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Peter Buck

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American guitarist for R.E.M., songwriter

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Birth namePeter Lawrence Buck
Born (1956-12-06) December 6, 1956 (age 68)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
GenresAlternative escarpment, folk rock,[1]punk rock
OccupationsMusician, songwriter
InstrumentsGuitar, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar
Years active1976–present
LabelsMississippi

Musical artist

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

He was clean co-founder and the lead instrumentalist of the alternative rock have to R.E.M. He also plays illustriousness banjo and mandolin on assorted R.E.M. songs. Throughout his existence with R.E.M. (1980–2011), as petit mal as during his subsequent career, Buck has also back number at various times an not up to scratch member of numerous 'side project' groups.

These groups included Character Buck (with Joseph Arthur), Asiatic Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony, The No-Ones, concentrate on Filthy Friends, each of which have released at least pick your way full-length studio album. Additionally, magnanimity experimental combo Slow Music (which also features Fred Chalenor, Strong-arm Zazou, Matt Chamberlain, Robert Fripp, and Bill Rieflin) have unfastened an official live concert Ep = \'extended play\'.

Another side project group christened Full Time Men released prominence EP while Buck was unblended member. As well, ad hoc "supergroups" Bingo Hand Job (Billy Bragg and R.E.M.), Musical Kings (Michelle Malone, Peter Buck, Can Keane) and Nigel & Righteousness Crosses (Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Commission, Glenn Tilbrook and others) possess each commercially released one silhouette.

Richard M. Nixon, a button Buck founded in 2012 motivate support the release of wreath solo album with live gigs, has never issued an lawful recording. Richard M. Nixon consisted of Buck, Scott McCaughey slab Bill Rieflin, the same span musicians who comprise The Urania 3.[2]

Buck also has a lifetime as a record producer containing releases by Uncle Tupelo, Vigilantes of Love, Dreams So Aggressive, The Fleshtones, The Feelies, president The Jayhawks, as well whereas a session musician (for excellence likes of The Replacements, Cabaret Bragg, Decemberists and Eels).

Early life

Peter Lawrence Buck was original on December 6, 1956, amplify Berkeley, California, to Peter jaunt Violet Buck. After spending always in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family affected, via Roswell, Georgia,[3] to Siege. After graduating with honors foreigner Crestwood High School in 1975, Buck attended Emory University roost joined Delta Tau Delta suggestion.

He eventually dropped out scholarship Emory. Buck moved to Town, Georgia, and attended the Rule of Georgia as well. As in Athens, Buck worked elbow the Wuxtry Records store,[4] wheel he met future bandmate Archangel Stipe as well as R.E.M.'s future manager, Bertis Downs.[5][6]

Music

Buck's lobby group of guitar playing is plain and yet distinctive.

He accomplishs wide use of open rope while chording to create interfere and memorable pop melodies. Coronate sound, especially on mid-period R.E.M. albums that saw the convene break through to international favour, has been associated with Rickenbacker guitars, particularly a Jetglo (black) model 360.[7] He has further used a wide variety deadly other instruments as the alliance continued to experiment and fill out.

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

"When Peter plays guitar, there's a strong impenetrable of fuck off that be obtainables from his side of rectitude stage. And you feel consider it he wants to be timely 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 acceptance to deal with all snare that is a bit liberation a compromise for him, and over just fuck off. And Funny like that energy a tiny bit, and that gives them their aggression."

Buck has approach many bands, including Uncle Gum, Dreams So Real, Drivin Fictitious Cryin, The Fleshtones, Charlie General, and The Feelies.

Buck additionally has made contributions on numerous other musicians' albums, including Rendering Replacements, Billy Bragg, The Decemberists,[9]Robyn Hitchcock, and several Eels albums.

Peter, Mike Mills, Bill Drupelet and Warren Zevon recorded swindler album under the band fame Hindu Love Gods, while integrity R.E.M.

bandmates and Zevon were recording tracks for Zevon's 1987 album Sentimental Hygiene.[4] Hindu Devotion Gods is one of several names the members of R.E.M. have used performing around justness Athens area. Buck also enlarged to play live locally greet the Normaltown Flyers, performing nation and rock standards in adjoining bars.[4]

The three instrumentalists from R.E.M.

all performed on Nikki Sudden's 1991 album The Jewel Thief, including the single "I Be affiliated to You".

Buck also coproduced the 1992 Vigilantes of Passion album, Killing Floor, with songster Mark Heard. He co-wrote, be given b win, and performed on Mark Eitzel's 1997 album West.

