Ep318: Dave Tice - Buffalo Revisited - Pt 1
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Australian rock music legend Dave Tice shares stories from the early days of Buffalo, The Count Bishops and a life in music and records. Part 1 of 2
Topics include:
- The obligations of a gigging, touring band
- Dave's youth, taking an interest in music, starting his musical career,
- The records that inspired Dave
- Seeing the Rolling Stones in Brisbane, 1965
- Forming Head / Buffalo
- Moving from Brisbane to Sydney
- Choosing the name "Buffalo"
- The story of Head single "Hobo b/w Sad Song: Then"
- Getting the deal with Phonogram, then Vertigo
- International distribution of Buffalo
- The business of Australian labels signing local bands
- Where are the Buffalo master tapes?
- The human elements of music, writing & recording fast
- How Dave became a singer
- The power of Dave's voice
- The recording of Volcanic Rock
- Controversial album covers from Buffalo
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| 0:40.8 | and with that on with the show well hey everyone welcome to episode 318 of the vinyl guide the podcast for |
| 0:50.9 | record collectors music nerds and of of course, vinyl maniacs. |
| 0:54.6 | My name is Nate. |
| 0:55.6 | I've made this podcast now over six years and 300-something episodes talking to my heroes about music and the records that I love and collect. |
| 1:05.8 | And today we've got a very special episode. |
| 1:08.3 | Not only did I talk to one of my heroes, the man actually came over to my |
| 1:12.9 | house. Mr. Dave Tice of Buffalo, the Count Bishops, and many other projects. He drove across town |
| 1:20.0 | to sit on my couch, drink my coffee, and share his stories. And wow, what stories they are. |
| 1:27.4 | So many that we're going to split the conversation |
| 1:30.1 | over two episodes. Over the course of episodes 318 and 319, Dave's going to tell tales from |
| 1:37.2 | the early days. The pre-Buffalo band Head, making the move in the early 70s from Brisbane to |
| 1:42.9 | the big smoke of Sydney, playing the pubs, |
| 1:46.0 | becoming the first Australian band signed to the Vertigo label, recording those amazing albums, |
| 1:51.7 | opening for Black Sabbath, Rainbow, and others, near punch-ups with Richie Blackmore, |
| 1:56.4 | joining the Count Bishops, what's up with the vinyl repressings, and lots, lots, lots, lots more. |
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