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Page 10 ARTS & LIFE The Clarion — November 18,2005 Buckethead rocks the Orange Peel in Asheville by Zack Harding by Zack Harding Staff Writer The giant, masic-wearing, KFC-bucket topped, guitar wielding, virtuoso Buckethead played at the Orangepeel in Asheville on Sunday, Oct. 23, and it was awe-inspiring. The crowd gathered out side of the venue was a diverse one, featuring patrons from age 18 to well beyond 40, an eclectic crowd for a definitely eclectic musician. Buckethead was ac companied by an insane, wacky drummer called Pinchface and bass player, Dan Monti, but oc casionally Buckethead played along with some pre-recorded material. The band came onstage around 10:00 p.m. It is a com pletely surreal experience when you first see Buckethead. He is roughly around 6’ 6” and has hands that could engulf a bas ketball. You don’t see a man; you see some kind of alien gui tar god or something. They opened with a power ful rendition of “Welcome to Buckethead Land”, an appropri ate tune to start with. Watching Buckethead’s hands move about the fretboard is some thing spectacular He seems to be connected to the guitar, rather than just playing it. Most of the show featured some very loud and rocking ma terial; if you don’t like loud mu sic, you wouldn’t have liked this. The thing about Buckethead’s songs though, is that they are New BC Art Exhibit On Nov. 18, the Spiers Gal lery begins showing a senior exhibition “Windows," a mixed media, sculpture and ceramics exhibition. It will feature works by Sara Cole, Mario Filotei, and Susan Kobesky. The exhibit is open through December 14. An of>ening recep tion and “gallery talk” will take Nov. 18 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tu * j . jwjolo oy Mtcnaei c The weird guitar virtuoso Buckethead rocked the Orange Peel October 23 always inherently funky. You forth gently to the smooth will find your head bobbing along to everything that he does. Early on in the show the band played “Whitewash” off of Buckethead’s album Colma. Whitewash is a laid back, soft spoken song that has some jazz influence. The crowd, which was rocking diligently one song earlier, was swaying back and sounds of this song. Buckethead is extremely proficient in many different genres and, on top of his elec tric guitar playing, there was a lot of beautiful acoustic playing and even a little bit of a Doc Watson tune on a six string banjo. Buckethead teased many different songs, including “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the original Star Wars themes. The Acoustic section fea tured some of Buckethead’s best playing of the night. He played “For Mom” from Colma, and also played a version of “Wonderboy” by Tenacious D. A lot of the show featured material fi-om Buckethead’s 1999 album Monsters and Robots. The Encore started off with a bit of Hendrix and then launched into an excellent jammed out ver sion of Buckethead’s “Nottingham Lace.” Of course what a lot of people know Buckethead for is his mastery of guitar “shred ding.” There was a lot of lead work to be heard, and it was done well, but never without a good sense of context to the song. What puts Buckethead above all of the other guitar vir tuosos out there is his masterful stage persona. As he is playing he will move like a robot and make the strangest gestures. His guitar strap can stretch and he would push his guitar away from -him and continue playing with one hand. He would completely take his guitar off and play it in the air or rest it atop his foot and play. He also performed the ro bot dance a couple of times and used some nunchaku once. The show was magnificent for musicians and non-musi cians alike. Buckethead is some what weird, but definitely worth a listen if you get the chance. THE CHIAROSCURO Brevard s student produced literary magazine is now accepting your work. We are soliciting poetiy, short stories, and artwork. Please submit written woik as Microsoft Word document and drawings or photographs as Jpegs or scan-worthy copies that will reproduce well in black and white. Please e-mail yo^ submissions to litmag@brevard.edu or put them in the envelope in e secretary so ce in MG 101. Include your name, phone number, and e-mail address. IJyou have any questions please contact Johanna Tornquist (litmag@brevard.edu), editor or Dr Ken Chamlee, advisor (MG 104, ext. 2237).
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