Home / Music / Peter Buck's broken amp shaped the sound of MurmurMusic linernotes album music remPeter Buck's broken amp shaped the sound of MurmurWith his Fender Twin Reverb broken, Buck used Mitch Easter’s Ampeg Gemini II for most songs and played Easter’s Fender Electric XII instead of his usual Rickenbacker 360. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesR.E.M.'s Reckoning took seven years to go goldAutomatic for the People: 18 million copies sold and countingOne track earned R.E.M. the chance to record MurmurR.E.M.'s Reckoning is also called File Under WaterDon Dixon built a cardboard-box binaural head for R.E.M.'s ReckoningExploreLaraaji's Celestial Vibration runs on electronically-treated zitherMulatu Astatke brought the vibraphone and congas into Ethiopian musicTerry Riley layered electric organ, two harpsichords, dumbec, and tambourine on RainbowClarinet is the unexpected star of Andy Shauf's The PartyLothar and the Hand People brought the theremin and Moog to rockPrevious Porgy and Bess was the third and final Fitzgerald-Armstrong albumNext Pete Rock produced The Main Ingredient.