Too Many Kooks

Two genius frenemies, a disappearing bassist, a drummer who sang like Wilson Pickett, plus the sunny “voice of sanity”:BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD were the band of all the talents, sired by serendipity. But once the busts, bust-ups, seizures and stymied ambitions took their toll, their fate was sealed. “I think we knew it was coming,” they tell

Used to play in a rock’n’roll band,But they broke upWe were young and we were wildIt ate us up.Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield Again “YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY about journalists,” Stephen Stills is telling MOJO. “If the myth is more interesting than the truth, print the myth.” But what about a band where the truth outweighs the myth? A band whose truth is a litany of hearses, jail cells, battles, seizures, defections and deportations, go-go girls dancing in cages and cops busting heads on Sunset Strip? A mightily influential band that existed for just 19 months, destroyed by what made it great? The Buffalo Springfield, says Neil Young, “was a great band. We were really discovering a lot of new things and experimenting, and the music that we played in…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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