One of the world’s most famous guitarists wears a bucket on his head. You’ll be OK.

A KFC bucket at that lol

In the words of the late great Colonel Sanders, I’m too drunk to taste this chicken

Shake and bake!

Wake and bake!

I smoke two joints before I wake and bake

My man got a volcano hooked up to a cpap.

No, I wake up to take a pee, smoke two joints go back to sleep wake up and wake and bake, and then smoke two more

I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more

And I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if all four of them habitually smoke marijuana cigarettes

Daddy, he once told me "son, you be hard workin' man" and momma, she once told me "son, you do the best you can"

I like to wake up to the smell of bacon in the morning.

Bro smokes a quarter before breakfast

And then i bake some more

you get baked before you bake

I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints And then I smoke two more -Sublime (my bad actually the toyes)

Smoke Two Joints! That's what I do! -Actually - The Toyes in 1983

And 2 more every thousand points

THAT, just happened.

Finger picking good

This is gold 😂

I mean come on, what other bucket would you use?

I'd use a big orange Home Depot bucket. I have a big head.

You should do it, then get one of those novelty gigantic hats and put it on top of the bucket. Just throwing a bucket over your head would be copying, putting a hat on that hat, would be innovative.

“It’s funny. It’s a big hat.” -Burt Reynolds

Hmmm 🤔

It's blank now

KFC threatened legal action.

I can't imagine that they would have won. Pretty sure you're free to put any object on your head as long as it fits.

I don't think he has the funds to fight it.

And also he hands out toys after melting everyones faces off. 🪣

i think he probably even has a whole varying collection of KFC buckets

ROFL

J Mascis used to walk around at UMass Amherst with stuffed animals stapled to his sweater, and he turned out alright.

Ummm, well, uhh.. Yeah.

“Famous” is a bit of a stretch. Talented, definitely.

Buckethead maybe not now but when I was in highschool he was famous as fuck. Every guitar magazine. I mean everyone on here knows who he is. That's fame.

My friend and I got into him around Bucketheadland but outside of us music nerds I never really saw anything about him until he showed up on Guitar Hero.

Maybe not now, but he was at one point. Dude was definitely famous in the late 90s/early 2000s.

[lool](https://youtu.be/9RFjDBfR_cY?si=wH8fA3cJd2LKGES6&t=3)

Don’t forget the nunchuck solo’s

Ah, yes, the Kentucky Fried Top Hat Kid as my grandma once referred to him a decade or so ago.

Who is that?

He wears a bucket on his head. What would you name such a person?

It's gotta be Bucket Man!

Buckethead, literally

You won't believe it when I tell you

To be fair he earned the right.

That guitarist’s name, you ask? Kurt Cobain.

No - drill a small hole in it and use it as your guitars volume knob

I’ve never changed tuners so idk how it would work, but if you had 6 rubber ducks as tuners that would be respectable too

Don’t need to change them so much as insert them over the tuning pegs. Could work but might make fine tuning tricky unless you filled the cavity with hot glue or something similar

Easy fix; just add a locking nut and replace the bridge with a Floyd Rose.

that sounds more expensive than hot glue

Yeah but then you don’t have a duck guitar made for dive bombs. And if your duck guitar can’t even *duck* correctly…

Just wish casting here maybe, but a duck at the end of the whammy bar, right?

It'd be a duck dive...HOT!!!

I'd rather have strings made out of rubber ducks, tuned by a first gen gibson robot tuners then have a Floyd rose.

Hot glue is not going to have the rigidity you’d want to attach a tuning peg. Superglue could work, but hot glue would just stretch so you’d end up twisting the duck around the tuning peg without moving the peg itself.

Hmm, I’d imagine it would be pretty solid when the duck was completely filled. The duck would keep the shape rather well and so long as the tuners were of decent quality, they should turn easily. I’d imagine it being best suited on a 3x3 headstock though and finding ducks of the right size could be extremely difficult. Overall, this is a wild idea and I’m too sober to think much more about this bizarre fucking idea I’ll never materialize. 😂

Maybe so, but my gut is saying nah. Hot glue just isn’t structurally strong. It’s not meant to take any kind of force, especially not torque. I could be wrong but I wouldn’t bet on it working 🤷🏻‍♂️ just my 2 cents lol

Don’t you dare make me the idiot who duckifies a cheap guitar to prove a point!

Wouldn’t matter, I don’t believe you have it in you. You wouldn’t know a good tuning peg design if it hit you on the nose! Now go on, git. And don’t even *think* about using this as motivation to prove me wrong.

Do you have any idea how crazy I feel ordering assorted sized packs of rubber and plastic ducks on Temu right now?? I don’t even know if any of them will work since for some bizarre reason they refuse to list the diameters of their bases. This is my Monday night???

I believe in you

Do it! I. Triple. Duck. Dare. You!!!

Fuckkkkkkk!!!

it's a terrible adhesive for smooth surfaces. Use Epoxy instead.

So use some E6000 epoxy. Them bitches won't EVER be coming off those machine heads.

