I have been enlightened listening very intensely recently to all three of their albums that I bought as a teen from 1968 to 1969. I now believe that the spirit, passion, and creativity on their first album is truly the best. Their spirit of musical cohesion, passionate harmony, and brilliant songs I believe surpasses the songs on Buffalo Springfield Again (my fave in '69) and even though I also love the songs on Last Time Around their soulful harmony and cohesive creativity was fading away. I also now truly love and am in awe of the Richie Furay songs and his incredible voice, he may have truly been the Heart and Soul of the band. Also, we must all tip our hats to the brilliant Ahmet Ertegun for delivering this incredible music to us.
Although "For What It's Worth" is the band's first Top 40 appearance, Buffalo Springfield debuted in August 1966 with "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing." It was regionally popular in southern California, but only Bubbled under Billboard's Hot 100 at 110. When "For What It's Worth" was charting well in early 1967, Atco decided to add it to the "Buffalo Springfield" lp. I bought my copy in 1972 that includes the song. While I was stationed with the Air Force in England, UK--Atlantic released "Fours" (# K 10237), an extended-play 45 in 1972 that includes Bluebird, Mr. Soul, Rock n Roll Woman and Expecting to Fly. All tracks are taken from "Buffalo Springfield Again."
Very important group along with Poco. I was in high school in the 60's and everything coming out of California was sometimes more important than what came out of England. I will turn 75 this year and was in high school in southern Ontario very near to Omemee where Neil Young spent his earlier years so the Neil Young gossip in high school never stopped. Thanks for this. I love the memories.
I have the original version of the first album that has Baby Don't Scold Me, before it got replaced with FWIW on subsequent versions. Again is also my favorite album of theirs; even though they were beginning to splinter by then, it's a classic. On the last album my least favorite song is In The Hour of Not Quite Rain - the lyrics were written by the winner of a "Write a song for the Buffalo Springfield" contest. On the Way Home is my favorite from that album, and Neil performed that for many years after. The version on 4 Way Street when CSN comes in gives me goose bumps. Another connection between CSN and Poco - Phil Hartman designed album covers for both of them. Thanks for the great video.
In England They Flew Past Most people. Remember Struggling to Find Their Four Lps at The Time ...Still have Them But i Really recommend The Four Cd Box Set For The Demos And Alternative Versions .. Great Band...Nice Tribute Mazzy.
Last Time Around is very underrated. Although a patchwork, there are some stellar songs on that album. On The Way Home, Questions, Pretty Girl Why, Four Days Gone, Kind Woman, I Am A Child, etc.
Good job Mazzy. Top 3 albums on my top 100 list. My list doesn't morph into a nonsense list as does Rolling Stone Mag. over the years. 1 Forever Changes - Love 2 Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield 3 Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
I consider Last Time Around a Stills showcase which you should've mentioned. Stills was at the beginning of his peak, not just with magnificent Questions but also Special Care with Buddy Miles on drums, Pretty Girl Why, Four Days Gone.... absolute Stills classics!
Although "For what it's worth" was the hit, it was the song "Do I have to come right out and it" was the song that I heard on the A.M. radio back in 1967, that knocked me out!
What I would give to see your music collection Norman - I could be lost for days. I love your videos. I am a great music collector (nowhere near as huge as you!!) with about 4000 CDs and especially love the late 60's music scene in San Francisco & LA and have pretty much everything from that era. It was such a brilliant time for innovation and originality in music that will never be replicated, and still holds up really well today. It was my geography teacher in the mid 70's who got me into music big time as he said he had the 2nd biggest collection of original blues records in Europe, and wow his house was full. Me and a mate used to go back to his house to listen to those records and smoke some pot - which felt brilliantly rebellious at the time. Keep them coming Mr Maslov!! 😊
Great Video Mazzy! I love the Buffalo Springfield! I have the double album from 1973 AM plus I have the box set from 1998 and the complete albums box. What a great band no one talks about the Springfield very much anymore. Glad you did Mazzy! Have a great day!
I love (and have) all their albums. I've been stuck on Baby Don't Scold Me with that little Day Tripper riff. How cool, remember when bands then would throw out those little nods to The Beatles? Nowadays Clancy was also covered by The Carpenters and Fever Tree. Timeless, these albums never age for me. BS is in my top 10. Thanks mazzy.
I love all their albums. I bought the vinyl box set reissue, "What's that Sound" awhile back. It has the mono and stereo of the first 2 albums as well as the 3rd album. They match the originals for me without 50+ years of being played.
Thank you Mazzy ! And let's not forget the 4 CD set called "Buffalo Springfield Box Set". Compiled by Neil Young and released in 2001: a 3 CD retrospective followed by the first two Lps on disc 4. Mono on Lp one & stereo on Lp two. All HDCD set. Highly recommended!
One of my favorite bands as well. I love the Stills/Young combo, and Richie was great as well. That single album compilation, Retrospective, is perfect. One of the greatest listens ever. "Bluebird" is an all time favorite song of mine. The 4-CD box set has a lot of interesting material on it. Love all the acoustic demos.
Quite surprised when this popped up on youtube. I totally agree with the autho: The Buffalo was a great band as well as they were the the forerunner of CSN&Y. Their records are not in a plenty but a must have for every collection. Here in GER they weren't that popular as in the US/CAN. But we should all care that they won't be forgotten. I will later go upstairs and grab 'em records again. This will be my Buffalo day today. Thanks for reminding Mazz.
