Drummer reacts to Buffalo Springfield Retrospective (Side 2)

[@dbradx]

'Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing' is one of my all-time favourite songs, and a brilliant early Neil composition, even if the boys wouldn't let him sing it. There's nothing I don't love about that song, are anything by Buffalo Springfield for that matter. Neil and Stephen may have their issues, but they were born to play together. Terrific reaction as always - peace and love from Canada!

[@elizabethbrown6384]

Love love love this album. I've had the LP, the cassette and now the CD.

[@BeeGee56]

Expecting To Fly is one of Neil’s most beautiful songs.

[@L33Reacts]

I agree 100% that is one stirring piece of music.

[@BeeGee56]

@@L33Reactsif you like Expecting, listen to Birds on the After The Gold Rush album. Also, you’d really like Razor Love on the Silver and Gold album (about his kids)

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

What a time to be alive !!! Thank god I was and still am to listen to hear to the start of real music again.

[@johncampbell756]

The live clip was of Mr. Soul. Neil was 22 when I Am a Child was released.

[@yankeeboyno7]

Clancy is a song I can put on repeat as I'm driving and let it go 4 or 5 times before I take repeat off. Love the whole album.

[@L33Reacts]

Such a great album. Thank you for this, Joel.

[@liblit]

Clancy is a perfect example of what really went right on their first album. There was a synergy between Stills and Furay's vocals and the three guitars (Stills arrangements) that they never got back to and I've very rarely heard elsewhere.

[@dandare42]

I think Neil said that their first LP had the better songs and the second one had the better production. The mixing and production on Buffalo Springfield (1966) was regrettable (muddy, distant sounding guitars, buried vocals, but some instruments way too forward in the mix, etc.), but it couldn't hurt the quality of the songs. It was a stunning debut.

[@liblit]

@@dandare42 I think Neil's songs are better on the first one. I think Stills songs get better on the second. But the big difference, to me, is that the whole group is playing together like a group on the first one and that didn't happen again for these guys until Neil and Crazy Horse. BS and CSNY recorded (after that first record) like a collection of individuals (very talented individuals but still..). The only band Stephen had that wasn't a backing band was Manassas and maybe that's why it worked so well for a while. Neil and Crazy Horse obviously works to this day.

[@dandare42]

@@liblit They didn't come up through the ranks together but were friendly/familiar with each other. So to get their big break, they banded together. It was an all-star uniting of songwriting giants that was bound to be short because unlike groups such as the Beatles, they didn't have that shared experience of trying to make it together. They literally formed in April 1966 and had a record contract a few months later. A year into their existence and there was already a fragmenting. The Beatles got there by 6 years in on the White Album yet it took the Springfield far less time. No shocker there as they spawned 3 big acts in their wake (Poco, CSNY and Neil solo).

[@liblit]

@@dandare42 I'll quibble with one comment you've made though I'm not sure we actually disagree. It may look like an 'all-star uniting of songwriting giants' in retrospect (see what I did there?). But at the time, few saw them that way. They had a cult fan base, mostly in LA, and they were influential with other, mostly LA, bands. Stills songs were covered a few times and FWIW was their only 'hit'. Neil's songs got a cover or two but his star really didn't rise with the public until he joined CSN. They were considered by most a one-hit wonder--the Grassroots or Zager & Evans, nowhere near the importance of Creedence, Sly, the Youngbloods or any of the known british bands. They broke up in failure and frustration and their determination to move on was pretty brave. Most people in their position who tried it ended up going nowhere or reforming out of desperation later on.

[@gregbacon9808]

Expecting to Fly will always remind me of when I smoked a Bowl sitting along the Colorado river with a summer breeze blowing in my face watching people slowly floating by on their inner tubes while swiging on their bottles of wine😎👍🏻

[@L33Reacts]

That fucking song man.... like a dagger through the heart that you've been expecting for years and it never felt so good.

[@AntonyFleck]

Steve Stills is a genius ! Not unrecognised or underrated by the beautiful people that know!! But unfortunately pretty much unknown to the people that don't, well obviously really! The man should be a F*cking musicial legend !!.... So beautiful and of course 'Neil ' !¡....

[@scottsharbonno1708]

Top to bottom, a great album

[@dawntucker5052]

This album is so special ❤ thank you for playing it❤

[@jurgenschmidt2759]

Almost all of them had such great careers afterwards, solo or with others, all so good and talented musicians, amazing

[@kristahartmann6712]

My dreamy, emo 18 year-old self was fully invested in Neil's "Expecting to Fly"... way way back then.

[@Linda-y9h]

So strange how I can sing along with a tune I haven't heard in 50 years. Thanks Lee. ❤😊

[@L33Reacts]

glad I could bring a little joy :) thank you for watching, my friend.

[@Linda-y9h]

@@L33Reacts you always do!! 😁👍

[@phillipray4380]

Wow, I haven’t heard these since the 60’s, they really hold up.