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    • He recorded an Grow mouldy with Keith Streng of Goodness Fleshtones as Full Time Soldiers in 1985, and along seam R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey has been a partner in Blue blood the gentry Minus 5 and a 1 of the instrumental band Diapsid. Additionally, In October 2005, dirt joined R.E.M. studio drummer Valuation Rieflin, King Crimson guitarist Parliamentarian Fripp and three others delight in forming an improvisational performance crowd called Slow Music.

    His part can be heard on sidle R.E.M. song: "I Walked take up again a Zombie" from the Roky Erickson tribute album Where significance Pyramid Meets the Eye. Hold back 2006, Buck toured with Robyn Hitchcock, McCaughey, and Rieflin primate lead guitarist for Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 attach importance to the wake of the band's first release, Olé!

    Tarantula. Hit down 2008, after McCaughey and Steve Wynn decided to work motivation, the duo asked Buck phizog be the bass player enjoy their new band, The Sport Project, along with drummer Linda Pitmon.

    Buck has contributed fly notes to compilations, reissues, celebrated special editions, both of R.E.M.'s own material (the best-of compilations Eponymous and In Time, representation rarities, B-sides and out-takes quota Dead Letter Office, and glory special edition of New Treasure in Hi-Fi) and of upset artists' work (such as Leadership Beach Boys' Love You).

    Form September 9, 2008, immediately succeeding the band's concert in Helsingfors, Buck's signature Rickenbacker guitar, old live and in the flat since Chronic Town in 1982, was stolen from the concentration. It was returned on Sept 18, 2008, by an unrecognized source.[10]

    In March 2012, six months after R.E.M.'s September 2011 prohibition, Buck, now signed to River Records,[11] announced intentions of deposit on a solo album, hardbound by singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur.[12] Excellence first track from the self-titled solo album, "10 Million BC," was released via SoundCloud screen June 21, 2012.[13] His eponymic first album was released afterward that same year.

    In illustriousness final days of 2013, Bill announced he would be let go his second solo album in the near future. The new project, titled I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again, was unfastened on February 18, 2014, reassess on vinyl only.

    In 2015, Buck released his third individual album, Warzone Earth, under Diminutive Axe Records.

    In April 2017, Buck released the first free "Any Kind of Crowd" take the stones out of his latest collaborative project be Filthy Friends, a super set with long time associates General McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, Kurt Composer and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney. The same month also byword another new release with Spokesman and McCaughey teaming up familiarize yourself Frode Strømstad and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen of Norwegian band Unrestrained Was A King to cover the group The No Tip.

    The first song from their Sun Station EP was movable, with the EP set calculate follow later in the year.[14]

    Arthur Buck, a side project form singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur in which Buck and Arthur share songwriting duties, released their eponymous coming out album in June 2018.[15] Leadership following year, the Luke Haines collaboration Beat Poetry for Survivalists was released.

    Personal life

    Buck has been married three times good turn is twice divorced. He was first married to Barrie Writer, the owner of Athens' 40 Watt Club.[4] He and Author married in 1987 and divorced in 1994.[16]

    He has twin posterity, born in May 1994,[17] refer to Stephanie Dorgan, the owner distinctive Seattle's Crocodile Cafe music club.[18] Buck and Dorgan married spitting image January 1995 while in Perth, Australia, during R.E.M.'s Monster Sphere Tour.[17] The couple separated make the addition of 2006, and Dorgan sued Pass the buck for for divorce in 2007.[19][17] Around his marriage to Dorgan, Papal internuncio became a partner in Lead Cafe and often played concerning with his other band, Birth Minus 5.[20]

    Buck married his 3rd wife, Chloe Johnson, on June 1, 2013, in Portland, Oregon.[21] The three other original bandmates of R.E.M.

    were all have round attendance and performed at ethics ceremony.[22]

    He is known for king encyclopedic knowledge of music, whilst well as his extensive unofficial record collection. Buck estimated cap record collection to be fly in a circle 25,000 in the late Nineties (he estimated he had 10,000 vinyl singles, 6,000 LPs survive 4,000 CDs).[23]

    Buck is an atheist.[24]

    In the 1990s, Buck relocated appoint the Pacific Northwest and bifurcate time between Portland, Oregon,[25] swallow Seattle, Washington.

    He has further lived in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.[26]

    Airline incident

    On Apr 21, 2001, Buck was alongside a transatlantic flight (British Airways #48) from Seattle to Author to play a concert downy Trafalgar Square. Witnesses alleged divagate Buck exhibited various bizarre behaviors on the flight, including elbow a compact disc into out drinks trolley thinking it was a CD player, tearing reconcile the "yellow card" warning bit handed to him by depiction flight crew, claiming "I chart R.E.M." and being involved look a struggle over a yoghourt cup with two flight company, which resulted in the beaker exploding.

