h33t - Buckethead - Slaughterhouse On The Prairie (2009) [rockbox]

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Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter.He has released 25 solo albums and performed on over 50 more. He has also made guest appearances on more than 40 different albums by various artists. His music spans such diverse areas as progressive metal, thrash metal, funk, electronica, jazz, bluegrass, and avant-garde music.

When performing in his theatrical persona, Buckethead used to wear a KFC bucket (emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker that read "FUNERAL" in black block letters) on his head and a plain white costume mask (commonly found in costume shops and used primarily for dramatic theater productions). More recently, he has switched to a plain white bucket no longer bearing the KFC logo. He also incorporates nunchaku, robot dancing, and toy trading into his stage performances.Buckethead's persona represents a character who was "raised by chickens" and has made it his "mission in life to alert the world to the ongoing chicken holocaust in fast-food joints around the globe."

Buckethead was raised in a chicken coop by chickens. He wears a white mask to hide whatever it is he has to hide. He also wears a chicken bucket on his head, and some say "without it, he is helpless." Not much else is known about him, though your stay in the park will help you to understand him and not be afraid of him.

Buckethead has long been fascinated with Disneyland, where he hopes to be buried some day (preferably after death). No one really knows why or how he started his own park. Buckethead runs most of the park himself, assuming different personalities as different faces are projected onto his mask. Sometimes he hides in the graves or behind walls and watches. If you sneak in before the park opens in the morning you might see him walking around playing his guitar which is designed to activate amplifiers hidden in the walls, the ground and on top of buildings wherever he walks.

Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is the twenty-fifth solo album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead.It features the songs "LeBron" and "LeBron's Hammer" dedicated to LeBron James on his 24th Birthday.The songs were previously free downloadable songs from Buckethead's official homepage along with another song called "King James" from the album Crime Slunk Scene (2006), which also refers to the basketball player.The album includes another basketball related track, "Iceman", dedicated to George Gervin.

"Crouching Stump Hidden Limb" is most likely a play on the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while "Don't Use Roosts If You Raise Broilers" digs at the chicken meat industry.There's also two self-references: "Rack Maintenance Part 2" is the second part of a Kaleidoscalp track and "Goat Host" may be a follow-up to "Ghost Host" off Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (which itself was inspired by Haunted Mansion).

The album title itself could refer to an episode of the stop motion television series Robot Chicken as well as be inspired by the television show Little House on the Prairie.