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PIKE 318 - MARCH 19, 2020 16th installment of 2022 Everything played by BUCKETHEAD Total playing time 27 minutes exactly All instrumental as always! Eggs are hatching in the coop at BUCKETHEADLAND in a steady stream in 2022 as this newest release PIKE 318 is the 16th one to be released t his year. This is a single 27-minute track titled MARCH 19, 2020. Presumably this date is significant for BH and given that it’s a slow ballad rock type of PIKE in the style of 2014’s “Hold Me Forever” it’s obviously a tribute to someone important that the chicken lover has lost or it could signify an event of some sort.
Not much to say about this one. This is one of those lullaby albums with clean guitar riffs, echoey counterpoints and soft rock percussion. BH has released dozens of these types of PIKEs and honestly there’s nothing that sets this one apart in its stylistic approach other than the fact it’s a taxing 27-minute long one track PIKE. I’m serious when i say this is an assembly line of lullaby tracks that have the same chord progressions, same tones, same dynamics, same musical motifs, same cadences, same same same.
What is unique is that the title of this PIKE is a date. Don’t think that has occurred before. This is BUCKETHEAD easy listening on chill mode and at this point in the PIKE run you either like these or you don’t and anyone who has followed my reviews is quite aware that i do not! It’s not that i don’t appreciate a good chill out PIKE now and again but these are all the same! As i already pointed out these are carbon copies! And BORING! If i was a loved one who passed i would not find this inspirational at all. Write something original you lazy bum! Stop stuffing your face at Colonel Sanders and write some original music already!
After a few interesting PIKEs lately BH always feels he has to retreat to please the codeine crowd who only tune in to listen to these nauseatingly generic PIKEs that have no dynamic shifts of any sort. It’s just the same cyclical loops presented ad nauseam. Mommy, make it stop! Ugh. You better appreciate how much i suffer through some of these to bring you these reviews so you don’t have to! Ha! I know i’m being dramatic. There’s not a lot of music i don’t like but these styles of PIKEs are definitely one of them so gotta have fun with it, right? Next…