Peter Buck

Peter Buck plays "Life is Short" live at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, GA on 2-28-2014 in this video. Throughout the video, and more notably at :31s, you can see Buck playing a custom Fender Telecaster.

"Yeah. I was playing a Telecaster in 1980; it got stolen out of my house. And there was a little music store in town called Chick Piano; they had a blond Rickenbacker 360 with flat-wound strings. That was my main guitar until 1981, when it got stolen.

I went to a shop in Hartford, Conn. and asked if they had Rickenbackers. They pulled this black 360 out; I played it, and it was in tune. That's the one that's been on every R.E.M. record except the first single, and I bring it to pretty much every session I do.

It's still the guitar I go to every day. It has real clarity of tone. It's sitting in a stand at the foot of my bed. I like playing guitar in my pajamas. I've got three other guitars in my bedroom: a '43 Gibson; a 1960 Rickenbacker that I got from Reverb; a Goldtop. They kind of rotate to the bedroom, and if I'm really working, I'll go down in the basement to avoid everyone."

From this interview.

This image was from a concert in Austin, TX.

In this image, we can see Buck holding a D major chord on Danelectro 12-string Bouzouki.

In this image, one can see Buck playing a Epiphone Riviera 12-string.

As seen in this photo, found on Feel Numb, in the music video for "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" Buck can be seen playing the Jag-Stang, originally designed and owned by Kurt Cobain.

In this photo, we can see Buck playing a Taylor 615.

"Tone first of all. I don't use them the same way most people use them: as a solo instrument. I tend to be more chord oriented. But those pickups have a nice, warm, chordal feeling. You can get all the harmonics and stuff out without being too overdriven. And I just like thinking about whoever owned this thing in 1954 or 1955."

As seen at the Rat, Boston, MA, 1984

Used at least once live in the spring of '85.

Not seen a quote but he used this a lot in the late 80s.

Used this on late 85 tour of Europe, not seen in USA. I asked Mike Mills on Twitter and I think it is his.

Peter Buck has only two main guitars, a Rickenbacker 330 and 301 both dated 1981, that he puts through a Fender Twin Reverb amplifier with two JBL speakers. He also uses a 12-string ‘81 Rickenbacker in the studio and has a 1981 Gretsch Chef Atkins Tennessean at his disposal. Besides the Twin Reverb, Buck has a Marshall amp that he sometimes borrows from his producer Mitch Easter to make a more heavy metal racket. As for effects, he has only one – an lbanez VE400 pedal that he uses live though he isn’t too sure what it actually does.

Peter can be seen using a Standard Telcaster in this photo.

In this image Peter Buck is seen playing a Vox AC-30 live.

You can see Savege amp in this picture of Buck onstage.

Peter Buck (REM/ Tired Pony)

According to Maxon's website, Buck uses the Maxon AD80 analog delay pedal.

A Pro Co RAT Distortion Pedal can be seen along with other pedals and a Vox AC30.

A Fulltone OCD overdrive pedal can be seen on Peter Buck's pedal board. http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/blog/2008/10/gear-rem.html

Line 6 DL4 can be seen in this picture of his board

Fulldrive 2 can be seen in this picture of his board

Katana pre-amp can bee seen in this image of his board

Bearfoot FX Honey Bee can be in this image of his pedalboard

A 2-knob Compressor can be seen in this image of his pedalboard

Guyatone MT3 can be seen in this image of his pedalboard

V1 Fatboost can be seen in this image of his board