Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

I love this guy, but he doesn't have anything on Herman Li. Don't believe me? Listen to Dragonforce's "Through the Fire and Flames". Listen to the guitar solo in the middle and you'll totally agree with me.

At 9/15/07 05:28 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Herman Li>Buckethead

Leave.

At 9/15/07 11:41 PM, Fat-and-Proud wrote: I love this guy, but he doesn't have anything on Herman Li. Don't believe me? Listen to Dragonforce's "Through the Fire and Flames". Listen to the guitar solo in the middle and you'll totally agree with me.

Well, most of DragonForce's solos are studio repaired. Sure he plays them, but the studio takes out all of his fuck-ups. And in the grand scheme of guitar solos anyway, it doesn't rank highly, past or present.

At 9/15/07 11:41 PM, Fat-and-Proud wrote: I love this guy, but he doesn't have anything on Herman Li. Don't believe me? Listen to Dragonforce's "Through the Fire and Flames". Listen to the guitar solo in the middle and you'll totally agree with me.

No. Get out. Now. Buckethead isn't the best, but Herman Li sucks. He is awful. Watch him LIVE and you'll agree. Anyone can sound good in the studio.

TOTALLY SECONDED. Buckethead has skills.

I'm sure buckethead is amused right now.

At 9/15/07 11:07 PM, TheBlackDahliaMurder wrote: Definitely not the best. Not even close.

Any reason why?

At 9/16/07 07:53 AM, Frenzy wrote:

At 9/15/07 11:07 PM, TheBlackDahliaMurder wrote: Definitely not the best. Not even close.

Any reason why?

He's a mindless shredder just like Michael angelo batio. I give him props for electric tears and colma but other than that, it shows his cds have been rushed. The only reason you guys think herman li and buckethead are gods is because you haven't been exposed to anything other than the mainstream.

Look up the following guitarists:

Eric johnson manhatten and random improv

Watch cliffs of dover from him if you want to really see what he can do.

Joe satriani Ice 9. Not his best but i saw him do it live so whatever.

Steve vai His legendary solo

Yngwie malmsteen Evil eye a long time ago

John petrucci Glasgow kiss

Paul gilbert famous mr big solo

I'd like to name a bunch others but they're probably only as great, or as good as buckethead anyway. Joe satch, paul gilbert and john petrucci put on a hell of a show at G3 in april. They're true musicians. How many guitarists do you know can improvise to Red House every night, with a full house, without even fucking up?

Another thing, these guitarists all have famous signature guitars or a whole line, like the ibanez jem series, that just celebrated it's 20th anniversary.

Now do you know why he isn't the best? Sorry if i come across as an angry, anti-social flammer, but I just want you guys to understand why he isn't near the best or greatest and never will be.

He is the best.

At 9/16/07 01:43 PM, AmberAffliction wrote: He is the best.

Go home

At 9/16/07 02:05 PM, elegy wrote: Go home

You go home, "mindless shredder" pfft. It should be illegal for people like you to have opinions.

Soothsayer
Final Wars
Cult Of One
Whitewash
Welcome To Bucketheadland

At 9/16/07 02:28 PM, AmberAffliction wrote:

At 9/16/07 02:05 PM, elegy wrote: Go home

You go home, "mindless shredder" pfft. It should be illegal for people like you to have opinions.

I was kidding dude. But he is a shredder, there's no denying that. He has some amazing albums like colma and electric tears. Whitewash and big sur moon made up my mind about getting a delay pedal. Easy to play and cool to play.

Take a look at the guitarists that i mentioned. You'll see why i said what i said. I know thousands of guitarists, and buckethead does stand out from the croud (parden the pun). He is pretty original too but he can't be a legend without writing and playing like one. Sure he's fast and does some pretty cool killswitch things, but he plays paul gilbert licks in his solos ffs, and he plays to a backing track too. I saw him play live. However, G3 with petrucci, gilbert and satch was the greatest show ever. it's like the level one plunger to the level 60 NG god.

I have these opinions based on experience. Don't get me wrong, buckethead is great but his style can be labelled as a combination of this guitarist, that guitarist and the other guitarist. The musicians i mentioned are purely 100%, authentic and original. The only way you can label their style is by saying something that isn't related to music. Like for example, steve vai is like intense outerspace alien wankage.

