BullittBuckethead ist noch nie ohne Maske gesehen worden? Läuft er auch im Studio so rum?
Ich nehme schon an, dass Buckethead nicht immer mit dem ganzen Primborium rumläuft. Ich habe mal ein Interview mit Zom Zutaut rausgesucht, das dann doch ganz schön zeigt, wie es um Bucketheads…ähm…geistigen Zustand bestellt ist (der „spielt“ seine Rolle nicht nur in der Öffentlichkeit wie beispielsweise Alice Cooper):
What, Zutaut asked, could he do to make the recording experience better for him? Suddenly, says Zutaut, Brian Carroll was transformed in front of his eyes. “He went into Buckethead mode,” says Tom. “I mean, I was talking to Brian, who was confiding in me, and suddenly he was Buckethead and he was telling me some story about how his parents were chickens and he was a chicken–how his mum was a hen and his dad was a rooster. I couldn’t tell whether it was fantasy or reality or who I was even talking to. But he believed it!
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Which is when Zoot has a brainwave. “Well, you’ve just told me how you don’t feel right in the studio,” he says. “What if we built you a chicken coop in the studio for you to record your guitar parts?’
Brian’s jaw drops: “Would you really do that?” “Well,” says Torn, “it’s my job to find out whatever it is that will help you get the best creativity out of yourself.”
“If I could have my own chicken coop in the studio,” says Buckethead, “my own world to live in, I could play a lot better.”Two days later, it was built. “It’s like an apartment within the studio that’s a chicken coop,” says Zutaut. ‘He’s got his chair to record and a little mini sofa in there, and there’s, like, a rubber chicken with its head cut off hanging from the ceiling and body parts. It’s totally Buckethead’s world. It’s like Halloween in the chicken coop: part chicken coop, part horror movie. We built the coop and then he brought in all his props and toys and put straw on the floor. You could almost smell the chickens.
“No one was allowed to go in there apart from the assistant engineers to adjust mics –you could not destroy the spirit and karmic vibe of the coop, his personal retreat. But – it’s chicken wire. You could stand outside and talk, looking through, hut nobody was allowed in there with his hacked up dolls and rubber chickens and heads…”
Hier das komplette Interview, sehr interessant: http://chinese-democracy.blogspot.com/2008/02/classic-rock-magazine-chinese-democracy.html
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