At
10:30pm, Buckethead and his band started the show with some Buckethead sonic
guitar blasts as the intro to a funky-rock experimental tune. On the second tune,
Buckethead was playing some really nasty lead guitar riffs repeatedly as the
drummer (Brain ?) was having a "seizure" on the drum kit!! The fourth
tune featured some stank-ass funk bass (during the intro) but turned into some
fuzz-tone bass riffing. The fifth tune featured some spooky-sounding guitarisms
during most of the songs, but the chorus featured the band members tearing into
some hardcore rock. "Crash Victim" (from the first Praxis album
"Transmutation") was done differently, featuring Buckethead's newer
version of the speed-metal breakdown (without the speed-metal........Buckethead
played some of the guitar riffs but threw in some from the ending of
"Stimulation Loop").
Buckethead had a solo spot where he played some offbeat guitar riffs, including
the song "Pirate's Life For Me". Buckethead took out a "talking
head" and displayed it for the fans (with some weird vocal sample playing)
before going to "Want Some Slaw?" That was followed by
"Interface" (from the Praxis album "Transmutation") and
something that sounded like "Warcraft"......yes, it was funky!! More
of the clucking chicken (that Buckethead comforted by petting it), chick puppet
and a gorey-looking head (that actually "talked"), mixed with some
slap-bass, sound effects by the drummer and insane lead guitarisms, including
possibly doing "Aquabot" (I thought I heard that song) and the
Buckethead show was over at 12:10am (after an encore performance).
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