70's Aussie band Buffalo
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Having lived through the era and been an avid fan of this music genre - I've always been a collector of 60/70's heavy prog rock albums on [vinyl], by now of course I have what I thought to be a fairly full extensive collection, however there are still some original issue albums by various bands missing from my collection, and of course It's always good to upgrade to a better copy of an album - to this end I often visit local charity shops in search of these missing items, last week I was surprised to see this album on the rare 'Spiral' vertigo label by a band of which I had never ever heard of, of course looking at the track length's, year/ Sleeve cover and insert it was obvious this was gonna be a 'good 'un'. WOW I wasn't wrong - in fact I'd put this album's music in my top 10 fav's from this genre, A search online gives no info' on the Band? Can anyone help or did anyone ever see this band live? or even better does anyone know whether there's any video footage of this band in existance? For this Aussie pressed album to be in UK, clearly the band must have toured UK in 1970's, the album was probably bought at one of these live shows, does anyone know who they toured with/supported?
Many Q's I know but for someone who thought he knew of all the bands of this genre from this era, I was really shocked that such a great band & album could go unnoticed - Duh what do I know - and what else am I Missing/likely to find
Hope someone can help on this
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Many Q's I know but for someone who thought he knew of all the bands of this genre from this era, I was really shocked that such a great band & album could go unnoticed - Duh what do I know - and what else am I Missing/likely to find
Hope someone can help on this
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Go here and follow the links for many Aussie bands and artists from back in the day.
http://www.milesago.com/
My band Hydra supported Buffalo back in the day, to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed by them, but having said that we went nowhere and they did.
Bands we supported that were far superior were Jeff St John & Copperwine with Wendy Saddington and Kavas Jute, Elm Tree were another brilliant band we often worked alongside
The YouTube rabbit hole awaits
http://www.milesago.com/
My band Hydra supported Buffalo back in the day, to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed by them, but having said that we went nowhere and they did.
Bands we supported that were far superior were Jeff St John & Copperwine with Wendy Saddington and Kavas Jute, Elm Tree were another brilliant band we often worked alongside
The YouTube rabbit hole awaits
Suthol
Many thanks for the link, I've done a lot of surfing today searching - didn't find much info on the band, and no video footage at all
but one site had an interesting article which appears to have been written many years ago, including a discography which is useful, though living in UK i'll be lucky to find anything whatsoever - however since the band are unknown over here any thing I do find will be cheap!!
here's the article I found::-
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Many thanks for the link, I've done a lot of surfing today searching - didn't find much info on the band, and no video footage at all
but one site had an interesting article which appears to have been written many years ago, including a discography which is useful, though living in UK i'll be lucky to find anything whatsoever - however since the band are unknown over here any thing I do find will be cheap!!here's the article I found::-
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great band though
Buffalo live on YT ( follow the GTK series for more great Aussie bands including Fraternity featuring Bon Scott pre AC/DC )
https://youtu.be/o0ZbENMWVzM
Here are the only three tracks that we recorded as Hydra
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/03-so-far-from-home
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/01-nobody-cares-abou...
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/02-its-my-music
Dave Tice was the singer in Buffalo, here's a YT link to some of his stuff
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dave+...
https://youtu.be/o0ZbENMWVzM
Here are the only three tracks that we recorded as Hydra
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/03-so-far-from-home
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/01-nobody-cares-abou...
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/02-its-my-music
Dave Tice was the singer in Buffalo, here's a YT link to some of his stuff
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dave+...
