“I don’t know how he got my address. He sent me a videotape of him jamming his head off. I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’” Buckethead gives rare ‘interview’ to Bootsy Collins – but speaks through his Les Paul

Buckethead and Bootsy Collins.

It always makes for fascinating viewing when musicians interview one another, but what happens when you put two of the most outlandish figures in the game in a room together? Better still, what happens if one of them has to speak through their electric guitar?

Well, that’s what Reverb has organised for its newest YouTube video, which brings funk and bass legend Bootsy Collins together with his “psycho” friend Buckethead – of Guns N’ Roses fame – for a fever dream conversation that’s “part interview, part jam, and 100% pure creative chemistry”.