10388 - BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD - BOX SET, DISC FOUR (2001)
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
''BOX SET, DISC FOUR''
2001
254:57
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DISC ONE (62:05)
1 There Goes My Babe (Neil Young) 1:47 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
2 Come On (Stephen Stills) 1:27 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
3 Hello, I've Returned (Stills, Van Dyke Parks) 1:38 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
4 Out Of My Mind (Young) 2:44 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
5 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Young) 3:12 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
6 I'm Your Kind of Guy (Young) 1:08 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
7 Baby Don't Scold Me (Stills) 2:07 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
8 Neighbor Don't You Worry (Stills) 2:32 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
9 We'll See (Stills) 4:11 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
10 Sad Memory (Richie Furay) 2:53 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
11 Can't Keep Me Down (Furay) 2:11 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
12 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Young) 3:28
13 Go And Say Goodbye (Stills) 2:25
14 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Stills) 2:35
15 Leave (Stills) 2:47
16 Hot Dusty Roads (Stills) 2:54
17 Everybody's Wrong (Stills) 2:28
18 Burned (Young) 2:20
19 Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It (Young) 3:06
20 Out Of My Mind (Young) 3:09
21 Pay The Price (Stills) 2:40
22 Down Down Down (Young) 2:15 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
23 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Young) 2:44
24 Neighbor Don't You Worry (Stills) 2:25 (Previously Unreleased Remix) 2:25
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DISC TWO (61:30)
1 Down Down Down (Young) 2:46 (Previously Unreleased Remix)
2 Kahuna Sunset (Stills, Young) 2:56 (Previously Unreleased)
3 Buffalo Stomp (Raga) (Furay, Bruce Kunkel, Dewey Martin, Stills, Young) 3:54 (Previously Unreleased)
4 Baby Don't Scold Me (Stills) 3:28 (Previously Unreleased Version)
5 For What It's Worth (Stills) 2:43
6 Mr. Soul (Young) 2:47 (Previously Unreleased Version)
7 We'll See (Stills) 2:47 (Previously Unreleased)
8 My Kind of Love (Furay) 2:35 (Previously Unreleased)
9 Pretty Girl Why (Stills) 2:30 (Previously Unreleased Mix)
10 Words I Must Say (Furay) 1:16 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
11 Nobody's Fool (Furay) 1:35 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
12 So You've Got A Lover (Stills) 3:10 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
13 My Angel (Stills) 3:52 (Demo)
14 No Sun Today (Eric Eisner) 2:05 (Previously Unreleased)
15 Everydays (Stills) 2:43
16 Down To The Wire (Young) 2:29 (Previously Unreleased Version)
17 Bluebird (Stills) 4:24
18 Expecting to Fly (Young) 3:49
19 Hung Upside Down (Stills) 4:30 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
20 A Child's Claim To Fame (Furay) 2:13
21 Rock & Roll Woman (Stills) 2:49
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DISC THREE (61:51)
1 Hung Upside Down (Stills) 3:31
2 Good Time Boy (Furay) 2:18
3 One More Sign (Young) 2:06 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
4 The Rent Is Always Due (Young) 3:06 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
5 Round and Round and Round (Young) 3:40 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
6 Old Laughing Lady (Young) 2:44 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
7 Broken Arrow (Young) 6:18
8 Sad Memory (Furay) 3:04
9 On The Way Home (Young) 2:31 (Previously Unreleased Mix)
10 Whatever Happened To Saturday Night (Young) 2:10 (Previously Unreleased/Remix)
11 Special Care (Stills) 3:44
12 Falcon Lake (Ash On The Floor) (Young) 4:22 (Previously Unreleased/Remix)
13 What A Day (Furay) 2:22 (Previously Unreleased)
14 I Am A Child (Young) 2:20
15 Questions (Stills) 2:59
16 Merry-Go-Round (Furay) 2:09
17 Uno Mundo (Stills) 2:05
18 Kind Woman (Furay) 4:16
19 It's So Hard To Wait (Furay, Young) 2:09
20 Four Days Gone (Stills) 3:47 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
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DISC FOUR (70:18)
1 For What It's Worth (Stills) 2:37 (already on CD2, track 5)
2 Go And Say Goodbye (Stills) 2:23 (already on CD1, track 13)
3 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Stills) 2:34 (already on CD1, track 14)
