Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American

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and songwriter. He was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the

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band R.E.M. He also plays the banjo and mandolin on several R.E.M. songs. Throughout his career with R.E.M. (1980–2011), as well as during his subsequent solo career, Buck has also been at various times an official member of numerous 'side project' groups. These groups included Arthur Buck (with

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), Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5,

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, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony,

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and

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, each of which have released at least one full-length studio album. Additionally, the experimental combo Slow Music (which also features Fred Chalenor, Hector Zazou, Matt Chamberlain,

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, and Bill Rieflin) have released an official live concert CD. Another side project group called Full Time Men released an EP while Buck was a member. As well, ad hoc "supergroups" Bingo Hand Job (

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and R.E.M.), Musical Kings (Michelle Malone, Peter Buck, John Keane) and Nigel & The Crosses (Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Buck, Glenn Tilbrook and others) have each commercially released one track. "Richard M. Nixon", a band Buck founded in 2012 to support the release of his solo album with live gigs, has never issued an official recording. Richard M. Nixon consists of Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin, the same three musicians who comprise The Venus 3. Buck also has a career as a record producer including releases by Uncle Tupelo, Vigilantes of Love,

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, The Feelies, and The Jayhawks, as well as a

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(for the likes of The Replacements,

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and

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Early life

Peter Lawrence Buck was born on December 6, 1956, in

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, to Peter and Violet Buck. After spending time in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family moved, via

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, to

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. After graduating with honors from Crestwood High School in 1975, Buck attended

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and joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He eventually dropped out of Emory. Buck moved to

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, and attended the

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as well. While in Athens, Buck worked at the Wuxtry Records store, where he met future bandmate

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as well as R.E.M.'s future manager, Bertis Downs.

Music

Buck's style of guitar playing is simple and yet distinctive. He makes wide use of open strings while chording to create chiming and memorable pop melodies. His sound, especially on mid-period R.E.M. albums that saw the band break through to international popularity, has been associated with

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guitars, particularly a Jetglo (black) model 360. He has also used a wide variety of other instruments as the group has continued to experiment and develop. On some more recent R.E.M. releases prior to ''

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'' (2008), his guitar parts have been less prominent. "When Peter plays guitar, there's a strong sense of ''fuck off'' that comes from his side of the stage. And you feel that he wants to be in a band because he likes what they do... but that's all," explained U2's lead singer

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in 2003. "And it's almost like performing and having to deal with all of that is a bit of a compromise for him, so just fuck off. And I like that energy a little bit, and that gives them their aggression." Buck has produced many bands, including Uncle Tupelo,

, Drivin N Cryin,

, Charlie Pickett, and The Feelies. Buck also has made contributions on many other musicians' albums, including The Replacements,

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, Robyn Hitchcock, and several

albums. Peter, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and

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recorded an album under the band name Hindu Love Gods, while the R.E.M. bandmates and Zevon were recording tracks for Zevon's 1987 album ''

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''. Hindu Love Gods is one of many names the members of R.E.M. have used performing around the Athens area. Buck also continued to play live locally with the Normaltown Flyers, performing country and rock standards in local bars. The three instrumentalists from R.E.M. all performed on Nikki Sudden's 1991 album ''The Jewel Thief'', including the single " I Belong to You". Buck also coproduced the 1992 Vigilantes of Love album, ''Killing Floor'', with songwriter Mark Heard. He co-wrote, produced, and performed on

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's 1997 album ''

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''. He recorded an EP with Keith Streng of

as Full Time Men in 1985, and along with R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey has been a partner in The Minus 5 and a member of the instrumental band

. Additionally, In October 2005, he joined R.E.M. studio drummer Bill Rieflin,

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guitarist

and three others in forming an improvisational performance band called Slow Music. His voice can be heard on one R.E.M. song: "I Walked with a Zombie" from the

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tribute album ''