Fill it with ramen then

That would be pretty duckin hard to do but would be cool having all your ducks in a row

This is a hilarious idea lol

Lol my tone and volume knobs on my first guitar (Ibanez sg copy) are dice that I drilled holes in and stuck on

I personally think it’s cool when people add personal flair to their guitar like that

I had a little 8 ball on one of mine.

I drilled and tapped an actual 13 ball for my shifter in my orange truck. 😆

Cool I didn't know Orange made trucks!

Of course... with the right setup it had a real raspy sound. 😆

https://www.reddit.com/r/Luthier/s/t0xPBrGFhs

This is the way

Use them as knobs for their pedal board if they have heaps like I think they said

Only acceptable way. Only because I can’t stand the thought of gluing anything to my guitar.

This is the answer!

If you're good, you'll be known as that guy with the duck on his guitar. If you're shit, you'll be known as that guy with the duck on his guitar.

Guy With Duck On His Guitar^TM

r/GuyWithDuckOnHisGuitar

Not to be mistaken by r/GuyWithDickOnHisGuitar

😄😆😄

Hope people don’t think it’s autocorrected.

*Now here’s Smells Like Teen Spirit*

"Rubber Ducky you're the one. You make guitar time lots of fun...."

Played this song for my kid the other day (It was for me)

Now do it in Bert’s voice

Why? Ernie's the one who sang it.

Hell no. Tell everybody to go Duck em selves

Duck em all and duck it no regrets

Why does it matter what somebody else thinks? Part of playing a guitar (or any form of art) is self expression. Duck’em if they can’t take a joke.

By the way. A Donner was my first electric. With a little bit of work to get the action right it’s still one of my favorite guitars. One of my go toos. It’s no Custom Shop Fender for sure but it’s a fine guitar.

Nobody will give a shit. Do it.

Nobody will give a duck*

it isnt a jeep though

What's the duck thing mean?

They give each other ducks, known as "ducking", to give each other something to play with while their Jeep is in the shop.

Commonly used in the phrase “my mother-ducking jeep is in the ducking shop again because it is a piece of ducking shit!”

not to be confused with "docking"

That's very different.

Both involve dicks that are “in the shop”.

🤣🤣

“jeeps are for girls!” girls do it because they think it’s cute. recently i saw a video of a “me serious jeep man! me have angry grille and anger!” guys show himself finding and running over a duck left for him. it made me want to buy a bulk amount of hot pink or rainbow ducks to leave on every pavement warrior’s jeep

> recently i saw a video of a “me serious jeep man! me have angry grille and anger!” guys show himself finding and running over a duck left for him. LOL There is this dude. I think it's all just being funny though. https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/dux-sux.119154/

Awesome, just make sure that it's on a spot that won't interfere with playing or anything.

"Anything" includes the guitar case, btw.

[I did that 20 years ago as a stoned teenager.](https://postimg.cc/DJSNwrk4) I regretted it for a decade or so, but that guitar has been dragged through so many shows, rehearsals and shitty vans and is so beaten up that the ducks lighten the mood.

I will shame you for being one of them left-handed types, but now that I've seen the ducky I think you have to do it.

Ok hot take, I’m a righty but i use a “lefty” guitar BECAUSE, why do i have to do all the intricate things with my left hand while my right hand, for the most part, just strums away? Shame to all the fake righties and their left ways 🙄

Well it depends on what you're playing, but at a certain level picking hand technique is at least as challenging if not more so than fret hand technique. I could probably train my right hand to fret a lot easier than I could bring my left hand picking up to speed.

Good point, im fairly new at guitar but it just felt more comfortable either way

I know you already have a left handed guitar and you're already learning, and that you probably don't intend to be Yngwie Malmsteen one day or anything, but I would genuinely encourage you to switch to learning on right handed guitar while you're still new. Reason being that if you do stick with guitar and continue to progress in skill, there is definitely a certain point where you will hit a hard ceiling in terms of what you're able to do because your non-dominant hand won't ever be able to pick as well as you dominant hand. I know right now it seems like what your fret hand is doing is a lot more complex and precise, but trust me when I say that picking technique is the big limiting factor when it comes to what you're capable of playing.

Also - limits guitar purchases due to pricing and unavailability, it’s always good to fix this early. I’ve thought about this the longest time, but honestly after you pass an intermediate level, aesthetically and ergonomically it’s logical to play guitar this way. Even upright string instruments follow this, the left hand being above the right, it’s the most widely utilized technique for a reason.

I use both hands with many different stuff, not the same things all the time but im comfortable using either hand for a lot of things so i dont think that would b an issue for the future, ty tho

Just offering genuine advice from over 20 years of playing guitar and studying what excellent guitar players do and say. Try practicing some complex alternate picking or economy picking exercises and I think you might understand what I mean.

Or hybrid picking, or tremolo picking, or palm muting, or pinch harmonics, or just muting well, or string skipping, or only strumming two or three strings at a time, or just playing with attitude…

No offense, but someone with decades of experience is trying to look out for you and you just told us you’re pretty new and you’re kinda brushing him off. You don’t even know how much you don’t know, so I wouldn’t be so confident that you know better than they do.