4 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Young) 3:27 (already on CD1, track 12)
5 Hot Dusty Roads (Stills) 2:52 (already on CD1, track 16)
6 Everybody's Wrong (Stills) 2:29 (already on CD1, track 17)
7 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Young) 2:43 (already on CD1, track 23)
8 Burned (Young) 2:18 (already on CD1, tk18)
9 Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It (Young) 3:06 (already on CD1, track 19)
10 Leave (Stills) 2:46 (already on CD1, track 15)
11 Out Of My Mind (Young) 3:09 (already on CD1, track 20)
12 Pay The Price (Stills) 2:36 (already on CD1, track 21)
13 Baby Don't Scold Me (Stills) 3:13
14 Mr. Soul (Young) 2:52
15 A Child's Claim To Fame (Furay) 2:11 (already on CD2, track 20)
16 Everydays (Stills) 2:43 (already on CD2, track 15)
17 Expecting to Fly (Young) 3:44 (already on CD2, track 18)
18 Bluebird (Stills) 4:29 (already on CD2, track 17)
19 Hung Upside Down (Stills) 3:31 (already on CD3, track 1)
20 Sad Memory (Furay) 3:04 (already on CD3, track 8)
21 Good Time Boy (Furay) 2:18 (already on CD3, track 2)
22 Rock & Roll Woman (Stills) 2:47 (already on CD2, track 21)
23 Broken Arrow (Young) 6:14 (already on CD3, track 7)
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- Buffalo Springfield:
Richie Furay – Guitar, Vocals, Backing Vocals
Dewey Martin – Clarinet, Drums, Horn, Saxophone, Vocals
Jim Messina – Bass Guitar
Bruce Palmer – Bass Guitar
Stephen Stills – Organ, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Piano (Electric), Tambourine, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Handclapping
Neil Young – Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Arranger, Vocals, Backing Vocals
- More:
Hal Blaine – Drums
James Burton – Dobro
Jimmy Karstein – Drums
Charlie Chin – Banjo
Merry Clayton – Choir, Chorus
David Crosby - backing vocal on "Rock & Roll Woman"
Richard Davis – Bass Guitar
Cyrus Faryar – Percussion
Jim Fielder – Bass Guitar
James Gordon – Strings, Horn (English)
Jim Gordon – Drums, Tympani [Timpani], Vibraphone
Jessie Hill – Drums, Tympani [Timpani]
Brenda Holloway – Choir, Chorus
Patrice Holloway – Choir, Chorus
Jim Horn – Clarinet
Carol Kaye – Banjo, Bass, Dobro, Fiddle, Piano, Strings, Drums, Horn, Vibraphone
Gary Marker – Bass Guitar
Sherlie Matthews – Choir, Chorus
Buddy Miles – Drums
Harvey Newmark – Bass Guitar
Gracia Nitzsche – Choir, Chorus
Jack Nitzsche – Arranger, Piano (Electric)
Don Randi – Organ, Piano, Harpsichord
Mac Rebennack – Piano
Jeromy Stuart – Calliope, Harpsichord, Bells
Russ Titelman – Guitar
Bobby West – Bass
Rusty Young – Pedal Steel
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ABOUT THE BOX/WIKIPEDIA
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REVIEW/AMG
Richie Unterberger
The plainly named Box Set -- that's the actual title -- contains four CDs by a band that made only three albums in their brief lifetime. It goes without saying that this has a lot of great music, and is an essential purchase for fans of this phenomenal 1960s folk-rock-psychedelic band, containing no less than 36 previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and previously unissued mixes. It's the unreleased stuff that holds the most interest, especially since even on their outtakes, Buffalo Springfield were often superb. Songs like "Neighbor Don't You Worry," "Down Down Down" (which contains seeds of both "Broken Arrow" and the Neil Young solo standout "Country Girl"), "We'll See," and "My Kind of Love" are actually up to the standard of many of the songs that made it onto the official albums. Although acoustic demos of various Young, Stills, and Furay songs are not as strong, they are always at the least pleasant, and often show intriguing, unsuspected sentimental pop and folk leanings. Alternate versions of great songs, such as "Hung Upside Down" and a piano-only "Four Days Gone," are substantially different from the fully arranged familiar versions, yet worthwhile performances in their own right. At the same time, this box -- which, other than the last disc, sequences the material in the chronological order it was recorded -- is not all it could have been. First of all, for some reason, this does not have everything the band ever released. Not only are a few songs from Last Time Around missing (including one of Richie Furay's best moments, "In the Hour of Not Quite Rain"), but the nine-minute version of "Bluebird" (available on the two-LP Buffalo Springfield compilation) and the Neil Young-sung take of "Down to the Wire" (which came