Uhh nah, speed aint that important brah thats not a great compliment. Buckethead's "voice" on guitar, like the tone and timbre the way he does vibrato and bends, thats much more important and hes beautiful at it. The speed is far secondary
I went to a clinic of Paul's about 10 yrs ago. Hell, it could've been 15 yrs ago, honestly. It was at a Guitar Center here in Kansas City. I had actually been a Buckethead fan long before I'd ever even heard the name Paul Gilbert, which makes sense based on my age (38). But, I had just found out shortly before the clinic that he had taught Buckethead, and this was also before the name Brian Carrol was common knowledge, which got me thinking about who Buckethead was in RL... So, when he opened it up for Q&A, I raised my hand, and he called on me. He was shocked to hear that my question wasn't a question at all, but a statement. I looked him in the eye and said straight faced, "I think you ARE buckethead. Can you provide any evidence to the contrary?" After he laughed for a second, he responded,"Brian is a good 2 or 3 inches taller than I am. That, and his hands are significantly larger than my own." To which I then responded, "okay, I believe you. Thanks for the info." That's the whole story.
Yo but that was a thang for a while. There was a time around '06 where we genuinely thought Paul Gilbert was Buckethead. There was a couple pieces of music that went around and had us thinking it could be the case. I remember searching the Internet for all I could to compare the guitarist 😂😂😂 Gawd what a nerd I was/am
You can definitely hear Pauls influence in Bucketheads playing sometimes. This next comment has nothing to do with Paul, but whats interesting to me is that you can hear a distinct improvement in bucketheads improvisation over the last probably 10-15 years. You can really hear it if you listen to the Bucketheadland Live album. The Welcome to Bucketheadland solo is way better than the one from the original album
You can definitely hear Pauls influence in Bucketheads playing sometimes. This next comment has nothing to do with Paul, but whats interesting to me is that you can hear a distinct improvement in bucketheads improvisation over the last probably 10-15 years. You can really hear it if you listen to the Bucketheadland Live album. The Welcome to Bucketheadland solo is way better than the one from the original album
I love the respect he gives to Buckethead here. you can tell he is specifically choosing not to talk about anything buckethead wouldn't have wanted out there, like how he was personally. Answers the mask question without any further exposition. I remember being new taking lessons over 16 years ago and telling my teacher Buckethead was my favorite guitarist. The next week he excitedly told me he had looked him up and learned that one of HIS favorite guitarists had given Buckethead lessons, Paul Gilbert. I've been a fan ever since!
Ozzy wanted Buckethead to take over from Zakk at one point. Ozzy said name anything you want but you have to take the mask and bucket off. Brian left the room and came back with a different mask, the monster from you Sea. Ozzy just didn't get it. But the fans love it.
Ozzy said he couldn't market the fvking alien mask to his fans nor did he want to explain it so he didn't get the part. But he did say he could play the absolute fvk out of the guitar 🤣
Guitarists I wish had a stint in Ozzy. Buckethead, Michael Schenker, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen.... it's always about the personalities though.@@djnone8137
He auditioned for RHCP, either after Slovak died or the first time Frusciante left. Flea was blown away, but Anthony thought he was too weird and his musical style wasn't a good fit, if I'm remembering right.
Paul Gilbert runs a guitar course on Artist works and has made thousands of videos for thousands of guitar players personally, he is probably the most enthusiastic guitar player in the world and someone of his ability spreading his knowledge to so many people is very rare especially when you look at how young he achieved fame. He has enriched the guitar world exponentially.
Here's the thing. How does someone wear that mask and the cardboard chicken bucket on the head and not have it fall off or the mask blocking your vision while looking at the fretboard, also the face sweating profusely from wearing the mask? Fun fact: Bucket Head supposedly auditioned for Ozzy at some point and Ozzy said, "What's up with the fu..ing bucket, man?!"
Ive seen him live 3 times. Front row center every time, literally 5 feet away from him. That dude sweats buckets the whole show, pun intended lol. Im pretty sure there is a plastic liner under the bucket so the kfc bucket doesnt get drenched. He rearranges his face mask often between songs and every time he touches it sweat dumps on the floor. Greatest live shows ive ever been too and i highly recommend seeing him some time if your able.
