Buckethead Signature Les Paul - official photos - Page 3

AxeHappy · #31 11-17-2009, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by CosmicDebris

fast playing with no soul.

Quantify soul. What's that you can't do it? Then you and everybody else who thinks they have the right to tell people what music has feeling/emotion/soul needs to go away. Good music can be/and is interepted differently by different people. I happen to hear a lot of soul in Malmsteen. No joke.

Fast in no way means a lack of soul. Just like slow and bend with vibrato in no way means lots of soul.

As for the guitar:
Personally I find it pretty ugly. But that's just my personally preference.

SonicProvocateur · #32 11-17-2009, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by mcmurray

You're thinking of his old guitar. This sig model is an EXACT replica of his 2009 touring guitar. It's what he wanted it to be.

I stand corrected!

elcid: Thats right, I forgot they went back to actual chambering, They are very gutted out now...I wish I would have grabbed up a late Classic before they discontinued them!

Cam-Vai: That badge you're talking about on the top is the Gibson Custom Shop logo.

RedTiger · #33 11-17-2009, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by elcid

Oh for god's sake man. We understand the concept of a signature guitar, we are familiar with Buckethead, it just seems pointless since the same effect can already be had on the guitar without the kill switch, a second switch that does the same thing that no switches are necessary for seems like overkill. That's all. Try switching to decaf or something.

And I'm saying that it isn't pointless -- a button is better than a switch if you do it all the time. Simple ergonomics. Switches are intended to flipped and then left alone. Buttons are made to be pressed repeatedly. And yes, I realize this is pretty asinine to discuss to death. How about I start to argue about knobs next while I switch my coffee?

**jim777** · #34 11-17-2009, 12:19 PM

I guess I might consider considering this if I was in the market for an oversized Les Paul with a 27" scale, 24 frets and Pac Man buttons on it, but I'd likely just wait for the drunk to wear off. Then I'd remember that I need another Jackson Soloist

C.Thep · #35 11-17-2009, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by elcid

Oh for god's sake man. We understand the concept of a signature guitar, we are familiar with Buckethead, it just seems pointless since the same effect can already be had on the guitar without the kill switch, a second switch that does the same thing that no switches are necessary for seems like overkill. That's all. Try switching to decaf or something.

You can go a whole lot faster on a button than a switch, as well as having the option to switch to your neck pickup as needed. I'd like to see somebody achieve the same staccato effect with the same ease on a pickup switch that buckethead uses with a kill switch. Not to mention the button wont wear out like a switch, and wont have a click.

While it may not have much use with your own style, that doesn't mean it is pointless.

In that vein, volume pedals must be pretty stupid as well, huh?

**jim777** · #36 11-17-2009, 01:37 PM

Now that using a 3 way switch and two volume knobs has been surpassed, and Buckethead has brought us to the next level, the Pac Man button and a single master volume, one can only imagine where the next musical boundary lies for shutting off your guitar! Maybe it'll involve wireless MIDI or something...

MarkE · #37 11-17-2009, 04:42 PM

As the owner of a killswitch-equipped Les Paul, I like it.

prydogga · #38 11-18-2009, 03:26 AM

Gibson. Meh.
Buckethead. Repsect for him but I can't get into his music, Meh.
Chrome Hardware. Meh
Killswitch. Meh

That's a whole lot of meh. Not for me.

littlephil · #39 11-18-2009, 03:53 AM

Actually, this isnt a replica of his 2009 touring guitar, Gibson gave him the prototype, and thats what he used for touring.

In other news, Gibson is being investigated for illegally importing Madagascar Rosewood!

Cam-Vai · #40 11-18-2009, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by SonicProvocateur

I stand corrected!

elcid: Thats right, I forgot they went back to actual chambering, They are very gutted out now...I wish I would have grabbed up a late Classic before they discontinued them!

