Biography
Emerging from Dallas, TX toward the end of the 1980s, the Buck Pets—Tony Alba on drums, Ian Beach on bass, Chris Savage handling guitar and vocals, and Andy Thompson also on guitar and vocals—issued three albums across the shift between decades before permanently disbanding in 1993. Their sound drew clear inspiration from foundational indie rock acts like the Replacements, which helped them land a contract with Island Records for the release of their opening pair of LPs, 1989’s The Buck Pets and 1990’s Mercurotones. The group landed support slots alongside alt-rock heavyweights Jane’s Addiction and collaborated in the studio with Michael Beinhorn and the Dust Brothers, yet broader commercial traction remained out of reach, since most listeners had yet to embrace the rowdy alt-rock wave and its occasional forays into dance-oriented sounds that arrived a year or two later. The Buck Pets therefore disbanded following the 1993 appearance of their concluding album, To the Quick, which came out on Restless.
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