Frankenstein film and rock at concert.
1972

More than $2000 worth of original Frankenstein movies plus rock movies of Grand Funk, Steppenwolf and Diana Ross and the Supremes, will all be part of a fabulous concert staged by Sydney group, Buffalo, at Wagga's Kyeamba Smith Hall on Saturday night. When Buffalo end a bracket, a screen will be erected and a movie shown. Most of the Frankenstein movies run for about 15 minutes and include "Frankenstein and the Wolfman", "Frankenstein Rises from the Grave", and others. Two of the Buffalo group members, Paul Balbi and Dave Tice (pictured), were staying with friends, in Wagga earlier this week. Tice sings while Balbi plays drums.

"Dead Forever" (Phonogram)

The latest album for Sydney rock group, Buffalo, is selling well and so it should. It is definitely the best Australian L.P. on the market at the moment. Buffalo played at a concert in Wagga not long ago. That was the time they were banned from screening movies in Kyeamba Smith Hall during the concert as the hall was not licensed to show pictures. The album has a hideous, scarred, blood-stained face, on the cover, but that is the only thing about the record which is sick. "Dead Forever" is a combination of hard, heavy rock numbers and beautiful lead guitar work as in "Forest Rain" which also uses a tape of surf sounds and sea-gulls. "Pay My Dues" is an Australian guitar working at its best and blending with the sound of a police siren. Vocalists, Dave Tice and Alan Milano, are shown at their best. A great album. $5.95 at Edmondsons.

GO-SET The happening page of pix around the scene
Saturday, March 30, 1974

Dave Tice of Buffalo with some of his fans at the Fairfeild Concert.

Saturday, February 2, 1974

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Saturday, April 27, 1974

June 17, 1974

It's a Happening World - Charge of a wounded Buffalo

Heavy rock groups have always been popular in Australia, and it's no wonder that Buffalo have caused a lot of talk. They make a lot of noise, using strong, moving bass figures, a strong rhythm and a lead guitar which plays brooding lines. The heavy groups are physical in their approach. Some people find them exhausting to listen to, they make such demands on the senses. The interesting thing about Buffalo is that it works very well. The group members have written their own material, choosing songs which suit the drums, bass guitar, guitar set up. The members are Dave Tice and Alan Milano on vocals and Paul Balbi (drums), Peter Wells (bass guitar) and John Baxter (guitar). Spencer Lee has recorded them using an equal balance with vocals, guitar, bass and drums. This makes the vocal difficult to pick up on the first time round. "Suzie Sunshine", the group's chart contender, is an example of this. "Pay My Dues" is a sound impression, complete with police sirens, which precedes a blues. "I'm a Mover" builds in intensity and is a room-filling dance number. The "Ballad of Irving Fink" is dominated by a figure played on the bass, probably the most interesting track on the disc. "Dead Forever", the title track, experiments with a number of mood changes. The whole thing is based on a familiar blues phrase and the trip to that great disco in the sky seems to end too suddenly. It all raises the question, why are heavy groups so heavy all the time? Is it because they are using sound to get back for a previous hurt?
On Record by Gil Wahlquist

Pop group strives for notoriety!
December 1974

IT'S TOUGH for a pop group who don't get their records played on the radio, but Buffalo are surviving pretty well even if they are striving for a bit of notoriety. You may have noticed city walls plastered with posters saying: "Buffalo only want you for your body". That's the name of their new LP record, their third, and the cover is so lurid that already two Melbourne record shops have refused to stock it. It features a half-naked woman well past her prime being stretched on a torture rack. Too heavy The four Buffalos - guitarist John Baxter, singer Dave Tice, bass player Peter Wells and drummer Jim Economou - are hoping a few more shops will follow the Melbourne lead. They say their records are not played on air because their particular form of rock is too heavy for the staid playlists. But because their first two LPs sold so well they suspect nobody loves them except the public. After three years together, they are past the stage of living on hamburgers and Coca-Cola. These days, thanks mostly to a lot of work in Sydney high schools, they eat well and regularly. But this is mostly because they are well-managed and don't waste money on big trucks and expensive equipment. The group is more interested in functional equipment than in expensive "junk". Buffalo have appeared in concerts with the top English groups Slade, Status Quo, and Black Sabbath. The boys feel they stacked up well beside the English giants - competition, they say, is what they need.

Bullwhip Dancer To Strip For Kids!
Melbourne Truth, Saturday, Dec 21, 1974

A TOPLESS dancer will perform erotic sado-masochistic acts before thousands of young teenagers in Melbourne early next year. The woman, a Sydney entertainer, will shock the audience, some as young as 12, with an outrageous performance which includes dipping a bullwhip into animal blood and lashing members of a pop group. She will appear at Festival Hall in February with top Sydney group Buffalo. Another feature of her act is to handcuff a member of the group to the crotch of her black leather hotpants and drag him around the stage. She strips after appearing in a long black leather coat. The group, covered in bloodstains, will rush off the stage to the overwhelming applause of the teenyboppers - they hope. It will be one of the most controversial acts yet seen on stage in Australia. But the group doesn't think the act is offensive, despite having caused a sensation at a suburban Sydney shopping centre last week. A crowd of 400 turned out at Blacktown to see Hush, Skyhooks, The Aztecs and other bands perform. Buffalo's press agent, Darel Nugent, said the crowd remained silent until the woman began to disrobe in front of children and young teenagers. ALCOHOL Mr Nugent said: "A crown of mums went beserk and started screaming at us to take her off. When we finished about 400 young kids came backstage to have a look at her. They freaked out. I don't know if Melbourne can handle it, it's pretty heavy stuff." Buffalo manager, Sebastian Chase, admitted to Truth that he spent $550 on alcohol and food during a wild three-day nude poolside party the last time he visited Melbourne.