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Peter Buck
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Peter Buck was born in 1956 in Berkeley, California, and is an American musician and songwriter. He grew up in, among other places, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. He studied briefly at Emory University and moved to Athens, Georgia, where he studied at the University of Georgia. There he worked at the record shop Wuxtry Records. In that shop he met Michael Stipe, the future singer of R.E.M., and Bertis Downs, the band's future manager.
Music and breakthrough
Buck was a co-founder and the guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. In those years, from 1980 to 2011, he also played banjo and mandolin on a few songs. Besides R.E.M. he played in many side projects, including Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony, Filthy Friends and Arthur Buck, with Joseph Arthur. He has also been a producer for, among others, Uncle Tupelo, The Feelies and The Jayhawks. He also played as a session musician for The Replacements, Billy Bragg and the Decemberists.
Influence
After the end of R.E.M. he began a solo career, with Peter Buck (2012), I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again (2014) and Warzone Earth (2015). For the live presentation of his solo album he formed the band Richard M. Nixon, which never released an official record.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 2012Peter Buck
- 2014I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again
- 2015Warzone Earth
- 2020Beat Poetry for Survivalists
- 2022All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out
- 2025Going Down to the River… to Blow My Mind
Mentioned in other articles
- Murmur Album
Peter Buck plays jangling guitars and Mike Mills melodic bass lines.