Saw this band as a backup group in Des Moines. many decades ago. I believe their first LP was just released. They were fantastic! It is still amazing that they didn't trust Young to sing lead on his own songs. Still love the band!
Happy to see you do a video on my (second, after the mighty Moby Grape) favorite band of all-time, and I'm sure I'm only one of millions of 60s rock aficionados who would place them in a similarly exalted position in "the pantheon". I only wish, when they reissued the debut album in early 1967, they'd dropped "Hot Dusty Roads", rather than the killer "Baby Don't Scold Me" to make room for the (vastly overrated, not to mention overplayed) "hit".
Dear Mazzy, thank You again and again and again...for Your Videos, such great and touching Stories besides❤I love Buffalo Springfield - best regards, Marko
Thank you for this deep dive into such an influential band of Country Rock. I was fortunate to experience their reunited performance at the Bridge School Benefit Concert back in 2010 and it was amazing!! Although it was cold and rainy that October night, seeing Stephen, Neil and most of all, Ritchie back on the stage again was a dream come true!! Love live the Buffalo Springfield !!! Thanks Maslov for the great video :-)
I recently picked up that 1973 Buffalo Springfield compilation album over Christmas at Standards Record shop in San Diego county (Vista). It still is the only place where you can listen to the 9 minute version of “Bluebird”. This version is the combination of the studio track with a live jam added to the end. Neil Young does not like this version and left it off the 3 CD box set when he compiled it. Neil Young also disavows the third album. Saying the second record is the real last album. A great band and one of your better recent videos Mazzy. Thanks!
Neil Young is a great singer-songwriter, but he did a real disservice to that 2001 box set. Key songs from the third album such as "In the Hour of not Quite Rain" were left off as well as the extended "Bluebird." He even repeated tracks while omitting others, making the set redundant when it easily could have been great.
Jazzy - excellent video! I have loved them since I bought their 1st one when it came out . I have all the different issues and still bought the wonderful box set when Amazon had it for $60+ when new. It was not a Record Store Day issue. One of my favorites is Richie's "Sad Memory " I'm with you - I don't think I need the new 45's.
I love the 9 plus minute version of "Bluebird" (which is different from the Buffalo Springfield Again version) that was released on their 1973 Retrospective album. There is a great guitar duel between Stills & Young on the 9-minute version that is incredibly incendiary and truly ROCKS!
I also love that version, and it got a lot of airplay on L A FM radio back then. Neil and Stephen hate that version - that's why it wasn't on the box set.
There's actually an even LONGER version, by about 2 minutes. Heard it online a couple of years ago, don't (unfortunately) remember the URL. Worth hearing, if you haven't heard it already.
On Don Giller's youtube channel (most of his content is David Letterman-related), he has a video of 80 minutes of different Bluebird versions (audio only). The last one is from their last concert in 1968, and it's 23 minutes long!@@anthonykimball7463
Maz, thank you for that. I really enjoyed your insight into that amazing band and the times. I was previously aware of the story behind For What It's Worth courtesy of having watched a great documentary about Laurel Canyon and the music scene that grew from that area. Brilliant band during crazy times on Sunset strip. I only wish they could have kept it together a few more years. But then, there probably wouldn't have been all the awesomeness that CSN and sometimes Y produced over time, either. 6 or half a dozen, eh? Love your style, Mazzy. Keep on keepin' it real. You're awesome! 💋
Hi Mazzy, very informative, educational and enjoyable video. Buffalo Springfield were something of a mystery to me. My first exposure was the 4 tracks on Neil Young's "Decade" triple LP. However the liner notes were hard to read and I was unaware of Young's earlier career. I heard the band mentioned in a 'retro' record store in late 1988 into 1989 and bought the double LP compilation. I recall seeing the 4 CD boxed set on release and found & bought it for around $30 at a record fair a couple of months back. I don't have the studio albums but methinks that Rhino box would be worth having. Love how you lovingly speak of the music you deeply love. Cheers mate.
My first time on your channel. Thanks for the recap of Buffalo Springfield. I've been a fan since these albums were new. You didn't mention "Special Care", but my fraternity house heard that at high volume many times in 1968-70. To me, Steve Stills was a genius as well as musically talented. The Hammond/Leslie on Special Care still gets to me to this day. 😄
Love the Springfield and The Buffalo Springfield Again was awesome Great Songs and vocally superior Album cover designed by the late Eve Babitz who years earlier had an iconic photograph of her in the nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp I just love this record
In 1965 The Dillards tried to go electric, recording a couple of singles on Capitol. After they failed to set the world alight, they decided to go back to their acoustic sound, and gave their amps and electric instruments to a young band called Buffalo Springfield. What a star Richie Furay was putting the third album together with Jim Messina, after Young and Stills just recorded their songs and split. In many ways, with Rusty Young being brought in to play pedal steel, Furay's songs were really the first Poco recordings. The first Poco album is great, I think it's a much better record than Last Time Around. It almost sounds like the album The Beatles would make if they had made a Country Rock record. I might listen to the Springfield after Poco's Pickin' Up The Pieces. Cheers - Hedley
Thanks! Appreciate you highlighting the Buffalo Springfield albums. The first album is my favorite. It was the only time when the band was a real functioning cohesive unit. By the second album, they were already starting to break up. When the Springfield performed at Monterey Pop, Neil was a no-show. So, David Crosby took his place for that performance. Which was the beginning of the end for Crosby in Byrds, that same year. It was Stephen's band, but Richie was there main vocalist. In the context of time, Richie was best suited to sing many of the songs that Neil had written. Round and Round (It won't be Long), featured on Neil's (Everybody knows) album was first written while he was in the Springfield. Trivia. I believe the demo is featured in the latest compilation album.
