Bob Buckstaff

Background

About Bob Buckstaff

I won a coin toss once, on a friends suburban Chicago driveway. Heads, I lose to another wide eyed adolescent. Tails, I'm the bassist in a band divined of the yet unripened minds of a sixth grade art class. The blazing token hit the ground flat. Eagle up. I bought a bass the following day. I sit writing this brief summary of my work today under a greystone eagle's gaze from the Illinois Centennial Monument in Logan Square. I've been living and working out of this Chicago neighborhood for nearly a decade as a musician. It's been an enlightening journey since that first paid gig, a first communion in the seventh grade. From the playing jazz in the halls of Prospect High School, to studying music at the University of Michigan, to setting out and touring my first records. I've had the privilege of seeing the better part of this continent. I've worked on great records with fine artists and producers. In addition to the projects listed below, I have had the pleasure of doing session and touring work with other incredible groups from this town.(Empires, This Is Cinema, Jon Walker, Republic of Lights, and others.) And all of these people have opened the doors for me to expand into other work in the music industry, from commercial work to video game soundtracks.