Tony Buck is a drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 and percussionist. He graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...

), becoming involved in the Australian jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 scene.

Buck is a founding member of The Necks

The Necks

The Necks are an experimental jazz trio from Sydney, Australia, comprising Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass...

 with Chris Abrahams

Chris Abrahams

Chris Abrahams is a Sydney-based pianist, best known for his jazz work.Abrahams has been a member of the Benders, the Laughing Clowns, The Sparklers and The Necks. He has recorded several solo albums, as well as collaborations with Melanie Oxley from the Sparklers...

 and Lloyd Swanton

Lloyd Swanton

Lloyd Stuart Swanton is an Australian jazz double bassist/bass guitarist and composer, based in Sydney. Swanton was a member of Dynamic Hepnotics in 1986 and co-founded, jazz trio The Necks in 1987 with Chris Abrahams and Tony Buck....

 since 1987. He is leader of Peril

Peril (band)

Peril were a Japanese/Australian industrial band operating throughout the early 1990s.Peril was founded by drummer Tony Buck and were active from 1992 to 1996...

, who he formed in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 with Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki

Kato Hideki

Kato Hideki is a Japanese musician and composer. He was a seminal member of the Tokyo Noise music scene of the late 80s and early 90s, collaborating with Japanese experimental musicians such as Otomo Yoshihide, Tatsuya Yoshida, Makigami Koichi, and Yamatsuka Eye. He led his own bands, Player...

, and astroPeril. He also formed the short lived L'Beato in the early 1990s, an industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

-oriented outfit reminiscent of Tackhead

Tackhead

Tackhead are an industrial hip-hop group that were most active during the 1980s and early 1990s, and briefly reformed in 2004 for a tour. Their music occupies the territory where funk, dub, industrial music and electronica intersect...

, which released one EP "The Piston Song".

In the early nineties Buck moved from Australia to Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 and later moved to Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, where he currently lives.

He formed the band Glacial with Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo

Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...

 and David Watson

David Watson (musician)

David Watson is a musician originally from New Zealand. Watson has lived and worked in New York City since 1987.Originally known as a guitarist, since 1991 Watson's work has also featured new music for the Highland Bagpipes....

.

Projekt Transmit was released in 2009, featuring 8 original songs written by Buck and one cover of Masters of War

Masters of War

"Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written over the winter of 1962-63 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963. The song's melody was adapted from the traditional "Nottamun Town"...

 by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

. A band was formed around this album consisting of Magda Mayas on keyboards, James Welburn on bass, Brendan Dougherty on drumset and Buck on guitar, vocals, drumset and percussion.

Discography

• The Shape of Things to Come (1989)
• Solo Live (1994)
• Self_contained_underwater_breathing_apparatus
• Projekt Transmit (2009)
• Knoxville (Christian Fennesz
  Christian Fennesz
  Christian Fennesz is an Austrian guitarist active in electronic music, often credited on albums simply as Fennesz....
  
   / David Daniell
  David Daniell (musician)
  David Daniell is an American guitarist and composer active in experimental music, improvisation and electroacoustic composition.He has been active with the trio San Agustin since 1996...
  
   / Tony Buck, 2010)

See also The Necks' Discography

External links