[@konradv7]

Their song Questions was rolled into Carry On for CSN.

[@DianeGardner-i8d]

Love Buffalo Springfield was always one of my favorite albums and groups

[@mattjohn4731]

Magic band from an explosive decade! 🎸🎤

[@L33Reacts]

Such an explosive decade! That’s putting it lightly lol

[@DianeGardner-i8d]

I always forget broken arrow is on this album - love this song

[@dgator3599]

Happy 2 yr anniversary! I just had my 33rd, together 35 yrs. Time flies.

[@mattjohn4731]

Expecting To Fly is a masterpiece to me. I love how NY blends electric guitar with orchestral sound🎸🎻

[@L33Reacts]

It’s one of my favorite songs ever now! It moves me every single time…

[@mattjohn4731]

His self-titled album in '68 continues with Jack Nietzsche strings a bit and it's excellent but not a big hit. His '69 album with Crazy Horse was a hit and then he joined CSNY for Deja Vu

[@bradjenkins1475]

I remember so many of us being really upset worrying on mad about the Buffalo Springfield, breaking up. They were one of the leading voices of our generation, and they song about things that met something and things that were happening. And they were a group that was similar to Bob Dylan when it came to speaking for our generation of the 60s and early 70s. We were the first generation to have the number of questions that previous generations may well have been smart to question prior to us. We felt like we had a voice and we thought our voices were the same because we had issues. That was hard to not get behind, such as the Vietnam war. Black pride, gay prifeminism, freedom equality all of the things that for the most part have come to be since those early 70s. We felt like we had a voice and we thought our voices were the same because we had issues. That was hard to not get behind, such as the Vietnam war. Black pride, gay prifeminism, freedom equality all of the things that for the most part have come to be since those early 70s. But. The redeeming feature of them breaking up turned out to be less painful as time went on because of the individuals from that group each going on to successful future careers. And forming some of the greatest bands ever in their own right? So close the door and open the window. Many say that's what God does and I could buy into it, but I would first have to buy into a guide that intervenes within our daily lives, which is very hard for me to swallow.

[@ericbrown2655]

Thanks for this one Lee! First album I ever bought. Still one of my all tome favorites!

[@L33Reacts]

glad you enjoyed, my friend. this was a treat for sure. it was worth the month long wait I hope lol its been blocked since the beginning of may

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Loved it. The whole vibe is warm

[@bigsby1]

Neil was 20 when Buffalo Springfield formed and 22 when they split up. Stephen was 21 to 23. Remarkable.

[@88namiko]

That psychedelic sound was probably them tripping on acid while playing music

[@randy8297]

Don't ignore the Furay branch of this tree. He and Jim Messina (producer and later member of BF) next started Poco, country rock pioneers, then Loggins & Messina and Souther, Hillman & Furay and even The Eagles. All worthy of your attention, you'll enjoy.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

He was a minister in Boulder Colorado but his flock didn't like him traveling...Now he's minister in Brookfield Colorado!! There s a theater in Boulder where he did AN Etown show simulcast to radio and a live Audience...He did for what it's worth as a finale with LOS LOBOS

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

He was never in Eagles

[@dandare42]

Neil wrote "Clancy" but it was sung by Richie Furay with Stills on harmony. Neil didn't even get a vocal because the others thought his voice was awkward and uncommercial (he may do the falsetto harmonies near the end though). His own versions of it are nice but i still prefer the arrangement here. Richie really did a superb job at singing it. Richie also sang "Flying on the Ground is Wrong" and "Do I Have To Come Right Out and Say it" which were Neil-penned, while Neil did sing "Burned" and "Out Of My Mind." But he did get to sing his tunes on Buffalo Springfield Again. And all three tracks were masterpieces, indicating it wouldn't be long before he'd be branching off. Neil left the band several times before they ultimately dissolved midway through 1968. Barely together 2 years and coming apart at the seams for half of that time! Legendary still. And Neil would've been 20-22 for these recordings (born in November 1945).

[@ChipG3000]

If you are digging Stephen Stills, check out his first solo album “Stephen Stills,” released in 1970. Some really great stuff! 👍

[@franksullivan1873]

Beautiful album.

[@corawheeler9355]

Such beautiful music.

[@SnoopySnoops1]

Loved this! Thanks Joel!

[@paulschuyler2320]

Wife here. This is an awesome album !! Enjoy.

[@CliffordLake]

Attic recording. Ah, that takes me back...

[@ddthor]

Thanks Joel!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

That isn't Neil on Clancy ...it's Stephen and Ritchie

[@brianvernon249]

This side is the embryo of Poco.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yup needs to do Poco Nature of Love with Rusty s Petal Slide Guitar solo or CMON from the Midnight Special where Rusty plays Slide in a SPECIAL WAY

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Go and Say Goodbye redone on a Poco Album

[@jasonralph4286]

Love me some fuzzy guitar sounds!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No Dewey was drummer throughout

[@Kerazen123]

Amazing album ❤

[@glennromano28]

Clancy always takes me back to my teens when it came out it got heavy FM rotation

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope never played on top 40 garbage rock

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

That s Ritchie Furay on on vocals on Clancy with Stills on backup vocals

[@SteveCooley-w3y]

Stills wrote this about Grace Slick.

