Thursday: Buckethead - We Are One

     I know, I know, every time I do a Buckethead song for Throwback Thursday, it's always from 2005's collaborative Buckethead & Friends album Enter the Chicken. What gives, I hear you hardcore bucket heads asking? I know the bucketed one has put out an absolute ton of material both before and since Enter the Chicken (much of which I will readily confess to not having heard) but the combination of timing in my life and a great lineup of guest vocalists has cemented this record's spot at the top of my own personal bucket.

     So what song could I possibly have left to do from this one? Why, the functional first song from the record, the badass "We Are One". The combination of energetic, spastic guitar and energetic, spastic Serj Tankian has made this one a winner for me ever since I first heard it. Plus it's got a wacky taxidermy-themed video that's sure to give the faint of heart nightmares about reanimated roadkill. Fun!

Tom Morello/Serj Tankian - Crazy Train

     Part of me wants to sit on this one and save it for the next Under the Covers of Darkness week, whenever the hell that might be. But I've seen such a polarizing reaction to this song today that I feel compelled to share it with you, just in case you haven't come across it on your own yet.

     The track I'm talking about is a cover of Ozzy's "Crazy Train" recently recorded by Tom Morello, Serj Tankian, Rudy Sarzo, and Vinny Appice for a Randy Rhoads tribute album. The reaction is mixed, but generally negative: comments attack everything from the mix to the solos, from the unoriginality of the interpretation to its looseness. So I figure you should check it out and make up your own mind. You could even post a comment below if you feel that strongly about it. Jeez.

Heavy TO Pit Report - Part 1: The Bands

     I told you I'd have some thoughts from Heavy TO, and here they are, even if it did take me a week to write them down. And I have so many thoughts that I think I'm going to make this a two-parter. In this first installment, I'm going to go through each of the bands we actually payed attention to (ie: the ones we went to see) and give little baby reviews of their sets. I'm not going to try and remember set lists or anything like that (mostly because it's 2012 and the Internet does that shit for me), I'm just going to give you my impressions of each band's performance. So let's go!