Well thank you very much. There’s so much more to the story, as you write here. I had forgotten about Monterey. Maybe I should have shown the CD box set with all the demos or talked about the reunion you’re that Neil cut short. I did see that reunion at the Bridge School. Anyway, collectively, great music from two shirt years. Cheers !!!
Pity there was never an official Buffalo Springfield live album. There’s a few You Tube vlogs that captures the band at a high point of their short career. Huntington Beach 1967 is the best I’ve found with some great interplay between the guitarists, especially on Bluebird, great rough and ready Hung Upside Down. Plus one or two snippets of the band live on TV shows!
I have it as well... but I still wish they would have put out that 1973 2-LP comp on CD (yeah, I said it.) Unfortunately, it's only avail as a boot, and I don't buy those.
There is also a version of the self-titled album that contains For What It’s Worth and the track that was replaced by it: Baby Don’t Scold me. I also have two Buffalo Springfield boots 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Been away for awhile and noticed you did this video. Had to jump back in as I'm a HUGE Springfield fan. Great video as always Mazzy! Gonna have to get back on the bandwagon. Stay real!
Last Time Around has Neil's On The Way Home which he had Richie sing which is a great song. Richie's In The Hour Of Not Quite Rain is also a great listen.
Great video Mazzy. I watched just long enough to hear you say that you had just listened to all three albums before listening to all three albums myself and then coming back for the rest of the video. Buffalo Springfield Again is indeed the crown jewel. Neil's brilliance really starts to shine with "Mr. Soul" and "Broken Arrow." Stills gives us the wonderful "Bluebird" (love the James Gang cover of it on Yer' Album too) while "Rock and Roll Woman" has the whole band firing on all cylinders. The horn section on Good Time Boy is another standout. Thanks for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge, even though you did butcher "For What It's Worth." 😂
When they presented the final album to Ahmet Ertegun he asked if they had anymore songs and Stills said "I have this song here, for what it's worth, if you want it." and that's how the song got it's name.
Thanks for a great tribute to one of the great bands. Still love them, and not just for what bands came out of this band. I read somewhere that the record company didn't like Neil's voice on the first album, which is why Richie sings most of his on that album.
Love their records, and agree about Again being the one to get. Of course I'm a neil guy through and through but have you heard Bruce Palmer's one and only record for Verve forecast? It's great...kind of eastern, hippie influenced folky stuff but very unexpected in a good way.
Thanks for doing this review. I was reluctantly thinking of getting the upcoming 45RPM of the first album even though I'm tired of such short sides for whatever sonic gain they may provide. The RSD box is easily gotten on Discogs for what I think is a fair price. Well done!
I think it is particularly telling that on the third album, four of the members of the band are facing in the same direction, with Young facing the opposing direction. I believe that might express the attitude of the band at the time and probably why they broke up.
I just wish an excellent sounding soundboard recording would surface of them live. I’ve heard a few , but not great quality. Hunginton seems to be the best.
Great band and one of my favorites out of the West Coast from the era. Have always been curious how one more LP might have sounded. Not to go to the dark side but It's worth noting how Neil f*cked this band over badly on two occasions for his own selfish reasons. One hurt them them on the national stage that could have given them invaluable exposure (The Tonight Show) and made a difference in their career. How Stills was able to forgive him I don't know.
P.S. clearly the weakest song on "Last Time Around" is "The hour of not quite rain" which only exists because it was part of a Los Angeles radio station lyric contest. Not unlike the "Moby Grape" lyric contest that happened in (1967) in San Francisco on radio station KFRC.
What was the Poco Live LP you spoke about at the 14 minute mark? The Rino box set is outstanding. I have all three release's separately but go to the Rino set when I listen.
For what it's worth, I wonder if Neil and Bruce Palmer would have considered driving a Rambler to LA? I wonder if it was Stephen Stills who showed up with the Corvette? Everyone goes solo!
For me Greatest Hits is really all a casual listener needs though I have the whole catalogue. The albums were patchy and Stills and Young fought for supremacy from the beginning. As we now know, Neil should never be in a band unless he controls it with an iron fist. He used CSN to boost his lagging career then dropped them after he started gaining momentum. Crosby was quoted as saying he was the most selfish person he had ever met while Nash warned people not to get close to Neil because he will tear your heart out. I think Springfield could have been huge under the right circumstances.
Frustrating that with both the plethora of demos and alternate mixes on the 4 CD box set, they still couldn't include the extended version of Bluebird, as that original double LP comp was never given a CD reissue.
An LA band? I seem to recall seeing them in SF in April 1967 playing a benefit with the Airplane. BTW they released three albums. Do you always make it up as you go along? If so, you're probably from LA.
