Artist
Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield is a rock artist from Los Angeles, CA formed in 1966. 6 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Los Angeles, CA · Best rock albums
- 6
- Releases
- 1966–2018
- Active years
- 1966
- Formed
Artist
Buffalo Springfield is a rock artist from Los Angeles, CA formed in 1966. 6 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Los Angeles, CA · Best rock albums
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Buffalo Springfield
1966
Apart from the Byrds, no other American band had as great an impact on folk-rock and country-rock -- really, the entire Californian rock sound -- than Buffalo Springfield. The group's formation is the stuff of legend: driving on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay spotted a hearse that Stills was sure belonged to Neil Young, a Canadian he had crossed paths with earlier. Indeed it was, and with the addition of fellow hearse passenger and Canadian Bruce Palmer on bass and ex-Dillard Dewey Martin on drums, the cluster of ex-folkys determined, as the Byrds had just done, to become a rock & roll band. Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield wasn't together long -- they were an active outfit for just over two years, between 1967 and 1968 --but every one of their three albums was noteworthy. Their debut, Buffalo Springfield, including their sole big hit (Stills' "For What It's Worth"), established them as the best folk-rock band in the land barring the Byrds, though Springfield was a bit more folk and country oriented. Again, their second album found the group expanding their folk-rock base into tough hard rock and psychedelic orchestration, resulting in their…
