Peter Buck: Classic or Dud?

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He's one of those dudes, like Elvis Costello, who produced some pretty iconic records and then, weirdly, never really worked as a producer for hire again.

I have seen him on stage a good 8 or so times due to my fiendish Robyn Hitchcock fandom and he always looks totally disgruntled. I think that's just his playing face and he's always focused on what he's doing.

yeah, i've never seen him w/ hitchcock, but my brother did a few years ago and he said Buck looked extremely disinterested. but i think that's just his Buck Face (and in those situations he probably has some idea of just being a sideman who no one is paying attention to). He must enjoy it to some extent, he certainly doesn't have to be playing with Robyn Hitchcock to make ends meet. or maybe Robyn knows some dark things about Buck and is blackmailing him.

He's indicated he loves that gig. The skeleton in the closet is probably just "I peter buck am a huge soft boys nerd"

he always looks totally disgruntled.

Last time I saw him with Robyn, he also did an opening set with his own group and he looked and sounded drunk as a leader, but such characteristics were less noticeable later that night backing Robyn. It still made me later look up that old story of him on the plane.

new (?) album warzone earth is a major jam session, way more raucous than i was expecting. it's even kind of stooges-y. dude can't sing for shit but neither can lots of solid bros

I still can't believe what a big deal REM used to make about quitting on 12/31/99 on how stupid it would be to continue making records once they became irrelevant and mediocre, and then proceeded to do just that.

i think about that a lot too. my friends and i thought it was such a cool idea and that factored into our love of the band. wish they had kept their word.

it's really stupid to make records

They are the biggest example of a band that stuck around too long.

i'm relistening to those 1980 show links, i like that version of rem.

http://www.daysofthecrazy-wild.com/audio-new-peter-buck-corin-tucker-supergroup-debut-12-songs-at-portlands-secret-society/

― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Saturday, May 3, 2014 12:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still waiting for this, but guess i need to hear the new stuff

TBP is maybe my favorite band now

really enjoying The No Ones - The Great Lost No Ones Album

https://the-no-ones.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-lost-no-ones-album

Peter Buck and his homie Scott McCaughey plus guys from a Norwegian power pop band called I Was a King that I'm not familiar with

really nice jangle stuff, not surprising but there are some really good songs on here and has good energetic feel