out on his Decade collection) are also absent. First-rate songs from Last Time Around, including "On the Way Home," "Pretty Girl Why," and "Four Days Gone," are represented by different demos and remixes, though it would have been easily possible to include the official final versions too. Worst of all, disc four is comprised solely of all the material from the group's brilliant first two albums -- which would not be cause for criticism, except that identical versions of every one of them (except for "Mr. Soul" and "Baby Don't Scold Me") also appear at some point in the course of the preceding three discs. This bizarre repetition is doubly galling both because that space could have been used for remaining Last Time Around absentees, and because other quality unreleased material, both studio and live, is known to exist, and is far more hungrily desired by fans eager to purchase a box set in the first place. Fortunately you can still (almost) complete the Springfield discography by buying Last Time Around itself. The sound is very good, and on the rarities, notably superior to bootlegs (such as the famous Stampede) on which some of the songs have previously surfaced. The 82-page booklet, primarily comprised of vintage clippings, is nice too, even if specific details and anecdotes about the unreleased songs in particular would have been good. As good as it is, though, this could have been one of the greatest rock box sets of all time, if only a saner approach to presenting the band's complete official albums, and more rarities, in one place had been employed.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Richie Unterberger
Apart from the Byrds, no other American band had as great an impact on folk-rock and country-rock -- really, the entire Californian rock sound -- than Buffalo Springfield. The group's formation is the stuff of legend: driving on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay spotted a hearse that Stills was sure belonged to Neil Young, a Canadian he had crossed paths with earlier. Indeed it was, and with the addition of fellow hearse passenger and Canadian Bruce Palmer on bass and ex-Dillard Dewey Martin on drums, the cluster of ex-folkys determined, as the Byrds had just done, to become a rock & roll band.
Buffalo Springfield wasn't together long -- they were an active outfit for just over two years, between 1967 and 1968 --but every one of their three albums was noteworthy. Their debut, Buffalo Springfield, including their sole big hit (Stills' "For What It's Worth"), established them as the best folk-rock band in the land barring the Byrds, though Springfield was a bit more folk and country oriented. Again, their second album found the group expanding their folk-rock base into tough hard rock and psychedelic orchestration, resulting in their best record. The group was blessed with three idiosyncratic, talented songwriters in Stills, Young, and Furay (the last of whom didn't begin writing until the second LP) yet they also had strong and often conflicting egos, particularly Stills and Young. The group, who held almost infinite promise, rearranged their lineup several times, Young leaving the group for periods and Palmer fighting deportation, until disbanding in 1968. Their final album clearly shows the group fragmenting into solo directions.
Eventually, the inter-personal tensions and creative battles led to a perhaps inevitable split, starting with Young's departure for a solo career. He would later reunite with Stephen Stills in Crosby, Stills, & Nash, joining the trio once a decade for various projects. In addition to CSN, Stills released solo albums and worked with a nother band, Manassas. Initially, Jim Messina and Richie Furay stayed together, forming the country-rock group Poco, but Messina left after three albums to team up in a duo with Kenny Loggins. Furay himself left Poco and teamed with Chris Hillman and JD Souther in the Souther Hillman Furay Band before pursuing a solo career. Rumors of a Buffalo Springfield reunion circulated for years -- Young even hinted at it with the song "Buffalo Springfield Again" --and it finally happened in the fall of 2010. Young, Furay and Stills reunited as Buffalo Springfield for a pair of shows at Young's annual Bridge School Benefit in the fall of 2010. It wasn't a complete reunion, since Palmer had died in 2004 and Martin passed in 2009, but the three singers used bassist Rick Rosas and drummer Joe Vitale to fill in. The same configuration played six concerts in the spring of 2011, but reportedly did no studio work.