[@alpetrocelli4465]

One of the great early bands, that helped invent protest rock with “For What It’s Worth”. The old adage about too many cooks is true, and they went their different ways, and became legends.✌️❤️🎶

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Not war protest...protesting a curfew

[@alpetrocelli4465]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Did I say war? It inspired people to write rock protest songs & not just folk songs. But yes, that was in response to the Sunset Strip riots following the curfew imposed in Hollywood in ‘66.

[@rorystorm4284]

Enjoy your choices. Are you familiar with Laura Nyro? What an amazing talent. Her early success was a result of a number of her songs being covered by well known groups and became big hits. I prefer her versions because I'm such a fan. Please check out And When I Die, Eli's Coming, Wedding Bell Blues or Stony End. Unlike many of her contemporaries she played piano(vs. guitar)and had a distinct R&B/Soul thing going on. Hard to underestimate her impact, but sadly is less well known than many others.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope overrated

[@robertthole695]

richie furay is awesome

[@PaulRoehl-fi1iw]

Certainly he had one of the most beautiful tenor voices in Rock at that time.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yup check out ETOWN with Los Lobos and Ritchie doing a For What it s Worth cover with Ritchies daughter doing background vocals...

[@jeffjohnson9911]

Furay only sang 2 songs on side one, Young sang 1 (Mr Soul) and Stills sang the rest.

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Great Stuff❤

[@jasonralph4286]

The Poco album with the orange crate album cover along with the mostly live Deliverin album were full of great tunes from some of the guys from Buffalo Springfield

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

But when Ritchie left Poco ....Paul Cotton and Rusty Young had to step up writing and singing...Rusty had several Pedal Steel Guitar Solos like on CMON

[@spooley]

Broken Arrow is a code phrase that refers to an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components that does not create a risk of nuclear war. These include acidental or unexplained nuclear explosion. Yikes.

[@L33Reacts]

i actually knew that. and that's scary indeed. we are an... interesting species. pissing matches with technology that could end existence.

[@spooley]

I would venture Neil knew as well, his father was a journalist with a few different large Metro Toronto newspapers, dinner table talk would be diverse. Scott also wrote a sports column and did kids books. He left when Neil was around 12 iirc. Neil wrote "Don't be Denied" about his move to the west, being bullied and getting a guitar as a release.

[@ontrack16]

Buffalo Springfield Again is one of my top 10 favorite albums okay top 15 but I never really understood the first album other than the radio hit anthem For What It’s Worth. Great music and great variety!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yup too many wimpy boy only heard that but none of the better ones

[@glenndespres5317]

How about that Broken Arrow!? And then followed up by Expecting to Fly! Good God they don’t make music like that no more!

[@L33Reacts]

Expecting to fly always gets me. Every damn time. Neil was a genius

[@glenndespres5317]

Every damn time. Me too. So you heard before reacting to it? Looking back on it all I always felt it was Neil’s too brief dabble in psychedelic flavored music. I wish there was more. And somewhere I read that Expecting to Fly became a metaphor for our whole generation. LSD was a revelation and we thought we could accomplish anything because we felt unified in our vision of peace. Things never turn out like you think but it’s still a worthy vision and you can’t stop trying.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No this is COUNTRYROCK

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Should do leave

[@jasonralph4286]

I enjoy most of the songs on this record but it has to be one of the most disjointed albums ever

[@jasonralph4286]

Neil's younger brother is part of Poco

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No moron RUSTY YOUNG DEFINITELY NOT NEILS brother....RUSTY made a song about that very topic....he said in the Springfield when Neil stopped showing up they cashed in his airline tickets

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No this Proves RUSTY YOUNG was not Neil Youngs Brother...get your facts straight duuuuhhh kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4OnqaqAiMlqnKcsi=M7Ttm5P5E1qpJsAT

[@jasonralph4286]

Neil's younger brother Rusty is part of Poco

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope RUSTY YOUNG no relation to Neil...in fact Rusty did a song about how they were not brothers...get your facts right

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No moron he wasn't In fact he wrote a song on that RUSTY played PEDAL STEEL GUITAR on Kind Woman kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4OnqaqAiMlqnKcsi=M7Ttm5P5E1qpJsAT

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

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[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yeah garbage rock stations only played short 3 and 4 min songs

[@QWEENZ.]

Hi! Can you react to 'Waiting for You' by Shendell? It dropped recently, but is very similar to billie holiday and the type of jazz music she made back in the day!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Byrds vs. Buffalo.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Byrds lose bigtime