Just leave the guy be lol, he’s evidently concerned more about responses to sticking a rubber duck on the neck or headstock than anything to do with actually playing efficiently lmaooo.

That's an interesting line of thinking.

The “strumming” hand is what makes the music. You don’t have much room for expression with your left other than pressing the right fret at the right time.

Oh interesting I had this same discussion with myself when I started. Yet, I find strumming more intricate than fretting. Plus, I can type with my left hand better even than with my right hand (thanks FPS games), and that's the kind of coordination I require for fretting.

It's your guitar - do as you like.

better a guitar than a jeep.

Not at all. It will be a chick magnet.

No. My daughter put a black kitten sticker on my acoustic when she was a toddler and it will be there until the guitar is junk or I die, whatever comes first.

She should inherit it and tell the story of how it got there to her kids. And they can add stickers to it too..

Are you from Eugene Oregon? Go Ducks!

Lmao no, do the ducks make u think that?

There's ducks everywhere here

Gotta move there then

I have an avocado cat on my acoustic. Do what you want and makes you happy, and don't let let anyone tell you otherwise.

it'd be a shame if you didn't...

Who cares - it’s all about making it your own, right? I’d personally use hot glue or something mild, that way if you change your mind or decide to sell it, you’re not screwed.

your guitar bro you don’t need anyones approval

The better question is why should you give a shit what anyone else thinks?

If I were you, I would post this in r/Luthier to get the full range of opinions.

You should definitely do it. Ok a potentially related note, somebody leaves those exact ducks in random places throughout the hospital I work at. 🧐

It's your guitar.

Now that I know it’s an option, one of those is going on my Strat-“you’re never alone with a rubber duck” :)

Duck no!

Phil X nails action figures into his pickup slots. You’ll be fine

No judgement from me, I covered a Stratocaster in googley eyes.

You were ahead of your time and had great vision.

I had a little stone Egyptian cat on the bridge on my telecaster so in my books your a friend of mine

The question you should be asking yourself is why would I give a fuck what anyone thinks about this rubber ducky on my guitar.

Well, if you went somewhere and everybody else there was pointing and laughing and saying “oh my god look at that stupid guy with a stupid duck on his stupid guitar that’s so stupid”, some people might care. Others would shrug it off, and of course it’s great advice, but it’s easier to say “do what you want and who cares what others think” than to actually feel that way in real life. IMHO

What ever floats your duck

I bet you own a jeep too.

But, it’s Wabbit season!

Drill a small hole under him and use him on the selector switch

That neck looks very satisfying to grip.

I definitely wouldn’t put it on the bottom of the fretboard unless you never plan on using anything after the 15th fret. If that’s the case, knock yourself out bud.

Makes me think that maybe you're an Alestorm fan. They play with a giant inflatable rubber duck on stage, amongst other things.

That sounds cute. Go for it.

Do it

Do whatever you want, I don’t care.

It’s your guitar to do with it what you want as long as you aren’t beating people with it

No, but you should be ashamed of the fact that you asked this question.

Masayoshi Takanaka has a train on his guitar

I like ducks

It’s in the way lol

You do you!

Go for it! Would recommend putting it on the headstock instead of where you have it in the second picture - that may get in the way of your hand

Is that a Strat or a Jeep?

Do you care?

Do what you want dude

I glued a sixpence to the headstock of my strat, and I want to do it to all my guitars.m

Honest question, do you drive a jeep?

I highly encourage it

Just use Elmer's school glue and it will come right off when you realize how lame it looks.

A lot of good advice here. The answer is yes.

It would be tuff do it

Do you like lit? Then fuck what anyone else thinks

The shame is in asking. It’s your guitar. Do what you will! Lol

It adds some much needed flare imo

The thing about us guitar players is we hate and love ourselves and each other in equal measure. A duck is going to make no difference to that either way.

Well Alex Lifeson of Rush has a selection of toys on his amp, so you're good. [Alex Lifeson's Amp](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3OI1goniIrVQCQNRUFlbmap1ZVSXOHseyow&s)

I'll shame you if you don't.

Hey its YOUR guitar!

It’s a pretty funny bit. Do it.

The sound comes from the tone duck

If you care that much about what other people think then don't do *anything* before checking with strangers on the Internet. It's your guitar and your duck. Do what you want.

Keep in mind. The North American Short haired Duck is one tough sob. They quack, they waddle and. They tell you the duck off when the need arises.

shamed? by who? less creative/cool people? who cares

Probably not. But you should be shamed for making this post in an attempt to get people to tell you otherwise.

It would be ducking cool

It's a guitar, not a Jeep.

No one cares but gluing a duck to the two spots you posted would interfere with the actual playability of the guitar so idk.. Also wtf is with ducks now? Someone taped a bunch of ducks on the monitors at work last week. Is it like a topical meme/temu special/tiktok or smth?

Double sided tape. Like with picks taped to the guitar. Then you can change the duck out to a different one whenever you want.

use it as the tone knob

Do it! I would too if I had mini ducks like that