When performing onstage Buckethead wears a white KFC bucket over his head and an expressionless plain white costume mask . When performing in his theatrical persona , Buckethead used to wear a KFC bucket on his head , emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker that reads FUNERAL in capital black block letters , and an expressionless plain white costume mask . More recently , he has switched to a plain white bucket no longer bearing the KFC logo .