studio Forum

I think it would be awesome if bucket pulled a Steve Vai regarding backing tracks.



The only problem is, which tracks should be released?

Aww crap..I sent it like 2 weeks ago *facepalm*

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i don\'t think there are that many fans willing to actually write him a letter, i think you got a good chance of getting that autograph!

I sincerely hope you\'re right. If I\'m lucky I would hope to get it before the year is up and I figured now would be the best time since he\'s not currently on tour.

I wanted to say I do believe I\'ve found the arcade button and color that they use in the signature model.

http://www.arcadeshop.de/Sanwa-Buttons-Sanwa-OBSF-30-orange_583.html

No other switch made could fit since it would be too long and wouldn\'t fit in a control cavity.

I\'m planning on getting one to put in my strat.

I was just thinking that he would start to get an influx of letters, maybe beggars asking for a free signature Les Paul..

All I want is an autograph on a funeral sticker.

Yesterday I sent bucket a letter and asked for an autograph of the included funeral sticker, or maybe some photographs. I had read on some forum during the GNR days, that he simply said he was an awesome guitarist, and could wait for the Chinese Democracy album.

Only an artist like Buckethead would be so kind to do that for a fan, any other artist would be egotistical and have their head shoved up their ass like Ringo Starr.

I think the reason he actually would send someone an autograph is because as a child/teenager he looked up to artists and wished they would do the same. However since they wouldn\'t I think he would try and give his fans the experience he always wanted.

Then again I\'ve heard some people never get replies, but those people usually don\'t ask for autographs, they just want a hello back or something. I can understand him not replying to those kinds of letters, since there might be a fan out there with an agenda to expose him or something.

If I ever do get a bucket axe, I\'ll be sure to find some way to have it signed.

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I just wrote a blog called "transcending a gimmick" which speaks a little of how marketable he could actually be at www.slunks.ning.com - leave some comments on it if you like.

The boy has working hard for a long time, doing it his way and not selling out (breifly GNR perhaps) he deserves all he can get.

I forgot to mention that although on the surface it may seem to be purely a gimmick you need to look further into the Wikipedia article on bucket. It clearly states that he does it to avoid the hollywood drama that surrounds nearly every popular and non-popular artist. Can you imagine what TMZ would do to poor bucket? It\'s bad enough Joan Rivers took a pot shot a him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzfuB_mDQvE&feature=related

I just love how these idiotic Hollywood fuckers stick their nose in everyone\'s business, evaluating Buckethead\'s "fashion" like he gives a damn.

Then again hollywood is known for this kind of thing so I wonder why I\'m getting bent out of shape about it. For example, Madonna diving right into Kabbalah her first year of "practicing" Judaism when it takes Rabbi\'s in training at least a decade if not two to even begin to study Kabbalah.

If only I had courage and a rifle...

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I just wrote a blog called "transcending a gimmick" which speaks a little of how marketable he could actually be at www.slunks.ning.com - leave some comments on it if you like.

The boy has working hard for a long time, doing it his way and not selling out (breifly GNR perhaps) he deserves all he can get.

I never said I wouldn\'t buy a signature buckethead axe, I just thought he wasn\'t the type given that he had those custom jacksons which were never put into production.

He doesn\'t seem like the person to do such a thing, but I\'m not going to stop listening to his tracks because of this. In fact quite the opposite.

I forsee two problems here:

1.It\'s too damn mind bendingly awesome to not own
2.I can\'t afford it.

I think it\'s time I took up a job at a local fast food establishment to pay for this baby, I wanna get one before it\'s gone.

there\'s no way I\'m selling my bucket collection and no I haven\'t downloaded it, they are all "hard" legit copies.

I\'m just saying someone who toured with GNR can\'t honestly have cash problems. Someone like bucket has to be in it for the music not the dough.

What ever happened to bucket\'s spirit of it\'s about the music and not the endorsements?

I asked a member of ClassX about Bucket\'s faith just out of curiosity, given that some of his song titles like "The Way to Heaven" and such and I received this answer.

"I can tell you Brian attended and his dad teaches at a Catholic High School for Boys. "

I now want to listen to Bucket even more.

Decoding the Tomb of the Bansheebot 2 please!

I just wanna hear all those live songs that he hasn\'t released yet.

The white thing on Bucket\'s coveralls arm.

It\'s too bad they couldn\'t include footage from when he was in ClassX although that would give away his identity and his face even more so then in Young Buckethead.