And Why Does He Have A Bucket On His Head?

At 9/16/07 03:47 PM, bcfc4lyf wrote: And Why Does He Have A Bucket On His Head?

Because he's a fag.

Please. Jeff Tweedy would fucking rape Bucketheads ass.

At 9/15/07 10:11 PM, elegy wrote: Steve vai > Buckethead

STEVE VAI GREATER THAN BUCKETHEAD?!?!?!

Wow...WOW...

I'll be the first to say I'm not the biggest fan of Buckethead...but Bucket is WAY better than Steve...I'm sorry, he just flat sucks...

And to the earlier post like this saying "Herman Li > Buckethead", Hermans technique is HORRID!

"Hey, it's that guy who played that song from Guitar Hero!"

Buckethead is overrated and a huge faggot for using a shitty gimmick like wearing a KFC bucket on his head.

At 9/17/07 01:01 AM, Sekhem wrote: Buckethead is overrated and a huge faggot for using a shitty gimmick like wearing a KFC bucket on his head.

You're a huge faggot for thinking it's a gimmick, and a bigger faggot for thinking he is overrated, as most people have never heard his greatest material, which is more obscure.

At 9/15/07 09:43 PM, Frenzy wrote: He doesn't just use a button. In the song Jordan (guitar hero II version), he picks 14 notes a second.

Killswitch. Kills of the sound at the moment pressed, sound comes back once released.
He's really one of the best guitarist/artist I ever came by.

His Monster's and Robot's album was the first thing I ever heard from him. Which was like 4 years ago.
I love how his style changes with almost every song.

I do hate, however, Guitar Hero II assholes who think they got him all figured out - Not realizing GH2 version of Jordan is different from the original song.

How is Michael Angelo Banito left not of this conversation?

also best guitar player ever..... undicovered think about it seriously.

YES.

and also: Link

One of my friends thinks that Slash is a better guitarist. FOFL.

At 9/15/07 10:06 PM, RacistBassist wrote: Ok, everyone, let me clarify something.

Skill is not based solely on speed.

Yes, it is a factor, but not the prime factor

I was going to say the EXACT same thing, but I'm listening to a bit of his stuff as we speak and it's not fast at all.

He's pretty good, but it's just not my type of thing.

FEH.

Buckethead is too much technical nonsense for me, not enough music. Even if the idea of "best" is entirely subjective, I'd much sooner listen to a good song by a slightly above-average guitarist than that masturbatory bullshit MAB churns out. Maybe I just haven't heard the right songs by Buckethead, but everything I've heard falls more into the category of showing off than an actual composition. A relatively boring riff for a few minutes then a big shredding solo. I think my guitar teacher put it best with the line "The best actor is not the one who reads the script fastest."

At 9/17/07 04:33 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote: FEH.

Buckethead is too much technical nonsense for me, not enough music. Even if the idea of "best" is entirely subjective, I'd much sooner listen to a good song by a slightly above-average guitarist than that masturbatory bullshit MAB churns out. Maybe I just haven't heard the right songs by Buckethead, but everything I've heard falls more into the category of showing off than an actual composition. A relatively boring riff for a few minutes then a big shredding solo. I think my guitar teacher put it best with the line "The best actor is not the one who reads the script fastest."

You need to listen to the following albums:
Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
Pepper's Ghost
Crime Slunk Scene
Anatomize (By Thanatopsis, in which he plays guitar)
Axiology (By Thanatopsis)
Population Override

There's a shitload of good solid albums from him, in which wankery is not as prevalent as in what you've heard before, but I don't know what kind of music you like.

I've not really heard his stuff, just some shit he did live with Guns N' Roses, which isn't much to go by.

I've heard many people say he's incredibly diverse, and that's what I like with the guitar virtuosos, I particularly like them to have feeling and emotion in the songs, and Vai, Satriani and Petrucci do that rather well for me.

It would seem unfair to people if I were to judge him against Herman Li without having heard him, but im pretty confident that he's better than Li, who has shown no diversity in his music.

For those who say he's a mindless shredder, with no "feeling" or "emotion".
Buckethead - The Thrill Is Gone