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Peter Buck

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Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. 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. [1]

86 relations: Accelerate (R.E.M. album), Alternative rock, Athens, Georgia, Atlanta, Automatism (law), Banjo, Berkeley, California, Bertis Downs IV, Bill Rieflin, Billy Bragg, Bono, British Airways, Charlie Pickett, Chronic Town, College rock, Corin Tucker, Crestwood High School (Georgia), Dead Letter Office (album), Delta Tau Delta, Dreams So Real, Eels (band), Emory University, Eponymous (album), Filthy Friends, Folk rock, Glenn Tilbrook, Helsinki, Hindu Love Gods (band), I Belong to You (Nikki Sudden song), In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003, Jangle pop, Joseph Arthur, King Crimson, Kurt Bloch, Mandolin, Mark Eitzel, Mark Heard, Michael Stipe, MTV, Musician, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Nikki Sudden, Olé! Tarantula, Oslo, Pacific Northwest, Peter Buck, Peter Buck (album), Portland, Oregon, R.E.M., Rickenbacker, ..., Robert Fripp, Robyn Hitchcock, Roky Erickson, Rolling Stone, Scott McCaughey, Seattle, Seattle Weekly, Sentimental Hygiene, Session musician, Sleater-Kinney, SoundCloud, Steve Wynn (musician), The Baseball Project, The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Love You, The Decemberists, The Feelies, The Fleshtones, The Jayhawks, The Minus 5, The Replacements (band), The South Bank Show, The Wall Street Journal, Tired Pony, Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Trafalgar Square, Tuatara (band), U2, Uncle Tupelo, University of Georgia, Vigilantes of Love, Village Voice Media, Warren Zevon, West (Mark Eitzel album), Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, 40 Watt Club. Expand index (36 more) »

Accelerate (R.E.M. album)

Accelerate is the 14th studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 31, 2008 in Europe, and on April 1 in North America.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Athens, Georgia

Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–county and American college town in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Automatism (law)

Automatism is a rarely used criminal defence.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Bertis Downs IV

Bertis Edwin Downs IV (born July 13, 1956) is an American entertainment lawyer.

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Bill Rieflin

William Frederick "Bill" Rieflin (born September 29, 1960) is an American musician.

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Billy Bragg

Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.

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Bono

Paul David Hewson, KBE OL (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist.

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British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, or the second largest, behind easyJet, when measured by passengers carried.

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Charlie Pickett

Charles Albert Pickett (March 1, 1883 – May 20, 1969) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.

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Chronic Town

Chronic Town is the debut EP by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released August 24, 1982 on I.R.S. Records.

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College rock

College rock was the alternative rock music played on student-run university and college campus radio stations located in the United States and Canada in the 1980s.

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Corin Tucker

Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9, 1972 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney.

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Crestwood High School (Georgia)

Crestwood High School, on Colonel Drive (Dunwoody, Georgia, United States) in what is now known as Sandy Springs, opened in the Fall of 1972 to relieve overcrowding at nearby Roswell High School and North Springs High School.

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Dead Letter Office (album)

Dead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in April 1987.

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Delta Tau Delta

Delta Tau Delta (ΔΤΔ), commonly known as DTD or Delt, is a United States-based international Greek letter college fraternity.

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Dreams So Real

Dreams So Real were an alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, who gained national exposure in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Eels (band)

Eels (often typeset as eels or EELS) is an American rock band, formed in California in 1995 by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett, known by the stage name E. Band members have changed across the years, both in the studio and on stage, making Everett the only official member for most of the band's work.

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Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in the Druid Hills neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Eponymous (album)

Eponymous is the first greatest hits and the second compilation album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1988.

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Filthy Friends

Filthy Friends is a rock supergroup that formed in 2012, originally to perform live covers of David Bowie songs.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Glenn Tilbrook

Glenn Martin Tilbrook (born 31 August 1957) is the lead singer and guitarist of the English band Squeeze, a band formed in the mid-1970s who broke through in the new wave era at the decade's end.

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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Hindu Love Gods (band)

Hindu Love Gods was an American rock band that was, in essence, an occasional side project of members of R.E.M., with (at various times) Warren Zevon and Bryan Cook.

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I Belong to You (Nikki Sudden song)

"I Belong to You" is a 1991 song by Nikki Sudden from the album The Jewel Thief.

