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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Peter Buck
| alias             = 
| image             = Filthy Friends - Peter Buck - 52512031982.jpg
| caption           = Buck in 2022
| birth_name        = Peter Lawrence Buck
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1956|12|6}}
| birth_place       = [[Berkeley, California]], U.S.
| label             = 
| genre             = [[Alternative rock]], [[folk rock]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/518931/stipe-carrey-duet-on-rem-penned-soundtrack/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630191157/http://www.mtv.com/news/518931/stipe-carrey-duet-on-rem-penned-soundtrack/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 30, 2016|title=Stipe, Carrey Duet On R.E.M. – Penned Soundtrack|publisher=[[MTV]]|access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref> [[punk rock]]
| occupations       = Musician, songwriter
| years_active      = 1976–present
| instruments       = Guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar
| associated_acts   = {{unbulleted list|[[R.E.M.]]|[[Hindu Love Gods (band)|Hindu Love Gods]]|[[The Minus 5]]|[[Tuatara (band)|Tuatara]]|[[The Baseball Project]]|[[The Venus 3]]|[[Eels (band)|Eels]]|[[Mark Eitzel]]|[[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]]|[[Tired Pony]]|Saint John and the Revelations|[[Filthy Friends]]|[[Corin Tucker]]|[[The Decemberists]]|[[Amaral (band)|Amaral]]}}
}}

'''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 played 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 been at various times a member of numerous side project groups. These groups included Arthur Buck (with [[Joseph Arthur]]), [[Hindu Love Gods (band)|Hindu Love Gods]], [[The Minus 5]], [[Tuatara (band)|Tuatara]], [[The Baseball Project]], [[Robyn Hitchcock|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 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 consisted of Buck, [[Scott McCaughey]] and [[Bill Rieflin]], the same three musicians who comprise The Venus 3.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/08/peter_bucks_first_post-rem_sol.php |title=Peter Buck's First Post-R.E.M. Solo Record as Richard M. Nixon Features Vocals From Mike Mills, Corin Tucker, and ... Peter Buck |last=Kornelis |first=Chris |work=[[Seattle Weekly]] |publisher=[[Village Voice Media]] |date=August 14, 2012 |access-date=2012-08-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816034024/http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/08/peter_bucks_first_post-rem_sol.php |archive-date=August 16, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Buck 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]] ([[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]], [[Billy Bragg]], [[Decemberists]] and [[Eels (band)|Eels]]).

==Early life==
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, via [[Roswell, Georgia]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Forman |first=Bill |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1986/11/09/rems-song-of-the-south/1fe0b195-62fc-4d41-8f96-93b0a889e541/ |title=R.E.M.'s Song of the South |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=November 9, 1986 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> to [[Atlanta]]. After graduating with honors from [[Crestwood High School (Georgia)|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,<ref name="Q magazine"/> where he met future bandmate [[Michael Stipe]] as well as R.E.M.'s future manager, [[Bertis Downs, IV|Bertis Downs]].<ref>{{Cite journal
 |url        = http://www.uga.edu/gm/1202/Pro3.html
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030328235617/http://www.uga.edu/gm/1202/Pro3.html
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-date = 2003-03-28
 |last       = Waldman
 |first      = Matt
 |title      = Bertis Downs . . . in his own words
 |journal    = Georgia Magazine
 |publisher  = University of Georgia
 |volume     = 82
 |issue      = 1
 |date       = December 2002
 |access-date = 2007-03-13
}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/r-e-m/ |title=Entry for R.E.M. |encyclopedia=[[New Georgia Encyclopedia]] |publisher=The Georgia Humanities Council & the University of Georgia Press |access-date=July 8, 2024}}</ref>

==Music==
[[File:R.E.M. (65).JPG|thumb|Buck on stage in [[Naples]], Italy, in 2008]]
[[File:Peter Buck Interview by Che, 1988-12.webm|thumb|Buck interviewed in 1988, shortly after the release of R.E.M.'s ''[[Green (R.E.M. album)|Green]]'']]
[[File:Peter Buck in Arthur Buck A.jpg|alt=Buck holding his guitar|thumb|Buck with Arthur Buck in 2018]]
Buck's style of guitar playing is simple and yet distinctive. He makes wide use of open strings while chording to create chiming and memorable pop melodies. His sound, especially on mid-period R.E.M. albums that saw the band break through to international popularity, has been associated with [[Rickenbacker]] guitars, particularly a Jetglo (black) model 360.<ref>{{cite web
 |url = http://www.rickenbacker.com/news_item.asp?news_id=22&news=recent
 |title = ''RIC makes the list with REM&nbsp;– 8/7/2005''
 |publisher = www.rickenbacker.com
 |access-date = 2007-03-13
}}</ref> He has also used a wide variety of other instruments as the group continued to experiment and develop. On some more recent R.E.M. releases prior to ''[[Accelerate (R.E.M. album)|Accelerate]]'' (2008), his guitar parts have been less prominent.

