The Homing Beacon/The Landing Beacon

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"The Homing Beacon/The Landing Beacon"

Song by Buckethead from the album Electric Sea

Released

July 6, 2009

Genre

Ambient, acoustic

Length

6:56

Writer

Buckethead

Electric Sea track listing

Gateless Gate
(10)

"The Homing Beacon/The Landing Beacon"
(11)

The Homing Beacon (also known as The Landing Beacon) is an acoustic song by Buckethead in tribute to Michael Jackson's death,^[1] who was an early influence on Buckethead.^[2] The song has no lyrics, just music, described as "slow, almost peaceful"^[3] and has been called a "poignant guitar tribute to Michael Jackson".^[4]

Release

The song was originally released on July 6, 2009 through Buckethead's website. Along with the track came a drawing. It seems that there is a draft of the drawing on one side of the paper depicting Jackson in the outfit he was wearing on the Smooth Criminal music video doing the famous anti-gravity lean; and on the other side of the paper he depicts Jackson while holding his arm raised above his head, with his finger pointing upwards, another of Jackson's signature stances.

The song was included as the last track on Buckethead's 2012 release Electric Sea.

Naming Issue

The song has two different names^[5] because on the 2009 version, the drawing reads "The Homing Beacon - A song for Michael Jackson" but the MP3 file is called "The Landing Beacon" with "A Song for Michael Jackson" as the album title.^[6]^[7]

On the album version, the song is called "The Homing Beacon".

Other Buckethead songs referencing or sampling Michael Jackson

"A1" on KFC Skin Piles samples Michael Jackson's Thriller
"The Return of Captain EO" on A Real Diamond in the Rough references Captain EO.
"Walk on the Moon" on Shadows Between the Sky is another tribute to Michael.
The title of the album Captain Eo's Voyage released in 2010 references Jackson, the cover also shows his back and one of his jackets, as well as several tracks have references alluding to Jackson.

Notes

The last 1:05 of the song may be taken from "What Kind of Nation", from Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen's album Intelligence Failure. It bears a close resemblance to a section of the song which begins at 1:05.

References

↑ "Buckethead Pays Tribute To Michael Jackson". Blabbermouth.net. 6 July 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
↑ Chashmere, Paul (7 July 2009). "Buckethead Releases Song for Michael Jackson". undercover.com.au. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
↑ Lang, Jeremy (6 September 2009). "'The Homing Beacon: A Song for Michael Jackson' by Buckethead". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2009-09-10. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
↑ "Buckethead Posts Guitar Tribute to Michael Jackson". Guitar World. 6 July 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
↑ Munro, Tyler (16 July 2009). "Buckethead's Tribute to MJ". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
↑ "Bucketheadland.com". Bucketheadland.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
↑ http://qfg.info/misc/destroyallmonsters.txt

External links

Download The Homing Beacon/The Landing Beacon from Bucketheadland

Songs in memory of Michael Jackson

"Better on the Other Side" "Home" "The Homing Beacon/The Landing Beacon" "Morning Sun"

Buckethead

Solo discography

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
Electric Sea (2012)

Pikes series

2010	3 Foot Clearance

2011	It's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There

2012	Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book

2013	Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes

2014	Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033-03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills

2015	Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two Down in the Bayou Part One Chamber of Drawers Embroidery Digging Under the Basement Haunted Roller Coaster Chair Firebolt Hideous Phantasm Giant Claw Observation Hats and Glasses Last Call for the E.P. Ripley Nautical Nightmares Blank Bot Scream Sundae Kareem's Footprint Carrotcature Popcorn Shells Invisable Forest Chickencoopscope Heaven is your Home (For my Father, Thomas Manley Carroll) Fog Gardens Carnival Cutouts Whisper Track The Cellar Yawns Ancient Lens Herbie Climbs a Tree Upside Down Skyway Twisted Branches Half Circle Bridge Land of Miniatures Bats in the Lite Brite Four Forms Blue Tide Ghoul Orange Tree Region Shapeless Ognarader The Windowsill Washed Away A Ghost Took My Homework Crest of the Hill The Blob Last House on Slunk Street Quilted 31 Days Til Halloween: Visitor From The Mirror 30 Days Til Halloween: Swollen Glasses 29 Days Til Halloween: Blurmwood 28 Days Til Halloween: The Insides of the Outsides 27 Days Til Halloween: Cavern Guide 26 Days Til Halloween: Bogwitch 25 Days Til Halloween: Window Fragment 24 Days Til Halloween: Screaming Scalp 23 Days Til Halloween: Wax 22 Days Til Halloween: I Got This Costume From The Sears Catalog 21 Days Til Halloween: Cement Decay 20 Days Til Halloween: Forgotten Experiment 19 Days Til Halloween: Light in Window 18 Days Til Halloween: Blue Squared 17 Days Til Halloween: 1079 16 Days Til Halloween: Cellar 15 Days Til Halloween: Grotesques 14 Days Til Halloween: Voice From The Dead Forest 13 Days Til Halloween: Maple Syrup 12 Days Til Halloween: Face Sling Shot 11 Days Til Halloween: Reflection 10 Days Til Halloween: Residue 9 Days Til Halloween: Eye on Spiral 8 Days Til Halloween: Flare Up 7 Days Til Halloween: Cavernous 6 Days Til Halloween: Underlair 5 Days Til Halloween: Scrapbook Front 4 Days Til Halloween: Silent Photo 3 Days Til Halloween: Crow Hedge 2 Days Til Halloween: Cold Frost Happy Halloween: Silver Shamrock 365 Days Til Halloween: Smash The Wishing Brook Rooms of Illusions Sunken Parlor Screen Door Hornet Crumple Trace Candle Teflecter Wheels of Ferris Pike Doors Old Toys Rain Drops on Christmas

2016	Mirror Realms

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)
Grab Bag #1 (1995)
Grab Bag #2 (1996)
Grab Bag #3 (1998)

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

Bands and projects

Artists	Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen

Bands	Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain (Pieces)

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