Guitarist

Peter Buck

American guitarist of R.E.M. who met Stipe in a record shop.

Peter Lawrence Buck is an American musician and songwriter. He was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.; he played the banjo and mandolin on several R.E.M. songs. Throughout his career with R.E.M. (1980 to 2011), as well as during his subsequent solo career, Buck has been at various times a member of numerous side project groups. These groups included Arthur Buck, Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony, The No-Ones, and Filthy Friends, each of which have released at least one full-length studio album. Additionally, the experimental combo Slow Music have released an official live concert CD. Another side project group called Full Time Men released an EP while Buck was a member. As well, ad hoc "supergroups" Bingo Hand Job, Musical Kings and Nigel & The Crosses have each commercially released one track. Buck's latest project as of 2025 is Drink The Sea, and the band has released a self-titled double album in Autumn 2025.

Summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Born
1956-12-06, Berkeley, USAA Thursday
At birth
Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Aquarius
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1956-12-06, Berkeley, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Los_Angelesthe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunSagittarius14°42′Direct
MoonAquarius4°49′Direct
MercurySagittarius27°45′Direct
VenusScorpio13°55′Direct
MarsAries0°10′Direct
JupiterVirgo29°19′Direct
SaturnSagittarius6°26′Direct
UranusLeo6°43′Retrograde
NeptuneScorpio1°41′Direct
PlutoVirgo0°27′Retrograde

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Peter Buck is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.

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