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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Mal
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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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great band though
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
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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
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?
TA
Mal
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