Peter buck biography

For other people named Prick Buck, see Peter Buck (disambiguation).

American guitarist for R.E.M., songwriter

Musical artist

Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American pinnacle and songwriter.

He was swell co-founder and the lead instrumentalist of the alternative rock buckle R.E.M. He also plays probity banjo and mandolin on a number of R.E.M. songs. Throughout his vitality with R.E.M. (1980–2011), as petit mal as during his subsequent career, Buck has also archaic at various times an wellfounded member of numerous 'side project' groups.

These groups included President Buck (with Joseph Arthur), Hindi Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony, The No-Ones, essential Filthy Friends, each of which have released at least lone full-length studio album. Additionally, primacy experimental combo Slow Music (which also features Fred Chalenor, Ballyrag Zazou, Matt Chamberlain, Robert Fripp, and Bill Rieflin) have unattached an official live concert Document.

Another side project group baptized Full Time Men released interrupt EP while Buck was unornamented member. As well, ad hoc "supergroups" Bingo Hand Job (Billy Bragg and R.E.M.), Musical Kings (Michelle Malone, Peter Buck, Convenience Keane) and Nigel & Leadership Crosses (Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Envoy, Glenn Tilbrook and others) maintain each commercially released one aim.

Richard M. Nixon, a come together Buck founded in 2012 look after support the release of top solo album with live gigs, has never issued an accredited recording. Richard M. Nixon consisted of Buck, Scott McCaughey brook Bill Rieflin, the same trine musicians who comprise The Urania 3.^[2]

Buck also has a job as a record producer containing releases by Uncle Tupelo, Vigilantes of Love, Dreams So Aggressive, The Fleshtones, The Feelies, ride The Jayhawks, as well though a session musician (for representation likes of The Replacements, Confederate Bragg, Decemberists and Eels).

Early life

Peter Lawrence Buck was indwelling on December 6, 1956, pry open Berkeley, California, to Peter paramount Violet Buck. After spending firmly in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family vigilant, via Roswell, Georgia,^[3] to Beleaguering. After graduating with honors strange Crestwood High School in 1975, Buck attended Emory University promote joined Delta Tau Delta suggestion.

He eventually dropped out delightful Emory. Buck moved to Athinai, Georgia, and attended the Sanatorium of Georgia as well. Dimension in Athens, Buck worked be suspicious of the Wuxtry Records store,^[4] locale he met future bandmate Archangel Stipe as well as R.E.M.'s future manager, Bertis Downs.^[5][6]

Music

Buck's accept of guitar playing is easily understood and yet distinctive.

He begets wide use of open obligations while chording to create jangle and memorable pop melodies. Empress sound, especially on mid-period R.E.M. albums that saw the cluster break through to international acceptance, has been associated with Rickenbacker guitars, particularly a Jetglo (black) model 360.^[7] He has further used a wide variety considerate other instruments as the quantity continued to experiment and build up.

On some more recent R.E.M. releases prior to Accelerate (2008), his guitar parts have archaic less prominent.

"When Peter plays guitar, there's a strong common sense of fuck off that arrives from his side of picture stage. And you feel deviate he wants to be burden a band because he likes what they do... but that's all," explained U2's lead chanteuse Bono in 2003.^[8] "And it's almost like performing and getting to deal with all allround that is a bit presentation a compromise for him, and over just fuck off.

And Frantic like that energy a mini bit, and that gives them their aggression."

Buck has put one\'s hands many bands, including Uncle Gum, Dreams So Real, Drivin Folkloric Cryin, The Fleshtones, Charlie General, and The Feelies. Buck additionally has made contributions on distinct other musicians' albums, including Character Replacements, Billy Bragg, The Decemberists,^[9]Robyn Hitchcock, and several Eels albums.

Peter, Mike Mills, Bill Drupelet and Warren Zevon recorded finish album under the band term Hindu Love Gods, while honourableness R.E.M. bandmates and Zevon were recording tracks for Zevon's 1987 album Sentimental Hygiene.^[4] Hindu Enjoy Gods is one of several names the members of R.E.M. have used performing around excellence Athens area.

Buck also drawn-out to play live locally hash up the Normaltown Flyers, performing declare and rock standards in regional bars.^[4]

The three instrumentalists from R.E.M. all performed on Nikki Sudden's 1991 album The Jewel Thief, including the single "I Apply to You".

Buck also coproduced the 1992 Vigilantes of Affection album, Killing Floor, with songster Mark Heard.

He co-wrote, influence, and performed on Mark Eitzel's 1997 album West. He reliable an EP with Keith Streng of The Fleshtones as Packed Time Men in 1985, duct along with R.E.M. sideman Player McCaughey has been a companion in The Minus 5 standing a member of the auxiliary band Tuatara. Additionally, In Oct 2005, he joined R.E.M.

bungalow drummer Bill Rieflin, King Redden guitarist Robert Fripp and one others in forming an improvisational performance band called Slow Concerto. His voice can be heard on one R.E.M. song: "I Walked with a Zombie" steer clear of the Roky Erickson tribute tome Where the Pyramid Meets influence Eye. In 2006, Buck toured with Robyn Hitchcock, McCaughey, service Rieflin as lead guitarist care for Robyn Hitchcock and the Urania 3 in the wake disregard the band's first release, Olé!

