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  • @Bloodyass1300 Listen little girl, stop sending me gay personal messages. get a life and stop lying you give the good Aussies a bad name. Also little girl you have not been in a band for 35 yrs. You are just another wannabe. I see you like words like fag. Just cause you are doesn't mean the whole world is you sissy lala. I guess that is were the phrase down under came from. Maybe you should come up for air once in a while. I heard you play the skin flute very well. That is not a music instrument

  • the words on the volcanic rock cover looks like vol. 4 sabbath cover style

  • $3.95 now thats a good deal

  • the bottom of the volcano looks like a butt pooping lava lololl and the guy on the top is holding a wiener lolol

  • sooo fuckin good...better than acdc 4 sure

  • @Lookinatluckyest Could have been. Cheers!

  • John Baxter is my hero!! If you like this you will like Nitro-Sage! They got similar sounding tunes! I fucking love Buffalo!!!!

  • Toca Metal!!!!! hehehe desgraça! Musica boa dmais!!!

  • I did lighting for this band in the 70's and they were amazing live.

  • @phillipcullen is there any available footage anywhere?

  • @ludwig770 Sorry No. We were very young and were into partying and not recording and anyway in those days we were not as tech. as today. If I had video recorded my life from 1966 until today it would be. . . well . . ah . .startling. We simply did not have the facilities of the internet until about 1993 when the dot com was invented. ( when network solutions in the US began selling dot com domains ) We lived a simple life with no internet.

  • Why am I just now discovering this? This is freaking awesome.

  • didnt know my dad could sing like this... not bad

  • @Eckon46457 You should be so proud.

  • oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh shylock!!

  • This is one of the 70'bands that knocked off other bands in the 70's. They had NO future, No sales and No one card who even heard of them. One of the top knockoff artists of the 70's!

  • @ElectricHellfire

    What do you mean by knock off? If you mean they ripped off other bands, you are dead wrong. They were essentially a blues band, and then when John Baxter joined he brought in his incredible guitar style that he developed simply as a reaction to how much he disliked the 12-bar blues pattern. Their sound grew out of organic jamming, both on stage and in the studio. That and Pete Wells went on to be a VERY influential mover and shaker in Aussie music history.

  • @theuglysoldier You must be deaf. I stated the facts besides they sucked so bad they just went away never too be heard from again. Being a knockoff band with no talent trying to cash in just didn't work did it. 

  • @ElectricHellfire

    You didn't state anything, you just said "they were knockoffs!" that isn't the "facts" and you didn't back them up.

    And actually, they have had quite the influence on both the Aussie metal and punk scenes, and Dave Tice (singer) continues to draw large crowds with his new tunes. And as I said, Pete Wells formed Rose Tattoo - if that isn't a successful band, I don't know what is.

    Who exactly did they rip off?

  • @theuglysoldier I see no need to list the bands this band has knocked off. I will let you do that as you can't miss them when you listen to these knockoffs. As for Rose Tattoo, you never mentioned them and i agree They are a good band, could have been bigger than AC/DC but they screwed up. Pete Wells forming Rose Tattoo makes my point on Buffalo being knockoff artist crystal clear. He left and formed his own band, a real band. I have nothing else to say about Buffalo but always will RT.

  • @ElectricHellfire Where are you from you turkey ?

    This band was & still is huge where i come from.

    Most of them went on to form even bigger bands,

    Also please tell us all which great Knockoff band you were in, I'm sure we've all heard of it

  • @Bloodaxe1300 I see you are a stupid little girl. You must be deaf also. Why ask me try a hearing aid. This album could be found in the 99 cent bin. Yip, no one cared for these rip offs. BTW, this so called song is one reason they sucked period.

  • great band... awesome voice

  • Buffalo que se puede decir de esta banda, es demasiado,son excelentes tanto metalera como sicodelica ,Son excelentes ,freedom, the prophet y pare de contar ,nada que ver con lo de estos tiempos,demasido cagante Cesar cartaya-venezuela

  • WOOOOOOOO SHYLOCK !!!

    (Pay me now)

    Hahaaa.....

  • thats a funny lookin' cd?!?! ;-)

  • This is the real thunder from down under!

