Buck-O-Nine

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 belts, 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 2006, Buck-O-Nine still plays several shows a year and continues to write and record new music, choosing to release new songs in MP3 format through its website.

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