Greek Buck were a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 musical duo, consisting of Don Pyle

Don Pyle

Don Pyle is a Canadian record producer and musician, who has been a member of a number of bands.His first, from 1979 to 1981, was a punk band called Crash Kills Five. They released one EP in 1980, What Do You Do At Night?. It was in this four piece band that he first played with two members, Reid...

 (formerly of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet were a Juno Award-winning Canadian instrumental rock band, formed in 1984. They remain best-known for the track "Having an Average Weekend," which was used as the theme to the Canadian sketch comedy TV show The Kids in the Hall...

 and Phono-Comb

Phono-Comb

Phono-Comb was a Canadian instrumental/modern surf rock group that originated in Toronto, Ontario.-History:Phono-Comb first materialized when Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet played with Jad Fair when he was performing in Toronto to promote a film about his band Half Japanese...

) and Andrew Zealley. They are best known for "Spunk", the theme song to the American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 television series Queer as Folk

Queer as Folk (US TV series)

Queer as Folk is an American and Canadian television series co-production, produced by Showtime and Temple Street Productions, which was based on the British series of the same name, created by Russell T Davies...

. Originally billed as "Barely Pink", they changed their name to "Greek Buck" in 1998.

Pyle and Zealley also composed the scores to several films by John Greyson

John Greyson

John Greyson is a Canadian filmmaker, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. Greyson is also a video artist, writer and activist; he is currently a professor at York University, where he teaches film and video theory and film production and editing.-Background:Greyson was born the son of...

 (including Proteus, The Law of Enclosures

The Law of Enclosures (film)

The Law of Enclosures is a Canadian drama film, released in 1999. The film was written and directed by John Greyson, and based on the novel The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck....

and the short films This is Nothing and Herr), Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...

 (I Shout Love) and Wrik Mead (Fruit Machine, Hoolboom, Camp). CD releases of the soundtracks were billed as "Don Pyle + Andrew Zealley" to set them apart from the other Greek Buck releases.

Greek Buck recorded with a number of notable vocalists and musicians including Caroline Azar

Caroline Azar

Caroline Azar is a Canadian director, actor, and playwright of Lebanese Sephardic origin. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band Fifth Column.This experimental all-women punk band began in the mid 1980s in Toronto, Ontario...

, Ian Blurton

Ian Blurton

Ian Blurton is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was born in Chicago in 1965, and moved to Toronto in the mid 1970s.He has been a part of Toronto's indie music scene since the early 1980s, playing drums in the original line-ups for Cowboy Junkies and A Neon Rome before becoming the lead...

, Joel Gibb

Joel Gibb

Joel Gibb is a Berlin-based Canadian artist and singer-songwriter who leads the "gay church folk" group The Hidden Cameras. He was born in Kincardine, Ontario.-Career:...

, Sandro Perri

Sandro Perri

Sandro Perri is a musician and producer from Toronto, Canada. His music has been called post-rock, electronic, experimental, ambient, folk among others....

, and actress Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...

.

Barely Pink

• '"Black Vinyl" / "Litho Star" (1997) (vinyl single)
• Lrg-n^ss10 (Galerie Largeness Installment No. Ten) (1997) (cassette EP)

Greek Buck

• Messin' With Greek Buck (1998) (vinyl only)
• Bucquiem (2000)
• No Time (2002) (CD EP)

Don Pyle + Andrew Zealley

• The Law Of Enclosures
  The Law of Enclosures (film)
  The Law of Enclosures is a Canadian drama film, released in 1999. The film was written and directed by John Greyson, and based on the novel The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck....
  
  (2001) (original soundtrack)
• Proteus (2003) (original soundtrack)

External links

• The Shadowy Site On A Shadowy Web (Unofficial Shadowy Men Home Page with a section on Greek Buck)