"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.<ref>''[[The South Bank Show]]'', May 12, 2003.</ref> "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."

Buck has produced many bands, including [[Uncle Tupelo]], [[Dreams So Real]], [[Drivin N Cryin]], [[The Fleshtones]], [[Charlie Pickett (musician)|Charlie Pickett]], and [[The Feelies]]. Buck also has made contributions on many other musicians' albums, including [[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]], [[Billy Bragg]], [[The Decemberists]],<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Douglas Wolk |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/51942/230682 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101107153303/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/51942/230682 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 7, 2010 |title=Colin Meloy Reveals Details of New Decemberists Album &#124; Music News |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 4, 2010 |access-date=2012-02-29}}</ref> [[Robyn Hitchcock]], and several [[Eels (band)|Eels]] albums.

Peter, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and [[Warren Zevon]] recorded an album under the band name [[Hindu Love Gods (band)|Hindu Love Gods]], while the R.E.M. bandmates and Zevon were recording tracks for Zevon's 1987 album ''[[Sentimental Hygiene]]''.<ref name="Q magazine">{{cite magazine |last=Gill |first=Andy |date=5 March 1991 |title=The Home Guard |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=55 |pages=56–61 |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/rem-the-home-guard |url-access=subscription |via=[[Rock's Backpages]]}}</ref> Hindu Love Gods is one of many names the members of R.E.M. have used performing around the Athens area. Buck also continued to play live locally with the Normaltown Flyers, performing country and rock standards in local bars.<ref name="Q magazine"/> 

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 (Nikki Sudden song)|I Belong to You]]".

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 (Mark Eitzel 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 (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: A Tribute to Roky Erickson|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 (songwriter)|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 has contributed liner notes to compilations, reissues, and special editions, both of R.E.M.'s own material (the best-of compilations ''[[Eponymous (album)|Eponymous]]'' and ''[[In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003|In Time]]'', the rarities, B-sides and out-takes collection ''[[Dead Letter Office (album)|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 (The Beach Boys album)|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://remhq.com/news/peter-bucks-rickenbacker-returned-3/ |title=Peter Buck's Rickenbacker Returned! |website=R.E.M. HQ |date=September 19, 2008 |access-date=2024-07-08 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In March 2012, six months after R.E.M.'s September 2011 dissolution, Buck, now signed to Mississippi Records,<ref>[https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304137304579292323064252670 "R.E.M.'s Peter Buck on Music and Travel"]&nbsp;– ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', January 3, 2014</ref> announced intentions of working [[Peter Buck (album)|on a solo album]], backed by singer-songwriter [[Joseph Arthur]].<ref>{{cite magazine
 |url = http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/06/joseph-arthur-backs-rems-peter-bucks-singing-debut.html
 |title = Joseph Arthur Back Peter Buck's Singing Debut
 |magazine = Paste magazine
 |date = June 4, 2012
 |access-date = 2012-07-12}}</ref> The first track from the self-titled solo album, "10 Million BC," was released via [[SoundCloud]] on June 21, 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://remhq.com/news/studio-version-of-10-million-bc-3/ |title=Studio Version of 10 Million BC |website=R.E.M. HQ |date=June 21, 2012 |access-date=2024-07-08 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> His eponymous [[Peter Buck (album)|first album]] was released later that same year.

In the final days of 2013, Buck announced he would be releasing his second solo album soon. The new project, titled ''[[I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again]]'', was released on February 18, 2014, again on vinyl only.

In 2015, Buck released his third solo album, ''Warzone Earth'', under Little Axe Records.

In April 2017, Buck released the first single "Any Kind of Crowd" from his latest collaborative project with [[Filthy Friends]], a super group with long time associates [[Scott McCaughey]], [[Bill Rieflin]], [[Kurt Bloch]] and [[Corin Tucker]] of [[Sleater-Kinney]]. The same month also saw another new release with Buck and McCaughey teaming up with Frode Strømstad and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen of Norwegian band I Was A King to form the group The No Ones. The first song from their Sun Station EP was released, with the EP set to follow later in the year.<ref>{{cite web
 |url = http://www.stereogum.com/1937262/stream-the-debut-single-from-jangle-pop-supergroup-the-no-ones/music/
 |title = Stream The Debut Single From Jangle Pop Supergroup The No Ones
 |website = Stereogum
 |date = April 25, 2017
 |access-date = 2017-04-05}}</ref>

Arthur Buck, a side project with singer-songwriter [[Joseph Arthur]] in which Buck and Arthur share songwriting duties, released their eponymous debut album in June 2018.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/joseph-arthur-peter-buck-release-first-video-as-arthur-buck-w519755|title=Joseph Arthur, Peter Buck Wander Through Oregon in Vivid New Video|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=2018-05-04}}</ref> The following year, the [[Luke Haines]] collaboration ''[[Beat Poetry for Survivalists]]'' was released.