  • @musicmovie240 Your thunder from down under came from AC/DC and Rose Tattoo. So feel fortunate on that. Without them you Aussies had/have nothing. Oh wait you have Oliva Newton John. Now that is some heavy thunder from down under.

  • @ElectricHellfire shes a pom anyway , shes know aussie oi oi oi dickhead.

  • Gezzz I have the remastered CD of this album bought through rare records. They use to play at Taren Point Y.M.C.A back in the 70's. about the fan who wrote about Finch they played at Cronula High whilst Owen Orford (vocals) was a student teacher and Bob Spencer was lead guitarist and Bob was still a student Those were the days....

  • Buffalo used to play our school dances. Along with other bands like Hush & Finch. Fairvale was a very cool high school!

  • @Hodgo777

    hey, I went there as well, finished in 74 - yep, great school

  • not even the mighty electric wizard or sleep captured the sabbath sound like this band.

  • All of The Buffalo's albums have been re-released on to cd's by Aztec Music.

  • Kova ryhmä!

  • Symptom Of The Universe is very similar to this

  • @DoomMetalSludge well symptom of the universe came up 2 years later than this song.

  • @beroth77 I know thats why I said it was similar to this......

  • These boyz an' this song inspired us to call our first band Shylock in 1974....How friggin' good was the artwork on this album.....We did a mean version of King's Cross Ladie's too lol... Our guitarist played marathon solos like Baxter too...Fair dinkum you could walk off the stage, down to the bottlo get a few tallies and get back while he was on the same song....I was a very patient vocalist too, but hey we rocked it up!! Well done Ozblues21

  • @MrJustinRamone Go to the bottlo .....come back - and he's still rippin .....you farkin little bewdy !

  • Awsomenes!

  • Dayglo is so much better. Sorry dudes.

  • Este grupo lo escuche en Bar Mahos en Costa Rica, Gravilias, por primera vez, un amigo que tiene el L.P. de vinil y lo paso a cd. exelente grupo australiano.

  • donde puedo conseguir el video de esta cancion super buenissssimaaa

  • @SpyridonKaprinis they 1st came to my attention years ago when I was a kid holding my mums hand when they came past on the back of a semi trailer playing this kind of stuff in a parade in Parramatta (Sydney) years ago, blew me away as a kid and they deserve to be exposed to the world years later, real Australian raw heavy rock just the way we like it down here!!!!

  • whered did you find this album in lp

  • @MLGxSLasH mate I have had this Album for close to 30 years and I'm so glad to have shared it on youTube, it has blown me away with the response and hits it has had from just a simple little project, but hey this band deserves it as they were really that good

  • @OzBlues21 Bought the first pressing on Vertigo Swirl on a flew market in 1985. Best Buffalo album. I also like the cover design.

  • @OzBlues21 Thank you for share.

  • @MLGxSLasH

    All the Buffalo albums were remastered with bonus tracks and released on CD by Aztec records a few years ago. They are still available.

  • @fmusker thanks! and i know that but i'm looking out for the vinyl

  • how the hell did i miss this for so many years?

  • That riff is seriously fucking drunk....

  • Fantastic Buffalo..........

  • una verdadera rareza pero excelente siempre me encantaron los setentas y mas que se descubren nuevos grupos por monton

  • Fuckin' great voice.

  • wow! just stumbled upon this and am gonna try to order the CD now! this kicks serious ass!

  • Thank God i discovered this fucking band bro

  • Gotta love the sound of this lead guitar ! Turn up the volume to 11 !

  • symptom of the universe, into the void, and wheels of confusion got my vote for heaviest songs...not to mention black sabbath, under the sun, sweet leaf, cornucopia, supernaut, after forever, children of the grave.....etc.

  • @mikexlong I agree but there dissident aggresson by Judas pirest is heaveier than thosse songs.

    As I read your comment I thought it was mine.

    I am more of a Sabbath fan than a Priest fan but dissident aggressor was put out in 1977 and is extremely heavy for that time period.

  • @johnsmith99ify it's subjective. I'd put Sabbath over Priest in heaviness anyday, but that's just me. Dissident aggressor fucking balls to the wall for 77 for sure tho.

  • @mikexlong I pretty much agree but I think Dissident Aggressor was the heaviest sond in the seventies. Rob Halford says the first metal band was Sabbath

    but the first band to call themselves metal was Judas Priest.

