Wonderful, wonderful band. Brilliant music. Steve Stills was my first infatuation. But one ironic bit of trivia on today's use of the song. The 'Buffalo Springfield' was actually one of three types of gun used by the army to decimate the plains Bison in the 1800's. To deprive the Plains native people of their lifeline.
Neil Young wrote many deeply moving songs, some of which have seemed somehow in homage to the Indians. "Broken Arrow" being probably the most obvious. The story is that they saw the name on a street steamroller somewhere, and figured it was a cool combination of name and object. But I've always wondered if there wasn't something more to the name. Album covers seemed maybe so. And weren't album covers the greatest? This retired hippie thinks so! тЬМя╕П
Good choice of the Buffalo Springfield for this one.
Wonderful, wonderful band. Brilliant music. Steve Stills was my first infatuation. But one ironic bit of trivia on today's use of the song. The 'Buffalo Springfield' was actually one of three types of gun used by the army to decimate the plains Bison in the 1800's. To deprive the Plains native people of their lifeline.
I have read where the band took the name "Buffalo Springfield" from the name of a tractor.
Interesting. I wonder what the name meant to the band.
Neil Young wrote many deeply moving songs, some of which have seemed somehow in homage to the Indians. "Broken Arrow" being probably the most obvious. The story is that they saw the name on a street steamroller somewhere, and figured it was a cool combination of name and object. But I've always wondered if there wasn't something more to the name. Album covers seemed maybe so. And weren't album covers the greatest? This retired hippie thinks so! тЬМя╕П