has anyone else noticed that part of lebron's hammer sounds vaugly similar to "hit the lights" by metallica? still, pretty good album, and buckethead is a beast on guitar

even though he is starting to sound the same on a lot of songs, doesnt mean its not good. Also, The song King James, Lebron, Lebrons hammer? I think we got a lebron james fan in buckethead :)

The first two tracks are great, but were already previously available on his website. Other than those two tracks the only other solid songs are iceman and premonition. I was looking for a stronger follow up to albino slug and this album did not satisfy me. However, his most recent album released 4/27/09 is amazing. It is called A Real Diamond in the Rough, you should check it out if you can.

this album reminds me a lot of Crime Slunk Scene (needs to be on iTunes). The feel of the album is just the same. Crime Slunk Scene is my favorite album by buckethead. This album is great if you are just getting into BH or if you are a hardcore uber fan. I can't really recommend any songs because they all kick major bootwah.

Buckethead's later music all sounds the same. Huh, tha's a new one. Comparing Elephant with Pepper's is like comparing Death Magnetic and Sgt. Pepper. Completly different. Yes, Buckethead did have some laid-back, accessible tracks, but some tracks like Baseball Furies and Thai Fighter Swarm were nothing like Final Wars, or barely anything on Pepper's Ghost. I'll admit, most of Pepper's Ghost sounds the same lie Bansheebot, but that doesn't mean he's not weird! He wouldn't being doing the stuff he's done on Science Faxtion's album if he was getting boring, bland and unoriginal! Compare the first two tracks (which are oddly enough, dedicated to LeBron James's 24th) with the last two on this album. If you think they're the same, then I'll have to check you into a doctor, see if someone smashed your head in with a 2-ton waffle iron. Pepper's Ghost and Bansheboot kinda got bland for a while if you listened enough, but he always comes up with something crazy and weird. It's Buckethead! He'd never abandon his old style and weirdness. If you still don't think that Buckethead is still wild, crazy and up to his old schemes, search the internet for In Search Of The. In Search Of The is a set of 13 albums of original material done entirely by the man under the bucket. You heard me right, chicken wing. 13 albums of unreleased material. I have it, and let me tell you, from a jazz fusion gone wrong, to a hip-hop remix out of the washing machine, to a 43 minute jam session of...stuff, it's Buckethead at his most bizarre. No album has an official name, there aren't even any names for the songs! The first 1000 copies were all hand drawn by Buckethead, with each album art cover being different. It's as direct from the artist to the listener as no artist has ever done before. If you still think Buckethead is boring, bland and unoriginal, listen to his work with Praxis if you haven't already. If after listening to EVERY single new track by Buckethead and nothing has changed your mind, absolutely NOTHING, then you might as well stop listening to Buckethead, than. If that's what you think, then fine. You might be wrong, you might not, but if you appreciate his newer music, then that's fine. He may carry on again and again and again, I'll admit it, but the music is still good, because he's still Buckethead. And nothing, not even a car crash or a burning can of carbonated soda, can change that fact.

exactly, this album along with bansheebot and elepant's are all starting to sound the same before he was more diverse and this is all the same type of note proggersion, guitar effects, and more importantly no awsome solos

sometime around 2005, after elephaqnt mans alarm clock came out, a pattern began emerging in his music, and a formula for his music was devised. this is all good and stuff, but now because of this, many of his most recent albums sound the same. in the beginnin, each album sounded entirely different, with its own musical style and within a different subgenre. now, take any of these songs and mix them with any songs from albino slug and peppers ghost. now guess what came from which album just by listening to the music. impossible, right? therein lies the problem my friends. his music is starting to all sound the same