Buck-O-Nine
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| Buck-O-Nine | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin |  San Diego California, United States |
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| Genre(s) | Ska punk Reggae rock |
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| Years active | 1991–present | |
| Label(s) | Taang, TVT, Offramp, Moon Ska Europe | |
| Website | http://www.buckonine.com/ | |
| Members | ||
| Dan Albert Anthony Curry Jeff Hawthorne Jon Pebsworth Jonas Kleiner Andy Platfoot Craig Yarnold |
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Buck-O-Nine is an American ska punk band which was formed in San Diego, California, in 1991. [1]
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[edit] History
The band's first release was a twelve song demo tape entitled Buck Naked and featured a cartoon drawing by then drummer Steve Bauer, depicting a naked deer sheepishly covering its private parts. The demo tape was released on the band's own pseudo record label, Working Class Records. Shortly after, a 7" record known as the California 7" was released on Silver Girl Records.
In 1994, the band released its first full-length album, Songs In The Key of Bree on San Diego label Immune Records. One week after the CD was released, the band embarked on its first US tour.
In 1995, Buck-O-Nine released its second full-length album, entitled Barfly on Taang! Records. The album title was inspired by the movie of the same name, starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The album featured a mixture of originals and cover tunes by bands which had inspired Buck-O-Nine's music since the band's inception. As sales of Barfly started to increase, the band was slapped with a cease and desist notice. The original cover of the album used images of both Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The actors' legal representation were less than thrilled with this. In 1996, drummer Steve Bauer created an alternate album cover for Barfly, which is the current album cover.
In 1996, after 2 years of constant touring, Buck-O-Nine saw the sales of their Taang releases, Songs In The Key of Bree and Barfly, increase substantially to well over 60,000 copies sold despite distribution problems and a dire lack of promotion by the Taang! Records label.
Buck-O-Nine's next full-length release was the 1997 album 28 Teeth on TVT Records. With the release of this third album, and several years of touring under their balls, Buck-O-Nine began to see increased national radio airplay with the release of the single "My Town". A video was shot and received limited airplay on MTV. Twenty Eight Teeth sold over 200,000 copies, appearing a top spot on the Billboard HeatSeekers chart at one point, and appearing in the Billboard Top 200 chart for several weeks. The band toured constantly to promote Twenty Eight Teeth, sharing the stage with a wide variety of bands both in their genre and outside their genre too. Notable appearances included the 1997 Warped Tour, and being picked by Primus as support on their tour for The Brown Album.
The band's fourth album Libido was released on TVT Records in 1999. It demonstrates an evolution in the sound the band had developed, steering somewhat away from the ska and punk sound that defined Buck-O-Nine in the earlier years. By the time Libido was released, the popularity of third wave ska in the US had crested and was beginning to recede. The band continued to tour throughout 1999, but stopped working full-time after this.
In 2000, Buck-O-Nine released 'Hellos and Goodbyes', a live album which also included new unreleased tracks that were demos of songs intended for a 5th full length studio CD release. Buck-O-Nine eventually decided to not pursue the recording of this album.
As of Spring, 2007, Buck-O-Nine is in the studio recording a full-length album and has quite a few shows planned for the summer months. They will release the new CD entitled "Sustain" on Asian Man Records in the summer of 2007.