==Personal life==
Buck has been married three times, each ending in divorce. He was first married to [[Barrie Buck|Barrie Greene]], the owner of Athens' [[40 Watt Club]].<ref name="Q magazine"/> He and Greene married in 1987 and divorced in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunn |first=Bill |title=Peter Buck – Freedom From Religion Foundation |url=https://ffrf.org/ftod-cr/item/41226-peter-buck |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=ffrf.org |date=December 6, 1980 |language=en-gb}}</ref> 

He has twin daughters, born in May 1994,<ref name="Trellis.Law">{{cite web |date=2007-02-07 |title=Motion for Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in DORGAN VS BUCK |url=https://trellis.law/doc/153050294/fnfcl-findings-fact-conclusions-law-findings-fact-conclusions-law |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=Trellis.Law}}</ref> with [[Stephanie Dorgan]], the owner of Seattle's [[The Crocodile|Crocodile Cafe]] music club.<ref>{{cite news |last=Marshall |first=John |title=Seattle's Crocodile Cafe closes |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/music/article/seattle-s-crocodile-cafe-closes-1259107.php |access-date=2024-04-18 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418023202/https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/music/article/seattle-s-crocodile-cafe-closes-1259107.php |archive-date=2024-04-18 |url-status=live}}</ref> Buck and Dorgan married in January 1995 while in Perth, Australia, during R.E.M.'s Monster World Tour.<ref name="Trellis.Law"/> The couple separated in 2006, and Dorgan sued Buck for divorce in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Crocodile |url=https://www.afar.com/places/the-crocodile-seattle |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=AFAR Media |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Trellis.Law"/> During his marriage to Dorgan, Buck became a partner in Crocodile Cafe and often played there with his other band, [[The Minus 5]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crocodile-cafe-abruptly-closes-its-doors/ |title=Crocodile Cafe abruptly closes its doors |website=[[The Seattle Times]] |author=Tom Scanlon |date=December 17, 2007}}</ref> 

Buck married his third wife, Chloe Johnson, on June 1, 2013, in Portland, Oregon.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20717-scoop-gossip-makin-it-here-or-nowhere-at-all.html|title=Scoop: Gossip Makin' It Here or Nowhere at All|work=Willamette Week|access-date=2017-10-06|language=en-US}}</ref> The three other original bandmates of R.E.M. were all in attendance and performed at the ceremony.<ref>{{Cite web |title=R.E.M. carefully avoids actual reunion as all 4 members play Peter Buck's wedding – Slicing Up Eyeballs |url=https://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/06/02/rem-near-reunion-peter-buck-wedding/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |language=en-US}}</ref> They divorced in 2019.

He is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of music, as well as his extensive personal record collection. Buck estimated his record 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).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.murmurs.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17327&d=1024329453 |title=Murmurs.com |publisher=Murmurs.com |access-date=2012-02-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207155632/http://www.murmurs.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17327&d=1024329453 |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Buck is an atheist.<ref>R.E.M. interview disc, "Shiny Chatty People" conducted on June 23, 1985, for England's Piccadilly Radio "If we all found God tomorrow and wanted to do a gospel show, we would do it. I never will – I'm an atheist"</ref>

In the 1990s, Buck relocated to the [[Pacific Northwest]] and divided time between Portland, Oregon,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Fricke |first=David |author-link=David Fricke |date=February 7, 2011 |title=R.E.M. Roar Back with ''Collapse into Now'' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/r-e-m-roar-back-with-collapse-into-now-20110207 |access-date=February 6, 2012 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> and Seattle, Washington. He has also lived in [[Todos Santos, Baja California Sur|Todos Santos]], [[Baja California Sur]], [[Mexico]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Korrs |first=Ivan |date=December 6, 2022 |title=Peter Buck Now 2022: Age, Birthday, Net Worth, REM Reunion Not Possible |url=https://www.musictimes.com/articles/88602/20221206/peter-buck-now-2022-age-birthday-net-worth-rem-reunion.htm |access-date=April 17, 2024 |website=Music Times}}</ref>

===Airline incident===
On April 21, 2001, Buck was aboard a transatlantic 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 compact disc 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.

