so I planned to post a few pix tonight, but hell I didn't get home until 2am and had to wake up shortly thereafter for work, I'm freakin tired, so those'll come later.
anyway, the show ruled.
opening guy.. "That 1 Guy" holy crap AMAZING. the dude had this homemade instrument which he called "the magic pipe" it consisted of some metal pipes and various midi triggers and stuff ducttaped on to it, as well as 2 bass strings. Using this "magic pipe" and a looping machine he proceeded to lay down some TIGHT grooves, and ran a gamut of styles from funk to ambient to metal.
He also played some sort of ELECTRIC COWBOY BOOT which functioned like a hand drum, and the ol' wacky standby of playing a saw with a bow using a theremin type device or whatever causes bows and saws together to make those noises that they do.
If you ever get a chance to see "That 1 Guy" play, don't pass it up.
and seems he has a website >>
http://www.that1guy.com/
Buckethead-
first time seeing him, and it was amazing as suspected. Unfortunately I do not know the name of the dude who was playing bass for him, but Pinchface was on drums, and this guy's pretty hilarious. So a lot of the set was Pinchface and the bassist laying down a rhythm and Buckethead doin' his thing over top. A lot of the riffs I recognized from songs off of Monsters and Robots, and others I recognized and could not place with any songs.
So they played for a while, now and then the 2 guys would leave and Buckethead would turn on some backing tracks to play over.
He handed out toys to people in the front row...
Busted out some nunchucks.
Did the most realistic dance of The Robot I'd ever seen.
Closed with some Hendrix tunes in the encore.
Some other stuff here and there. LONG set, was something like 3 hours, including the intermission half way through.
The people I talked to after the show outside the venue informed me it was the best set they'd seen him play at the Recher Theatre out of the past times he's been there.
So my digicam took some crappy videos, which I uploaded here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWHlB49iCY
and here he is doing the robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR7zUyx9Khc