[edit] Band members
[edit] Current members
- Jon Pebsworth - vocals
- Jonas Kleiner - guitar
- Andy Platfoot - bass
- Jeff Hawthorne - drums
- Craig Yarnold - saxophone
- Anthony Curry - trumpet
- Dan Albert - trombone
[edit] Former members
- Scott Kennerly - bass (1991-99)
- Steve Bauer - drums (1991-98)
- John Bell - bass (1999-2001)
- John Arquilla - vocals (1991-92)
[edit] Discography
| Year | Album | Label |
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| 1994 | Songs In The Key Of Bree - (LP) | Immune Records / Taang! Records / Toy's Factory |
| 1995 | Barfly - (LP) | Taang! Records / Toy's Factory |
| 1995 | Water In My Head - (EP) | Taang! Records |
| 1997 | Twenty-Eight Teeth - (LP) | TVT Records / Toy's Factory |
| 1998 | Pass the Dutchie - (EP) | TVT Records |
| 1999 | Libido - (LP) | TVT Records / Toy's Factory |
| 2000 | Hellos And GoodByes - Live & Unreleased - (LP) | Offramp Records |
| 2001 | On A Mission - (LP) | Moon Ska Europe |
[edit] Miscellaneous Buck-O-Nine info
- There are several stories about where Buck-O-Nine's name came from. One was that someone used the phrase in the context of a joke they were telling ("yo mamma don't weigh more than a buck-o-nine," or something to that effect). Another version was the band pooled their money for beer and all they had was a dollar and nine cents. Another was that former vocalist John Arquilla told bassist Scott Kennerly that he couldn't weigh more than a "buck oh nine." [2]
- The track "Barfly" appeared on two of their albums, "Songs In The Key Of Bree" (1994) and "Barfly" (1995). "Songs In The Key Of Bree" was originally released on Immune Records, a tiny San Diego Label. Curtis Casella, owner of Taang! Records and a Bukowski fan, wanted to release a Buck-O-Nine EP on his label called Barfly that would consist of several cover tunes and the Buck-O-Nine original, Barfly. Taang! eventually re-released Key Of Bree as well.[3]
- The Irish Drinking Song from "Songs In The Key Of Bree" is sometimes mistakenly credited as a Flogging Molly, Bouncing Souls, or Dropkick Murphys song. Although Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys are known for playing Irish Drinking Songs, that particular song was written and recorded by Buck-O-Nine. [4]
- The Buck-O-Nine song, My Town, is regularly played at Petco Park during Padres baseball games.
- Former Buck-O-Nine vocalist John Arquilla is now lead singer of San Diego ska/punk band G-Spot, which also has Jeff Hawthorne as drummer.
- The Buck-O-Nine song, My Town, was featured in season 8 of Beverly Hills 90210 in the episode, "Toil And Trouble," which aired October 29, 1997. [5]
- The Buck-O-Nine song, Who Are They?, was featured on an episode of Six Feet Under. [6]
- Buck-O-Nine's cover of the Joe Jackson song, I'm the Man, was featured in the movie The Big Hit starring Mark Wahlberg and Christina Applegate. [7]
- Buck-O-Nine's cover of the Musical Youth version of the song, Pass the Dutchie, was featured in the movie Homegrown, starring Billy Bob Thornton. [8]
- Buck-O-Nine won eight San Diego Music Awards between 1995 - 2000. [9]
- The band are huge fans of the Longmont Potion Castle prank call CD's.
- Previous to Buck-O-Nine, saxophone player, Craig Yarnold was in a Ska band called the Spy Kids, which also included Matt Hensley from the band Flogging Molly on guitar, and Scott Russo from the band Unwritten Law on keyboard.
- Previous to Buck-O-Nine, singer Jon Pebsworth was in a Hardcore Punk band called Labeled Victims, which also included Pat Kim, the current bass player of the band Unwritten Law.
- Original Unwritten Law bassist, John Bell, was the bassist of Buck-O-Nine for 2 years after Buck-O-Nine's original bassist left the band in 1999. [10]
- Guitarist Jonas Kleiner, is also the guitarist and singer of the San Diego band, Destrung.[11]
- Previous to Buck-O-Nine, trombone player Dan Albert and trumpet player Tony Curry were in a Reggae band known as T Irie Dread.
- Drummer Jeff Hawthorne, is also the drummer of the San Diego band, Plural, which includes former Buck-O-Nine bass player, Scott.
- Sax player Craig Yarnold, also plays sax in an instrumental Surf band, Secret Samurai.
- Steve Bauer, original drummer, is now a successful tattoo artist in Colorado Springs.[12]