At the ensuing trial in London, Buck's defense claimed that the moderate amount of wine he had drunk had reacted adversely with the brand of sleeping pill he was taking and rendered him unable to control his actions. The prosecution argued that he was simply intoxicated from supposedly consuming 15 glasses of wine. After the trial, which included testimony from [[Bono]], the lead singer of the Irish rock band [[U2]], Buck was cleared on the grounds of non-insane [[Automatism (law)|automatism]].<ref>{{cite news
 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1912288.stm
 |title = R.E.M. star cleared of air rage attack. April 5, 2002
 |publisher = BBC News
 |access-date = 2006-08-01
| date=April 5, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
 |url = https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,3604,679895,00.html
 |newspaper = The Guardian
 |title = R.E.M. guitarist cleared of air rage
 |first = Jeevan
 |last = Vasagar
 |date = April 6, 2002
 |access-date = 2006-08-01
| location=London
 }}</ref>

==Discography==
{{div col}}
'''With R.E.M.'''
*''[[Chronic Town]]'' EP ([[I.R.S. Records|I.R.S.]]) 1982
*''[[Murmur (album)|Murmur]]'' (I.R.S.) 1983
*''[[Reckoning (R.E.M. album)|Reckoning]]'' (I.R.S.) 1984
*''[[Fables of the Reconstruction]]'' (I.R.S.) 1985
*''[[Lifes Rich Pageant]]'' (I.R.S.) 1986
*''[[Document (album)|Document]]'' (I.R.S.) 1987
*''[[Green (R.E.M. album)|Green]]'' ([[Warner Bros.]]) 1988
*''[[Out of Time (album)|Out of Time]]'' (Warner Bros.) 1991
*''[[Automatic for the People]]'' (Warner Bros.) 1992
*''[[Monster (R.E.M. album)|Monster]]'' (Warner Bros.) 1994
*''[[New Adventures in Hi-Fi]]'' (Warner Bros.) 1996
*''[[Up (R.E.M. album)|Up]]'' (Warner Bros.) 1998
*''[[Reveal (R.E.M. album)|Reveal]]'' (Warner Bros.) 2001
*''[[Around the Sun (album)|Around the Sun]]'' (Warner Bros.) 2004
*''[[Accelerate (R.E.M. album)|Accelerate]]'' (Warner Bros.) 2008
*''[[Collapse into Now]]'' (Warner Bros.) 2011

'''Solo'''
*''[[Peter Buck (album)|Peter Buck]]'' ([[Mississippi Records|Mississippi]]) 2012
*''[[I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again]]'' (Mississippi) 2014
*''Opium Drivel'' (Mississippi) 2014
*''Warzone Earth'' (Mississippi) 2015
*''Dear December'' ([[Yep Rock]]) 2017
*''[[Beat Poetry for Survivalists]]'' ([[Omnivore Recordings|Omnivore]]) 2020
*''All the Kids are Super Bummed Out'' ([[Cherry Red Records|Cherry Red]], with [[Luke Haines]]) 2022

'''Produced'''
*Eyelids:  ''The Accidental Falls'' (Jealous Butcher Records) 2020 <ref>{{cite web | url=https://coachellavalleyweekly.com/eyelids-the-accidental-falls-the-lyrics-of-larry-beckett-jealous-butcher-records/?fbclid=IwAR2ASuks8AfFZX8M_4ccCz6CwT8MSqVUilU3OuDyR_7UKd3D-iGpGUABF54 | title=Eyelids "The Accidental Falls" (The Lyrics of Larry Beckett) (Jealous Butcher Records) | date=February 26, 2020 }}</ref>
*[[Dreams So Real]]: ''Father's House'' (Coyote) 1986
*[[Alejandro Escovedo]]: ''Burn Something Beautiful'' ([[Fantasy Records|Fantasy]]) 2016
*[[The Feelies]]: ''[[The Good Earth (The Feelies album)|The Good Earth]]'' ([[Twin/Tone]]) 1986
*[[The Fleshtones]]: ''Beautiful Light'' (Naked Language) 1993
*[[John Wesly Harding]]: ''Greatest Other People's Hits'' ([[Omnivore Recordings|Omnivore]]) 2018
*[[The Jayhawks]]: ''[[Paging Mr. Proust]]'' ([[Thirty Tigers]]/Sham) 2016
*[[Kevn Kinney]]: ''[[MacDougal Blues]]'' ([[Island Records]]) 1990
*Run Westy Run: ''Green Cat Island'' (Twin/Tone) 1990
*Hector Tellez Jr.: ''The Great Unknown'' 2023<ref name="htj">{{Cite web |url=https://remhq.com/news/new-music-from-hector-tellez-jr-with-peter-buck-barrett-martin/ |title=New Music from Hector Tellez Jr (with Peter Buck & Barrett Martin) |date=2023-12-03 |accessdate=2023-12-03 |website=R.E.M. HQ}}</ref>
*[[Uncle Tupelo]]: ''March 6–20, 1992'' (Rockville) 1992
*[[Vigilantes of Love]]: [[Killing Floor (album)|''Killing Floor'']] (Fingerprint/Sky) 1992