    I have checked out all these supposed metal bands that predate sabbath, none were as good, none were as popular and most only had a song or two that mas metal.

    I am not a big Blue Cheer fan.

  • @johnsmith99ify the assertion that the song black sabbath was the birth of heavy metal is pretty much correct...nothing on earth was that freaking heavy at that time, it went beyond heavy rock. the song was pure dread, and the riff was pure murder. I mean in terms of evil sounding riffs nothing has ever topped that one. it's so simple but so perfect.

  • @mikexlong I agree, the song "Black Sabbath" was more definitive of what heavy metal is than anyother song before that or perhaps even to the present day but

    I will give credit where credit is do, in terms of loud raw heaviness Blue Cheer had a couple of songs befor that. There is more to being heavy than fuzz, distortion and loudness though.

  • @johnsmith99ify yeah the first two albums were definately a proto-type for all this heavy metal madness...but it was still just sex, drugs and rock 'n roll albeit in brutal caveman fashion lol.

  • @mikexlong  ARe you talking about Blue Cheer?

    If so I don't know them all that well, I have only heard several of their songs on youtube. If you are talking about Black Sabbath I would say they took a really heavy

    blues based hard rock sound and took it to into a realm which no-one had yet entered "heavy metal".

  • @johnsmith99ify sorry, I should've clarified I'm talking about the Cheer. Sabbath is pure fucking heavy metal...the original metal!

  • @johnsmith99ify

    I think metal goes much earlier still.

  • i gotta and will find this

  • underrated...so much better than guns & roses and any other similar shit

    KISS CAN KISS MY ASS

  • forgottenjams com new music forum, don't let music fade into obscurity.

  • This is so underrated. I've never even heard of this band before. But just looking at the year and listening to the music reveals that they're well ahead of their time and definitively influenced heavy metal. Great music, if you like this... listen to sir lord baltimore... they sound sorta similar and theyre underated as well.

  • you know this riff predates am i evil and victim of changes, and has the exact same tone.

  • oh shylock rock me

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  • die guten alten zeiten! yeah man

  • jimmy economou!

    Up the Greeks man!

    (..killer band , very rare to find any of their stuff in Greece)

  • this is pure heavy metal! the heaviest song of the seventies!

  • @ramalhoqueiros dissident aggressor by judas priest is the heaviest song from the seventies.

    Judas priest and black sabbath have lots of songs heavier than this.

  • @johnsmith99ify hand of doom by sabbath live is the heaviest thing from the 70's

  • AS for Iommi ripping these guys off,thats bs.These guys are obviously trying very hard to sound like Sabbath,I have heard many sabbath riffs in their songs too. I think its a mutual admiration kinda thing. all that really matters is they friggin rock !!!!

  • @bullikins I've always thought that this sounds like it could have had the potential to be a Sabbath song, but that awesome!

  • @bullikins

    Neither band was aware of the other. They happened at pretty much the same time, and Buffalo have stated they had no idea about Sabbath until after having put this record out.

  • @theuglysoldier The difference between ignorance and stupidity is curability.

  • Total WIN! This is fantastic!

    Thanks for posting.

  • Fuckin Amazing!!

  • Meant to ad - the photos from the 'Volcanic Rock' album sleeve were taken that same gig.

  • These blokes played at our High School dance in the early 70's. What night, headmasters head was spinning !!!

  • Pete Wells !!!!!!

    what a great bassist

  • I'm amazed how fuckin' dark and evil this song sounds considering the release date !

    Awesome song !

  • Win.

  • Sounds like the boys from Diamond head were Buffalo fans.

  • This band was fantastic! Anyone who loves 70's heavy rock should get their first 3 albums.

  • Fantastic! These guys are really moving up in my list of favorites.

  • classic rock magazine,issue 134, summer2009 listed this song in the top 20 songs that forged metal! buffalo=best

  • I do never want to bad mouth my favorite band sabbath but This is a little like system of the universe which came out in 75. this came out two years before I think tony my have been influnced by these guys. For they did tour in early 70s. I could be wrong but you have to think that bands that our on the road together influnce one another.

  • Sabbath did not rip off the whole song but there is a riff in the middle of the guitar solo, the heaviest part of the dong.

    iommi ripped it off and the song symptom of the univererse is based around that, it is exactly the same as the main riff in the sabbath song.

    check out "brother can you spare a dime" on youtube iommi sort of ripped that off but did it in a very cool way.