@@k7j007I’ve seen him 3 times too. Definitely my favorite concerts I’ve been too and I’ve been to a lot. I was lucky enough at 2 of his shows to get one of the toys he hands out and to press the kill switch on his guitar when he held it out over the crowd. Some of the coolest moments of my life. Even though my ears rang for like 3 days afterwards lol
He can't see. He doesn't need to look at the guitar. In fact I think the only time I saw him look at the fretboard is when he broke a string. The mask and bucket is his armor and he prepares like he's going to war.
@djnone8137 that's a good way of looking at it. There's a video of Jason Newsted from Metallica talking about a session he did working on something with Bucket. He said Bucket was wearing a mask and a heavy coat sweating pretty bad while jamming in a private studio session. Jason said something to Bucket like "you know you don't have to wear the mask and jacket, it's only us in here" and Bucket told him "nah I like it like this. I want to feel like I'm going to war" Jason's gained a higher level of respect and appreciation for Bucket after that lol. Of course I have to add that I was recalling that story from memory so I was paraphrasing what Jason and Bucket said but the main points are correct. The video is easy to find here on RUclips if you haven't seen it and want to check it out.
I can't imagine living in a place where you could get lessons from Paul Gilbert, my local guy taught me "Tom Dooly" and "Twinkle Twinkle little star" from the Mel Bay book and played in a country cover band.... no one even talked about scales at any lessons it was like a different universe.
Bucket head used to scratch the ground with his fingers fast like a chicken all day as a toddler. He played music scratching the guitar scales fast to try and resurrect dead chickens.. he lived in s chicken Coup. He was a little bit eccentric
Paul gilbert is a fantastic guitarist but never knew that bucket hat who is also a fantastic guitarist used to learn from paul.Great old memories for them😊
If you can teach someone how to play a guitar in a half dozen lessons, you yourself are a rad guitarist. To anyone who's interested in learning to play, it really only takes about this must lessons and the rest is just practicing and you're on your way to ripping it up. Don't worry about the technical stuff, you will find your own sound and soul in no time.
Paul Gilbert a absolutely amazing guitarist the first time I heard Let That Battery Die was one of the most awesome instrumental tunes I’ve ever heard the mix with slide and the guitar licks the chordal structures the phrasing everything had so much character yeah there are other amazing tunes but that particular one hit me probably in a way Paul himself wouldn’t understand but it really hit the soul to be honest just absolutely love the it from the moment it starts to the end the guitar just sings so much he truly is a guitarists guitarist I love his instrumentals all of them a guitar great I put Paul up there with Pat Metheny Holdsworth Van Halen to many brilliant guitar players but his compositions are amazing Guthrie Goven Joe Satriani John Scofield actually Scott Henderson Joe Pass Paci De Lucia John Petrucci Steve Vai just amazing guitar players that create character chordal voicing that really makes the music into a living piece of art the harmony and melody come to life with other brilliant instrumental players be bass piano percussion wind instruments just absolutely amazing and Paul is right up there with the greats so many other players Bucket Head is really cool but Paul Gilbert is truly a guitarists guitarist.
When i was 15 i knew a guy named Rick. We'd sit in The Kettle restaurant in the back drinking coffee with 2 orhers and for some reason they had a 3x3 chalkboard. He'd spend 2+hrs teaching us music theory. He could play every type of music (the Chicken picken) was amazing but what really stands out is playing Yngwie at 2x speed. Dude stayed a music teacher in a little strip mall. Was just as good as Bucket Head, but we all make our choices.
Fun fact: it was also pre-head. No head yet, just arms, legs, torso and guitar. The arms and legs kept growing and then the head and bucket just showed up one day 🐓
"He had a fast and useful twitch-in a good way." ? So Ironic. The teacher did not recognize buckethead's slow-hand. Now, Buckethead has made the most soulful and beautiful music. :) :) Thanks BH
I heard an interview recently where someone said something like, hey brother you're looking like your sweating your ass off. Please feel free to go ahead and take that long sleeve orange coat off and Bucket told him thank you but I like to feel like I'm in a war when I'm playing. He said he's been a fan of the Bucket instantly. Lol
I'm 55 from Midwest Illinois and I bet they're aren't any one these days that even know what schtick means. Used years ago referring to comedians allot and old blues players I heard when I was young use it talking about how one player had many different rabbits they could pull out of a single hat at any given time. As Dr. John use to say about SRV that he had many different things in" his bag"he could bring out at any time. Cool to hear old sayings these days like the ones I grew up hearing all the time!
