Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is the twenty-fifth album by Buckethead. It features the songs "LeBron" and "LeBron's Hammer" dedicated to LeBron James on his 24th birthday. The songs were previously free downloadable songs from Buckethead's official homepage along with another song called "King James" from the album Crime Slunk Scene (2006), which also refers to the basketball player. The album includes another basketball related track, "Iceman", ...
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Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is the twenty-fifth album by Buckethead. It features the songs "LeBron" and "LeBron's Hammer" dedicated to LeBron James on his 24th birthday. The songs were previously free downloadable songs from Buckethead's official homepage along with another song called "King James" from the album Crime Slunk Scene (2006), which also refers to the basketball player. The album includes another basketball related track, "Iceman", dedicated to George Gervin.
"Crouching Stump Hidden Limb" is most likely a play on the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while "Don't Use Roosts If You Raise Broilers" digs at the chicken meat industry. There's also two self-references: "Rack Maintenance Part 2" is the second part of a Kaleidoscalp track and "Goat Host" may be a follow-up to "Ghost Host" off Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (which itself was inspired by Haunted Mansion).
The album title itself shares the title of an episode of the stop motion television series Robot Chicken,...
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