    He takes a blues horn thing and turns it into the heavies riff out there at the time in

    into the void.

  • heh heh heh heh..."heaviest part of the dong" sorry dude but someone had to say something! how do you know he ever even heard of this band?

  • Wow the vocals are years ahead of their time. This band rocks, yet another band from the 70s, that should have been bigger.

  • Heavy metal thunder from down under. These mohters rocked big time.

  • Now i have all of these guys albums on the original spiral vertigo label, & i actually seen these guys at my high school end of year party,it was a warm up gig for them B4 they started on the real gigs,they were insanely heavy & loud as i remember

  • hot stuff, the album cover is really wacked , look at it close, it should be X rated.

  • That was the idea then, to be highly controversial. The liner notes on the Aztec music release says it all about that issue.Should get it if you have not already.They wanted to have people stop and say" Wow, look at that, that has to be good having a cover like that"as lead vocalist Dave Tice remembers. Also said remembers the boss at vertigo saying " be careful what you decide to put on the cover",as he was in New York at the time, and they chose that one, must of been somewhat of a shock there

  • Recently got this, it's fantastic!

  • Outstanding track.  The whole album is top notch.

  • Sounds like a cross between Kyuss & Soundgarden. In 1973. Cool.

  • Heavy Metal!!!

  • Jellybeantiger said it the best " This is when music was music",rather than the noise we hear today.Though there is good material and bad material for every age of music, and genere.crazeehorse,this explains that there were different styles in the 70's that are seen in todays music,sorry that which is differemnt is misunderstoiod in this way.If you dont like it, dont listen to it.But, for the rest of us, this is sheer bliss.Anyone have the live 72' recording of Shylock from the Sydney concert?

  • Which album has on it someone introducing the band as "Morning from Pyrmont it's the fabulous Buffalo" or similar?

  • I believe its 'Volcanic Rock'

  • Wrong :-(

  • Theres a live recording on the Volcanic Rock re-issue cd.

    I think its from Hyde Park if thats the concert your referrign to.

  • yeah!!!

  • Wow, you are a fucking idiot.

  • At last!!!!

    Thank you so much!!!!!

    I've been waiting for this to appear some where!!!

    Do you have Dune Messiah as well?

    Super cool stuff!!

  • Now this is when music was music!!!!!

    LOL at how crap music has become now.

  • Buena banda, excelente cancion, gran performance instrumental...resaltando esa guitarra acida...pero....un video hasta el ass!!!...

  • Brothers and Sisters , let us not forget the Bass player of this band... the Mighty Pete Wells (R.I.P.)...who went on to play the meanest slide guitar for Rose Tattoo ,another of australia's finest rock and roll exports..Rock On!!!

  • Clásico sonido setentero. El Mejor. Gracias por compartir esta leyenda.

  • How hot is this, 2009 and this still stands up and shits on other supposed Aussie HARD ROCK bands.

  • Old school best stoner doom rock ever!!! worship mr tice!!!!

  • OHHH, SHYLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This freakin' rocks!!  Doomy!

  • Congratulations from Poland !~ZAJEBISTE ! What i mine .. wonderfull music.

  • i used to jam stuff like this for hours

  • Holy shit! That tune just plain rocks !!!

  • The real deal is BUFFALO.

  • That's some heavy rockin' right there daddy! These guys have come up quite a few times in my recent searches for early metal bands. One of the best bands I discovered about two years ago is Sir Lord Baltimore. Now I've heard THESE GUYS! Just makes you wanna bang your head or trash your bedroom! When you actually know who the character Shylock is, it makes the song all the more POTENT!

  • this does rock, I like the vocals, nothing more disappointing then when the singer doesn't own up to a track or bands toughness.. em, and who is this shylock u speak of?

  • Shylock is the "evil Jew" in The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)

  • sir lord baltimore rocks. kingdom come is one of my favourite albums. i discovered them amd buffalo around the same time

  • Nicely put together clip,thanks for making it and putting Buffalo out there on youtube, they were Australia's BEST heavy band..

    I used to see them at the Taren Point Youth Centre dances around 1975, they inspired me to become a muso...