“Pre… bucket” just made me crack up idk why
i thoguht he was born with the bucket on
nah, he used to rock a beanie most of the time. @@astroboirap
The interviewer “did he have the make on?” Lmao open your ears!
Ditto 😂
Same
One of the biggest flex in human history is to say "Bucket head was a student of mine"
rite. almost as much as a flex as saying, "im paul gilbert", seeings only guitar geeks know either name XD
Lol genius @MasterBeaterPI
Imagine being sattiani, having taught Vail, Hammett and Morello
LMAO! Truth..
Being a teacher of someone who is good at their craft gives immeasurable pride
Back then he was just Head.
Korn?!
Lol!
Ain’t we all
😂
@@calvin4989they’re the same guy
Its crazy how alot of these famous guitarists are in like a circle that taught each other
Yep, Satriani taught Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett
@@usuallyclueless4477 Yeah.. Seems like someone had a direct line to the devil and starting showing these dudes how to sell their soul.. lol
@@sydnayallen6762yeah that’s not how it works lol practice enough and maybe one day you can be like them 😂
@@young_sachii Bro couldn't tell I was clearly joking.. lul
@@sydnayallen6762terrible joke.
If Paul Gilbert is say he had this fast twitch “thing” is probably the best compliment he could give to a young guitar player.
Young? Do you realize he is only 3 years older than him
@@hi_is_this_clorox_bleachAnd you do realize both of them were young? 😁
Where's the discrepancy? 🙂
Uhh nah, speed aint that important brah thats not a great compliment. Buckethead's "voice" on guitar, like the tone and timbre the way he does vibrato and bends, thats much more important and hes beautiful at it. The speed is far secondary
@@remarkablehairdo3110 you’re trippin, shorty. It’s a massive compliment. Especially when you consider BH’s career and notoriety’s
@@remarkablehairdo3110 Yeah, everyone has speed.
Paul Gilbert. The professor of shred.
I love the idea of Buckethead taking like 5-6 lessons from Paul Gilbert and just being like “well…I got this on lock. Time to blow everyone’s mind” 😂
When the master creates another master. And the fact he didn’t give out any info on his name or looks shows that Paul’s a real one.
Yeah I wondered if he knew it from the start or he just knew Buckethead's real name and put 2 and 2 together.
ngomong opo to ?😮
Dings him on the driving thing, though. :)
“Bro I knew him pre-bucket”
I went to a clinic of Paul's about 10 yrs ago. Hell, it could've been 15 yrs ago, honestly. It was at a Guitar Center here in Kansas City. I had actually been a Buckethead fan long before I'd ever even heard the name Paul Gilbert, which makes sense based on my age (38). But, I had just found out shortly before the clinic that he had taught Buckethead, and this was also before the name Brian Carrol was common knowledge, which got me thinking about who Buckethead was in RL... So, when he opened it up for Q&A, I raised my hand, and he called on me. He was shocked to hear that my question wasn't a question at all, but a statement. I looked him in the eye and said straight faced, "I think you ARE buckethead. Can you provide any evidence to the contrary?" After he laughed for a second, he responded,"Brian is a good 2 or 3 inches taller than I am. That, and his hands are significantly larger than my own." To which I then responded, "okay, I believe you. Thanks for the info."
That's the whole story.
I wouls love to see him in person!!
I shopped at that Guitar Center a lot around that time. I had no idea Paul would ever be at that one for any reason!
