Travis Dickerson Recording Studio Forum

Buckethead has released the 6th pike, "Balloon Cement". 12 songs of pure awesomeness. 

Awesome!!! still check pikes everyday, they should be there first!!!

Buckethead Pikes site is so slow because there is a little dude in India hand coding the HTML each time the page is hit.

I had sent the Pikes website an email asking when this will be pressed on to a CD, and they told me that it will be released as a CD sometime next month.

just bought it, i love it ! "Replacement nail" is fantastic !!!

Next month ?!?!? Ahhh... I don't want to buy it on iTunes. Guess I'll wait, thanks for the info though, DroidHunter !!

I am one of the few that uses a Zune (hey it was cheap and holds a LOT of Buckethead) but they never seem to get any music first. This is going to be a tough wait. Any full songs posted on YouTube yet?

Quote from: mrpancakes on April 17, 2012, 08:16:42 pm
Next month ?!?!? Ahhh... I don't want to buy it on iTunes. Guess I'll wait, thanks for the info though, DroidHunter !!

^^^ditto, thanks droid.

Great, now i have to save for this one and the new Sigur Ros album

Quote from: Space Bandito on April 17, 2012, 08:21:18 pm
I am one of the few that uses a Zune (hey it was cheap and holds a LOT of Buckethead) but they never seem to get any music first. This is going to be a tough wait. Any full songs posted on YouTube yet?

Hey bro, you're not alone, I use a Zune too. I just don't like Apple/iTunes.

Hope this one will become available on CD soon. I prefer physical Discs much over downloads. And Apple/iTunes isn't an option for me anyway

Can anybody describe the style of this release for me, please?

Quote from: mrpancakes on April 18, 2012, 08:08:26 pm
Hey bro, you're not alone, I use a Zune too. I just don't like Apple/iTunes.

It became available on the Zune today. I was extremely surprised and happy to be able to listen to a new Buckethead while driving.

For those who are waiting to purchase it here is the first 'song' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvJFIAyDac as the album feels like one whole song broken up into 12 tracks.

Quote from: Space Bandito on April 19, 2012, 03:24:57 am

Quote from: mrpancakes on April 18, 2012, 08:08:26 pm
Hey bro, you're not alone, I use a Zune too. I just don't like Apple/iTunes.

It became available on the Zune today. I was extremely surprised and happy to be able to listen to a new Buckethead while driving.

For those who are waiting to purchase it here is the first 'song' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvJFIAyDac as the album feels like one whole song broken up into 12 tracks.

Hehe, I just uploaded that! I will be uploading Red Water Colors next, and maybe Veil of Tinfoil and Replacement Nail.

  Then thank you from the bottom of my Bucket. I looked on a whim and found it mins after you put it up.

Veil of Tinfoil is my favorite so far.

Bought it off iTunes yesterday, played it a couple of times as it's only short, just over half an hour. It might well be the shortest one yet, but only just. It feels a lot like Underground Chamber - the whole album runs like one track and it's laden with effects and frankly terrifying guitar gymnastics.

My only criticism? Each time I hear a funky groove and really get into it, the dynamic changes and often the entire time signature does too. I'm not saying that's a bad thing because I love it when air instrumentalists get stumped, but there's some really brilliant bits here that last for about 8 bars tops and then it flies into this flurry of shredding. I dig shredding, don't get me wrong, but there's some serious binges to be had here.