Buffalo Springfield - 1968-04-20 - Dallas, TX (SBD)

Buffalo Springfield

1968-04-20

Market Hall

Dallas, Texas

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Rock And Roll Woman

02. A Child's Claim To Fame

03. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing

04. Uno Mundo

05. For What It's Worth

06. Bluebird

Note: Opening act for The Beach Boys

Buffalo Springfield - 1968-04-20 - Dallas, TX (SBD)

Combine 2 parts USA with 3 parts Canada and what do you get - Buffalo Springfield, a band that lasted less than 3 years but was one of the most influential in rock history. Stephen Stills was born in Dallas, TX but being part of a military family, spent parts of his youth in Florida, Louisiana, Costa Rica, Panama Canal Zone and El Salvador. He started his music career in New York singing in Greenwich Village where he met Richie Furay. Furay had been born in Ohio but also came to New York to pursue a musical career, He and Stills played together in the Au Go Go singes, the house band at NY’s famed Café A Go Go, and a a group called The Compnay, which at one point went on a 6 week tour of Canada, where they met Neil Young. Neil was born in Toronto on November 12, 1945. he played in several bands in Canada in his teens, including a group called the Mynah Byrds, where he met bass player Bruce Palmer. Palmer had been born in Bellville, Ontario, Canada. When the Mynah Byrds broke up, Young and Martin drove Neil’s hearse to California, in hopes of locating Stills. Around that time, Stills and Furay had moved to Los Angeles to try and jump start their music careers. Legend has it that Stills met Young in traffic in Los Angeles, when the former recognized the latter’s hearse. Dewey Martin, who had also been born in Ontario, was also in Los Angeles at the time, having spent time previously in Nashville, Las Vegas and the Pacific Northwest. He was working in LA for a band called The Dillards, who decided to cut him loose but gave him the phone number for band that needed a drummer. Martin signed on with Stills, Furay, Young and Palmer, becoming the final pieced of the legendary Buffalo Springfield. This soundboard recording captures the Springfield on April 20, 1968, 46 years ago today, in Dallas. Just a little over 2 weeks later, the band would play their final show, disbanding for over 40 years before a brief reunion on 2010/2011. Their time was short, but their legacy has been everlasting. PS - thanks to Rock Rare Collection for the artwork.