It seems you didn't watch the video. Mazzy mentioned all three albums. BTW, the Springfield was an LA band. They set up residence in, wait for it... Laurel Canyon, which is in LA. Believe it or not, even in the 1960s, bands went on tour. Not only did they perform in SF, but they were also at Monterey Pop in 1967 (minus Neil Young). Mazzy is from SF. So I guess he's not making it up as he goes along, huh? 😅
You have the same east coast vibe your mentor has: half-truths, arrogance and "let's must make it up as we go along." I got involved in the SF scene in the fall of '66, had friends in the biz and don't really need to be told shit I experienced first hand chump. Your mentor might be, as you claim, from SF but he espouses like all the know it alls from NY that came out acting really big time. Yeah, I didn't watch the video because of the first few minutes out of his mouth and BTW many people from SF are just as full of shit and don't know what really went down. Maybe you're one of them. Have a nice day. @@ronaldhitchings1847
*MONO v STEREO* , you ask? What's up with that? You are a teen born in 1950. Your dad is still mad at Ed Sullivan for putting the Beatles on his show in 1964. Guess what, your house is NOT getting a STEREO record player; the MONO one he bought in 1955 is just fine, thank you. It still plays the 78 RPMs he and Mom collected after they got married in '44. And that black and white TV is NOT getting upgraded to color until you go away to college in 1968. Furthermore, the record department at the Broadway department store (300 yards from your junior high) offers mono LPs for $4; stereo for $5. You're 15 and on the fence about that extra $1. ~~~~ IMO, the Buffalo Springfield and the Yardbirds had similar histories but on different continents. They both launched super groups and famous solo careers from their initial rosters at roughly the same time, e.g. CSN, CSNY, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck ....
As a high schooler during this time (1966) with a crude record player setup, I could save $1 (about 25% of the total cost) if I bought a mono version. Stereo was brand new and too new for me in 1966, so I have some mono records from the '60s that I still treasure.😁
@@brucepatbland837 Yes, do NOT discard any LP of that period, mono or otherwise. For example, I have a mono version of 'December's Children' by the Rolling Stones.
I personally don’t think they hold up. I really struggle with this band. I want to like them. I really do. I just find their albums to be hodgepodge and uninteresting for the most part, other than a couple of Stills songs and the songs Young featured on Decade. They never sound cohesive, like a band. Production is all over the place. Richie ruins the Neil songs. Maybe you had to be there/record buying age at the time to really appreciate them? Weird, I know coming from a big Neil fan. The Doors album was Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine. Haven’t heard the one you compared to that. Always willing to give them another try and hope I get it. I want to.
Great presentation, loved it. Need to hear more praise for Jim Messina, one of the most underrated vocalist/guitarist of the music world.
I have been enlightened listening very intensely recently to all three of their albums that I bought as a teen from 1968 to 1969. I now believe that the spirit, passion, and creativity on their first album is truly the best. Their spirit of musical cohesion, passionate harmony, and brilliant songs I believe surpasses the songs on Buffalo Springfield Again (my fave in '69) and even though I also love the songs on Last Time Around their soulful harmony and cohesive creativity was fading away. I also now truly love and am in awe of the Richie Furay songs and his incredible voice, he may have truly been the Heart and Soul of the band. Also, we must all tip our hats to the brilliant Ahmet Ertegun for delivering this incredible music to us.
Although "For What It's Worth" is the band's first Top 40 appearance, Buffalo Springfield debuted in August 1966 with "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing." It was regionally popular in southern California, but only Bubbled under Billboard's Hot 100 at 110.
When "For What It's Worth" was charting well in early 1967, Atco decided to add it to the "Buffalo Springfield" lp. I bought my copy in 1972 that includes the song.
While I was stationed with the Air Force in England, UK--Atlantic released "Fours" (# K 10237), an extended-play 45 in 1972 that includes Bluebird, Mr. Soul, Rock n Roll Woman and Expecting to Fly. All tracks are taken from "Buffalo Springfield Again."
Buffalo Springfield is a national treasure. Thank YOU Mazzy. You are THE Oracle of Vinyl.
An INTERNATIONAL treasure.
BS are on an episode of Mannix.....
Very important group along with Poco. I was in high school in the 60's and everything coming out of California was sometimes more important than what came out of England. I will turn 75 this year and was in high school in southern Ontario very near to Omemee where Neil Young spent his earlier years so the Neil Young gossip in high school never stopped. Thanks for this. I love the memories.
I was born in he fifties in L.A. so I grew up where this was happening ! GREAT teenage years to look back on.
Stephen and Neil playing together what a duo
Just played Buffalo Springfield Again. Such a great album.
I have the original version of the first album that has Baby Don't Scold Me, before it got replaced with FWIW on subsequent versions. Again is also my favorite album of theirs; even though they were beginning to splinter by then, it's a classic. On the last album my least favorite song is In The Hour of Not Quite Rain - the lyrics were written by the winner of a "Write a song for the Buffalo Springfield" contest. On the Way Home is my favorite from that album, and Neil performed that for many years after. The version on 4 Way Street when CSN comes in gives me goose bumps. Another connection between CSN and Poco - Phil Hartman designed album covers for both of them. Thanks for the great video.
