Peter Buck Acquitted! Your reactions?

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Subject line says it all. I'm not sure how this could have happened . . . oh wait, he's rich & famous, isn't he? I guess it's okay for him to get lit and attack a plane crew then!

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would like to acquit Peter Buck with a backhanded smack to the chops.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They should have put him on trial for saying that Monster was a "return to rock."

― Mark, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Offtopic - Mark, you didn't by any chance go to college in Ohio, did you?

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Behold the ineffable smugness!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1910000/images/_1913280_buck300.jpg

They should have captioned this photo "Buck and his ventriloquist dummy meet reporters."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Offtopic - Mark, you didn't by any chance go to college in Ohio, did you?

I almost asked him that once too. I knew a Mark Richardson at Miami ('89, I think) - worked at the radio station wit me.

― Dave225, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They should have captioned this photo "Buck and his ventriloquist dummy meet reporters."

Meanwhile, Bjork gets goosed in the background.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MIAMI! (hiss . . .) I went to OU! Anyway, there was a Mark Richardson who wrote for the paper, played in local bands, and worked for one of the green radio stations. I thought it might be the same guy.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope, I'm from Lansing, Michigan, & I went to Michigan State.

― Mark, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Since its your thread, J, I don't mined asking -- when did you graduate from OU? That's where my fiancee went, class of '91, I feel like she knew this other Mark Richardson.

― Mark, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OU!? Michigan State!? You, you ... Rivals! ... As if I give a shit about any of that. Go (alma mater) team! Rah!

― Dave225, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Both the other Mark Richardson and I were '93. Quite possible that she knew him, or me for that matter.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

.. just realized how bad that sounded.

I'm surprised that Bono didn't somehow get his face into that picture.

― Dave225, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's actually that guy in the farrrr background. You just didn't recognize him because he took the shades off, and his suit isn't shiny.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come now. Bono's likely in Israel as we speak.

― Mark, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bono must have helped. I mean that chap from The Stone Roses (Ian Brown?) went to gaol or summat for air rage and whoopin' an air hostess's arse.

― Brave Ulysses, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is the best thread ever. I went to Pitzer in California, myself, but have gone bowling in Ohio with one of the guys from the Cheater Slicks.

― John Darnielle, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You know, the more I look at that photo, the more Stipe looks like a skinny Henry Kissinger.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peter Buck, fat fuck.

yes, if you can hire a good lawyer and have loads of scumbag celbrity friends you can get away with anything using some cock and bull drug cocktail story. I bet if I ever went on a drunken rampage and came out with some shite about having taken a sleeping pill Billy Law would give me what for.

― DV, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, the more I think about it, why is Stipe's current look San Francisco's dominant look from 1996? Or have I answered my own question?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I REMEMBER CALIFORNIA A Screenplay by Oliver Stone

Scene 24c: [Buck rises from his seat, looking increasingly agitated. Faint drops of liquor adorn shirt. His eyes narrow upon the captain.]

Buck: You...Y-You're just a captain! I am R.E.M.!!!

[Scene cuts to other passengers in coach]:

Little Girl [stands up]: I am R.E.M.!!!

Middle-Aged Male in Suit [stands up]: **I** am R.E.M.!!!

Grandmother [stands up]: I am R.E.M.!!!

Native American Shaman [stands up]: I am R.E.M.!!!

[All other passengers slowly rise and claim their allegiance, the captain, exasperatingly, is drowned with the defiant shouts of the allied passengers. Though he has won the battle in subduing the drunken Buck, it is the spirit of R.E.M. which shall survive...]

(fade)

― Joe, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stipe looks like the bad guy in SNL's Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoons...

― Joe, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some one from Ohio once asked me over ICQ if I actually used a dogsled in winter only.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

why is peter buck cuddling with a young alan ginsberg?

― mt, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peter Buck,Bono, and Phony Stipe all work for the same company "AssHoles Are Us"

― Jim Hargraves, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

young alan ginsberg
Looks like an old Ginsburg to me. Late 80s.

― Mark, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Disturbing picture, really really awful!

― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven years pass...

Was thinking of his past when I just saw him open for Robyn Hitchcock and then play with Robyn. Near the end of his opening set he said: "Bad news for you, I still have another song to do; good news- I'm drunk." He sang with an affected voice on blues-rock and garage rock numbers, and joked about Fleetwoood Mac twice. With Robyn Hitchcock though he was more subdued and playing the proper sideman role.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:14 (thirteen years ago)

tbh he always seemed a bit jerk-y, even in the early days. struggling thru the last few REM albums i decided that stipe's arty pretensions were preferable to buck's rocknroll bloke cliches

― screen scraper (m coleman), Friday, 3 May 2013 11:53 (thirteen years ago)

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