Recently I started reading "The Lurker at the Threshold" by August Derleth.
I\'m \'wondering\', are there any other Buckethead songs that were inspired by books?
Well, I can think of Dragon\'s of Eden CD (book by Carl Sagan).
Henry Andrew\'s Meadow (a children\'s book) from Shadows Between the Sky
I\'ll have to give some more thought to this 8)
H P Lovecraft, for sure. He inspired the "Lurker at the Threshold" track(s) on The Elephantman\'s Alarm Clock" Album. Some fans that don\'t have physical copies of the albums do miss out on artwork or credits that would be potential clues as to what inspires a song or album.
Hakim Bey\'s TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone) is a book of essays/opinions that is also a spoken word album by the same name produced by Bill Laswell. Buckethead is credited on the CD.
a book of Hieronymus Bosch paintings (re: the Spokes for the Wheel of Torment video), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSZslEDUl0
Thanks for the responses.
Stumpdangler, if possible, can you be a bit more specific?
With appreciation,
Ion.ModeSix
I amended my initial post. I currently don\'t have the time to reference or cross reference any of my notions to justify any further scrutiny as it stands right now.
QuoteI amended my initial post. I currently don\'t have the time to reference or cross reference any of my notions to justify any further scrutiny as it stands right now.
Thank you. I wish you had left up your initial post in addition to what you\'ve added but that\'s okay. Thanks for your time and please feel free to add anything else.
P.S. "The Lurker at the Threshold" by Lovecraft and Derleth is a very good read.
No problem. It is worth noting that the Hakim Bey thing may very well be more of a Bill Laswell influence. Bey is referenced on many of Laswell\'s Axiom label releases including the Praxis Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) that was one of the first major label releases that featured Buckethead in the early 1990s.
I was just surfing by some Laswell sites and ran across this that may be of interest to you http://www.methodofdefiance.com/origins.html
It is a long list of books that is presumably put together by Laswell and or his associates. This may or may not be relevant to your topic. Most of them seem to be in various categories like biography, politics, religion, history, current events, science, social sciences etc...not too many novels that I noticed. Whether or not Buckethead has read any of these or been inspired by them......
To be honest, Bill Laswell\'s influences are not of great interest to me, but I thank you anyway. I\'ll take a peak around what you\'ve linked and see what I can find, though.
Thanks a lot, buddy :)
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Yep. It\'s either a healthy portion of an anarchist\'s dream library or a wild goose chase. These days it\'s handy that we have amazon.com and customer reviews to keep us amused.