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WIKIPEDIA
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''BOX SET, DISC FOUR''
2001
254:57
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DISC ONE (62:05)
1 There Goes My Babe (Neil Young) 1:47 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
2 Come On (Stephen Stills) 1:27 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
3 Hello, I've Returned (Stills, Van Dyke Parks) 1:38 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
4 Out Of My Mind (Young) 2:44 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
5 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Young) 3:12 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
6 I'm Your Kind of Guy (Young) 1:08 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
7 Baby Don't Scold Me (Stills) 2:07 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
8 Neighbor Don't You Worry (Stills) 2:32 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
9 We'll See (Stills) 4:11 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
10 Sad Memory (Richie Furay) 2:53 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
11 Can't Keep Me Down (Furay) 2:11 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
12 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Young) 3:28
13 Go And Say Goodbye (Stills) 2:25
14 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Stills) 2:35
15 Leave (Stills) 2:47
16 Hot Dusty Roads (Stills) 2:54
17 Everybody's Wrong (Stills) 2:28
18 Burned (Young) 2:20
19 Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It (Young) 3:06
20 Out Of My Mind (Young) 3:09
21 Pay The Price (Stills) 2:40
22 Down Down Down (Young) 2:15 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
23 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Young) 2:44
24 Neighbor Don't You Worry (Stills) 2:25 (Previously Unreleased Remix) 2:25
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DISC TWO (61:30)
1 Down Down Down (Young) 2:46 (Previously Unreleased Remix)
2 Kahuna Sunset (Stills, Young) 2:56 (Previously Unreleased)
3 Buffalo Stomp (Raga) (Furay, Bruce Kunkel, Dewey Martin, Stills, Young) 3:54 (Previously Unreleased)
4 Baby Don't Scold Me (Stills) 3:28 (Previously Unreleased Version)
5 For What It's Worth (Stills) 2:43
6 Mr. Soul (Young) 2:47 (Previously Unreleased Version)
7 We'll See (Stills) 2:47 (Previously Unreleased)
8 My Kind of Love (Furay) 2:35 (Previously Unreleased)
9 Pretty Girl Why (Stills) 2:30 (Previously Unreleased Mix)
10 Words I Must Say (Furay) 1:16 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
11 Nobody's Fool (Furay) 1:35 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
12 So You've Got A Lover (Stills) 3:10 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
13 My Angel (Stills) 3:52 (Demo)
14 No Sun Today (Eric Eisner) 2:05 (Previously Unreleased)
15 Everydays (Stills) 2:43
16 Down To The Wire (Young) 2:29 (Previously Unreleased Version)
17 Bluebird (Stills) 4:24
18 Expecting to Fly (Young) 3:49
19 Hung Upside Down (Stills) 4:30 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
20 A Child's Claim To Fame (Furay) 2:13
21 Rock & Roll Woman (Stills) 2:49
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DISC THREE (61:51)
1 Hung Upside Down (Stills) 3:31
2 Good Time Boy (Furay) 2:18
3 One More Sign (Young) 2:06 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
4 The Rent Is Always Due (Young) 3:06 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
5 Round and Round and Round (Young) 3:40 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
6 Old Laughing Lady (Young) 2:44 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
7 Broken Arrow (Young) 6:18
8 Sad Memory (Furay) 3:04
9 On The Way Home (Young) 2:31 (Previously Unreleased Mix)
10 Whatever Happened To Saturday Night (Young) 2:10 (Previously Unreleased/Remix)
11 Special Care (Stills) 3:44
12 Falcon Lake (Ash On The Floor) (Young) 4:22 (Previously Unreleased/Remix)
13 What A Day (Furay) 2:22 (Previously Unreleased)
14 I Am A Child (Young) 2:20
15 Questions (Stills) 2:59
16 Merry-Go-Round (Furay) 2:09
17 Uno Mundo (Stills) 2:05
18 Kind Woman (Furay) 4:16
19 It's So Hard To Wait (Furay, Young) 2:09
20 Four Days Gone (Stills) 3:47 (Previously Unreleased Demo)
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DISC FOUR (70:18)
1 For What It's Worth (Stills) 2:37 (already on CD2, track 5)
2 Go And Say Goodbye (Stills) 2:23 (already on CD1, track 13)
3 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Stills) 2:34 (already on CD1, track 14)
