Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield stunningly returns to L.A. (OC Reg)

     …Here at last, after giving its first reunion performances last October at Neil Young’s Bridge School benefit concerts, was the short-lived but mighty Buffalo Springfield — a group that literally formed in a traffic jam on Sunset Boulevard, finally playing again in the city that spawned it 43 years and a month after the (mostly) original lineup last played in Southern California, to some 5,000 people at Long Beach Arena on May 5, 1968.
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     Their importance cannot be overstated: The band that locals used to call the Herd rank only behind Bob Dylan (especially with the Hawks/Band) and the Byrds (with and without Gram Parsons) as the most crucial cornerstones of what’s now called Americana music, that hard-to-define yet easy-to-spot hybrid of folk, rock, country, blues, psychedelia and lyrical poetry….