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Clean-up and Verification

This article is a wonderful read to someone who lived through the era and enjoyed the music when it was new. I had to change a couple of words which struck me as not quite "encyclopedic" in their tone. I can imagine I would have used the same words had I written the article, they are the vernacular of the times, but may not be understood by 21st century readers. My thanks to the original author for making my day today. Anewcharliega (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

This article certainly needs to be cleaned up for style - it's essay-ish to the point that I wonder where it might be copied from - but as far as I can tell there is nothing here that isn't accurate, and I was a HUGE fan back in the day. For what it's worth. - PKM 18:53, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Canonical reference: For What It's Worth : The Story of Buffalo Springfield by John Einarson and Richie Furay. ISBN 0815412819. Also see http://www.thrasherswheat.org/tfa/bufspring.htm - PKM 19:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I seem to remember "Uno Mundo" and "Bluebird" getting significant Top 40 radio play in California. 69.129.36.131 20:53, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've just taken step one in cleaning this one up. I hope that there are a lot of people watching this page and that they'll give it a good going over. I have added a lot of stuff, all of which I can document, and I've also eliminated a few things that I either could not verify or felt was supurfluous. Feel free to add stuff back in if there is a verifiable source for it. Spventi 08:53, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Excellent job!Budrocket 20:27, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. BTW, to whomever it might concern <g>, I removed the "verify" tag aat the top of the page since the content of the article is now quite factual and colloborated by documented sources. About the only thing that I can't provide a reference for is the statement that the live version of Bluebird was a "a staple of FM radio in the late 60s and early 70s." By FM radio, I mean WBCN in Boston, of course, but that's another story for a different page. <g> Spventi 23:05, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Added the last line of the first para to provide context as to why one should care about Buffalo Springfield. 71.194.38.54 (talk) 01:09, 10 January 2010 (UTC)Larry Siegel

Folk Rock / Folk-Rock

To whom it may concern:

Both versions link to exactly the same page, because "folk rock" redirects to "folk-rock."

Thanks to your having an editing war instead of discussing the issue here, the exact same version of the page has been saved four times with only that one link changed. But, hey, if that's how you FOLKs get your ROCKs off, who am I to complain? <g> Spventi 03:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Buffalo Springfield was a rock band; it's a stretch to call them folk-rock. Unlike the Byrds they didn't re-interpret existing folk songs in a rock style; unlike, say, the Seekers they didn't try to write new folksongs. Folk music influenced every aspect of sixties culture, so tagging a band "folk-rock" because it incorporated influences from folk into its eclectic and artsy rock sound is meaningless, at least to me. 71.194.38.54 (talk) 04:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Larry Siegel

Re "The Company"

Thanks for the information about The Company, but please don't wikifiy it until it can be properly linked to an article about the group itself. It would be nice to have an article in place so that we can remove the list of names, which doesn't really belong in this article because it has nothing to do with the Buffalo Springfield. Spventi 02:57, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

For what it's worth (no pun intended!), I agree that the names of the band members of this group are superfluous to the article, and simply add unnecessary clutter. Cgingold 14:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Heavy Music!

It was an epiphany to me when I saw a steamroller working on a street near my home, a year or so after the band became well known. The brand name of the steamroller was, of course, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD. ~Jeb Raitt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.184.178.196 (talk) 20:35, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Origins:

"Roughly a week later, discouraged at having been unable to locate Stills and ready to depart for San Francisco, they were stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles when Stills, Furay and Friedman, sitting in their white van, recognized Young's black 1953 Pontiac hearse,..." Should this be "to locate Young"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.202.90.163 (talk) 11:50, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Drive-by tagging

I'm a bit startled by the number of tags at the top of this article — I've never read or edited it before, but I found only a few parts that sounded "promotional," and none that could be described as being promotional without imparting information. The rules instruct us to not just arbitrarily remove tags that we feel are undeserved, but my suspicion that the drive-by tagger's judgment was a tad skewed by bias has me very tempted to break that rule... —xyzzy 01:56, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

The tags are repetitive and overlapping, but this article is a unsourced mass of gossip and speculation. I am trimming some of the worst parts, but it needs major work. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:57, 15 December 2015 (UTC)


Introduction

I've moved the paragraph mentioning in-fighting and such from the Introduction to the History section since (IMO) all info about such matters are secondary to its intent, in this case the production of good music. Personally, I neither know nor care about such matters and only want to know who made the music, roughly when and where and what type, and briefly what its impact was on its audience. If others want to know more, the relocated material is available verbatim under History, though another location may be appropriate. -- Jimmy Hers (talk) 03:59, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

On rereading, I think that a fuller Intro is in order, and the above paragraph (moved to History) is superficial, redundant and is not properly sourced. Moved breakup line to Lineup Changes, but it's unsourced. I'll make a quick first pass to fix these, but someone more familiar with the field should do a better rewrite.

And please, either remove some of those flags, and/or fix the problems.

-- Jimmy Hers (talk) 23:04, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Kudos to DavidWBrooks for working on this so promptly. Jimmy Hers (talk) 10:53, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Certifications

I would like to know the album certifications. Wolf O'Donnel (talk) 05:50, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

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Why did you remove my Album listing/stats for What's That Sound? Complete Albums Collection

Deb: Why did you remove my Album listing/stats for What's That Sound? Complete Albums Collection albabe - The Writer/Artist Formally Known as Al Gordon 19:40, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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