4 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Young) 3:27 (already on CD1, track 12)
5 Hot Dusty Roads (Stills) 2:52 (already on CD1, track 16)
6 Everybody's Wrong (Stills) 2:29 (already on CD1, track 17)
7 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Young) 2:43 (already on CD1, track 23)
8 Burned (Young) 2:18 (already on CD1, tk18)
9 Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It (Young) 3:06 (already on CD1, track 19)
10 Leave (Stills) 2:46 (already on CD1, track 15)
11 Out Of My Mind (Young) 3:09 (already on CD1, track 20)
12 Pay The Price (Stills) 2:36 (already on CD1, track 21)
13 Baby Don't Scold Me (Stills) 3:13
14 Mr. Soul (Young) 2:52
15 A Child's Claim To Fame (Furay) 2:11 (already on CD2, track 20)
16 Everydays (Stills) 2:43 (already on CD2, track 15)
17 Expecting to Fly (Young) 3:44 (already on CD2, track 18)
18 Bluebird (Stills) 4:29 (already on CD2, track 17)
19 Hung Upside Down (Stills) 3:31 (already on CD3, track 1)
20 Sad Memory (Furay) 3:04 (already on CD3, track 8)
21 Good Time Boy (Furay) 2:18 (already on CD3, track 2)
22 Rock & Roll Woman (Stills) 2:47 (already on CD2, track 21)
23 Broken Arrow (Young) 6:14 (already on CD3, track 7)
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- Buffalo Springfield:
Richie Furay – Guitar, Vocals, Backing Vocals
Dewey Martin – Clarinet, Drums, Horn, Saxophone, Vocals
Jim Messina – Bass Guitar
Bruce Palmer – Bass Guitar
Stephen Stills – Organ, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Piano (Electric), Tambourine, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Handclapping
Neil Young – Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Arranger, Vocals, Backing Vocals
- More:
Hal Blaine – Drums
James Burton – Dobro
Jimmy Karstein – Drums
Charlie Chin – Banjo
Merry Clayton – Choir, Chorus
David Crosby - backing vocal on "Rock & Roll Woman"
Richard Davis – Bass Guitar
Cyrus Faryar – Percussion
Jim Fielder – Bass Guitar
James Gordon – Strings, Horn (English)
Jim Gordon – Drums, Tympani [Timpani], Vibraphone
Jessie Hill – Drums, Tympani [Timpani]
Brenda Holloway – Choir, Chorus
Patrice Holloway – Choir, Chorus
Jim Horn – Clarinet
Carol Kaye – Banjo, Bass, Dobro, Fiddle, Piano, Strings, Drums, Horn, Vibraphone
Gary Marker – Bass Guitar
Sherlie Matthews – Choir, Chorus
Buddy Miles – Drums
Harvey Newmark – Bass Guitar
Gracia Nitzsche – Choir, Chorus
Jack Nitzsche – Arranger, Piano (Electric)
Don Randi – Organ, Piano, Harpsichord
Mac Rebennack – Piano
Jeromy Stuart – Calliope, Harpsichord, Bells
Russ Titelman – Guitar
Bobby West – Bass
Rusty Young – Pedal Steel
**********
ABOUT THE BOX/WIKIPEDIA
**********
REVIEW/AMG
Richie Unterberger
The plainly named Box Set -- that's the actual title -- contains four CDs by a band that made only three albums in their brief lifetime. It goes without saying that this has a lot of great music, and is an essential purchase for fans of this phenomenal 1960s folk-rock-psychedelic band, containing no less than 36 previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and previously unissued mixes. It's the unreleased stuff that holds the most interest, especially since even on their outtakes, Buffalo Springfield were often superb. Songs like "Neighbor Don't You Worry," "Down Down Down" (which contains seeds of both "Broken Arrow" and the Neil Young solo standout "Country Girl"), "We'll See," and "My Kind of Love" are actually up to the standard of many of the songs that made it onto the official albums. Although acoustic demos of various Young, Stills, and Furay songs are not as strong, they are always at the least pleasant, and often show intriguing, unsuspected sentimental pop and folk leanings. Alternate versions of great songs, such as "Hung Upside Down" and a piano-only "Four Days Gone," are substantially different from the fully arranged familiar versions, yet worthwhile performances in their own right. At the same time, this box -- which, other than the last disc, sequences the material in the chronological order it was recorded -- is not all it could have been. First of all, for some reason, this does not have everything the band ever released. Not only are a few songs from Last Time Around missing (including one of Richie Furay's best moments, "In the Hour of Not Quite Rain"), but the nine-minute version of "Bluebird" (available on the two-LP Buffalo Springfield compilation) and the Neil Young-sung take of "Down to the Wire" (which came out on his Decade collection) are also absent. First-rate songs from Last Time Around, including "On the Way Home," "Pretty Girl