YMMV / Buckethead

• Archive Binge: If you really want to listen to all of his songs, you have to start with all this, and then there's his EPs, demos tapes, unreleased singles, and live-only songs. Plus all of his collaborations he's done with other artists: such as Praxis, Serj Tankian, Mike Patton, Parliament-Funkadelic, Deli Creeps, Travis Dickerson, Bill Laswell, Giant Robot, Iggy Pop, Science Faxation, Dj Disk, Bill Moseley, Cornbugs, and Primus. By the time this man is dead, he will have written and composed nine-billion songs.
• Archive Panic:
  • Unless you have seventy million hours of free time, listening to everything he made will be a challenge; due to a huge amount of output over the last couple of years, his nearly 300 albums can cause this to happen.
  • On average, he put out an album every 3.5 days in 2015. That would mean he was on course for 100 albums IN A YEAR.
  • As if it wasn't bad enough, on October 1, 2015 he started a Halloween countdown by releasing one album a day. Since he had released 75 albums by the end of September, he definitely would surpass over 100 albums at the end of that year. And he did, he ended up releasing the small number of 118 albums in 2015 alone.
  • He slowed down in 2016 having released only 24, but this may be due to him touring for the first time in years. However, as of June 2017, he's about to exceed that number again.
• Creepy Awesome: He's very scary looking, but also really frigging good with a guitar.
  • The entirety of Inbred Mountain is basically a horror movie in music form, but it's also one of the best albums Avant-Garde Metal has to offer.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Nearly all of it.
• Epic Riff: Again, nearly all of it.
• Epileptic Trees: One theory about who Buckethead is was that he's Slash due to their similar hairstyles and both being in Guns N' Roses.
  • A few other genius theories is that Buckethead is Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, or Shawn Lane.
  • Some people have also speculated that he is Justin Johnson due to their similar hairstyles and body movement when performing live.
  • Notably, each and every one of these was Jossed when Buckethead finally did an out-of-character interview. He's not any other famous person in disguise, he's just him.
• Fandom Rivalry: Buckethead vs. Slash. Which is odd considering Buckethead and Slash don't hate each other or even seem to consider themselves rivals.
• Nightmare Fuel: Now has its own page.
• Refrain from Assuming: Sometimes it's best to assume the song don't even have a title. For example, a song by the name of "Blue Marble Moon" technically is not its official name because it doesn't have one.
• Signature Song: If you've only heard one Buckethead song, chances are it's "Jordan", which was featured in Guitar Hero 2, where it became infamous for being the hardest song in the series to date.
• That One Boss: Before DragonForce was featured in Guitar Hero, it was "Jordan," which was even mentioned in South Park. In fact, there might be some people who can handle "Through the Fire and Flames" but not "Jordan."