Band Members
Dane Dincler: Lead Vocals
Rob Chambers: Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Mike Mackey: Bass, Vocals
Bill Baer: Drums, Vocals
Booking info: Book through website link below
Upcoming Shows
Reviews
Jammin with Brain Bucket
Here’s a savage spoonful of local band news... Brain Bucket is back. The band has been off the stage for the last couple of years. Before that they were busting speakers jammin’ tunes from the classic heavy metal bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. They rocked solid too.
We got the heads up back in 2008 from Anderson Bar & Grill’s Chris. Chris has been giving us his band line up casually and quietly for many a year now. He rarely comments on the bands to us (and he books many damn fine ones too). When he first had Brain Bucket booked he broke routine and said “Man if you guys can come out for this show I think you’ll love it... this band Brain Bucket rocks... they are one of the best bands I have seen... as soon I saw them in another club I had to get them in here!” That’s a LOT coming from Chris let me tell ya.
This past month we heard the same type of commentary from Barry at Win Place or Show. “You guys have to come see this band... they play classic metal, Priest, Maiden, all the big hits like nobody else out there. They took off two years but now they are back, soon as I found out I got them booked in May and July. This band rocks man!” Again, when popular club owners call us with rave reviews of a band, we listen.
We caught the Ion Maiden/Brain Bucket show at Win Place or Show. As you can see from the pics the band was deep into the performance. The giant speakers strained as lead singer Dane Dincler’s vocals blew back the crowd’s hair and singed their ears on the Rob Halford high notes. Dane could stand in for him in the studio (assuming Rob ever gets too old or too strung out to pull it off anymore).
Actually there is a Rob in Brain Bucket, lead guitarist Rob Chambers. Chambers doesn’t head bang or jump on stage as much as the other members but what he lacks in showmanship he makes up for in his talent for scorching his six string. He savagely stretches the strings on the solos. Rob boasts melting Priest performances, pulling off all by himself what it takes two guitarist too do in the original band.
The aging (60) Ian Hill himself would surely applaud Brain Bucket Bassist Mike Mackey’s best efforts to recreat the nuances of bad ass bass work Priest and Maiden both share. This ain’t like playing Poison folks. “Hallowed Be Thy Name” and “Beyond the Realms of Death” require just a bit more expertise and experience than you’d need to pull off “Un-Skinny Bop” or “Nothin’ but a Good Time”. This ain’t four chord one string pop rock. This is face stretching mind melting fingers flying up & down the frets ear ringing stick spitting metal. Turned up loud as hell too.
Drummer Bill Baer is lucky he sits in the back of the stage. He’ll go deaf last. Bill has an amazing kit, each and every piece of which he taps, tickles and brushes into perfect form. Ha! Got ya. Taps & tickles?... right. This ain’t jazz man! Baer beats the living sh!t out of his sticks. He should wear safety goggles or he may end up half deaf and blind in one eye.
Nobody ever said Metal was a safe profession. Maiden, Motorhead, Metallica, Priest or Pantera, Brain Bucket digs it all. If you dig it too, check out the new on the scene (again) band Brain Bucket. I wouldn’t tell you to check it out if they couldn’t fill the bill.
The band has info on two sites; www.reverbnation.com/brainbucketrocks
and the nearly useless but obligatory facebook.com/pages/Brain-Bucket/120533854627074 yeah yeah yeah.
Don’t bother typing in your browser, just get a set of earplugs and go to the show. There are only three in the coming weeks; Saturday June 4th at Anderson Bar & Grill, Friday July 1st at Newport on the Levy, and Saturday July 9th at Win Place or Show (Fairfield).