Why," and "Four Days Gone," are represented by different demos and remixes, though it would have been easily possible to include the official final versions too. Worst of all, disc four is comprised solely of all the material from the group's brilliant first two albums -- which would not be cause for criticism, except that identical versions of every one of them (except for "Mr. Soul" and "Baby Don't Scold Me") also appear at some point in the course of the preceding three discs. This bizarre repetition is doubly galling both because that space could have been used for remaining Last Time Around absentees, and because other quality unreleased material, both studio and live, is known to exist, and is far more hungrily desired by fans eager to purchase a box set in the first place. Fortunately you can still (almost) complete the Springfield discography by buying Last Time Around itself. The sound is very good, and on the rarities, notably superior to bootlegs (such as the famous Stampede) on which some of the songs have previously surfaced. The 82-page booklet, primarily comprised of vintage clippings, is nice too, even if specific details and anecdotes about the unreleased songs in particular would have been good. As good as it is, though, this could have been one of the greatest rock box sets of all time, if only a saner approach to presenting the band's complete official albums, and more rarities, in one place had been employed.
**********
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Richie Unterberger
Apart from the Byrds, no other American band had as great an impact on folk-rock and country-rock -- really, the entire Californian rock sound -- than Buffalo Springfield. The group's formation is the stuff of legend: driving on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay spotted a hearse that Stills was sure belonged to Neil Young, a Canadian he had crossed paths with earlier. Indeed it was, and with the addition of fellow hearse passenger and Canadian Bruce Palmer on bass and ex-Dillard Dewey Martin on drums, the cluster of ex-folkys determined, as the Byrds had just done, to become a rock & roll band.
Buffalo Springfield wasn't together long -- they were an active outfit for just over two years, between 1967 and 1968 --but every one of their three albums was noteworthy. Their debut, Buffalo Springfield, including their sole big hit (Stills' "For What It's Worth"), established them as the best folk-rock band in the land barring the Byrds, though Springfield was a bit more folk and country oriented. Again, their second album found the group expanding their folk-rock base into tough hard rock and psychedelic orchestration, resulting in their best record. The group was blessed with three idiosyncratic, talented songwriters in Stills, Young, and Furay (the last of whom didn't begin writing until the second LP) yet they also had strong and often conflicting egos, particularly Stills and Young. The group, who held almost infinite promise, rearranged their lineup several times, Young leaving the group for periods and Palmer fighting deportation, until disbanding in 1968. Their final album clearly shows the group fragmenting into solo directions.
Eventually, the inter-personal tensions and creative battles led to a perhaps inevitable split, starting with Young's departure for a solo career. He would later reunite with Stephen Stills in Crosby, Stills, & Nash, joining the trio once a decade for various projects. In addition to CSN, Stills released solo albums and worked with a nother band, Manassas. Initially, Jim Messina and Richie Furay stayed together, forming the country-rock group Poco, but Messina left after three albums to team up in a duo with Kenny Loggins. Furay himself left Poco and teamed with Chris Hillman and JD Souther in the Souther Hillman Furay Band before pursuing a solo career. Rumors of a Buffalo Springfield reunion circulated for years -- Young even hinted at it with the song "Buffalo Springfield Again" --and it finally happened in the fall of 2010. Young, Furay and Stills reunited as Buffalo Springfield for a pair of shows at Young's annual Bridge School Benefit in the fall of 2010. It wasn't a complete reunion, since Palmer had died in 2004 and Martin passed in 2009, but the three singers used bassist Rick Rosas and drummer Joe Vitale to fill in. The same configuration played six concerts in the spring of 2011, but reportedly did no studio work.
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WIKIPEDIA
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