Gettin Head: A Bucketcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Today I’m reviewing Pikes 321-323 (Warm Your Ancestors, Doctor Lorca’s Work, and Thank You Taylor), I also talk about lawn care, Buckethead’s live pikes, retiring all of the show segments, trying out new subs, Whitby Goth Festival, RIP Kay Parker, Papa John Gives a bunch of money to Sarah Palin, Clerks 3 (2022), Buckethead’s collaboration with Ornithological Anarchist Hakim Bey, CHAZ/CHOP, Hideous! (1998), Buckethead’s stolen guitars, programmed bass, Death - Symbolic, Savatage, and Halloween Ends (2022).

This week I’m doing a solo run on Buckethead’s 318-320 (March 19th 2020, Dreams Remembered, and Dreams Remembered Version 2), mathematical shit is boring, splitting up the Soy Trek episodes and Patreon updates, Alex Jones is fucked and that’s hilarious, young goths are more likely to self-harm, RIP Chuck Deardorf, Papa John’s former marketing guy dies, Chop & Steele, the Found Footage Festival, Yo-Yo Guy Mark Proksch, Buckethead’s collaboration with Banyan, the day the pandemic started to feel real, making the same album twice, Nathan Fielder’s the Rehersal, Britain’s Top 5 Horror Films, and some dumbass bucketjokes.

Today we’re gettin into the nitty gritty with Pikes 288, 291, and 292 (Liminal Monorail, Fogray, and Galaxies), we also discuss technical difficulties, Windows updates break Spenser, 96 Bitter Beings, automatic drivers, new League gothic skins, RIP Gene LeBell (who made Steven Seagal poop his pants), pooping into each others butts with the homies, r/letstalkbam, coleslaw is a condiment, synth pads, monorails, bus stop meth friends, a dude who only enters his house through the window, the limits of technical fast bass playing, Axl Rose causes a lot of riots, how did COVID affect Buckethead?, what if Buckethead ousted the Cantina Band from Star Wars?, old dudes in the Youtube comments, kayfabe, churches are a waste of money if you’re trying to help people, the best Keiths in music, the return of JORDAN VINE, Buckethead is the Edgar Allen Poe of guitar, fuck Elon Musk, Joe Bonamassa, exercising, X-Men the Animated Series, and Gargoyles.

Today we’re joined by musical wizard Monte Mcleery (of Un and Samothrace) to listen to and review Pikes 76-78 (Caterpillar, Bumbyride Dreamlands, and Pike 78) we also discuss important topics and ask vital questions such as: hey baby, can you rent a car without overdrafting your debit card?, Britain and Monte meeting through Craigslist or Myspace or maybe a person but who knows, how former guest of the bucketcast Andrew Jamieson smells, Christopher Hitchens, the best Fleshlight analogues on the Taco Bell menu, Buddhism, John Pettruci trying to do what Buckethead does, listening to Pikes in the private window, Spenser hates the app Nextdoor, and Monte cleans his desk. 

Spenser and Britain are wrecked, Shreked, and reviewing Pikes 73-75 (Final Bend of the Labyrinth, Infinity Hill, and Twilight Constrictor) Broccoli fuckin Rocks, Dokken, The Nightmare on Elm Street Series, Britain’s local horror postman, Nightmare vs. Friday, Bald Death Metal, Britain returns a dildo to Kohls, Hi-Biscus La Croix, Spenser Has like 70 times as many followers as Hot Action Cop, Grind (2003) is a film for skate posers, licensing Oh Yeah (Yello), the guitarist from Survivor still eating out on Eye of the Tiger, Buckethead’s relationship with Serj Tankian and their collaboration on Enter the Chicken, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, upgrading your kitchenware, Buckethead is the Tony Soprano of Fingerblasting, and Statements from the Bucketvoid Live!

This week we’re joined by a very special guest: Sir! (Britain’s dad)

Spenser, Britain, and Sir listen to and discuss Pikes 70-72 (Snow Slug, Celery, and Closed Attractions) and also discuss getting new pans, the water content of a bell pepper vs coca cola, Rutabaga, Megadeth’s Sweating Bullets, where do you get government cheese?, Cold Stone Creamery sizing, Britain makes Bongwater Blueberry Muffins, the one Buckethead cover on a non-Bucket-related album, LBJ’s monster Hog, the overlap between Tool fans and Firefly fans, Britain doesn’t talk about Neon Genesis Evangelion, HBO’s The Head, and the future of buffet restaurants.

Today we're joined by our old friend and very special guest Scott Thorpe (aka We Forgot)

Spense, Brit and Scott listen to and review Pikes 67-69 (nice.)(Abandoned Slaughterhouse, Assignment 033-03, and Category of Whereness) also Brit lays pipe to Buckethead, we recorded this on 3/11 the 311 holiday, so we talked about Cumming original, Spenser only buys ankle socks and sometimes his ropes blast right through them, is 311 racist? (probably not), Buckethead’s rarest album, thanking Buckethead’s dad for his cum, Spenser needs a du-rags, a Crusade for Buckethead, therapists recommending suicidal music, Godsmack PT Cruiser Foot Fetishists, Buckethead threeway guitar battle, and whatever else. 

Spenser Hodge and Britain Whatever Strah listen to and review Buckethead’s Pikes 64-66 (Aquarium, Hold Me Forever [In Memory of My Mom Nancy York Carroll], and Leave the Light On) we also get heavy into beans on toast, The Fatberg, having too many books, “Oh Yeah” by Yello stays on during sex, Britain’s favorite member of HELLYEAH!, P-Sticks, Dan Monti, teachers with the Boognish Stank, MENSA & Boognish dick tattoos, Spenser uses a beer bong with Tool fans, Buckethead as a franchise, selling out, sound treating your room, treat yourself to a falafel or cupcake, Spenser threatens to quit if we can no longer talk about masturbation, and Spenser’s piss jugs. 

Today the fellers digest a deep dump into Pikes 61-63 (Citacis, Outlined for Citacis, and Grand Gallery) listening to our podcast at work, tattooing people’s faces vs. cooking black cod on a grill, everyone on Twitter has tenure in their position of being an asshole, posting the names of Wikipedia articles as a twitter influencer, the Home Improvement theme song, Buckethead’s love letter to Jennifer Batten, the Westie breed of dog, “Tongue in the Butt, Jabba the Hutt”, another discussion about Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week”, where are the shirtless pit dudes?—shirtless pit dudes are the butterflies of metal shows, the different classifications of shirtless sweaty dudes in the pit, Boston and CCR being impressive despite being not impressive, Megadeth’s 90s stuff, Spenser doesn’t ‘get’ System of a Down, current Armenian/Turkish politics, yet another conversation about Ween, a band is immediately elevated by a good drummer (Whores), and honestly nothing else whatsoever. Go fuck yourself.

Today we’re joined by our old friend, former bandmate, producer, and pinball jockey Andrew Jamieson (also known as Moonworm)!

Today we discuss Pikes 58-60 (Outpost, ydrapoeJ, and Footsteps) as well as the breakup of Daft Punk and how much Spense hates their final album, Random Access Memories, Happy by Pharrell, TripTunes/HipTunes, Tricky, pinball, anime, drinking too much caffeine, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4skin, Allison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Andrew chainsmokes our entire podcast, Tigran Hmasyan’s The Call Within, Behind The Curve, and how Ween’s recording studio smells.