, Italy, in 2008 '' Buck's style of guitar playing is simple and yet distinctive. His arpeggiated picking 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. 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 (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. "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, and
The Feelies. Buck also has made contributions on many other musicians' albums, including
The Replacements,
Billy Bragg,
The Decemberists,
Robyn Hitchcock, and several
Eels albums. Buck, 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. Buck also continued to play live locally with the Normaltown Flyers, performing country and rock standards in local bars. In March 2012, six months after R.E.M.'s September 2011 dissolution, Buck, now signed to Mississippi Records, announced intentions of working
on a solo album, backed by singer-songwriter
Joseph Arthur. The first track from the self-titled solo album, "10 Million BC," was released via
SoundCloud on June 21, 2012. His eponymous
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. 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. The following year, the
Luke Haines collaboration
Beat Poetry for Survivalists was released. ==Personal life==