I have at least One copy of ALL of those albums ! Great Video.
In England They Flew Past Most people. Remember Struggling to Find Their Four Lps at The Time ...Still have Them But i Really recommend The Four Cd Box Set For The Demos And Alternative Versions .. Great Band...Nice Tribute Mazzy.
Last Time Around is very underrated. Although a patchwork, there are some stellar songs on that album. On The Way Home, Questions, Pretty Girl Why, Four Days Gone, Kind Woman, I Am A Child, etc.
Most albums are patchworks by the way.
Special Care! Yet another Stills special...
@@johnosullivan2017 Excellent song.
Indeed, I really like that album a lot.
Stills one of the great underrated musicians. Not many come close.
NOT underrated!
Good job Mazzy.
Top 3 albums on my top 100 list. My list doesn't morph into a nonsense list as does Rolling Stone Mag. over the years.
1 Forever Changes - Love
2 Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
3 Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Stills’ vocals on “Hung Upside Down” give me chills.
I consider Last Time Around a Stills showcase which you should've mentioned. Stills was at the beginning of his peak, not just with magnificent Questions but also Special Care with Buddy Miles on drums, Pretty Girl Why, Four Days Gone.... absolute Stills classics!
Although "For what it's worth" was the hit, it was the song "Do I have to come right out and it" was the song that I heard on the A.M. radio back in 1967, that knocked me out!
What I would give to see your music collection Norman - I could be lost for days. I love your videos. I am a great music collector (nowhere near as huge as you!!) with about 4000 CDs and especially love the late 60's music scene in San Francisco & LA and have pretty much everything from that era. It was such a brilliant time for innovation and originality in music that will never be replicated, and still holds up really well today. It was my geography teacher in the mid 70's who got me into music big time as he said he had the 2nd biggest collection of original blues records in Europe, and wow his house was full. Me and a mate used to go back to his house to listen to those records and smoke some pot - which felt brilliantly rebellious at the time. Keep them coming Mr Maslov!! 😊
One of the best videos you’ve ever done. Thanks.
I was fortunate enough to see the second of the two Buffalo Springfield reunion shows in 2011 at Bonnaroo. Never thought I'd see the day.
Great Video Mazzy! I love the Buffalo Springfield! I have the double album from 1973 AM plus I have the box set from 1998 and the complete albums box. What a great band no one talks about the Springfield very much anymore. Glad you did Mazzy! Have a great day!
That 9 minute Bluebird is amazing.
I love (and have) all their albums. I've been stuck on Baby Don't Scold Me with that little Day Tripper riff. How cool, remember when bands then would throw out those little nods to The Beatles? Nowadays Clancy was also covered by The Carpenters and Fever Tree. Timeless, these albums never age for me. BS is in my top 10. Thanks mazzy.
Yup, the 2nd album a classic full of goodies!
Buffalo Springfield! My 3rd favorite group of all time! After The Beatles and The Rolling Stones! 😊😊😊😊😊😊
I love all their albums. I bought the vinyl box set reissue, "What's that Sound" awhile back. It has the mono and stereo of the first 2 albums as well as the 3rd album. They match the originals for me without 50+ years of being played.
Perfect band, perfect records.
Thank you Mazzy ! And let's not forget the 4 CD set called "Buffalo Springfield Box Set". Compiled by Neil Young and released in 2001: a 3 CD retrospective followed by the first two Lps on disc 4. Mono on Lp one & stereo on Lp two. All HDCD set. Highly recommended!
Great overview Mazzy. I would also mention the cd box is well worth getting as well, if just for all the out-takes and demoes.
One of my favorite bands as well. I love the Stills/Young combo, and Richie was great as well. That single album compilation, Retrospective, is perfect. One of the greatest listens ever. "Bluebird" is an all time favorite song of mine. The 4-CD box set has a lot of interesting material on it. Love all the acoustic demos.
In the early 80s i used to go the public library and take out records. Richie Fury was always in my bundle
Again is a great album.
I love the 4 cd demos box set! A very important group ahead of their time
Quite surprised when this popped up on youtube. I totally agree with the autho: The Buffalo was a great band as well as they were the the forerunner of CSN&Y.
Their records are not in a plenty but a must have for every collection. Here in GER they weren't that popular as in the US/CAN. But we should all care that they won't be forgotten. I will later go upstairs and grab 'em records again. This will be my Buffalo day today. Thanks for reminding Mazz.
Enjoy the music. So good ✌🏼
I like the look of that , I'm gonna check them out , thanks for putting me in the mood for this.
Luv the show.
Saw this band as a backup group in Des Moines. many decades ago. I believe their first LP was just released. They were fantastic! It is still amazing that they didn't trust Young to sing lead on his own songs. Still love the band!
Excellent video. Always loved Buffalo Springfield. Thank you.
Happy to see you do a video on my (second, after the mighty Moby Grape) favorite band of all-time, and I'm sure I'm only one of millions of 60s rock aficionados who would place them in a similarly exalted position in "the pantheon". I only wish, when they reissued the debut album in early 1967, they'd dropped "Hot Dusty Roads", rather than the killer "Baby Don't Scold Me" to make room for the (vastly overrated, not to mention overplayed) "hit".