Cam-Vai: That badge you're talking about on the top is the Gibson Custom Shop logo.

ahh i see!
i never knew that!

i want to install an orange arcade button (for killswitch) on the rc7 whenever i get it, that'd be awesome and look amazing!

but i want install one on my PGM30 to act as a killswitch, it would be awesome in pink.

cam-vai

+SAM+ · #41 11-18-2009, 06:27 AM

Those arcade buttons are sick, I'd so buy that 2,500 guitar then remove them and pay 500 to have them installed on my Iceman!

DavyH · #42 11-18-2009, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by elcid

I don't see the need for a kill switch on a Les Paul, Randy Rhoads would just turn the volume on one pickup down and use the toggle. Maybe the button is faster or easier. Two kill switches seems a little silly to me though.

I can only think that you could use it even when switching pickups throughout a song. If you're using the volume down, pickup selector flick method you'd have to be lightning fast at rearranging if you moved from neck to bridge.

Two buttons though? Dunno.

Nice guitar.

dark_void86 · #43 11-18-2009, 01:50 PM

For me this "would" have been the only Gibson that I would have ever considered buying. However because it doesn't have all the "little details" that i loved about Buckethead's guitar, this to me seems like a poor imitation of what i know and love about his stage guitar.

In my mind i would have two buckethead signature guitars, the "relic" and the "modern".
The relic being what is in the picture someone kindly posted.

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs8/i/200..._lazychump.jpg

So the "relic" would be what Buckethead ordered from the Gibson custom shop with all the after market modifications. Including the little plastic plug for where the pick-up selector used to be, dimarzio pickups, regular momentary switch, white painted hardware and storm trooper knob.

Whilst the "modern" guitar should be all the after market modifications done seamlessly as if they were intended for the instrument in the first place.

As for the arcade buttons i really like them but would prefer them in white...... and to only have one of them. After reading this topic and looking at 2009 videos of buckethead i am still scratching my head as to why there are two....... the only idea i can come up with is that gibson made the body with the same template and instead of doing it again without the extra hole. That in the spirit of rock and roll and stars revelling in total excess they went..... "let's put another one one! it already looks kooky! let's go OTT!"

However i am going to have to agree that killswitches are awesome, not having one on Buckethead's sig guitar would be an utter joke, using the toggle switch takes away the neck pickup as an option. Killswitches do sound better, are easier to use/more fluid, don't wear out like a toggle switch easily can and most importantly it is the preference of Buckethead.

As things stand i think of this as a "general les paul baritone in the flavour of buckethead."

Whether or not his personal Gibsons are actually chambered, have binding, have frets more along the lines of Dunlop 6000, have a compound radius or something above 16" is only something Buckethead knows. But i do have a feeling that Gibson haven't really given us a true Buckethead guitar. Kinda like how PRS didn't include details in the Tremonti model such as with his neck profile and rear routed trem cavity untill people complained in droves.

hoostavah · #44 11-29-2009, 06:40 PM

well guys I love bucket heads use of killswitching and as soon as I saw his technique thought of arcade buttons and installing them on my les paul as I now need to replace my toggle switch because they wear out very easily. On my Jim normandy guitar it has a killswitch that is industrial style more like a tube amp on off switch as well as a toggle. I love the idea of TWO of em. I wont get one unless it is a total shredder but it has a cool look and all his fans will be into it. Its totally an opinion thing but your opinion is your opinion so its no more right then mine. FYI Buckethead is a very good guitarist any way you slice it.

Akhenaten · #45 12-06-2009, 05:05 PM

I went looking for video of it, but don't see any...

The reason for the two kills is obvious if you've seen how he does different things live with it...

Kinda like tapping your fingers on a table in a rhythm...there are things you can't do without bringing in the other hand and a finger from it to maintain the rhythmic pattern you wanted.

He does that sometimes with his killswitches...when I saw it live, he just slammed his open strings and kicked in a flanger for it and went on this little 2 or 3 second tidbit of it. I had never seen it before, but it was kinda cool.