"DJ Buck Wiley is ultimate wedding DJ! He really listened to me and my fiancee when we planned our wedding reception with him. The day of, he played all the essential songs and he interacted really well with our friends and family. I think he had as much fun as we did."-DJ Buck Wiley client Dave Schnider, Olympia, WA,BOOKING INFO: DJ Buck Wiley is a versatile long-time Seattle DJ who performs wedding, mobile and club gigs. He is well versed in nearly every style of music and also has a unique ability to double as a Master of Ceremonies (hosting).DJ Buck Wiley
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STYLES (FORTAYS): 70s and 80s Rare Grooves, Top 40, Brit-Pop; Downtempo, Trip-hop and Break Beats; Classic Rock, Old Skool beats and rhymes, 80s dance tunes, Classic Country.PRESS: DJ Buck Wiley has been spinning in the Seattle area since 2002. In that time, he's given beats, jams, grooves and songs to places like Chop Suey, The High Dive and Tacoma's Temple Theater. Despite his success and notoriety, his most memorable show remains a wedding reception in a basement."The most fun I've had DJing was when I did a reception underneath the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater. I was putting on some classic 80s dance tunes and everyone sang along. It was riotous."
The DJ Buck Wiley phenomenon came into being inauspiciously in 2002, when friend and mentor DJ Evan Blacktone booked him to spin at Kincora Irish Bar on Capital Hill. It was a memorable first night. Among other happenings, a bar fight broke out, sending some drunk into the turntables and causing the third DJ on the bill, DJ Hawk the Reverend of Rock, to put the aforementioned drunk in a headlock and exclaim, "those are my tables your messing with, man!" For his efforts, DJ Buck Wiley received $15 and three free pints of Spaten."The whole Kincora experience was trial by fire," Buck says sheepishly. "But it's funny, other DJs I've talked to at high end rooms give me respect ... like 'wow, you spun in that place!?'"Ultimately, Evan getting accosted by a crackhead in the Kincora bathroom and Buck Wiley getting offered a regular Sunday night gig at Suite G marked the end of the Kincora Era and the beginning of the Old Skool Sunday phenomenon.DJ Buck Wiley's Suite G Old Skool Sunday series would last for the duration of a year and a half, every Sunday in Fremont. Originally, Buck had a vision of the night becoming a variety hour as well as a night for spinning hits of yesteryear. The early guests on Old Skool Sundays were comedian Nick Thune (now on Comedy Central), former StarSearch finalist Vicci Martinez and local producer Jon Blackstone, who did an incredible Elvis impersonation one night and then talked religion with Buck Wiley's girl at the bar for an hour while still dressed up as The King.Teamming up with bartender Stevie Ray Helton and DJ Steve Styles Clark, DJ Buck Wiley created a Sunday night Fremont phenomenon that ended up being a mixed bag of entertainment from 2004-mid 2005. On more than one occasion, DJ Buck Wiley and Joyce Anna sang some Michael McDonald hits, a semi-hot chick danced on the bar to The Divynals "I Touch Myself" and some dude from SPU did really bad Guns and Roses covers. And that's just the tip of the corn-ball iceburg."Me and Stevie Ray were up for anything, since Sunday is a slow night, we'd do just about anything to entertain ourselves. We'd book anyone who might entertain the crowd and bring people out," Buck Wiley admits."It backfired sometimes because everyone thinks they're funny and entertaining - but only a few actually are. My favorite memories were of Stevie Ray and I 'battling' - debating on the microphone trying to figure out what was the ultimate Old Skool hit. The most entertaining guy there was one of the owners, Dan, who came one in one time with a stuffed pony and a dude named Mookie - I think it was a real stuffed pony ... you know taxidermy style."Withstanding a minor setback involving too many Jager shots, a necessary stop at Diamond Marina and a call to the poison control hotline, Buck Wiley wrapped up 2004 in style, at the Suite G spinning rare grooves around the holidays. In early 2005 Stevie Ray had to go to the hospital for an apedicitis and racked up a huge doctor bill all the while leaving a Stevie-shaped void in Old Skool Sunday.By the summer of 2005, though, Old Skool Sunday went the way of the Dinosaur and, ironically, the Suite G - tits up. With the bar changing hands, becoming the High Dive, Buck Wiley left Fremont with nothing but great memories (except for the one involving Diamond Marina).After booking a series of semi-lucrative weddings that summer and being contracted to play questionable songs like "Milkshake" and "Ain't Nothin but a G Thang," Buck Wiley took over Sunday nights at The Rock Salt. Upon walking in to hist first meeting with the venue, he surprisingly saw his brother-in-law Stefan working there. Stefan, in his usual German way, exclamied, "what the (explative) are you doing here?" Stefan told Buck stories about a stabbing one week earlier and how the place generally was only busy on Friday and Saturday, Salsa Nights. To add insult to DJ injury, Ethan's friend and former Suite G patron Luis came in to the Rock Salt on a Sunday to find Buck spinning to eight guys, to which Luis stammered, "you guys need to get more girls in here."As Buck Wiley history goes, the Rock Salt was just a small chapter, like the first Gulf War or the Andrew Johnson presidency. By October of 2005, Buck was beating Rock Salt booker Ben and bartener Ian handily in ping-pong at Jillian's and drunkenly explaining how he was not coming back."The Rock Salt was cool," Buck said "I had a ball with Ben and Ian but in the end five people a night is not going to cut it. The last night we were there, we brought in some video games for the big screen in a lame attempt to draw people. No one came. If a four foot Mario and Luigi jumping on two foot turtles and warping into Level 5 doesn't bring people, nothing will."For the past year, Buck has experienced unprecedented success as a mobile DJ, spinning at Emerald Downs (June 2006), The Edgewater, The Broadmoor Golf and Country Club. In August of 2006, he hosted Sarathan Records' Demolisten Derby.