Dear Mazzy, thank You again and again and again...for Your Videos, such great and touching Stories besides❤I love Buffalo Springfield - best regards, Marko
Thank you Marko✌🏼
Great video Norm. All that I would like to do is watch your videos!
Thank you for this deep dive into such an influential band of Country Rock. I was fortunate to experience their reunited performance at the Bridge School Benefit Concert back in 2010 and it was amazing!! Although it was cold and rainy that October night, seeing Stephen, Neil and most of all, Ritchie back on the stage again was a dream come true!! Love live the Buffalo Springfield !!! Thanks Maslov for the great video :-)
I saw that Bridge school show too. Forgot to mention it or show the. CD box set ✌🏼
Probably my favourite US group. Incredible quality output in a 2 year period plus some great unreleased tracks that eventually saw the light of day.
Retrospective was one of my first records. Seminal psych rock.
I recently picked up that 1973 Buffalo Springfield compilation album over Christmas at Standards Record shop in San Diego county (Vista). It still is the only place where you can listen to the 9 minute version of “Bluebird”. This version is the combination of the studio track with a live jam added to the end. Neil Young does not like this version and left it off the 3 CD box set when he compiled it.
Neil Young also disavows the third album. Saying the second record is the real last album.
A great band and one of your better recent videos Mazzy. Thanks!
Neil Young is a great singer-songwriter, but he did a real disservice to that 2001 box set. Key songs from the third album such as "In the Hour of not Quite Rain" were left off as well as the extended "Bluebird." He even repeated tracks while omitting others, making the set redundant when it easily could have been great.
Buffalo Springfield Again in mono is a revelation!!!
Jazzy - excellent video!
I have loved them since I bought their 1st one when it came out . I have all the different issues and still bought the wonderful box set when Amazon had it for $60+ when new. It was not a Record Store Day issue.
One of my favorites is Richie's "Sad Memory "
I'm with you - I don't think I need the new 45's.
I love the 9 plus minute version of "Bluebird" (which is different from the Buffalo Springfield Again version) that was released on their 1973 Retrospective album. There is a great guitar duel between Stills & Young on the 9-minute version that is incredibly incendiary and truly ROCKS!
I also love that version, and it got a lot of airplay on L A FM radio back then. Neil and Stephen hate that version - that's why it wasn't on the box set.
There's actually an even LONGER version, by about 2 minutes. Heard it online a couple of years ago, don't (unfortunately) remember the URL. Worth hearing, if you haven't heard it already.
On Don Giller's youtube channel (most of his content is David Letterman-related), he has a video of 80 minutes of different Bluebird versions (audio only). The last one is from their last concert in 1968, and it's 23 minutes long!@@anthonykimball7463
Whole lot of talent in that band.
Great albums....great discussion!
Mr. Pete------->
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Great video, Mazzy. Love Buffalo Springfield and have always been a fan of both Steven Stills and Neil Young.
Maz, thank you for that. I really enjoyed your insight into that amazing band and the times. I was previously aware of the story behind For What It's Worth courtesy of having watched a great documentary about Laurel Canyon and the music scene that grew from that area. Brilliant band during crazy times on Sunset strip. I only wish they could have kept it together a few more years. But then, there probably wouldn't have been all the awesomeness that CSN and sometimes Y produced over time, either. 6 or half a dozen, eh?
Love your style, Mazzy. Keep on keepin' it real. You're awesome! 💋
Hi Mazzy, very informative, educational and enjoyable video. Buffalo Springfield were something of a mystery to me. My first exposure was the 4 tracks on Neil Young's "Decade" triple LP. However the liner notes were hard to read and I was unaware of Young's earlier career. I heard the band mentioned in a 'retro' record store in late 1988 into 1989 and bought the double LP compilation. I recall seeing the 4 CD boxed set on release and found & bought it for around $30 at a record fair a couple of months back. I don't have the studio albums but methinks that Rhino box would be worth having. Love how you lovingly speak of the music you deeply love. Cheers mate.
My first time on your channel. Thanks for the recap of Buffalo Springfield. I've been a fan since these albums were new. You didn't mention "Special Care", but my fraternity house heard that at high volume many times in 1968-70. To me, Steve Stills was a genius as well as musically talented. The Hammond/Leslie on Special Care still gets to me to this day. 😄
Love the Springfield and The Buffalo Springfield Again was awesome
Great Songs and vocally superior
Album cover designed by the late Eve Babitz who years earlier had an iconic photograph of her in the nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp I just love this record
In 1965 The Dillards tried to go electric, recording a couple of singles on Capitol. After they failed to set the world alight, they decided to go back to their acoustic sound, and gave their amps and electric instruments to a young band called Buffalo Springfield.
What a star Richie Furay was putting the third album together with Jim Messina, after Young and Stills just recorded their songs and split.
In many ways, with Rusty Young being brought in to play pedal steel, Furay's songs were really the first Poco recordings.
The first Poco album is great, I think it's a much better record than Last Time Around. It almost sounds like the album The Beatles would make if they had made a Country Rock record.
I might listen to the Springfield after Poco's Pickin' Up The Pieces.