Edited by suthol on Wednesday 18th May 06:41
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Wow wow - sorry for delay in replying, today I've been looking at all the footage on the links you give Thank you, thank you, thank you for replying to this thread,- I've been surprised at what buffalo footage exists, Dave Tice had an incredible voice live, even better IMO than on the LP recording. would love to have seen 'em live, though I suspect my initial thoughts about them playing live in UK in 70's is probably incorrect - just how the album I bought from a charity shop!! got to the UK will remain a mystery, AFAIK it was never released in UK, at that time I bought most music papers and mags for the new album reviews contained therein, Had any UK journal reviewed Volcanic rock when it was released I'm certain, I would have read about it, and bought the album, my collection contains plenty of wierd and now very rare albums which were given great reviews at the time but were very dis-appointing in reality
Had Volcanic rock been reviewed then for sure the band would have been invited to tour the UK on the strength of those reviews - Oh well what could have been
You were fortunate to know the band personally, I've never heard of your band Hydra either so for certain Aus has plenty of bands us folk in UK never got to hear about, a similar thing is true of some canadian bands from that era - Goddo in particular were an awesome band who AFAIK never had their records released in, or got to play in UK
Thanks once again for your help - Truely staggering
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Wow wow - sorry for delay in replying, today I've been looking at all the footage on the links you give
Thank you, thank you, thank you for replying to this thread,- I've been surprised at what buffalo footage exists, Dave Tice had an incredible voice live, even better IMO than on the LP recording. would love to have seen 'em live, though I suspect my initial thoughts about them playing live in UK in 70's is probably incorrect - just how the album I bought from a charity shop!! got to the UK will remain a mystery, AFAIK it was never released in UK, at that time I bought most music papers and mags for the new album reviews contained therein, Had any UK journal reviewed Volcanic rock when it was released I'm certain, I would have read about it, and bought the album, my collection contains plenty of wierd and now very rare albums which were given great reviews at the time but were very dis-appointing in realityHad Volcanic rock been reviewed then for sure the band would have been invited to tour the UK on the strength of those reviews - Oh well what could have been
You were fortunate to know the band personally, I've never heard of your band Hydra either so for certain Aus has plenty of bands us folk in UK never got to hear about, a similar thing is true of some canadian bands from that era - Goddo in particular were an awesome band who AFAIK never had their records released in, or got to play in UK
Thanks once again for your help - Truely staggering
There were plenty of seriously good local bands back in the day as there were in every country.
Most of us world wide cut our teeth on bands like the Shadows, Beatles, Stones, Cream, JHE etc and could play a bit.
Those who rose to the top were few.
We played heavy rock for maybe three years and then went prog, the standard of musicianship went through the roof but the market grew smaller.
Hydra fell somewhere between Yes and Gentle Giant with really strong vocal harmonies, weird time signatures and quoting the classic composers mainly Bach in many originals.
No work and ego problems saw the band break up and I embraced country music and worked 6 nights a week for around 10 years before burning out.
The guitarist and I were doing session work at the time which also got up the nose of the other band members.
Finally went back to playing in 2009 to play bass and record and produce this this song with mates I played with in the 1970s & 80s (RIP Bob Browne)
https://youtu.be/k_DCDDEWKU4
Most of us world wide cut our teeth on bands like the Shadows, Beatles, Stones, Cream, JHE etc and could play a bit.
Those who rose to the top were few.
We played heavy rock for maybe three years and then went prog, the standard of musicianship went through the roof but the market grew smaller.
Hydra fell somewhere between Yes and Gentle Giant with really strong vocal harmonies, weird time signatures and quoting the classic composers mainly Bach in many originals.
No work and ego problems saw the band break up and I embraced country music and worked 6 nights a week for around 10 years before burning out.
The guitarist and I were doing session work at the time which also got up the nose of the other band members.
Finally went back to playing in 2009 to play bass and record and produce this this song with mates I played with in the 1970s & 80s (RIP Bob Browne)
https://youtu.be/k_DCDDEWKU4
Great thread - great band - EPIC ALBUM - ought to be in any HM fan's collection:>
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I was given a tape of Volcanic Rock by a friend who lived in Aus in 1993, at that time we swopped tapes of 60-70's music, I remember it well, ATT it blew me away - i was speachless at it's power, even now that album is in my top 5 from the 60-70's HM/prog rock/space rock/psycadelic era. It defines everything I love about music from this period - great vocal's awesome guitar, but better than all that epic 'tunes' that give you brain a workout, and gets you 'up'. If you like music from this era you have to hear it.
After getting the tape, of course I wanted the vinyl LP, at that time no CD's of the album were available, Eventually my aussie mate, got me the first 3 Buffalo albums - all originals, the sound from these 3 vinyl albums is some of the best music IMO ever to be put onto vinyl, the pressing quality is immense - the music leaps from your speakers, which no commercial pressed CD ever does. I have several different versions/releases of Volcanic rock on CD - compared to the original pressed vinyl the sound is weedy/weak/and doesn't do justice to the sheer power of the 1973 analogue vinyl album. The best CD verison of the album I have, is a CDR taken direct from my original 1973 'Spiral' Vertigo Vinyl. If you've only ever heard Volcanic rock from a commercial CD, then believe me you haven't heard this awesome album at it's best, Buy an original vinyl pressing, you won't regret it
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As for Buffalo's other albums, 'Only want you for your body' is IMO is their 2nd best with 'Dead forever' 3rd, after this the later albums simply ain't good enough, so don't waste your time tracking them down. The 'Raven' compilation 'best of' Vinyl LP is OK but vinyl pressing quality is very average, though still superior to any CD issues of Buffalo material IMO.
