

Naming himself in the third person, always referring to Buckethead.īrian Patrick Carroll was born in 1969 in Huntington Beach, California. And the other is the one that appears supposedly next to his father, on the cover of Disc Pike 13.īuckethead does not usually give interviews, and when he grants one, he does it through a puppet.


One of them is the image he published in 1989, in a specialized magazine in Los Angeles, in order to find musical projects. There are only two photographs of him outside of that characterization. Little is known about Brian's personal life since the musician has always tried by all means to remain behind the mystery of this character. Later he would decide to escape the chicken coop, although Buckethead would remain a lover of chickens. There is another mythical side story to give the character personality, which points out that Buckethead was raised on a farm, and that his childhood friends were chickens and chickens. Then he would add a sticker with the word Funeral to the bucket of fried chicken. Later the inventor of this strange figure would declare that from that moment he wanted to be that thing all the time, being born the expressionless and mysterious character. Due to his stage fright, Brian began to devise a way to hide behind a fictional character.Ī fan of horror movies, he would use a white mask of Japanese origin to hide his face, inspired by the mask used by the murderer from the movie Halloween IV.īut his character would not be definitively completed, until one day eating at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant he placed the mask, and a bucket from the famous restaurant on his head.Īfter looking in a mirror he said to himself: "There is Buckethead, right there." As if some kind of superhero had been born.