Yo but that was a thang for a while. There was a time around '06 where we genuinely thought Paul Gilbert was Buckethead. There was a couple pieces of music that went around and had us thinking it could be the case. I remember searching the Internet for all I could to compare the guitarist 😂😂😂 Gawd what a nerd I was/am
You can definitely hear Pauls influence in Bucketheads playing sometimes. This next comment has nothing to do with Paul, but whats interesting to me is that you can hear a distinct improvement in bucketheads improvisation over the last probably 10-15 years. You can really hear it if you listen to the Bucketheadland Live album. The Welcome to Bucketheadland solo is way better than the one from the original album
You can definitely hear Pauls influence in Bucketheads playing sometimes. This next comment has nothing to do with Paul, but whats interesting to me is that you can hear a distinct improvement in bucketheads improvisation over the last probably 10-15 years. You can really hear it if you listen to the Bucketheadland Live album. The Welcome to Bucketheadland solo is way better than the one from the original album
I love the respect he gives to Buckethead here. you can tell he is specifically choosing not to talk about anything buckethead wouldn't have wanted out there, like how he was personally. Answers the mask question without any further exposition. I remember being new taking lessons over 16 years ago and telling my teacher Buckethead was my favorite guitarist. The next week he excitedly told me he had looked him up and learned that one of HIS favorite guitarists had given Buckethead lessons, Paul Gilbert. I've been a fan ever since!
Imagine a 15 year old turns up with a mask on 😂
Thanks for all you contributed to a full crispy bucket of Brian! And dude you Kill’ Pauly!!
Ozzy wanted Buckethead to take over from Zakk at one point. Ozzy said name anything you want but you have to take the mask and bucket off. Brian left the room and came back with a different mask, the monster from you Sea. Ozzy just didn't get it. But the fans love it.
Ozzy said he couldn't market the fvking alien mask to his fans nor did he want to explain it so he didn't get the part.
But he did say he could play the absolute fvk out of the guitar 🤣
Guitarists I wish had a stint in Ozzy. Buckethead, Michael Schenker, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen.... it's always about the personalities though.@@djnone8137
I think Ozzy should have let him in the band with the bucket. It'd been cool.
He auditioned for RHCP, either after Slovak died or the first time Frusciante left. Flea was blown away, but Anthony thought he was too weird and his musical style wasn't a good fit, if I'm remembering right.
@@dylanherne6093 chainsaws, chickens, nunchucks and KFC chicken funeral buckets would be a hard sell to the RHCP image 🤣
I love how Gilbert has to clarify (twice) that it was pre bucket. As if we were not sure if he exited the womb with a kabuki mask and KFC bucket.
Paul Gilbert is a superb musician.
Paul...living legend💯
Thanks for teaching the master you did great😎
Paul Gilbert runs a guitar course on Artist works and has made thousands of videos for thousands of guitar players personally, he is probably the most enthusiastic guitar player in the world and someone of his ability spreading his knowledge to so many people is very rare especially when you look at how young he achieved fame. He has enriched the guitar world exponentially.
I watched technical difficulties about 2 hours a day for 2 years thanks bro you tought me aswell
That's why he is so good, teachers like you to set the Bar Paul.
15 year old Buckethead out here shredding while getting his mom to drop him off. That's dedication.
Pebber Brown is Buckethead's long term teacher. Paul was his childhood friend that showed him some scales and licks
His pre chicken days. To have Paul Gibert as a teacher. Damn.
Paul Gilbert seems super chill. Hell of a guitarist.
Hearing Bucket talking about those visits to pauls apartment is great
“Pre-bucket he was 15”
“So did he have the mask”
Interviewer is a goofball. No bro, he was 15 lmao
I know, right. What a dribbling moron.
Here's the thing. How does someone wear that mask and the cardboard chicken bucket on the head and not have it fall off or the mask blocking your vision while looking at the fretboard, also the face sweating profusely from wearing the mask?
Fun fact: Bucket Head supposedly auditioned for Ozzy at some point and Ozzy said, "What's up with the fu..ing bucket, man?!"
You think he needs to look at the fret board to play?....
Ive seen him live 3 times. Front row center every time, literally 5 feet away from him. That dude sweats buckets the whole show, pun intended lol. Im pretty sure there is a plastic liner under the bucket so the kfc bucket doesnt get drenched. He rearranges his face mask often between songs and every time he touches it sweat dumps on the floor. Greatest live shows ive ever been too and i highly recommend seeing him some time if your able.
