"I met with him and asked him to work with me, but only if he got rid of the fucking bucket..."

[Miles Archer]

I am putting together the playlist for my radio show this Saturday night and included "Machete" from Buckethead's "Colma" album. I only have two Buckethead songs, this one and "Nottingham Lace" from "Enter The Chicken," but I like both of them very much...they're in the vein of Joe Satriani.

I don't know much about the guy, other than the fact that he played with Guns 'n' Roses for a while, and recorded "Chinese Democracy" with Axl (I own that one as well).

So I went to Wikipedia, and they have an anecdote from Ozzy, who invited Buckethead to play in his band at Ozzfest, then reconsidered:

"I tried out that Buckethead guy. I met with him and asked him to work with me, but only if he got rid of the fucking bucket. So I came back a bit later, and he's wearing this green fucking Martian's-hat thing! I said, 'Look, just be yourself.' He told me his name was Brian, so I said that's what I'd call him. He says, 'No one calls me Brian except my mother.' So I said, 'Pretend I'm your mum, then!' I haven't even got out of the room and I'm already playing fucking mind games with the guy. What happens if one day he's gone and there's a note saying, 'I've been beamed up'? Don't get me wrong, he's a great player. He plays like a motherfucker."

Ozzy Osbourne, Revolver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead#1999.E2.80.932006:_New_projects.2C_Guns_N.27_Roses.2C_and_public_recognition