page_title: Buckethead
section_title: Buckethead's bands and projects
hierarchical_section_title: Buckethead / Buckethead's bands and projects
caption_attribution_description: English: Buckethead concert 9/223/17
context_page_description: Brian Patrick Carroll, known professionally as Buckethead, is an American multi-instrumental musician who has received critical acclaim for his innovative electric guitar playing. His music spans many genres, including progressive metal, funk, blues, bluegrass, ambient, and avant-garde music. He performs primarily as a solo artist, though he has collaborated extensively with a wide variety of high-profile artists such as Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Iggy Pop, Les Claypool, Serj Tankian, Bill Moseley, Mike Patton, Viggo Mortensen, That 1 Guy, and Bassnectar, and was a member of Guns N' Roses from 2000 to 2004. He has released 314 studio albums, four special releases, and one EP. He has also performed on more than 50 other albums by other artists.
  When performing, Buckethead wears a KFC bucket on his head, emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker reading FUNERAL in block letters, and an expressionless plain white mask inspired by Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. At one point, he changed to a plain white bucket without a KFC logo, but subsequently reverted to his emblematic KFC bucket, but without the funeral sticker.
context_section_description: Solo career (1987–present)
  with Class-X (1987–1988)
  with Limbomaniacs (1990)
  with Deli Creeps (1990–2007)
  with Praxis (1992–2011)
  with Zillatron (1993)
  as Death Cube K (1994–1999, 2007–2009)
  with Jonas Hellborg and Michael Shrieve (1995)
  with Cornbugs (1995–2007)
  with Giant Robot & Giant Robot II (1996–1998, 2004–2006)
  with DJ Disk (1996–2001)
  with Brain (1997–2013)
  with El Stew (1999)
  with Cobra Strike (1999–2000)
  with Shin Terai (1999–2007)
  with Viggo Mortensen (1999, 2003–2005, 2008–2013)
  with Guns N' Roses (2000–2004)
  with Thanatopsis (2001–2006, 2016)
  with Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (2002–2004)
  with Travis Dickerson (2004–2010)
  as The Frankenstein Brothers (with That 1 Guy) (2006–2012)
  with Science Faxtion (2007–2008)
  with Lawson Rollins (2011)
  with Brewer and Brain (2017)
caption: Dan Monti, Bryan Mantia, and Buckethead in 2017.
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