R.E.M.’s Peter Buck Starts New Band With Joseph Arthur

Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has formed a new band with Joseph Arthur. The new band is appropriately named Arthur Buck and the latter says they connected after Arthur played a festival near Buck’s home in Baja, Mexico.More »

By mcarthurtiptoptux@comcast.net on February 18, 2018

Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has formed a new band with Joseph Arthur. The new band is appropriately named Arthur Buck and the latter says they connected after Arthur played a festival near Buck’s home in Baja, Mexico. “I was like, ‘Come swimming!’ Joe shows up in Mexico – the kind of guy where he’s carrying every single thing he owns on his back – and then all this stuff started occurring. Joe is going through that searching period we all go through in life,” Buck says of his bandmate. “And those experiences he’s having make this a very forward-looking record, lyrically. The music has a questing kind of feel. We were making it up as we went along.” “All of a sudden it was like I had this musical partner and friend, and that relieved the music of the burden of the self, if that makes sense,” Arthur tells Rolling Stone. Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «