Peter Buck
- Acting
- December 6, 1956 · Oakland, California, USA
Biography
Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American musician and songwriter. He was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the alternative rock 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 Joseph Arthur), Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony, The No-Ones and Filthy Friends, 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, Robert Fripp, 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 (Billy Bragg 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.[2] Buck also has a career as a record producer including releases by Uncle Tupelo, Vigilantes of Love, Dreams So Real, The Fleshtones, The Feelies, and The Jayhawks, as well as a session musician (for the likes of The Replacements, Billy Bragg, Decemberists and Eels).
Known for
Filmography
- TFI Unplugged · Self
- Singing Earth · Self
- Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight · Self
- Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting · Self
- R.E.M.: Monster (25th Anniversary Edt.) · Self
- R.E.M. - Automatic Unearthed
- R.E.M.: Automatic for the People (25th Anniversary Edt.) · Electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, dulcimer, bouzouki
- R.E.M.: Out Of Time (25th Anniversary Edt.) · Gitarre
- R.E.M.: REMTV · Guitars
- R.E.M. by MTV · Self
- R.E.M.: Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
- Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton · Self
- R.E.M. at the BBC · Performer
- R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX
- Do It Again · Self
- R.E.M.: This Is Not a Show - Live at the Olympia in Dublin
- The Fleshtones: Pardon Us for Living But the Graveyard Is Full · Self
- 6 Days
- Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects · Self
- R.E.M.: Live · Guitarist
- Slacker Uprising · Self
- R.E.M.: When the Light is Mine
- The Colbert Report · Self
- Parkinson · Self
- Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! · Self
- R.E.M. : Perfect Square · Guitar
- Fallen Angel: Gram Parsons · Self
- R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.) · Self
- R.E.M. · Self
- R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
- Boston Public · Self
- R.E.M.: A Stirling Performance · Self
- Man on the Moon · Music
- R.E.M.: This Way Up · Self
- R.E.M. - Falls to Climb · Self
- R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/18
- R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/17
- Parkinson · Self
- New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film · Self
- R.E.M.: Road Movie
- Tibetan Freedom Concert · Self
- R.E.M.: Rough Cut · Self
- R.E.M.: Parallel · Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien · Self
- R.E.M.: This Film Is On · Self
- MTV's 10th Anniversary Special · Self
- R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged
- R.E.M: Shocking Club, Milan, Italy
- R.E.M.: Tourfilm · Self
- R.E.M.: Pop Screen
- The Simpsons · Peter Buck (Voice)
- MTV Unplugged · Self
- Athens, GA Inside/Out · Self
- R.E.M.: Succumbs · Self
- R.E.M.: at Rockpalast
- MTV Video Music Awards · Self
- R.E.M.: Live at The Capitol Theater
- R.E.M.: Live at the Raleigh Underground
- The South Bank Show
- Austin City Limits · Self
- Rockpalast · Self
- R.E.M.: New Adventures In Hi-Fi · Guitars