    Dave Tice signed my Buffalo albums and Gibson SG case about 2005, top bloke too !

    Buy their CDs !

  • buffalo and the saints - best things to come out of Australia. Funny how things progress tho - the guy out of buffalo ended up in angry anderson's band - who in turn did the wedding song for kylie and jason ha ha ha

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  • Get Volcanic Rock, then Dead Forever. Then "Only Want you for your body". This band were the greatest hard rock band this country ever produced. John Baxter was the meanest mother fucking guitarist and Dave the bluesiest vocalist. Shit, just get all 5 albums and blow your fucking head off..

  • please post the whole album/cd

  • I cant stop playing this song! The riff is amazing.

  • this is the best thing I've heard tonight, and i've heard lot's of good music! thanks immensely for the real post

  • This one.

  • This song is badass!

  • Amazing.

  • u guys are so right on the chris cornell thing.

  • Call me crazy, but could this have been an early Chris Cornell influence? He sounds a lot like Dave Tice to me.

  • michaelzureck: I hear the Chris Cornell thing too. It would have been easy for Cornell to copy this singer's sound and make money doing it in the US, where Buffalo is practically unknown. Maybe I'm being cynical.

  • so right poop.  so heavy!

  • yes this is great earley 70s Australian rock and good to see young bands influenced by it.

  • This is some of the most incredible stuff I've heard in a long time. My band is heavily influenced by Purple, Sabbath, Heep, Zepplin, UFO...essentially first wave metal. I've been meaning to check these guys out since a friend told me about them. I didn't expect something as fucking incredible as this...I must get my hands on these records.

  • i seen Buffalo 72 supporting Black Sabbath Buffalo were awesome that nite

  • Hordern Pavilion? I was there.

  • Yup... me too, absofuckinglutely the best concert... shame I don't remember much about Buffalo, I've still got Tony Iommi in my head, internal injuries from Bill Wards drumming and Geezers bass... and Ozzy, fuck me, he just didn't stop, when he wasn't singing he just bounced all over that stage like a crazy man :)~ awesome... and he wasn't too bad a few months ago here at Homebush (for an old bloke :)~~~

  • Is Dave Tice Still alive?

  • Yes but Pete Wells isn't.

  • Yes Dave Tice is alive and well.He still plays live around Sydney and sounds great

  • I was talking to someone about Buffalo at the Ozzy concert this year, and he said that DT owned a pub, or worked in one...??? somewhere on the way to Hornsby?????

  • I used to watch Buffalo when living in Sydney in the 70's. Love their Little Queenie rendition. Got all their albums. Dave Tice is the ultimate ballsy vocalist.

  • i want that record. on my record player. right now.

  • I like the guy's vocals. Nitty and gritty.

    what's a shylock anyway?

  • when i was about 17 yrs old I saw buffalo at the sundowner hotel at punchbowl in sydney that was 1978, dave tice was wearing a guitar lapel badge.I ALSO SAW ROSE TATTOO,GOLDRUSH,ANGELS, cyril b bunter,

  • when i was about 17 yrs old I saw buffalo at the sundowner hotel at punchbowl in sydney that was 1978, dave tice was wearing a guitar lapel badge.I ALSO SAW ROSE TATTOO,GOLDRUSH,ANGELS, cyril b bunter,

  • shylock is a character from the shakespeare play 'merchant of venice'.Shylock is the archetypal "cheap jew".

  • You must buy "The Merchant Of Venice" by William Shakespeare to find out!!

  • Ha look at the price on the album $3.75 fuck that'd be right i had both albums ..where the fuck are they now??

  • When u think about it, a lot of dough for the time, my wage at that time was about $35 a week!

  • Saw this album at Record City in Frankston June 2008 in mint cond for $90 !!!!!!!!!!

  • Australias answer to Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc..

  • Yeah....those were the days-the hard rockin' 70s...Pete Wells went onto to Rose Tattoo..R.I.P Pete

  • YES!!!!! Buffalo on You Tube!!!!!!Thanks

  • awesome song from an awesome album, from an awesome band. It's a good thing that this music is on youtube, too little people know about them.

  • awesome. how'd you get the sound so clear? my mate gave me a cd of this for my birthday. He ripped it from the vinyl but it isn't as good as this.

  • there was a digitally remastered version released 3 years ago

  • wow memories

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