Hidden Stewart track?

[dprendergast]

Was listening to a track on Buckethead's album "Monsters and Robot's".
For those of you who haven't listened to any of his stuff you need to, really great, strange guy but brilliant musician.
Anyway, the second track "Stick Pit" is the tune in question and I swear it's Stewart . Can't find anything to confirm it and he's not listed as the drummer but I know Stew when I hear him. Also all the other tracks have different drum sound all together.

Interesting clues are that Les Claypool produced this album and plays bass on several track including this one.

Look it up on iTunes and tell me what you guys think, even the 30 second sample will give you enough to tell.

[Ramuthra]

here it is on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q70WN-a1NFQ

certainly sounds like it!!

[dprendergast]

Good call, I forgot about you tube.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Wowzers. Certainly sounds as though you may be correct!

And welcome!

ETA: this really kicks ass! I'm liking it a lot. Off to find it on the website o' my independent retailer of choice...

[Stephen]

Naaaaah... I don't think so. It's obviously someone attempting to serve up some Copeland but I don't think it's the man himself. The high-hat work doesn't sound quite right to me.

Also, if you watch this live clip on youtube this sounds like the drummer in the studio version and it's clearly not Stewart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSwZfM2rzs

[dprendergast]

If your liking the Buckethead stuff I recommend these two albums.

Crime Slunk Scene
Peppers Ghost

[Chatchka]

I'm with Stephen. The hats don't sound right, but the drive sounds spot on (studio link moreso than the live link) it even speeds up in spots. (Sorry, man. )

Perhaps this fellow is a SC fan too and has spent some time studying his licks. Either way, I'm digging the sound.

[TheEqualizer]

I'm diggin' it but it does not seem like SC to me.

[dprendergast]

The live version definately not. It's the snare that's getting me, it's spot on plus the octoban rolls. I've been a fan since 1980 and if it's not him this guy should be famous.

[TheEqualizer]

He is famous. The drummer on that track is Bryan "Brain" Mantia of Primus. Stewart is a fan of Brain.

Of course, Stewart was the producer of one song on Anti-Pop, the last Primus album with Brain as the drummer.

[DirtyMartini]

Ahh, Buckethead. I was just going to suggest him in the Oysterhead thread this morning but thought him too familiar for Les.

Nice tune. Not Stewart IMO as well, but nice tune.

If it helps, the list of whom Buckethead has worked with includes El Stew but not The Stew:

[quote]
16) What bands or artists has Buckethead recorded/performed with?

This ever increasing list includes Deli Creeps, Henry Kaiser, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Praxis, Jonas Hellborg, Michael Shrieve, MCM and the Monster, Tony Williams (w/ Arcana), Giant Robot, Giant Robot 2, Primus, Zillatron, Painkiller, John Zorn, Company Week '91, Anton Fier, Julian Schnabel, Insvisibl Skratch Piklz, Michael Kamen, George S. Clinton, Pieces (Buckethead and Brain), Cobra Strike, Viggo Mortensen, El Stew, Ben Wa, Mike Keneally, Iggy Pop, Banyan, phonosychographDISK, DJ QBERT, William Ackerman, Jon Hassell and Bluescreen... There are several discographies available at Bucketheadland.com.
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ETA: D'oh, sorry. Missed EQ's finding of the Brain. What he said.^


Welcome, dprendergast.

[Secret Journey]

coming from a drummer myself, that definatly is a good stewart impersonation