Peter Buck
Alternative rock, Record Producer
1956 –
Who is Peter Buck?
Peter Lawrence Buck is an American rock musician who is best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of alternative rock band R.E.M.
Throughout his career with R.E.M., 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 Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 and Tired Pony each of which have released at least one full-length album. Additionally, another side project group called Full Time Men released an EP while Buck was a member; ad hoc "supergroups" Bingo Hand Job and Nigel & The Crosses have each commercially released one track.
Other notable groups of Buck's that have not recorded include Slow Music, which plays semi-regular gigs, and "Richard M. Nixon", a band Buck founded in 2012 to support the release of his solo album with live gigs. Richard M. Nixon consists of Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin, the same three musicians who comprise The Venus 3.
Buck also has a notable career as a record producer, as well as a session musician
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- Born
- Dec 6, 1956
Berkeley - Also known as
- Buck, Peter
- Peter Ernest Lawrence Buck
- Peter Lawrence Buck
- Buckland
- R.E.M.
- R.E.M
- Spouses
- Barrie Greene
(1987/05 - 1994) - Stephanie Dorgan
(1995 - 2007)
- Barrie Greene
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Georgia
- Emory University
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on July 23, 2013
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