I've had a poor quality bootleg CD of this for about 20 years, with a few demos on the first half and an atrocious live recording on the second half, and for years I'd thought that that was the best that I would ever hear these songs. With the release of the 'Box Set' box set, we have now been treated to studio quality versions of songs that I'd only ever heard rumours of, and they sound great. 'Stampede' would have been the band's second album, and recording started on the songs in 1967. Midway through the sessions they found they had a hit single on their hands with 'For What It's Worth', and we don't know if this went to their heads, but before long the bass player had been busted for drugs and deported back to Canada, and Neil Young had gone AWOL, missing two important concert appearances. He then left the band to start work on his debut solo album, but this also faltered, and so he returned to the Springfield and they started recording new songs for what would become their actual second album 'Buffalo Springfield Again'. 'Stampede' was actually far enough along for artwork to be commissioned, and so we do have an official cover for this one.
Track Listing
01 We'll See
02 Whatever Happened To Saturday Night
03 Falcon Lake (Ash On The Floor)
04 What A Day
05 My Kind Of Love
06 Down To The Wire
07 Baby Don't Scold Me
08 Buffalo Stomp (Raga)
09 No Sun Today
10 Sell Out
11 So You've Got A Lover
12 Neighbor Don't You Worry
13 Slowly Burning
14 One More Sign
I've used the criteria that I found on a forum which was discussing this legendary album, and so it's band versions as a preference, demos only if no full band version exists, and nothing that was on their original albums, other than 'Baby Don't Scold Me' which is a significantly different version.
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