Title: Buckethead: Population Override (my review) Post by: lastroots on April 22, 2004, 10:33:45 AM BUCKETHEAD: POPULATION OVERRIDE REVIEW
Finally, three weeks after its release, Bucketheads newest ride found its way to me. First impression: The artwork (done again by Brian Frankenseuss Theiss) is strange yet fascinating. The cover shows a city grown over by woods, under a blue sky with birds flying around. The backcover has a depressing black, weird image of a city, which looks like an expressionistic painting. The inlay: a disturbing collage. You gotta see this for yourself. Since every Buckethead solo album sounds completely different it is a bit hard to describe these 10 tracks, one of them only 30 seconds long, another nearly 9 minutes. There are some bluesy tones, but not many, as well as there is very few shredding included. Mainly clean solo lead guitar playing beyond imagination. This album comes close to the ones like Colma (1998) or Electric Tears (2002). But yet it outplays these and takes them a few steps further. Pinchface does a respective job on the drums while Travid Dickerson fills in with chilling and melodic keyboard lines, underlaying Buckets enormeous guitar playing. Bucket and Travis wrote this album together and their chemistry is quite impressive. Someone on the Bucketboard described the climax of the music as birth, death and rebirth, which fits really good in my opinion. And if you close your eyes and just listen to these melodic tunes and connecting the to the song titles, you will be taken to another world. This is meant when one talks about Guitars That Speak. While listening to this I became sad again over the fact that Bucket has just left GUNS N ROSES, and I hope that Axls efforts to take him back will be honoured, even though I doubt it. Details: Buckethead: Population Override / Ion Records, 2004 Guitars: Buckethead / Keys: Travis / Drums: Pinchface Written by Buckethead & Travis Dickerson Recorded at Travis Dickerson Recording Studios Tracklist: 1)Unrestrained Growth (7:47) 2)Too Many Humans (8:28) 3)Population Override (8:37) 4)Humans Vanish (0:33) 5)Cruel Reality Of Nature (3:49) 6)A Day Will Come (8:34) 7)Earth Heals Herself (6:38) 8)Clones (4:33) 9)Super Human (4:49) 10)... (1:34) /lastroots Title: Re:Buckethead: Population Override (my review) Post by: madagas on May 18, 2004, 09:34:45 AM I bought this one. Very interesting...sounds like something Hendrix would have done when he got bored with rock and roll, absorbed funk and jazz fully, then decided to make an instrumental record in 1973 to 1974. The first song is incredible with Bucket playing some nasty bass as well. ;)
Title: Re:Buckethead: Population Override (my review) Post by: Slipdisc on May 20, 2004, 11:20:02 AM Good review!! : ok: :yes:
-PEACE- Title: Re: Buckethead: Population Override (my review) Post by: liquidvirus on August 15, 2004, 12:20:37 PM Get this album, ITS GRRREATT!!!
man how I wish bucket was still in GNR. :crying: this has some of the most awesome laid back guitar work ive ever heard : ok: Title: Re: Buckethead: Population Override (my review) Post by: Caligula13 on September 14, 2004, 03:59:18 PM he is the best guitar player for GNR.
but don't forget great keybord work by Travis Dickerson. |