BeachLife locals Some of the Beach Cities’ best musicians enjoy a bigger stage
Jeremy Buck, who will reunite with the original members of his band, the Bang, guitarist Chris Hanna and bassist Joel Geist, for BeachLIfe on May 14. Photo courtesy Jeremy Buck & the Bang by Mark McDermott Jeremy Buck had a California dream. It was 2000, and he was getting out of Indiana. He wrote a song called “Going to California,” packed his guitar and drums into his ‘89 Honda Accord, and drove west. He pulled into the South Bay and soon thereafter started a rock ‘n roll band. Jeremy Buck & the Bang would do some national touring but their bread and butter were always local gigs. Buck reigned for many years as the unofficial king of the local music scene — winning several Best of the Beach awards for best local band — ubiquitous with his spiked mohawk hair, happy rocker sensibility. Nobody gigged more locally than Buck over the last two decades, including nights that Buck called “doubleheaders.” “We’d play Lighthouse from 4 to 8 p.m., then I’d pack up my stuff and cruise over and do a solo show from 9 to 2 a.m. at Hennessey’s,” Buck said. “I remember one time, a Memorial Day weekend, we did five shows in 24 hours. My voice was shredded. But man, we did it. We were troubadours…
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