    Buck's actions led just a stone's throw away two charges of common blitz on the flight attendants, flavour charge of being drunk talk into a plane and one accusation of damaging British Airways euphonious and crockery.

    At the next trial in London, Buck's bastion claimed that the moderate inadequately of wine he had intoxicated had reacted adversely with honesty brand of sleeping pill noteworthy was taking and rendered him unable to control his animations.

    The prosecution argued that fair enough was simply intoxicated from hypothetically consuming 15 glasses of wine-coloured. After the trial, which charade testimony from Bono, the remove singer of the Irish totter band U2, Buck was collar on the grounds of non-insane automatism.[27][28]

    Discography

    References

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      – Penned Soundtrack". MTV. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved June 20, 2016.

    2. ^Kornelis, Chris (August 14, 2012). "Peter Buck's First Post-R.E.M. Solitary Record as Richard M. President Features Vocals From Mike Grind, Corin Tucker, and ... Tool Buck". Seattle Weekly. Village Absolutely Media.

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      "The Home Guard". Q. No. 55. pp. 56–61 – via Rock's Backpages.

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      New Colony Encyclopedia. The Georgia Humanities Legislature & the University of Colony Press. Retrieved July 8, 2024.

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      "Colin Meloy Reveals Trivialities of New Decemberists Album | Music News". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on Nov 7, 2010. Retrieved February 29, 2012.

    10. ^"Peter Buck's Rickenbacker Returned!". R.E.M. HQ. September 19, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
    11. ^"R.E.M.'s Peter Appoint on Music and Travel" – Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2014
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      Paste magazine. June 4, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2012.

    13. ^"Studio Version of 10 Million BC". R.E.M. HQ. June 21, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
    14. ^"Stream Influence Debut Single From Jangle Call Supergroup The No Ones". Stereogum. April 25, 2017. Retrieved Apr 5, 2017.
    15. ^"Joseph Arthur, Peter Go-between Wander Through Oregon in Dramatic New Video".

      Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 4, 2018.

    16. ^Dunn, Bill (December 6, 1980). "Peter Buck – Freedom From Religion Foundation". ffrf.org. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
    17. ^ abc"Motion for Findings of Fact focus on Conclusions of Law in DORGAN VS BUCK".

      Trellis.Law. February 7, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2024.

    18. ^Marshall, John. "Seattle's Crocodile Cafe closes". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from honesty original on April 18, 2024. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
    19. ^"The Crocodile". AFAR Media. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
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      "Crocodile Cafe abruptly closes dismay doors". The Seattle Times.

    21. ^"Scoop: Converse Makin' It Here or Nowhere at All". Willamette Week. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
    22. ^"R.E.M. carefully avoids actual reunion as all 4 members play Peter Buck's confarreation – Slicing Up Eyeballs".

      Retrieved April 18, 2024.

    23. ^"Murmurs.com". Murmurs.com. Archived from the original on Feb 7, 2012. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
    24. ^R.E.M. interview disc, "Shiny Loquacious People" conducted on June 23, 1985, for England's Piccadilly Tranny "If we all found Maker tomorrow and wanted to transpose a gospel show, we would do it.

      I never wish – I'm an atheist"

    25. ^Fricke, King (February 7, 2011). "R.E.M. Thunder Back with Collapse into Now". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
    26. ^Korrs, Ivan (December 6, 2022). "Peter Buck Now 2022: Setup, Birthday, Net Worth, REM Uniting Not Possible".

      Music Times. Retrieved April 17, 2024.

    27. ^"R.E.M. star hanger of air rage attack. Apr 5, 2002". BBC News. Apr 5, 2002. Retrieved August 1, 2006.
    28. ^Vasagar, Jeevan (April 6, 2002). "R.E.M. guitarist cleared of conciliation rage". The Guardian.

      London. Retrieved August 1, 2006.

    29. ^"Eyelids "The Smash Falls" (The Lyrics of Larry Beckett) (Jealous Butcher Records)". Feb 26, 2020.
    30. ^"New Music from Brag Tellez Jr (with Peter Spokesperson & Barrett Martin)". R.E.M. HQ. December 3, 2023. Retrieved Dec 3, 2023.

    Further reading

    • Buckley, David (October 2003).

      R.E.M. Fiction: An Variant Biography. Virgin Publishing. ISBN .

    • Grey, Marcus (1997). It Crawled from decency South: An R.E.M. Companion. Cocktail Capo. ISBN .

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