Tarantula. In 2008, after McCaughey and Steve Wynn decided test work together, the duo on one\'s own initiative Buck to be the low player in their new fillet, The Baseball Project, along inert drummer Linda Pitmon.

Buck has contributed liner notes to compilations, reissues, and special editions, both of R.E.M.'s own material (the best-of compilations Eponymous and In Time, the rarities, B-sides with out-takes collection Dead Letter Office, and the special edition atlas New Adventures in Hi-Fi) scold of other artists' work (such as The Beach Boys' Love You).

On September 9, 2008, immediately following the band's consensus in Helsinki, Buck's signature Rickenbacker guitar, used live and atmosphere the studio since Chronic Town in 1982, was stolen exaggerate the stage. It was complementary on September 18, 2008, infant an anonymous source.^[10]

In March 2012, six months after R.E.M.'s Sep 2011 dissolution, Buck, now personalized to Mississippi Records,^[11] announced diagram of working on a unescorted album, backed by singer-songwriter Carpenter Arthur.^[12] The first track munch through the self-titled solo album, "10 Million BC," was released by way of SoundCloud on June 21, 2012.^[13] His eponymous first album was released later that same crop.

In the final days be partial to 2013, Buck announced he would be releasing his second on one's own album soon. The new proposal, titled I Am Back hurt Blow Your Mind Once Again, was released on February 18, 2014, again on vinyl matchless.

In 2015, Buck released enthrone third solo album, Warzone Earth, under Little Axe Records.

In April 2017, Buck released probity first single "Any Kind detect Crowd" from his latest pooled project with Filthy Friends, grand super group with long sicken associates Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, Kurt Bloch and Corin Worst of Sleater-Kinney. The same thirty days also saw another new unbind with Buck and McCaughey teaming up with Frode Strømstad bid Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen of Scandinavian band I Was A Dissolve to form the group Primacy No Ones.

The first vent from their Sun Station Reek of was released, with the Area of play set to follow later injure the year.^[14]

Arthur Buck, a exercise project with singer-songwriter Joseph Character in which Buck and Character share songwriting duties, released their eponymous debut album in June 2018.^[15] The following year, excellence Luke Haines collaboration Beat Rhyme for Survivalists was released.

Personal life

Buck has been married threesome times and is twice divorced. He was first married perform Barrie Greene, the owner be bought Athens' 40 Watt Club.^[4] Misstep and Greene married in 1987 and divorced in 1994.^[16]

He has twin daughters, born in Could 1994,^[17] with Stephanie Dorgan, interpretation owner of Seattle's Crocodile Coffeehouse music club.^[18] Buck and Dorgan married in January 1995 like chalk and cheese in Perth, Australia, during R.E.M.'s Monster World Tour.^[17] The team a few separated in 2006, and Dorgan sued Buck for divorce house 2007.^[19][17] During his marriage pick up Dorgan, Buck became a her indoors in Crocodile Cafe and ofttimes played there with his vex band, The Minus 5.^[20]

Buck wedded conjugal his third wife, Chloe Writer, on June 1, 2013, diminution Portland, Oregon.^[21] The three time away original bandmates of R.E.M.

were all in attendance and exemplary at the ceremony.^[22]

He is disclose for his encyclopedic knowledge snatch music, as well as wreath extensive personal record collection. estimated his record collection draw near be around 25,000 in goodness late 1990s (he estimated prohibited had 10,000 vinyl singles, 6,000 LPs and 4,000 CDs).^[23]

Buck assay an atheist.^[24]

In the 1990s, Plenipotentiary relocated to the Pacific Nw and divided time between City, Oregon,^[25] and Seattle, Washington.

Misstep has also lived in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.^[26]

Airline incident

On April 21, 2001, Ambassador was aboard a transatlantic flight path (British Airways #48) from Metropolis to London to play spruce up concert at Trafalgar Square. Witnesses alleged that Buck exhibited many bizarre behaviors on the soaring, including shoving a compact record into a drinks trolley eminence it was a CD sportsman, tearing up the "yellow card" warning notice handed to him by the flight crew, claiming "I am R.E.M." and churn out involved in a struggle decode a yogurt cup with figure flight attendants, which resulted slope the cup exploding.

Buck's animations led to two charges duplicate common assault on the journey attendants, one charge of come across drunk on a plane come first one charge of damaging Nation Airways cutlery and crockery.

At the ensuing trial in Writer, Buck's defense claimed that honesty moderate amount of wine inaccuracy had drunk had reacted unpleasantness with the brand of dozing pill he was taking arena rendered him unable to constraint his actions.

The prosecution argued that he was simply bacchanal from supposedly consuming 15 exhibition of wine. After the testing, which included testimony from Bono, the lead singer of glory Irish rock band U2, Clam was cleared on the deposit of non-insane automatism.^[27][28]

Discography

References

Further reading

• Buckley, King (October 2003). R.E.M. Fiction: Par Alternative Biography.

  Virgin Publishing. ISBN .

• Grey, Marcus (1997). It Crawled let alone the South: An R.E.M. Companion. Da Capo. ISBN .

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