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In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003

In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 is the second official compilation album released by R.E.M. Issued in 2003, it includes tracks from their Warner Bros. Records era, from 1988's Green to 2001's Reveal, as well as two new recordings and two songs from movie soundtracks.

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Jangle pop

Jangle pop is a subgenre of pop rock that emphasizes trebly, ringing guitars (usually 12-string electrics) and 1960s-style pop melodies.

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Joseph Arthur

Joseph Arthur (born September 28, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio, United States.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Kurt Bloch

Kurt Bloch (born August 28, 1960) is an American songwriter, guitarist, engineer and record producer.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Mark Eitzel

Mark Eitzel (born 30 January 1959) is an American musician, best known as a songwriter and lead singer of the San Francisco band American Music Club.

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Mark Heard

John Mark Heard (December 16, 1951 – August 16, 1992) was an American record producer, folk rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, United States.

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Michael Stipe

John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as being the lead singer of the alternative rock band R.E.M. from their formation in 1980 until their dissolution in 2011.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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New Adventures in Hi-Fi

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is the 10th studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was their fifth major label release for Warner Bros. Records, released on September 9, 1996, in Europe and Australia and the following day in the United States.

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Nikki Sudden

Adrian Nicholas Godfrey (19 July 195626 March 2006), known as Nikki Sudden, was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Olé! Tarantula

Olé! Tarantula is the fifteenth studio album by Robyn Hitchcock, recorded with Peter Buck of R.E.M., Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellows, and Bill Rieflin of Ministry.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.

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Peter Buck

Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. 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.

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Peter Buck (album)

Peter Buck is the debut solo album from Peter Buck.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker International Corporation is an electric string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

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Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.

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Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Roky Erickson

Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (born July 15, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and guitarist from Texas.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Scott McCaughey

Scott Lewis McCaughey is an American singer and songwriter and the leader of the Seattle and Portland-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Seattle Weekly

The Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Sentimental Hygiene

Sentimental Hygiene is the sixth studio album by rock singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney is an American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1994.

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SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany that enables its users to upload, promote, and share their originally-created audio.

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Steve Wynn (musician)

Steven Lawrence "Steve" Wynn (born February 21, 1960) is an American singer and songwriter.

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The Baseball Project

The Baseball Project is a supergroup composed of Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon formed in 2007.(http://www.thebaseballproject.net/ Official website: thebaseballproject.net) The performers came together from discussions between McCaughey and Wynn at R.E.M.'s March 21, 2007 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beach Boys Love You

The Beach Boys Love You is the 21st studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on April 11, 1977.

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The Decemberists

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.

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The Feelies

The Feelies are an American rock band from Haledon, New Jersey.

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The Fleshtones

The Fleshtones are an American garage rock band from Queens, New York, formed in 1976.

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The Jayhawks

The Jayhawks are an American alternative country and country rock band that emerged from the Twin Cities music scene during the mid-1980s.

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The Minus 5

The Minus 5 is an American pop rock band, headed by musician Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellows, often in partnership with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck.

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The Replacements (band)

The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tired Pony

Tired Pony is a music supergroup consisting of Gary Lightbody, Richard Colburn, Iain Archer, Jacknife Lee, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Troy Stewart.

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Todos Santos, Baja California Sur

Todos Santos (Spanish) is a small coastal town in the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains, on the Pacific coast side of the Baja California Peninsula, about an hour's drive north of Cabo San Lucas on Highway 19 and an hour's drive southwest from La Paz.

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Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.

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Tuatara (band)

Tuatara is a Seattle-based instrumental music group featuring members of R.E.M., The Minus 5, Critters Buggin, The Chills and the Screaming Trees.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994.

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University of Georgia

The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public comprehensive research university.

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Vigilantes of Love

Vigilantes of Love is a rock band fronted by Bill Mallonee with a large number of secondary players drawn from the musician pool in and around Athens, Georgia.

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Village Voice Media

Village Voice Media or VVM began in 1970 as a weekly alternative newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.

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West (Mark Eitzel album)

West is the fourth solo album by the American Music Club singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel, released by Warner Bros.

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Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson

Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson is a 1990 tribute album to singer-songwriter Roky Erickson, founder of the 13th Floor Elevators and solo artist, whose career has been subject to significant periods of challenge from schizophrenia.

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40 Watt Club

The 40 Watt Club is a music venue in Athens, Georgia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buck

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