Drummer reacts to The Best of Buffalo Springfield (Part 1)

[@L33Reacts]

WELL IT TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH... a month later. I hope you guys enjoy. Part 2 will be out in a week once that's unblocked too.

[@yankeeboyno7]

No extra song. The banjo was still part of the end of Bluebird. Then followed by On the way Home.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Thanks Lee

[@jerryclark1903]

Love this group and album. One of the best groups to come out of the 1960s.

[@bradjenkins1475]

What an absolutely awesome Best of album. I've owned it for years and it's one of the type of album that is so good and so relevant. No matter what the era that you're willing to play It without getting Tired of it.

[@bradjenkins1475]

A definitive song that expresses exactly the mood of the country in the late 60s. And the slow separation between the young and the older generation in America. Authority in itself became an enemy to those of us that were marching in the streets. Having rallies doing all the things that come with being in an illegal war which at that time was Vietnam.

[@bradjenkins1475]

Well I can say is, thank you for a really great morning. And, PS: the album cover for this Retrospective is easily in the top 5 album covers of all time.

[@elizabethbrown6384]

One of my favorite albums. Great for singing in the car.

[@ChipG3000]

That little banjo section is the coda of “Bluebird.” Thanks for these great reactions!

[@L33Reacts]

Glad you enjoy them my friend. I love this stuff so much Side 2 was even better!

[@johnroyalmills-33]

What an incredible side of music. For What It’s Worth is a timeless classic. Stills is brilliant - songwriter, singer, guitar player, brilliant at each. You got a bit confused, the banjo was the second part of Bluebird. On the Way Home was written by Neil, but sung by Richie. That was the final song of the side.

[@L33Reacts]

Yeah I figured I messed something up lol apparently the times that were on Wikipedia weren't the same as the full album I was listening to so it messed it up. But part two (which will be out in a couple days) has the missing song lol

[@johnroyalmills-33]

@@L33ReactsThank you for your hard work and honest heartfelt reactions.

[@danhill5619]

Back in the day you listened to AM radio with 3 minute singles that changed when FM came along and played longer tracks from albums sometimes a whole side of an album . That is how concept albums were born

[@chitownlee]

Richie Furay has such a great voice.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

He was great with Los Lobos doing For What its Worth at E Town in Boulder Colorado

[@richardrader6427]

Stephen's voice matures well from BS. Manassas.CSNY and solo albums. Gets real soulful and bluesy.

[@corawheeler9355]

Memorable songs

[@L33Reacts]

especially for what its worth.... iconic track

[@bradjenkins1475]

Buffalo Springfield was so far ahead of the curve. The music was great back then that it's still great now. But these guys were actually a couple of years ahead of the real changes with rock. Roots happened because Buffalo Springfield was popular and put out this kind of music between '66 and '68. It was probably around 68 through the mid-seventies. That all the great music really stepped up to the plate and took over as far as the greatest music ever. But I'm only pointing out that Buffalo Springfield started or was one of the groups that really started the major changes that happened in the very late 60s.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

RUSTY YOUNG on Pedal Steel Guitar....when he went to Poco he did CMON a steel guitar song played way differently when they did the Midnight Special

[@fd1930]

A fine ( half) album and a great reaction as always Deserves many likes and comments

[@L33Reacts]

you rock brother! i appreciate that :D

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

What’s going down was written in about 15 minutes when Stills witnessed the cops beating the shit out of hippies outside the clubs on the strip in LA.

[@yankeeboyno7]

Richie Furray came back to play with Buffalo Springfield Revisited. Stills joined them for a live concert at a local bar.

[@stlmopoet]

Great album. Hang in there.

[@janewells5970]

Great album!

[@L33Reacts]

Absolutely! I love this band and it's parts equally. So much talent in one band lol

[@janewells5970]

@@L33Reacts this was recorded in 67. I really recommend you watch the Short documentary on 1967. It’s on Discord.

[@paulehney4581]

Neat album!

[@liblit]

Personnel issues were one of the reasons this band didn't last. First of all, ignore 2010-12; that was a short-lived reunion of Stills, Young and Furay to establish ownership of the name; they did seven shows on the west coast and Neil bailed. While they existed as a band, 1966-68, Stills, Furay and Dewey Martin were the reliable players. Bruce Palmer was the bass player but he kept getting busted for pot and not having proper immigration papers (Canadians!) so they went through a string of bass players trying to find (and never finding) a real replacement. Then Neil couldn't make his mind up if he wanted to be part of a group and, if so, if this is the one he wanted to be part of (Answer: Only if it was his group). Doug Hastings replaced him for a short time until Neil returned and Doug got a phone call from Stills telling him he was out. And then there was their third album, Last Time Around, produced by their last bass player, Jim Messina, but he really only produced Richie's tracks. Stills produced his own with session players and Neil only handed in I Am A Child as his participation. So their history is a grab-bag of players. Singing is usually Neil or Stephen or Richie, except their first album, where Stills/Furay did a lot of unison singing a la John and Paul at the time. At that stage, hard to tell their voices apart.

[@danhill5619]

Thank You

[@woedan48]

Good show bro 😎

[@bradjenkins1475]

It really is sad and such a shame that back in those days that all of these great artistic musicians were bound. Buy the rules of the radio. To require time limits as the focus of music that you release is just ridiculous and that's what they had to live with continually, making their songs, no matter how great 3 minutes or less, just for radio time. And that actually was the era that switched from people psolo. Song albums meaning 45RPM VS buying full albums. And when that change fully happened, it really spurred on these great groups to play music. That lasted as long as they wanted to not as long as the rules only allowed them to. I still look back and thank God for f. M taking its role in the airing of music, which extinguished all the AM stations in there 3 minutes per song limit. FM changed my life at that time.

[@chitownlee]

For What It's Worth was the main protest song of 1967.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

But had nothing to do with war

[@chitownlee]

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN I didn't say it did, there were a lot of different protest that year, I know this song was about a riot in LA.

[@stlmopoet]

That bit that confused you was a continuation of Bluebird.

[@L33Reacts]

The times for the songs were a bit wonky so I lost my place I think lol and it was just the album, not individual songs like I usually so I got lost for sure. But part 2 has the missing song. I recorded this like a month ago it's been blocked for a while lol

[@stlmopoet]

@@L33Reacts Broken Arrow was probably confusing too with its many sections.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

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[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Ritchie was only Rythym Guitar

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

And Ritchie sings on the way home not Neil

[@CliffordLake]

Contractual traction comment.

[@L33Reacts]

many thanks my friend :D

[@alvillanueva2525]

All the music is sped up. What happened?

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Poco redid Kind Woman

[@joannerichards1750]

Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing is on side 2.

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

1969. WTF !!!

[@L33Reacts]

Right???

[@Mike-ky9jz]

It sounds just a tic fast....

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Too bad so many Wimpy Boys only know this song For What its Worth and not Bluebird or Leave cause they only listen to top 40 garbage rock radio...real short overplayed every 15 mins