@@k7j007I’ve seen him 3 times too. Definitely my favorite concerts I’ve been too and I’ve been to a lot. I was lucky enough at 2 of his shows to get one of the toys he hands out and to press the kill switch on his guitar when he held it out over the crowd. Some of the coolest moments of my life. Even though my ears rang for like 3 days afterwards lol
He can't see. He doesn't need to look at the guitar. In fact I think the only time I saw him look at the fretboard is when he broke a string. The mask and bucket is his armor and he prepares like he's going to war.
@djnone8137 that's a good way of looking at it. There's a video of Jason Newsted from Metallica talking about a session he did working on something with Bucket. He said Bucket was wearing a mask and a heavy coat sweating pretty bad while jamming in a private studio session. Jason said something to Bucket like "you know you don't have to wear the mask and jacket, it's only us in here" and Bucket told him "nah I like it like this. I want to feel like I'm going to war" Jason's gained a higher level of respect and appreciation for Bucket after that lol.
Of course I have to add that I was recalling that story from memory so I was paraphrasing what Jason and Bucket said but the main points are correct. The video is easy to find here on RUclips if you haven't seen it and want to check it out.
Paul is talking about Buckethead the way other people talk about Paul. That's high praise.
I can't imagine living in a place where you could get lessons from Paul Gilbert, my local guy taught me "Tom Dooly" and "Twinkle Twinkle little star" from the Mel Bay book and played in a country cover band.... no one even talked about scales at any lessons it was like a different universe.
He wasn't "the Paul Gilbert" then. This was in 1984, before Racer X. He was just some long haired guitar player kid in California.
Bucket head used to scratch the ground with his fingers fast like a chicken all day as a toddler. He played music scratching the guitar scales fast to try and resurrect dead chickens.. he lived in s chicken Coup. He was a little bit eccentric
Thats the way i judge everything POST -Bucket
Or PRE -Bucket ❤
Don't forget Post-law suit bucket, aka funeral bucket or blank bucket.
Paul gilbert is a fantastic guitarist but never knew that bucket hat who is also a fantastic guitarist used to learn from paul.Great old memories for them😊
That's probably cuz you call him buckethat
I'm biggest fan but Buckethat is funny af
one greatest guitar players out there..get chance catch one of pauls shows
It's so beautiful that I can't even explain.
Buckethead rules the guitar !
Genius 2 stay under rader. Fabulous Talent! Buckethead❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I think that's when Bucket Head was a kid. He was wearing a dixie cup on his head back then.😊
That twitch sound he make of BH in that time shows how much talented he was
It show that.he was hyper active all shred and no head
Still waiting after all these years for these legends to do an album or at least a song together. One can hope ! 💪 🎸
"He didn't have the bucket yet" like it came with puberty
Richard fortus is amazing ❤❤
Thanks Paul your the BEST!!!!!!
The dude that taught Buckethead, that's how you know Paul is one badass mfker
Back in the day a few of us thought Bucket head was a disguise for Paul Gilbert.
If you can teach someone how to play a guitar in a half dozen lessons, you yourself are a rad guitarist. To anyone who's interested in learning to play, it really only takes about this must lessons and the rest is just practicing and you're on your way to ripping it up. Don't worry about the technical stuff, you will find your own sound and soul in no time.
Buckethead already knew how to play guitar. Pebber Brown was his main teacher growing up. Check out his youtube channel for good guitar resources.
Shush don't tell people, I want to start teaching and I need more than 5-6 lessons haha.
He had bucket list of scales
When buckethead hits the kill switch solo on Jordan it's crazy
Paul Gilbert a absolutely amazing guitarist the first time I heard Let That Battery Die was one of the most awesome instrumental tunes I’ve ever heard the mix with slide and the guitar licks the chordal structures the phrasing everything had so much character yeah there are other amazing tunes but that particular one hit me probably in a way Paul himself wouldn’t understand but it really hit the soul to be honest just absolutely love the it from the moment it starts to the end the guitar just sings so much he truly is a guitarists guitarist I love his instrumentals all of them a guitar great I put Paul up there with Pat Metheny Holdsworth Van Halen to many brilliant guitar players but his compositions are amazing Guthrie Goven Joe Satriani John Scofield actually Scott Henderson Joe Pass Paci De Lucia John Petrucci Steve Vai just amazing guitar players that create character chordal voicing that really makes the music into a living piece of art the harmony and melody come to life with other brilliant instrumental players be bass piano percussion wind instruments just absolutely amazing and Paul is right up there with the greats so many other players Bucket Head is really cool but Paul Gilbert is truly a guitarists guitarist.
