{"id":491620,"date":"2019-10-25T06:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=903686"},"modified":"2019-10-25T06:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:38:34","slug":"bootsy-collins-buckethead-get-into-halloween-spirit-with-wild-monster-mash-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/bootsy-collins-buckethead-get-into-halloween-spirit-with-wild-monster-mash-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Bootsy Collins, Buckethead Get Into Halloween Spirit With Wild \u2018Monster Mash\u2019 Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-25-at-8.26.36-AM-1-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Funk legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bootsy-collins\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bootsy-collins\" data-tag=\"bootsy-collins\">Bootsy Collins<\/a> and masked guitar wiz Buckethead have teamed for an absolutely bonkers cover of Bobby \u201cBoris\u201d Pickett\u2019s Halloween classic, \u201cMonster Mash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The pair\u2019s rendition transforms the wholesome, jangly boogie of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vNuVifA7DSU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">original tune<\/a> into a revved-up funk-metal hybrid, replete with big riffs and scorching guitar solos. There\u2019s also a sheer delight in the way Collins\u2019 milks every word of his vocal performance as he narrates the goings-on at the graveyard smash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Collins and Buckethead\u2019s cover of the \u201cMonster Mash\u201d also comes with a equally ridiculous video, directed by Ouiwey Collins, which features a packed cast of ghosts, ghouls, vampires, Frankenstein monsters and, because why not, a skeleton shredding a keytar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement, Collins explained his life-long love of the \u201cMonster Mash\u201d and how he and Buckethead decided to cover the song: \u201cI believe I was 11 years old and was a big Boris Karloff fan-junkie. In fact, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney and Vincent Price \u2014 all the big monsters \u2014 were my heroes. When I heard \u2018Monster Mash\u2019 recorded by Bobby \u2018Boris\u2019 Pickett in 1962, it became my all-time superhero theme song. I always wanted to record it, and do something special with it. Buckethead and I have been talking about it for over a decade, and I finally said we can\u2019t wait any longer \u2014 let\u2019s do the mash now! So I went to my lab late one night and funked some sheet up, and, boom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bootsy-collins-buckethead-monster-mash-cover-903686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funk legend Bootsy Collins and masked guitar wiz Buckethead have teamed for an absolutely bonkers cover of Bobby \u201cBoris\u201d Pickett\u2019s Halloween classic, \u201cMonster Mash.\u201d The pair\u2019s rendition transforms the wholesome, jangly boogie of the original tune into a revved-up funk-metal hybrid, replete with big riffs and scorching guitar solos. There\u2019s also a sheer delight in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 03:56:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}