Bucketheadland is the debut album by musician Buckethead

Buckethead

Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

, released on John Zorn

John Zorn

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's Japan

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ese record label Avant in 1992. It features several samples of the 1960s

1960s

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 Japanese television series Giant Robot

Giant Robo (tokusatsu)

, is a manga and tokusatsu series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It is similar to his famous Tetsujin 28-go , though Giant Robo has more fantastic elements....

(a.k.a. Johnny Sokko in several countries) amongst guitar riffs

RIFF

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 by Buckethead. The concept of the album is a tour around the construction of the fictional "abusement" park "Bucketheadland". Because of this, the album has been split into distinct sections of the areas of the park. "Wonka in Slaughter Zone" makes reference to Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka

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The second disc of the album features "dance remixes" of some of the tracks.

Bucketheadland was recorded at Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...

' "Bootzilla Studios" and produced by Bootsy himself.

A sequel was released in 2003, simply titled Bucketheadland 2.

Disc one

• Intro (3:21)

• Giant Robot (9:17)

• Bucketbots Jig (3:19)

• Slaughter Zone (22:25)

• Computer Master (8:16)

• Virtual Reality (3:35)

• Home Run Derby (5:18)

• I Love My Parents (1:38)

Disc two (remixes)

Credits

All compositions by Buckethead

Buckethead

Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

, Katella Music, BMI; except "Virtual Reality" composed by Bootsy Collins, Rubber Band Music

Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...

, BMI and "Giant Robot Theme" composed by Takeo Yamashita. The term "Oh Jeez..." inspired by Maximum Bob

Maximum Bob (singer)

Robert Barnum, better known under his stage name Maximum Bob, is an American musician known for his work as the lead singer and founding member of rock band Deli Creeps and for his singing on various releases related to avant-garde guitarist Buckethead....

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• Recorded at "Bootzilla Studios
  Bootsy Collins
  William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...
  
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• Engineered by "Casper and Herbie"
• Mastered by Howie Weinberg
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• Produced by Bootsy Collins
  Bootsy Collins
  William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...
  
  
• Executive producers: John Zorn
  John Zorn
  John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
  
   & Disk Union
• Associate producer: Kazunori Sugiyama
• All photos by Thi-Linh Le
• Designed by Tomoyo TL
• Photo-Typesetting by Strong Silent Type

Special thanks to Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....

, Bootsy Collins, John Zorn, Joe Gore, Scott Butcher, Jas Obrecht, Brain, Kristin Yee, Chris Jones, Henry Kaiser

Henry Kaiser (musician)

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, Captain EO

Captain EO

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, Kazunori Sugiyama, Tomoyo TL, Thi-Linh Le, Pinchface

Pinchface

Michael Andrew Hakopian, better known as Pinchface is the drummer of the Deli Creeps, Giant Robot II, and the Cornbugs. He has also appeared on numerous Buckethead albums, such as Population Override and Giant Robot . He has also appeared on numerous occasions in Buckethead's Binge Clip Videos...

, Maximum Bob

Maximum Bob (singer)

Robert Barnum, better known under his stage name Maximum Bob, is an American musician known for his work as the lead singer and founding member of rock band Deli Creeps and for his singing on various releases related to avant-garde guitarist Buckethead....

, Bernie Worrell

Bernie Worrell

George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...

, Howie Weinberg, Johnny Sokko

Giant Robo (tokusatsu)

, is a manga and tokusatsu series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It is similar to his famous Tetsujin 28-go , though Giant Robo has more fantastic elements....

, Giant Robot

Giant Robo (tokusatsu)

, is a manga and tokusatsu series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It is similar to his famous Tetsujin 28-go , though Giant Robo has more fantastic elements....

, The Irving Family, Bootsy's mom, Jerry Mano, Azuma Eiichi and many others who will be mentioned later. Especially my family.