Cheers - Hedley
Thanks! Appreciate you highlighting the Buffalo Springfield albums. The first album is my favorite. It was the only time when the band was a real functioning cohesive unit. By the second album, they were already starting to break up. When the Springfield performed at Monterey Pop, Neil was a no-show. So, David Crosby took his place for that performance. Which was the beginning of the end for Crosby in Byrds, that same year. It was Stephen's band, but Richie was there main vocalist. In the context of time, Richie was best suited to sing many of the songs that Neil had written. Round and Round (It won't be Long), featured on Neil's (Everybody knows) album was first written while he was in the Springfield. Trivia. I believe the demo is featured in the latest compilation album.
Well thank you very much. There’s so much more to the story, as you write here. I had forgotten about Monterey. Maybe I should have shown the CD box set with all the demos or talked about the reunion you’re that Neil cut short. I did see that reunion at the Bridge School.
Anyway, collectively, great music from two shirt years.
Cheers !!!
2:57 you didn’t HAVE to botch if for us but you did anyway! Very generous Norman.
Pity there was never an official Buffalo Springfield live album. There’s a few You Tube vlogs that captures the band at a high point of their short career. Huntington Beach 1967 is the best I’ve found with some great interplay between the guitarists, especially on Bluebird, great rough and ready Hung Upside Down. Plus one or two snippets of the band live on TV shows!
I got the 4 CD set. Brilliant.
I have it as well... but I still wish they would have put out that 1973 2-LP comp on CD (yeah, I said it.) Unfortunately, it's only avail as a boot, and I don't buy those.
There is also a version of the self-titled album that contains For What It’s Worth and the track that was replaced by it: Baby Don’t Scold me. I also have two Buffalo Springfield boots 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Thanks Mazzy: u are the best when it is about 60-70s SF or Laurel Canyon scene !
Been away for awhile and noticed you did this video. Had to jump back in as I'm a HUGE Springfield fan. Great video as always Mazzy! Gonna have to get back on the bandwagon. Stay real!
Last Time Around has Neil's On The Way Home which he had Richie sing which is a great song. Richie's In The Hour Of Not Quite Rain is also a great listen.
Great video Mazzy. I watched just long enough to hear you say that you had just listened to all three albums before listening to all three albums myself and then coming back for the rest of the video.
Buffalo Springfield Again is indeed the crown jewel. Neil's brilliance really starts to shine with "Mr. Soul" and "Broken Arrow." Stills gives us the wonderful "Bluebird" (love the James Gang cover of it on Yer' Album too) while "Rock and Roll Woman" has the whole band firing on all cylinders. The horn section on Good Time Boy is another standout.
Thanks for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge, even though you did butcher "For What It's Worth." 😂
So good. Thank you ✌🏼
So great , i mean so great , that double is what i have
I bought "BS Again" when the LP was released. Get the 4-CD box set and "What's That Sound - Complete Album Collection".
I do have the CD box. I should have showed it at the end. ✌🏼
Mazzy - please excuse my Typo! It must have auto corrected.
When they presented the final album to Ahmet Ertegun he asked if they had anymore songs and Stills said "I have this song here, for what it's worth, if you want it." and that's how the song got it's name.
Thanks for a great tribute to one of the great bands. Still love them, and not just for what bands came out of this band. I read somewhere that the record company didn't like Neil's voice on the first album, which is why Richie sings most of his on that album.
I love Richie and the early Poco albums. I'll take Poco over the Eagles any day.
Yup🤠
Totally agree, got 21 albums of Poco and still enjoy every one. And that being Dutch ......
Thank you….
Neil was pieced into the photo of the others . Jim and Richie put a great disc together of songs .
"Along with the Doors, and Love, and the Byrds, and the Beach Boys . . ."
Yes!
"If you got Paul McCartney to write a song . . ." LOL
*Wow, you are like a talking Wikipedia page! Thanks!!*
There is an excellent CD boxed set that contains unreleased tracks. They could have made an album of unreleased tracks because they are so good! 😌
Love their records, and agree about Again being the one to get. Of course I'm a neil guy through and through but have you heard Bruce Palmer's one and only record for Verve forecast? It's great...kind of eastern, hippie influenced folky stuff but very unexpected in a good way.
Thanks for doing this review. I was reluctantly thinking of getting the upcoming 45RPM of the first album even though I'm tired of such short sides for whatever sonic gain they may provide. The RSD box is easily gotten on Discogs for what I think is a fair price. Well done!
What hat are you featuring today? Looks great!
Chad at AP will be repressing the first two Buffalo Springfield albums as part of their Atlantic 75 series. Hard to believe you will pass those by.
I think it is particularly telling that on the third album, four of the members of the band are facing in the same direction, with Young facing the opposing direction. I believe that might express the attitude of the band at the time and probably why they broke up.
Great band. Again is their best album. Rock'n Roll Woman is influenced by the Byrds' Renaissance Fair. Could do without Good Time Boy though.
I just wish an excellent sounding soundboard recording would surface of them live. I’ve heard a few , but not great quality. Hunginton seems to be the best.
Down To Wire, which is a great song, only appears on Neil Young’s Decade.
Nice hat Mazzy. How many hats do you own ????……I’ll bet you’ve got more hats than you have records !!!😂😂😂
Maybe thirty 🤷🏻♂️🤠
Great band and one of my favorites out of the West Coast from the era. Have always been curious how one more LP might have sounded. Not to go to the dark side but It's worth noting how Neil f*cked this band over badly on two occasions for his own selfish reasons. One hurt them them on the national stage that could have given them invaluable exposure (The Tonight Show) and made a difference in their career. How Stills was able to forgive him I don't know.
