Buck Pets Thrash Loud in Classic Rock Fashion
Band: The Buck Pets.
Personnel: Andy Thompson, vocals and guitar; Chris Savage, lead guitar; Ian Beach, bass; Tony Alba, drums.
History: Dallas high school pals Alba, Savage and Thompson started the Buck Pets in 1985 in classic American rock fashion: jamming in a bedroom at Alba’s house. The trio went public that New Year’s Eve at a Dallas club and eventually went around the country in a van on a catch-as-catch-can tour that gave the group a reputation for loud and loose shows. A track on “The Sound of Deep Ellum,” a compilation of unsigned Dallas rockers, and demo tapes picked up college/alternative radio play. Island Records signed the band last spring. A debut album, “The Buck Pets,” was released in February.
Sound: The Buck Pets have been called the “Guns N’ Rosebuds,” but their style is more a blend of early Replacements and Metallica, matching the former’s boastful exuberance/inner doubt paradox and musical raggedness with the latter’s machine-gun guitar stutter and complex looks at right and wrong. This is definitely dudes music--loud, thrashing and a touch snotty, in a teen-age male sort of way.
Where: The Buck Pets headline Club Lingerie on Thursday and open for Jane’s Addiction at the John Anson Ford Theatre on Friday.
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