Welcome to Bucketheadland

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" is a song by American avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, featured on his second studio album Giant Robot (1994) and produced by Bill Laswell.
An earlier version of the song, the Bootsy Collins produced "Park Theme", can be found on Buckethead's 1992 debut album Bucketheadland, featuring a different voice-over reciting of the song's title as well as some other spoken words and a more "electronic feel", due to the use of a drum machine in contrast to the drumming of P-funk's Jerome Brailey on the 1994 version.
Another version, "Park Theme Extension", is included on the second disc of Bucketheadland (the "dance remixes"), being longer and more electronica orientated.
Influences
"Welcome to Bucketheadland" is highly influenced by early 1980s hard rock, incorporating a main riff reminiscent of Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" as well as using a bridge which reminds of the first guitar bars of "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne. Osbourne's then guitar player Randy Rhoads reportedly influenced Buckethead's playing.

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