Greek Buck were a
Canadian
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musical duo, consisting of
Don Pyle
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Life and career
Pyle's first group was a punk band called Crash Kills Five, which was active from 1979 to 1981. Crash Kills F ...
(formerly of
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
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and
Phono-Comb
Phono-Comb was a Canadian instrumental/modern surf rock group that formed in 1993 in Toronto.
History
Phono-Comb first materialized when Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet played with Jad Fair when he was performing in Toronto to promote a film abo ...
) and Andrew Zealley. They are best known for "Spunk", the theme song to the
American
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television series ''
Queer as Folk
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* Queer as Folk (American TV series), ''Queer as Folk'' (American TV series), a 2000–2005 American and Canadian version of th ...
''.
[ "Spunk rock Greek Buck gets harder"]
''Daily Xtra'', Apr 17, 2002.
History
Originally billed as Barely Pink, Pyle and Zealley changed their name to Greek Buck in 1998.
In 2000 Greek Buck released a five-song EP, ''Bucquiem''. Kevan Byrne and Kevin Lynn of
, as well as singer
Caroline Azar
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Career
The all-women punk band Fifth Column began in the mid-1980s in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band self-rel ...
, joined Pyle and Zealley. Their song "Spunk" was used as the theme song for the first three seasons of ''Queer as Folk'', and was included on original TV soundtrack album for the show.
Pyle and Zealley also composed the scores to several films by
John Greyson
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(including ''
Proteus
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'', ''
The Law of Enclosures
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A cross between a conventional novel and a memoir
A memoir (; , ) is ...
''
["Greek Buck - No Time (CD-EP)"]
''Indieville'', and the short films ''This is Nothing'' and ''Herr''),
Sarah Polley
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(''
I Shout Love
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'') and
Wrik Mead (''Fruit Machine'', ''Hoolboom'', ''Camp''). CD releases of the soundtracks were billed as "Don Pyle + Andrew Zealley" to set them apart from the other Greek Buck releases.
In 2002 the duo released an EP, ''No Time''.
''NOW Toronto'', by Sarah Liss May 23, 2002
Greek Buck also recorded with Ian Blurton
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Early life
He was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1965, and moved to Toronto in 1973.
Musical career
He has been a part of Toronto's indie music scene since the early 1980s. He ...
,Joel Gibb
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Career
His first involvement with the music scene was a ...
, Sandro Perri
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...
, and actress Sarah Polley
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.
Zealley has also worked as a film and television composer separately from Pyle, was a member of the synth-pop
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band TBA with Glenn Schellenberg Glenn Schellenberg is a Canadian composer and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Early life and education
Schellenberg studied psychology at University of Toronto, where he received a B.Sc.. He went on to obtain a P ...
, Paul Hackney and Steven Bock in the 1980s,["TBA: No-Strings Band". '']The Body Politic
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''The Body Po ...
'', February 1981. and has been a remixer
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for electronic music artists under the name PSBEUYS.
Discography
Barely Pink
*'"Black Vinyl" / "Litho Star" (1997) (vinyl single)
*''Lrg-nss10 (Galerie Largeness Installment No. Ten)'' (1997) (cassette EP)
Greek Buck
*''Messin' With Greek Buck'' (1998) (vinyl only)
*''Bucquiem'' (2000)
*''No Time'' (2002) (CD EP)
Don Pyle + Andrew Zealley
*''The Law of Enclosures
''The Law of Enclosures'' is a 1996 novel by American author Dale Peck, which was adapted into the 2000 film '' The Law of Enclosures'' by Canadian director John Greyson.
A cross between a conventional novel and a memoir
A memoir (; , ) is ...
'' (2001) (original soundtrack)
*''Proteus
In Greek mythology, Proteus ( ; ) is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" (''hálios gérôn''). Some who ascribe a specific domain to Prote ...
'' (2003) (original soundtrack)
References
External links
The Shadowy Site On A Shadowy Web
(Unofficial Shadowy Men Home Page with a section on Greek Buck)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greek Buck
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups from Toronto
Canadian electronic music groups
LGBTQ-themed musical groups
1997 establishments in Ontario
Canadian musical duos