Yeah. Stopping the reunion tour.
P.S. clearly the weakest song on "Last Time Around" is "The hour of not quite rain" which only exists because it was part of a Los Angeles radio station lyric contest. Not unlike the "Moby Grape" lyric contest that happened in (1967) in San Francisco on radio station KFRC.
Carefree Country Day. Very weak. Also Uno Mundo. Thanks for validation on CCD.
What was the Poco Live LP you spoke about at the 14 minute mark?
The Rino box set is outstanding. I have all three release's separately but go to the Rino set when I listen.
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@@mazzysmusic , thank you appreciate that.
Think of all the branches that emerged from the Byrds / Buffalo Springfield trunk.
For what it's worth, I wonder if Neil and Bruce Palmer would have considered driving a Rambler to LA? I wonder if it was Stephen Stills who showed up with the Corvette? Everyone goes solo!
For me Greatest Hits is really all a casual listener needs though I have the whole catalogue. The albums were patchy and Stills and Young fought for supremacy from the beginning. As we now know, Neil should never be in a band unless he controls it with an iron fist. He used CSN to boost his lagging career then dropped them after he started gaining momentum. Crosby was quoted as saying he was the most selfish person he had ever met while Nash warned people not to get close to Neil because he will tear your heart out. I think Springfield could have been huge under the right circumstances.
Analog Productions will be releasing the box set. Will get it!
What box set?
AP will be releasing the 5 disc Buffalo Springfield box set. It's in their to be released 75 anniversary. Atlantic reissues. Its in their website.
CSNY took the victory lap but Springfield was better and had their own magical harmonies from Stills, Young and Furray.
Frustrating that with both the plethora of demos and alternate mixes on the 4 CD box set, they still couldn't include the extended version of Bluebird, as that original double LP comp was never given a CD reissue.
The cd box set is fantastic. Apparently Neil dislikes that long version 😵💫😎
i met neil young in 03
Hello, Mr. Soul.
An LA band? I seem to recall seeing them in SF in April 1967 playing a benefit with the Airplane. BTW they released three albums. Do you always make it up as you go along? If so, you're probably from LA.
It seems you didn't watch the video. Mazzy mentioned all three albums. BTW, the Springfield was an LA band. They set up residence in, wait for it... Laurel Canyon, which is in LA. Believe it or not, even in the 1960s, bands went on tour. Not only did they perform in SF, but they were also at Monterey Pop in 1967 (minus Neil Young). Mazzy is from SF. So I guess he's not making it up as he goes along, huh? 😅
Hahaha. Thank you.
Read what he said in response. People and bands travel. Yes they are from LA. I’m from SF but have been to LA many times 🤠
You have the same east coast vibe your mentor has: half-truths, arrogance and "let's must make it up as we go along." I got involved in the SF scene in the fall of '66, had friends in the biz and don't really need to be told shit I experienced first hand chump. Your mentor might be, as you claim, from SF but he espouses like all the know it alls from NY that came out acting really big time. Yeah, I didn't watch the video because of the first few minutes out of his mouth and BTW many people from SF are just as full of shit and don't know what really went down. Maybe you're one of them. Have a nice day. @@ronaldhitchings1847
*MONO v STEREO* , you ask? What's up with that?
You are a teen born in 1950. Your dad is still mad at Ed Sullivan for putting the Beatles on his show in 1964. Guess what, your house is NOT getting a STEREO record player; the MONO one he bought in 1955 is just fine, thank you. It still plays the 78 RPMs he and Mom collected after they got married in '44. And that black and white TV is NOT getting upgraded to color until you go away to college in 1968.
Furthermore, the record department at the Broadway department store (300 yards from your junior high) offers mono LPs for $4; stereo for $5. You're 15 and on the fence about that extra $1.
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IMO, the Buffalo Springfield and the Yardbirds had similar histories but on different continents. They both launched super groups and famous solo careers from their initial rosters at roughly the same time, e.g. CSN, CSNY, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck ....
As a high schooler during this time (1966) with a crude record player setup, I could save $1 (about 25% of the total cost) if I bought a mono version. Stereo was brand new and too new for me in 1966, so I have some mono records from the '60s that I still treasure.😁
@@brucepatbland837 Yes, do NOT discard any LP of that period, mono or otherwise. For example, I have a mono version of 'December's Children' by the Rolling Stones.
I personally don’t think they hold up. I really struggle with this band. I want to like them. I really do. I just find their albums to be hodgepodge and uninteresting for the most part, other than a couple of Stills songs and the songs Young featured on Decade. They never sound cohesive, like a band. Production is all over the place. Richie ruins the Neil songs. Maybe you had to be there/record buying age at the time to really appreciate them? Weird, I know coming from a big Neil fan.
The Doors album was Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine. Haven’t heard the one you compared to that. Always willing to give them another try and hope I get it. I want to.
Do you still speak to Judy.
She vanished , moved away ✌🏼
Love BS, but my God, their politics are insane. If I have to listen to Young's ignorant opinion of our country again, I'll pull my hair out.
Get a copy of stampede