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Peter Buck Always Picked Up Warren Zevon’s Midnight CallsL The R.E.M. guitarist on the joys of making Hindu Love Gods and the strained aftermath

The R.E.M. guitarist on the joys of making Hindu Love Gods and the strained aftermath.

I’m reaching him south of the border at an undisclosed Mexican location, after the guitarist spent the past few months in Brazil “working with a musician” and in Chile “helping move telescope parts and then climbing up in the mountains.” He is ostensibly a man who doesn’t want to be bothered. bandmates Mike Mills and Bill Berry alongside musician Bryan Cook, the quintet recorded a few demos and went on to play a one-off gig with Michael Stipe. The impromptu jam session had been meant to perhaps serve as a bonus track or two to pad out a future box set — it was Zevon’s team that pushed the LP format as an easy payday several years later in 1990.

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