A humble vaudevillian veteran

Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. As a musician, Buckethead has released 25 solo albums and performed on 50other albums. When on stage, Buckethead was better known as the artist who would wear a mask with a KFC bucket on, hence the name Buckethead. More recently, he has switched to a plain white bucket. He plays many types of genres spanning from numetal to blue grass and everything between. He's been voted number 8 on a list in a GuitarOne magazine of the "Top 20 Greates Guitar Shredders of All Time" as well as being included in Guitar World's " 50 fastest guitarists of all time".