Tony Buck (musician)
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Background information | |
Born | 1962 (age 58–59) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Genres | Jazz, experimental |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Drums, percussion, guitar, vocals |
Years active | 1980–present |
Associated acts | The Necks, Peril, Great White Noise |
Tony Buck (born 1962) is an Australian drummer and percussionist.[1] He graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music), becoming involved in the Australian jazz scene.
Buck played in with Michael Sheridan and Sandy Evans[2] during 1983, then Women and Children First with Sandy Evans.[3] He is a founding member of The Necks with Chris Abrahams and Lloyd Swanton since 1987.[4][5] He is leader of Peril, who he formed in Japan with Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki, and astroPeril. He also formed the short lived L'Beato in the early 1990s, an industrial-oriented outfit reminiscent of Tackhead, which released one EP "The Piston Song".
In the early 1990s, Buck moved from Australia to Amsterdam and later moved to Berlin.
Discography[]
- The Shape of Things to Come (1989)
- Solo Live (1994)
- Self_contained_underwater_breathing_apparatus
- Projekt Transmit (2009)
- Knoxville (Christian Fennesz / David Daniell / Tony Buck, 2010)
With The Necks[]
- Sex (Spiral Scratch, 1989)
- Next (Spiral Scratch, 1990)
- Aquatic (Fish of Milk/Shock, 1994)
- Silent Night (Fish of Milk/Shock, 1996)
- The Boys (original soundtrack) (Wild Sound/MDS, 1998)
- Piano Bass Drums (Fish of Milk/Shock, 1998)
- Hanging Gardens (Fish of Milk/Shock/ReR Megacorp, 1999)
- Aether (Fish of Milk/Shock/ReR Megacorp, 2001)
- Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab (Fish of Milk/Shock, 2002)
- Photosynthetic (Long Arms, 2003)
- Drive By (Fish of Milk/Shock/ReR Megacorp, 2003)
- Mosquito/See Through (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2004)
- Chemist (Fish of Milk/Shock/ReR Megacorp, 2006)
- Townsville (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2007)
- Silverwater (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2009)
- (Staubgold, 2011)
- Mindset (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2011)
- Open (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2013)
- Vertigo (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2015) – a single disc-length track of the same name. Their second album to be released on vinyl.
- Unfold (Ideologic Organ, 2017)
- Body (Fish of Milk/Northern Spy, 2018)
- Three (Fish of Milk/Northern Spy/ReR Megacorp, 2020)
References[]
- General
- McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Whammo Homepage". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 5 April 2004. Retrieved 22 February 2010. Note: Archived [on-line] copy has limited functionality.
- Spencer, Chris; Zbig Nowara; Paul McHenry (2002) [1987]. The Who's Who of Australian Rock. Notes by Ed Nimmervoll. Noble Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press. ISBN 1-86503-891-1.[6] Note: [on-line] version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.
- Specific
- ^ Spencer et al, (2007) Buck, Tony Archived 19 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine entry. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
- ^ "Great White Noise". Discogs. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ "Women And Children First". Discogs. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ McFarlane 'Chris Abrahams' entry. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
- ^ Spencer et al, (2007) NECKS, THE Archived 19 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine entry. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
- ^ "Who's who of Australian rock / compiled by Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara & Paul McHenry". catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
External links[]
- Tony Buck discography at Discogs Archived 23 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- 1962 births
- Living people
- APRA Award winners
- Australian jazz drummers
- Male drummers
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni
- Musicians from Sydney
- Male jazz musicians
- The Necks members
- Peril (band) members