'''Recorded with'''

Arthur Buck
*''Arthur Buck'' ([[New West]]) 2018
*''Arthur Buck 2'' 2025
[[The Baseball Project]]
*''[[Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails]]'' (Yep Rock) 2008
*''[[Volume 2: High and Inside]]'' (Yep Rock) 2011
*''[[3rd (The Baseball Project album)|3rd]]'' (Yep Rock) 2014
*''[[Grand Salami Time!]]'' (Yep Rock) 2023
[[Mark Eitzel]] 
*''West'' (Warner Bros.) 1997
[[Filthy Friends]] 
*''[[Invitation (Filthy Friends album)|Invitation]]'' ([[Kill Rock Stars]]) 2017
*''[[Emerald Valley]]'' (Kill Rock Stars) 2019
[[Hindu Love Gods (band)|Hindu Love Gods]]
*[[Hindu Love Gods (album)|''Hindu Love Gods'']] ([[Reprise Records|Reprise]]) 1990
[[The Minus 5]] 
*''[[Old Liquidator]]'' ([[Glitterhouse Records]]) 1995
*''[[The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy]]'' ([[Hollywood Records|Hollywood]]/Malt) 1997
*''[[Let the War Against Music Begin]]'' ([[Mammoth Records|Mammoth]]/Malt) 2001
*''[[I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin, Vol. 2)]]'' (Return to Sender) 2003
*''[[Down with Wilco]]'' (Yep Rock) 2003
*''[[In Rock (The Minus 5 album)]]'' (Yep Rock) 2004
*''Gun Album'' (Yep Rock) 2006
*''[[The Minus 5 (album)|The Minus 5]]'' (Yep Rock) 2006
*''[[Killingsworth (album)|Killingsworth]]'' (Yep Rock) 2009
*''Of Monkees and Men'' (Yep Rock) 2010
*''Dear December'' (Yep Rock) 2017
*''Stroke Manor'' (Yep Rock) 2019
[[Tuatara (band)|Tuatara]]
*''[[Breaking the Ethers]]'' ([[Epic Records|Epic]]) 1997
*''[[Trading with the Enemy]]'' (Fast Horse) 1998
*''[[Cinemathique]]'' (Fast Horse) 2002
*''[[The Loading Program]]'' (Fast Horse) 2003
*''[[East of the Sun (Tuatara album)|East of the Sun]]'' (Fast Horse) 2007
*''[[West of the Moon]]'' (Fast Horse) 2007
*''The Here and the Gone'' (Fast Horse) 2008
*''Underworld'' (Sunyata) 2014
*''Shamanic Nights'' (Sunyata) 2016
[[Robyn Hitchcock|Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three]]
*''[[Olé! Tarantula]]'' (Yep Rock) 2006
*''[[Goodnight Oslo]]'' (Yep Rock) 2009
*''[[Propellor Time]]'' (Yep Rock) 2010
[[Tired Pony]]
*''[[The Place We Ran From]]'' ([[Fiction Records|Fiction]]/[[Polydor Records|Polydor]]) 2010
*''[[The Ghost of the Mountain]]'' (Fiction Records|Fiction/Polydor) 2013
[[Nando Reis]]
*''[[Uma Estrela Misteriosa Revelará o Segredo]]'' (Relicário) 2024
The No Ones
*''The Great Lost No Ones Album'' (Yep Rock) 2020
*''My Best Evil Friend'' (Yep Rock) 2023
Slow Music Project
*''Live at the Croc 19 Oct 2005'' (Slow Music) 2005
Full Time Men
*''Full Time Men'' EP (Coyote) 1985
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite book
 |last = Buckley
 |first= David
 |title = R.E.M. Fiction: An Alternative Biography
 |publisher = Virgin Publishing
 |date=October 2003
 |isbn = 978-0-7535-0870-1}}
* {{Cite book
 |last = Grey
 |first = Marcus
 |title = It Crawled from the South: An R.E.M. Companion
 |publisher = Da Capo
 |year = 1997
 |isbn = 978-0-306-80751-0}}

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