A Real Diamond in the Rough

Studio album by Buckethead

Released

May 1, 2009

Genre

Progressive rock, ambient, avant-garde, psychedelic rock

Length

41:46

Label

Hatboxghost Music

Producer

Dan "Brewer" Monti

Buckethead chronology

Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
(2009)

A Real Diamond in the Rough
(2009)

Forensic Follies
(2009)

A Real Diamond in the Rough is the twenty-fourth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, announced on April 27, 2009 for a May 1 release through the TDRS Music label.^[1] The album is dedicated to Buckethead's legal representative, Stan Diamond.^[2]

The disc

"The Return of Captain EO" is another Disney reference by the artist, this time to the 3-D film Captain EO starring Michael Jackson, who is one of Buckethead's early influences. "Broken Mirror" uses the same drum beat as the first song off of the album Albino Slug, "The Redeem Team." ^[3]^[4]

The album is a rather calming piece of work, much to the like of Buckethead's previous albums such as 2004's Population Override, 2002's Electric Tears or 1998's Colma. However, it does showcase some heaviness and baritone guitars otherwise absent from some of his previous works mentioned before.

By the end of 2009, all copies of the album had sold out, along with Slaughterhouse on the Prairie. As TDRS was unable to obtain re-pressings, it utilized a strategy similar to the 2006 Crime Slunk Scene reissue, waiting for pre-orders before attempting again. Along with the announcement of the album Best Regards, Travis Dickerson informed customers that the re-pressings would arrive, despite that the pre-ordering had not "gone as expected".

Shadows Between the Sky, an album released in 2010, follows a similar style to this CD.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Broken Mirror"	4:16
2.	"Big D's Touch"	4:11
3.	"Separate Sky"	2:58
4.	"Dawn Appears"	3:46
5.	"A Real Diamond in the Rough"	4:08
6.	"Sundial"	1:04
7.	"Squid Ink"	3:05
8.	"Four Rivers"	2:38
9.	"Allowed to Play"	1:55
10.	"Formless Present"	3:44
11.	"Squid Ink Part 2"	0:56
12.	"The Miracle of Surrender"	5:37
13.	"The Return of Captain EO"	3:30
Total length:		41:46

Credits

Buckethead – Invisible Scalp, guitar
Dan Monti – Drum programming and bass
Bryan "Brain" Mantia – Drums on tracks 2, 4, & 7

Produced by Dan Monti and Albert
Engineered and mixed by Dan Monti

References

↑ Buckethead catalog
↑ Credit on disc jacket copy.
↑ Rotondi, James (October 1996). "Destroy all Monsters". Guitar Player Magazine (Miller Freeman, Inc.) 30 (11): 92–102.
↑ Buckethead FAQ v1.0

Buckethead

Solo discography

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
Electric Sea (2012)

Pikes series

2010	3 Foot Clearance

2011	It's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There

2012	Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book

2013	Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes

2014	Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033-03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills

2015	Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)
Grab Bag #1 (1995)
Grab Bag #2 (1996)
Grab Bag #3 (1998)

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

Bands and projects

Artists	Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen

Bands	Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain (Pieces)

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