Hope this helps
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Baddmono
You really need the other 2 vinyl LP's I mentioned above, good luck finding them though, and make sure they have the inserts!!
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I was given a tape of Volcanic Rock by a friend who lived in Aus in 1993, at that time we swopped tapes of 60-70's music, I remember it well, ATT it blew me away - i was speachless at it's power, even now that album is in my top 5 from the 60-70's HM/prog rock/space rock/psycadelic era. It defines everything I love about music from this period - great vocal's awesome guitar, but better than all that epic 'tunes' that give you brain a workout, and gets you 'up'. If you like music from this era you have to hear it.
After getting the tape, of course I wanted the vinyl LP, at that time no CD's of the album were available, Eventually my aussie mate, got me the first 3 Buffalo albums - all originals, the sound from these 3 vinyl albums is some of the best music IMO ever to be put onto vinyl, the pressing quality is immense - the music leaps from your speakers, which no commercial pressed CD ever does. I have several different versions/releases of Volcanic rock on CD - compared to the original pressed vinyl the sound is weedy/weak/and doesn't do justice to the sheer power of the 1973 analogue vinyl album. The best CD verison of the album I have, is a CDR taken direct from my original 1973 'Spiral' Vertigo Vinyl. If you've only ever heard Volcanic rock from a commercial CD, then believe me you haven't heard this awesome album at it's best, Buy an original vinyl pressing, you won't regret it
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As for Buffalo's other albums, 'Only want you for your body' is IMO is their 2nd best with 'Dead forever' 3rd, after this the later albums simply ain't good enough, so don't waste your time tracking them down. The 'Raven' compilation 'best of' Vinyl LP is OK but vinyl pressing quality is very average, though still superior to any CD issues of Buffalo material IMO.
Hope this helps
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Baddmono
You really need the other 2 vinyl LP's I mentioned above, good luck finding them though, and make sure they have the inserts!!
A couple more brilliant Aussie bands
Supported these guys a couple of times ( Bob Daisley on bass )
https://youtu.be/sosrBzkowvc
Also supported these too, what a band and what a voice
https://youtu.be/dJsQZ6faZ8E
Supported these guys a couple of times ( Bob Daisley on bass )
https://youtu.be/sosrBzkowvc
Also supported these too, what a band and what a voice
https://youtu.be/dJsQZ6faZ8E
Edited by suthol on Saturday 28th May 00:50
Suthol
Khavas Jute - never seen anything by them in UK, and never heard of the other band, though the Color video featuring them is excellent
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Had another bit of luck with the Buffalo LP saga, left my phone number with lady at the charity shop where I found 'Volcanic Rock ', she'd mentioned that the person who donated the vinyl, made regular visits, I asked her to txt me if any more donations were made, well it so happened after 3.1/2 weeks of nothing I got the txt, went down to check and would you believe it - Voila here is another Buffalo album, and several other's worth buying including ' Bedlam' - now I have this rare album having bought it when I saw them supporting Uriah Heep in 1973!! But, have never seen this album for sale since - oh well. OOI all the donated LP's were 'B's' so I guess they are being donated alphabetically, Million dollar Q is of course, did I miss 'Dead Forever' or is it still to be donated? assuming the person who collected the Buffalo albums originally owned it - watch this space
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Big Q - Does anyone know whether - 'Only want you for your body' was released on 'Spiral Vertigo' label, mine is on the 'Spaceship' label.
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Rare and excellent - 'Bedlam' album - Cozy Powell's first band - worth a listen if you like 70's HM
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Khavas Jute - never seen anything by them in UK, and never heard of the other band, though the Color video featuring them is excellent
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Had another bit of luck with the Buffalo LP saga, left my phone number with lady at the charity shop where I found 'Volcanic Rock ', she'd mentioned that the person who donated the vinyl, made regular visits, I asked her to txt me if any more donations were made, well it so happened after 3.1/2 weeks of nothing I got the txt, went down to check and would you believe it - Voila here is another Buffalo album, and several other's worth buying including ' Bedlam' - now I have this rare album having bought it when I saw them supporting Uriah Heep in 1973!! But, have never seen this album for sale since - oh well. OOI all the donated LP's were 'B's' so I guess they are being donated alphabetically, Million dollar Q is of course, did I miss 'Dead Forever' or is it still to be donated? assuming the person who collected the Buffalo albums originally owned it - watch this space
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Big Q - Does anyone know whether - 'Only want you for your body' was released on 'Spiral Vertigo' label, mine is on the 'Spaceship' label.
