Local Ozzy Osbourne impersonator and Synthesis contributor Michael Dracul, who has been a fixture at every Karaoke night in Chico since I was still but a freshman at Chico State, recently parlayed his local notoriety into a shot at ultimate fame on the television show America’s Got Talent. Adding an extra twist, one of the three judges on the show is none other than Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy. Check out the clip to see how Michael did.

So this weekend when I was hungover as fuck I was flipping through the music section of Comcast On-Demand passing on the typical pop shite when I came across something that struck me as highly improbable, a clip of Buckethead playing at some place called “The Cactus Club.” Buckethead is, of course, the former guitarist for post-Slash Guns N’ Roses, as well as a storied solo artist and co-conspirator of everyone from Bill Laswell to Les Claypool. He is probably best known for the fact that he wears a chicken bucket and a Kabuki looking mask at ALL TIMES (in fact, he lost a potential gig playing for Ozzy Osbourne because he wouldn’t take his bucket off). I of course, hit play and expected to see Buckethead doing his thing at some random 500-seat club in somewhere or another USA, but the clip turned out to be of a young Buckethead playing in someone’s backyard, from the recetly released and aptly-named Young Buckethead DVD. If you play guitar you will probably want to quit after watching if, and if you don’t play guitar you’ll probably never want to start. But if you still think you have what it takes after watching the clip, your next stop should be the legendary “Lesson” with an older but equally as weird Buckethead here.