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Peter Buck Biography

Peter Buck is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on December 6, 1956 in Berkeley, California, United States. He was the founder of R.E.M. together with He founded R.E.M. with Bill Berry..

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 mandolin on many 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, and Filthy Friends, 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, as has a current project called The No-Ones. As well, ad hoc “supergroups” Bingo Hand Job (Billy Bragg and R.E.M.) and Nigel & The Crosses (Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Buck, Glenn Tilbrook and others) have each commercially released one track.

Peter, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Warren Zevon recorded an album under the band name Hindu Love Gods, while the R.E.M. bandmates and Zevon were recording tracks for Zevon’s 1987 album Sentimental Hygiene. Hindu Love Gods is one of many names the members of R.E.M. have used performing around the Athens area.

He got married to Barrie Greene, in the month of May. Then following their divorce at the end of 1994, he was remarried to Stephanie Dorgan in 1995.

He also had a variety of side projects with bands , including Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5 as well as Tired Pony.

Peter Lawrence Buck was born on December 6, 1956 in Berkeley, California, to Peter and Violet Buck. After spending time in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating with honors from Crestwood High School in 1975, Buck attended Emory University and joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He eventually dropped out of Emory. Buck moved to Athens, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia as well. While in Athens, Buck worked at the Wuxtry Records store, where he met future bandmate Michael Stipe as well as R.E.M.’s future manager, Bertis Downs.

Peter Buck Net Worth

Peter is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Buck's net worth $2.8 Billion. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He attended Emory University and the University of Georgia. He was introduced to his groupmate He went to Emory University and the University of Georgia. He met his bandmate Michael Stipe while working at a record store. when he worked at an album store.

Buck also coproduced the 1992 Vigilantes of Love album, Killing Floor, with songwriter Mark Heard. He co-wrote, produced, and performed on Mark Eitzel’s 1997 album West. He recorded an EP with Keith Streng of The Fleshtones as Full Time Men in 1985, and along with R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey has been a partner in The Minus 5 and a member of the instrumental band Tuatara. Additionally, In October 2005, he joined R.E.M. studio drummer Bill Rieflin, King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and three others in forming an improvisational performance band called Slow Music. His voice can be heard on one R.E.M. song: “I Walked with a Zombie” from the Roky Erickson tribute album Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye. In 2006, Buck toured with Robyn Hitchcock, McCaughey, and Rieflin as lead guitarist for Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 in the wake of the band’s first release, Olé! Tarantula. In 2008, after McCaughey and Steve Wynn decided to work together, the duo asked Buck to be the bass player in their new band, The Baseball Project, along with drummer Linda Pitmon.

Buck is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of music, as well as his extensive personal record collection. On March 12, 1999, in an interview on Wiese, a television music show based in Oslo, Buck estimated his collection to be around 25,000. In the late 1990s, he estimated he had 10,000 vinyl singles, 6,000 LPs and 4,000 CDs.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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The three instrumentalists from R.E.M. all performed on Nikki Sudden’s 1991 album The Jewel Thief, including the single “I Belong to You”.

Who is Peter Buck Dating?

According to our records, Peter Buck married to Chloe Johnson , Stephanie Dorgan , Barrie Greene . As of January 13, 2024, Peter Buck’s is not dating anyone.

On April 21, 2001, Buck was aboard a trans-polar flight (British Airways #48) from Seattle to London to play a concert at Trafalgar Square. Witnesses alleged that Buck exhibited various bizarre behaviors on the flight, including shoving a CD into a drinks trolley thinking it was a CD player, tearing up the “yellow card” warning notice handed to him by the flight crew, claiming “I am R.E.M.” and being involved in a struggle over a yogurt cup with two flight attendants, which resulted in the cup exploding. Buck’s actions led to two charges of common assault on the flight attendants, one charge of being drunk on a plane and one charge of damaging British Airways cutlery and crockery.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Starting in the 1990s, Buck relocated to the Pacific Northwest and divided time between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. Buck currently lives in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

“When Peter plays guitar, there’s a strong sense of fuck off that comes from his side of the stage. And you feel that he wants to be in a band because he likes what they do… but that’s all,” explained U2’s lead singer Bono in 2003. “And it’s almost like performing and having to deal with all of that is a bit of a compromise for him, so just fuck off. And I like that energy a little bit, and that gives them their aggression.”

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Facts & Trivia

Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Peter Buck celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

Buck has contributed liner notes to compilations, reissues, and special editions, both of R.E.M.’s own material (the best-of compilations Eponymous and In Time, the rarities, B-sides and out-takes collection Dead Letter Office, and the special edition of New Adventures in Hi-Fi) and of other artists’ work (such as The Beach Boys’ Love You). On September 9, 2008, immediately following the band’s concert in Helsinki, Buck’s signature Rickenbacker guitar, used live and in the studio since Chronic Town in 1982, was stolen from the stage. It was returned on September 18, 2008, by an anonymous source.

How much is Peter Buck worth?

261 on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest people, with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion.

What does Peter Buck do now?

He plays with bands like the Minus 5, his long-running combo with late-period R.E.M. guitarist Scott McCaughey, and Filthy Friends, a new outfit Buck has formed with Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker. Buck recently co-produced the Jayhawks’ new album, Paging Mr. Proust.

What is Peter Buck famous for?

The son of William Henry Buck and Ngarongo-ki-tua, a Ngati Mutunga Maori tribeswoman, Buck was a medical officer for Maori health with the New Zealand health department (1905–08). He launched a successful drive (1905–14) with Sir Maui Pomare, a fellow member of the Young Maori Party, to improve medical care for Maoris.

Does Peter Buck own subway?

Nuclear physicist Peter Buck loaned his friend’s son, Fred DeLuca, $1,000 in 1965 to start a shop that became the Subway chain; Buck died in November 2021. With DeLuca, Buck owned the franchisor of Subway restaurants, which has locations in more than 100 countries.

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