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''. In 2006, Buck toured with Robyn Hitchcock, McCaughey, and Rieflin as lead guitarist for Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 in the wake of the band's first release, '' Olé! Tarantula''. In 2008, after McCaughey and Steve Wynn decided to work together, the duo asked Buck to be the bass player in their new band, The Baseball Project, along with 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 ''

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'' and ''

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'', the rarities, B-sides and out-takes collection '' Dead Letter Office'', and the special edition of '' New Adventures in Hi-Fi'') and of other artists' work (such as

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' '' Love You''). On September 9, 2008, immediately following the band's concert in

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, Buck's signature

guitar, used live and in the studio since ''

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'' in 1982, was stolen from the stage. It was returned on September 18, 2008, by an anonymous source. In March 2012, six months after R.E.M.'s September 2011 dissolution, Buck, now signed to Mississippi Records, announced intentions of working on a solo album, backed by singer-songwriter

. The first track from the self-titled solo album, "10 Million BC," was released via

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on June 21, 2012. His eponymous first album was released later that same year. In the final days of 2013, Buck announced he would be releasing his second solo album soon. The new project, titled '' I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again'', was released on February 18, 2014, again on vinyl only. In 2015, Buck released his third solo album, ''Warzone Earth'', under Little Axe Records. In April 2017, Buck released the first single "Any Kind of Crowd" from his latest collaborative project with

, a super group with long time associates Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, Kurt Bloch and Corin Tucker of

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. The same month also saw another new release with Buck and McCaughey teaming up with Frode Strømstad and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen of Norwegian band I Was A King to form the group The No Ones. The first song from their Sun Station EP was released, with the EP set to follow later in the year. Peter Buck in Arthur Buck A

Arthur Buck, a side project with singer-songwriter

in which Buck and Arthur share songwriting duties, released their eponymous debut album in June 2018. The following year, the

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collaboration '' Beat Poetry for Survivalists'' was released.

Personal life

Starting in the 1990s, Buck relocated to the

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and divided time between

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, and

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. Buck currently lives in

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, Mexico. The guitarist is twice divorced. He was once married to Barrie Buck, the owner of Athens'

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. He has twin daughters with his ex-wife Stephanie Dorgan, Zelda and Zoe, born in June 1994. During his marriage to Dorgan, Buck became a partner in the music venue that she owned in Seattle, Crocodile Café, and often played there with his other band, The Minus 5. Buck married his third wife, Chloe Johnson, on June 1, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. Buck is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of music, as well as his extensive personal record collection. Buck estimated his record collection to be around 25,000 in the late 1990s (he estimated he had 10,000 vinyl singles, 6,000 LPs and 4,000 CDs). Buck is an atheist.

Airline incident

On April 21, 2001, Buck was aboard a transatlantic flight (British Airways #48) from Seattle to London to play a concert at

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. Witnesses alleged that Buck exhibited various bizarre behaviors on the flight, including shoving a CD into a drinks trolley thinking it was a CD player, tearing up the "yellow card" warning notice handed to him by the flight crew, claiming "I am R.E.M." and being involved in a struggle over a yogurt cup with two flight attendants, which resulted in the cup exploding. Buck's actions led to two charges of common assault on the flight attendants, one charge of being drunk on a plane and one charge of damaging

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cutlery and crockery. At the ensuing trial in London, Buck's defense claimed that the moderate amount of wine he had drunk had reacted adversely with the brand of sleeping pill he was taking and rendered him unable to control his actions. The prosecution argued that he was simply intoxicated from supposedly consuming 15 glasses of wine. After the trial, which included testimony from

, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, Buck was cleared on the grounds of non-insane automatism.

