The band themselves were displeased with this record, feeling that the production did not capture their on-stage energy and excitement. Yet to most ears, this debut sounds pretty great, featuring some of their most melodic and accomplished songwriting and harmonies, delivered with a hard-rocking punch. "For What It's Worth" was the hit single, but there are several other equally stunning treasures. Stephen Stills' "Go and Say Goodbye" was a pioneering country-rock fusion; his "Sit Down I Think I Love You" was the band at their poppiest and most early Beatlesque; and his "Everybody's Wrong" and "Pay the Price" were tough rockers. Although Neil Young has only two lead vocals on the record (Richie Furay sang three other Young compositions), he's already a songwriter of great talent and enigmatic lyricism, particularly on "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing," "Out of My Mind," and "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong." The entire album bursts with thrilling guitar and vocal interplay, with a bright exuberance that would tone down considerably by their second record. [A 1997 CD reissue presents both mono and stereo mixes of the album, and includes "Baby Don't Scold Me" (which was on the first pressing of the record, but was soon replaced by "For What It's Worth").]
68 is too early to go, but it's no doubt that Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin left behind one of the most genre-defying drum riffs around -the psychedelic 60s meets 70s anti-war anthem "For What It's Worth" (you can check Martin drumming away to it at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival below). The story goes that Martin also hooked Stephen Stills up with the acid that inspired writing the ...
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From a treasure trove of unreleased Springfield material found in Ahmet Ertegun's summer home. Another track found last month in a box of acetates in an attic at Ahmet Ertegun's summer house.
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Neil Young recently performed this song live in concert which I have never seen before (wish I had been there). To celebrate thought I would give the song a shot. I overdubbed harmony vocals.According to Young's own account of this song from the Decade liner notes: "My first vocal ever done in a studio late 1966 (Gold Star). The boys gave me some uppers to get my nerve up. Maybe you can hear th...
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This is a collaboration with Sonya and Shuie (a UK based duo) and I must say I am blown away by what they did to my solo acoustic cover. They did a beautiful job on this!I sent them my raw microphone recording and they upholstered it with their Buffalo magic as follows:Sonya did the 'morse' electric dub on her Les Paul copy, the handclaps and the high harmony.Shuie played the Fenderbass, lead ...
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This is our second collaboration on a Buffalo Springfield song. This song can be found on their first self titled album. The song was written by Neil Young and sung by Richie Furay on the album. I saw Young do this solo acoustic at a Bridge School concert some years back and decided to try a solo acoustic cover. misspopanoche (Sonya and Shuie from London, England) added in additional guitars a...
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more youtube goodness, from the monterey pop festival ('67?), Buffalo Springfiled, with David Crosby subbing for Neil Young.Almost like an early version of CSN, with Ritchie Furay instead of Graham Nash. Is this the most influential band ever? If you think about all the subsequent projects these guys spawned, they're like the 49ers coaching staff under Bill Walsh, with Mike Holgren, Dennis Gr...
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