Pre - bucket ! Classic Paul
When i was 15 i knew a guy named Rick. We'd sit in The Kettle restaurant in the back drinking coffee with 2 orhers and for some reason they had a 3x3 chalkboard. He'd spend 2+hrs teaching us music theory. He could play every type of music (the Chicken picken) was amazing but what really stands out is playing Yngwie at 2x speed. Dude stayed a music teacher in a little strip mall. Was just as good as Bucket Head, but we all make our choices.
Ahahaha PG is freakin hilarious 😂
Paul teach me your style of playing guitar. You're one of the best or the best out there.
Bruce, who took over Racer X was a student of his too. Bruce was my teacher briefly.
Paul looks like a such great lad!
Hhhhaaaa lol😆🎸🥁🎼🪇 love their Humour
Did he have the mask? Literally one of the first things PG said, nice work interviewer. PG is a legend!
The master of the Fireman guitar!
de los mejores
Brian. Was a stud. Always shredded and was way into Krueger, Myers.
You should be proud!! Buckethead is awesome!!
Imagine asking if he had the bucket after being told it was pre bucket
In some of his very old videos he wears the mask but no bucket.
paul and buckethead have never been seen in the same room together.
They both have met privately quite a few times in the last 10-15 years. Very likely jamming together too.
Interview has such great listening skills 💀
He knows him when he was just "head"
Подросток, который постарше,научил трюкам другого подростка, который помладше. И теперь это величайшие мастера своего дела
nobody can hate this guy
I was a student of his. I didn't turn out like Buckethead. Also was told in the nicest way possible that my vibrato is trash😂🎉
He’s a real original musician!
Fun fact: it was also pre-head.
No head yet, just arms, legs, torso and guitar. The arms and legs kept growing and then the head and bucket just showed up one day 🐓
It was during Racer'X
Year before.
I really wanna know anything about “pre-bucket” buckethead 😂
Praxis and deli creeps
❤ thank you
The student becomes the master
Just imagine hanging out with Paul and Bucket
"He had a fast and useful twitch-in a good way." ?
So Ironic. The teacher did not recognize buckethead's slow-hand. Now, Buckethead has made the most soulful and beautiful music. :) :) Thanks BH
Once a Student, Now the Grand Master!
I heard an interview recently where someone said something like, hey brother you're looking like your sweating your ass off. Please feel free to go ahead and take that long sleeve orange coat off and Bucket told him thank you but I like to feel like I'm in a war when I'm playing. He said he's been a fan of the Bucket instantly. Lol
That was Jason Newsted (ex-metallica) while jamming with ozzy I believe
@@k7j007 awesome. I wish I could even play half as good as those guys.
PG is my guy...Badass
buckethead is the king on the guitar
Such legends
That’s good stuff
Knowing him pre bucket is a flex , idk why tho
Gilbert seems like a decent guy
Pre bucket 😂 ❤Paul
Cool🎸!
Too cool
Paul is trolling us , he is 100% buckethead !!
Fresh out the coop he was
Bucket is full of good schtick
I'm 55 from Midwest Illinois and I bet they're aren't any one these days that even know what schtick means. Used years ago referring to comedians allot and old blues players I heard when I was young use it talking about how one player had many different rabbits they could pull out of a single hat at any given time. As Dr. John use to say about SRV that he had many different things in" his bag"he could bring out at any time. Cool to hear old sayings these days like the ones I grew up hearing all the time!
@@williamleckrone1628yea man I been around too- bucket rips -I really like his whole non identity thing-genius
The student is now the MASTER !
👍😁🤳
have to say that's a beautiful guitar he's got there
Idk which one is more beast.
An 18 year old guitar teacher or a 15 year old twitcher.
What will happen "Post-Bucket"? ;>)
The “best” learn from the “best”
Buckethead do play some licks sound like Paul Gilbert!
He was really into the art of shredding
Imagine teaching buckethead the guitar
He taught a legend
I love how the first thing he answers is "it was pre bucket" then the interviewer waits until the end and asks whether he wore a bucket.