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Rare and excellent - 'Bedlam' album - Cozy Powell's first band - worth a listen if you like 70's HM
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Edited by Baddmono on Monday 30th May 16:24
Suthol
The charity shop came through – jeez I must be the luckiest bloke around:-
Besides - Dead Forever - this batch of 'B' included Edgar Broughton band - Wasa wasa, Brad – Shame & promo 12”, Babe Ruth - 1st base, a BJH promo 12”, plus a NZ issue ‘Attention’ Black Sab LP on the 'FONTANA' label - DUH!! Which is all their first album plus the tracks Iron Man and Paranoid from the Paranoid album, never seen or heard of this release, an original NZ pressed Sabbath album on 'Fontana' label found in a UK charity shop - DuH DUH!!
The first 'C' donated is Clark-Hutchinson A=mh2 on the obscure Decca Nova label, never seen this, music is typical 60/70's Prog without any vocals great great guitar work though!!
WIth the NZ released Sabbath album it got me into thinking were there any 60/70's bands from NZ, do you know of any, was there a music scene down there?? With there being plenty of local bands from AUS, surely there must have been something similar in NZ?
Thanks for your help, on this
OOI we’ve been invited to a nieces wedding in Adelaide 8-11 Dec, which my wife wants to attend - are Buffalo still performing live in Aus maybe we could see them whilst we are there?
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The charity shop came through – jeez I must be the luckiest bloke around:-
Besides - Dead Forever
- this batch of 'B' included Edgar Broughton band - Wasa wasa, Brad – Shame & promo 12”, Babe Ruth - 1st base, a BJH promo 12”, plus a NZ issue ‘Attention’ Black Sab LP on the 'FONTANA' label - DUH!! Which is all their first album plus the tracks Iron Man and Paranoid from the Paranoid album, never seen or heard of this release, an original NZ pressed Sabbath album on 'Fontana' label found in a UK charity shop - DuH DUH!!The first 'C' donated is Clark-Hutchinson A=mh2 on the obscure Decca Nova label, never seen this, music is typical 60/70's Prog without any vocals great great guitar work though!!
WIth the NZ released Sabbath album it got me into thinking were there any 60/70's bands from NZ, do you know of any, was there a music scene down there?? With there being plenty of local bands from AUS, surely there must have been something similar in NZ?
Thanks for your help, on this
OOI we’ve been invited to a nieces wedding in Adelaide 8-11 Dec, which my wife wants to attend - are Buffalo still performing live in Aus maybe we could see them whilst we are there?
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Baddmono said:
Suthol
...WIth the NZ released Sabbath album it got me into thinking were there any 60/70's bands from NZ, do you know of any, was there a music scene down there?? With there being plenty of local bands from AUS, surely there must have been something similar in NZ?
I grew up in NZ in the 70s/80s. The obvious ones there would be Split Enz, who sort of morphed into Crowded House....WIth the NZ released Sabbath album it got me into thinking were there any 60/70's bands from NZ, do you know of any, was there a music scene down there?? With there being plenty of local bands from AUS, surely there must have been something similar in NZ?
There were others like Dragon, DD Smash, Blam Blam Blam, the Screaming Meemees, Dance Exponents, the Swingers, Th' Dudes. Most NZ bands headed over to Oz to crack the big time.
A few classics here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pWejAnLUQ&li...
but most a little later than the 60's.
Edit to add, most of these are pop/rock, not so much prog.
If you're into Aussie Rock or want to learn more, check out Radio Birdman - regarded as one of the greatest bands from there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_MHnMG3HK0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKiZ9VSD6U
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some bloke
Thanks for the links - interesting, not really my kinda music I'd call it Punky pop, bit like UK's Dr Feelgood
Radio Birdman were indeed a punk band, arguably the world's first punk band were a Brisbane band The SaintsThanks for the links - interesting, not really my kinda music I'd call it Punky pop, bit like UK's Dr Feelgood
Deniz Tek the Radios guitarist went back to the US and is or was a commercial airline pilot
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