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Yoshimitsu being a character from the famous Japanese fighting game ‘Tekken’.Īnd then there’s the most famous of all Japanese characters, Godzilla. The song ‘Viva Voltron’ for the American adaptation of the Japanese anime series.Īnd along with Bootsy Collins, composed the song ‘Shackler’ for the English dubbed version of the famous Japanese anime, Dragon Ball Z.Īnd speaking of Cobra Strike, the second album by the band includes the song ‘Yoshimitsu’s Den’.
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The magazine also features an interview with comedian Dane Cook and tells you how to unleash your spouse’s “inner nympho”.īesides Giant Robot Buckethead has also paid tribute to numerous Japanese TV shows including the iconic Ultraman, which can be seen on the front and back cover of the 1999 album ‘The 13th Scroll’. I’d rather be invisible and move around without anyone seeing me”.Īnd if you’re wondering where that interview came from, it’s from the March 2006 edition of Penthouse Magazine. I’m sure they notice me because I’m so large, but they don’t make me feel bad about it. (remember when we went to tetsujin-28 in Kobe?)īuckethead spoke of his love of Japan in a 2006 interview stating “I love it there. Not only has he named a band Giant Robot, he’s also named several songs and albums as a tribute and even up to his most recent tour used the Giant Robot TV show as a backdrop during his live shows. Known in the west as Johnny Sokko and his flying Robot.Īnd if you’ve been a fan of Buckethead’s for more than 5 minutes, you’ll know Buckethead really loves Giant Robot. Published In the late 1960’s Giant Robot was a Japanese manga that was turned into a popular TV show. So where else could we start with Buckethead’s love of Japan, other than Giant Robot? Let’s just say he was raised by Japanese chickens”.īut to be fair to Vanity Fair, if someone had no idea who Buckethead was and had to guess his nationality, then it wouldn’t be a surprise if they thought he was indeed Japanese. Mortensen would further speak of the error saying “I might have said he had an underground following in Japan. “He said ‘Man I’m so happy you told them I was Japanese. Well, at least according to a 2004 article from Vanity Fair he is.ĭuring an interview with longtime friend and Lord of the Rings legend, Viggo Mortensen, Vanity Fair asked Mortensen what it was like to work with “Japanese guitarist Buckethead”…and Mortensen chose not to correct them, much to the delight of Buckethead. So let’s begin by letting everybody know that Buckethead is Japanese! (Huh?) So in today’s video we’ll take an in-depth look at Buckethead’s long history with the land of the rising sun, Japan.Īnd here to help us along is our special guest, Mrs NatterNet. Good evening everybody, throughout his career Buckethead has paid homage to everything from horror movies to Disneyland, but perhaps more than anything else, Buckethead has shown his love for all things Japanese. Pike 54 - Frankensteins Monsters Blinds.Special Releases: In Search of The | Blueprints - Reissue & Personalized Limited EditionĭVDs: Secret Recipe | Young Buckethead Vol. Notable Guests: Serj Tankian | Efrem Schulz | Saul Williams | Gigi | Maura Davis | Azam Ali | Brain | Pinchface | Bootsy Collins | Extrakd | Les Claypool | Bill Laswell | DJ Disk | Maximum BobĪlbums: Bucketheadland | Giant Robot | Day of The Robot | Colma | Monsters and Robots | Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse | Funnel Weaver | Bermuda Triangle | Electric Tears | Bucketheadland 2 | Island of Lost Minds | Population Override | The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell | Enter the Chicken | Kaleidoscalp | Inbred Mountain | The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock | Crime Slunk Scene | Pepper's Ghost | Acoustic Shards | Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot | Cyborg Slunks | From the Coop | Albino Slug | Slaughterhouse on the Prairie | A Real Diamond in the Rough | Forensic Follies When the pre-orders got to a certain amount, the re-pressing of the album was OK'd.ĭickerson has also stated that there could be future reissues of other Buckethead discs using this same process.Ī rare unmasked photo of Buckethead can be seen on the CD. However, as future projects took up a lot of time, fans were asked to pre-order the re-pressing of Crime Slunk Scene, with no set date for when the album would be released. The demand for the album was still very high, and eventually Travis Dickerson decided to attempt a re-pressing of the disc. It was originally only sold on his 2006 tour, but was later made available on Travis Dickerson's record label TDRS music, until it eventually went out of print. The 4th (and so far latest) tour only CD. Crime Slunk Scene is the 18th studio album by solo artist Buckethead.