Some music questions about Buffalo

[FrankieA]

1. Like New York, New York is to Frank Sinatra is there a song or songs named for Buffalo? I can only think of David Lee Roths "Ladies Night in Buffalo."

2. Besides the Goo Goo Dolls are there any other famous musicians to come out of Buffalo?

3. Is Buffalo Springfield named after Buffalo N.Y.?

[BogusTrumper]

If I had my way, I'd shuffle off to Buffalo;
Sit by the lake, and watch the world go by.
Ladies in the sun, listenin' to the radio,
Like flowers on the sand, a rainbow in my mind.

John Fogerty, Rock and Roll Girls

[John]

"shuffle off to Buffalo" is an old time Buffalo, song, but there is nothing on the order of New York, New York.

In terms of famous musicians, I don't know how far up the fame scale you need to be to qualify. Rick James is definately famous, for his music and now his criminal record - he definately qualifies. I'm told that you can't go to Las Vegas and not see pictures of the Scinta Family act on billboards and busses. Does that qualify as famous?

My recollection is that Buffalo Sprongfiel IS named afterBuffalo, but I can't rememberthe story . . .

[reeves84]

The event that served as catalyst to the formation of the Buffalo Springfield was a serendipitous encounter. In a traffic jam on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in early April of 1966, Richie Furay and Stephen Stills, two refugees from the early sixties East Coast folk boom chanced to pull up behind a battered black 1953 Pontiac hearse bearing Ontario, Canada license plates. Stalled in rush hour traffic ahead of them sat Neil Young and Bruce Palmer, tired, broke and on their way out of town following a manic cross country journey in search of their musical dreams. That fortuitous meeting would ultimately change the face of rock music forever. Within weeks they were setting the Sunset Strip music scene on its ears and challenging all rivals.

from:

http://members.tripod.com/~Buffalo_Springfield/

Not much to do with Buffalo I am afraid!

But we do have wings.

[John]

Does it mention the derivation of the name, Reeves? I thought the name had something to do with the city of Buffalo, even though I knew that the band was not from here.

[Patrick76777]

Greatful dead. Trucking, Down to Buffalo.

[reeves84]

Absolutely no idea about the Buffalo, but some of them were (GASP!) Canadians from Toronto, so Buffalo was close to home.

[BogusTrumper]

Frankie, you're just gonna have to write one.

[reeves84]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "Program Book" 1997
Buffalo Springfield Bio.


Within a few days of forming, the five-piece christened itself Buffalo Springfield, taking the name from a steamroller they noticed on a West Hollywood street.

http://www.suitelorraine.com/suitelorraine/Pages/bspringfield.html

[Halbert]

Spyro Gyra

[John]

I thought of another oldie: "Buffalo Gal won't you come out tonight"

I think the closest thing Buffalo has to NY NY is Shout . . .

[EM BILLSFAN 80]

Brian McKnight is from Buffalo

[John]

Yeah, forgot about him.

[BigDoug]

Now two Buffalo girls, go around the outside
Round the outside, round the outside
( 7 - 0 - 2, 7 - 0 - 2)
Two Buffalo boys go around the outside
Make sure you hold your partner
(7 - 0 - 2, 7 - 0 - 2)
Now two Buffalo girls go round the outside
Round the outside, round the outside
(7 - 0 - 2, 7 - 0 - 2)
Now two Buffalo boys go round the outside
Flipmode about to hold down your partner
(7 - 0 - 2, 7 - 0 - 2)

[shiva2999]

Brian McKnight. Isn't he that guy that did the video where he was a ghost after the plane crash?

Man, that was the most ghoulish video I've ever seen in my life.

[mchurchfie]

Don't forget Billy Sheehan. He wasn't super high profile but his bass playing was very highly regarded and he did play with some pretty impressive national artists.

[Snarf]

Ani Defrancio is from Buffalo, and the 10,000 Manics are from Jamestown, which is close to Buffalo. As for songs about Buffalo, in Oysterhead's (Trey Anastasio from Phish, Les Claypool from Primaus and Stewart Copeland from the Police) Pseudo Suicide they say "He awake to find that he was tumbling like the Bills of Buffalo."