Discography

With R.E.M. *''

'' EP ( I.R.S.) 1982 *'' Murmur'' (I.R.S.) 1983 *'' Reckoning'' (I.R.S.) 1984 *'' Fables of the Reconstruction'' (I.R.S.) 1984 *'' Lifes Rich Pageant'' (I.R.S.) 1986 *''

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'' (I.R.S.) 1987 *''

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'' ( Warner Bros.) 1988 *'' Out of Time'' (Warner Bros.) 1991 *'' Automatic for the People'' (Warner Bros.) 1992 *''

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'' (Warner Bros.) 1994 *'' New Adventures in Hi-Fi'' (Warner Bros.) 1996 *'' Up'' (Warner Bros.) 1998 *'' Reveal'' (Warner Bros.) 2001 *''

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'' (Warner Bros.) 2004 *''

'' (Warner Bros.) 2008 *'' Collapse into Now'' (Warner Bros.) 2011 Solo *'' Peter Buck'' (

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) 2012 *'' I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again'' (Mississippi) 2014 *''Wazone Earth'' (Mississippi) 2015 *''Dear December'' ( Yep Rock) 2017 *'' Beat Poetry for Survivalists'' (

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) 2020 *''All the Kids are Super Bummed Out'' ( Cherry Red) 2022 Produced *

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: ''Burn Something Beautiful'' (

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) 2016 *

: ''Father's House'' (Coyote) 1986 * The Feelies: '' The Good Earth'' (

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) 1986 *

: ''Beautiful Light'' (Naked Language) 1993 * The Jayhawks: '' Paging Mr. Proust'' (

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/Sham) 2016 * John Wesly Harding: ''Greatest Other People's Hits'' (

) 2018 * Uncle Tupelo: ''March 6-20, 1992'' (Rockville) 1992 * Vigilantes of Love: ''Killing Floor'' (Fingerprint/Sky) 1992 Recorded with Arthur Buck *''Arthur Buck'' (

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) 2018 The Baseball Project *''Baseball Project, Vol. 2: High Inside'' (Yep Rock) 2011 *''

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'' (Yep Rock) 2014

& Peter Buck *''Words + Music'' (Warner Bros.) 1997

*'' Invitation'' (

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) 2017 *'' Emerald Valley'' (Kill Rock Stars) 2019 Hindu Love Gods * ''Hindu Love Gods'' ( Reprise) 1990 The Minus 5 *'' Old Liquidator'' ( Glitterhouse Records) 1995 *'' The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy'' (

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/Malt) 1997 *'' Let the War Against Music Begin'' (

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/Malt) 2001 *'' I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin, Vol. 2)'' (Return to Sender) 2003 *'' Down with Wilco'' (Yep Rock) 2003 *''

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'' (Yep Rock) 2004 *''Gun Album'' (Yep Rock) 2006 *'' The Minus 5'' (Yep Rock) 2006 *'' Killingsworth'' (Yep Rock) 2009 *''Of Monkees and Men'' (Yep Rock) 2010 *''Dear December'' (Yep Rock) 2017 *''Stroke Manor'' (Yep Rock) 2016

*''

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'' ( Epic) 1997 *''

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'' (Fast Horse) 2001 *''

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'' (Fast Horse) 2002 *''

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'' (Fast Horse) 2003 *'' East of the Sun'' (Fast Horse) 2007 *''

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'' (Fast Horse) 2007 *''The Here and the Gone'' (Fast Horse) 2008 *''Underworld'' (Sunyata) 2014 *Shamanic Nights (Sunyata) 2016 Robin Hitchcock and the Venus Three *'' Olé! Tarantula'' (Yep Rock) 2006 *'' Goodnight Oslo'' (Yep Rock) 2009 *'' Propellor Time'' (Yep Rock) 2010 Tired Pony *''

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'' (

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) 2010 *''

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'' (Fiction Records, Fiction/Polydor) 2013 The No Ones *''The Great Lost No Ones Album'' (Yep Rock) 2020 Slow Music Project *''Live at the Croc 19 Oct 2005'' (Slow Music) 2005 Full Time Men *''Full Time Men'' EP (Coyote) 1985

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