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Where the Buffalo Roamed
Written by Jared Thomson   

Website: www.myspace.com/wherethebuffaloroamed

Genre: Minimalist

Local Zone Appearance:
  http://www.wuvt.vt.edu/audio/Local_Zone/Spring09/Where_the_Buffalo_Roamed.mp3

Band members and respective instruments: Corbie Hill - guitar,
vocals, casio & Andy Meier - Drums, beatboxing, various other toys

Years that the band has been/was active: Between 4 and 6, depending
on where you draw the line. It may even be more.

Location: Carrboro, NC

Biography:
Corbie and Andy met in the alcohol-soaked summer of
2004. United by a mutual love of music, it wasn't long before they
were seeing shows and recording as Tibúron. The recording project
rarely saw the stage, but the songs they worked on set the stage for
future experimentation. Corbie brought jangly road songs and
feedback-laden guitar work. Andy brought unidentifiable noises and
nontraditional drumming. They got to work sampling Godzilla movies and
hiking the best trails of the mountain paradise that is Western North
Carolina.

2005 saw Corbie and Andy start Spy Satellite with Cody as a second
guitarist. This first incarnation established Spy Satellite as a noisy
instrumental band, a surf-y, psychedelic creature with as much
predilection to lock in with punk rock intensity as to hold back and
go flamenco. The band played a short avalanche of high-energy shows
before drifting apart.

Corbie recorded a short solo record called "Shipwreck" and, off the
top of his head, selected Where the Buffalo Roamed as his new solo
name.

Summer of 2006 saw Corbie move to Greenville, where he played and
recorded like mad. His new home featured an amazing underground scene
and, in that wilderness, Corbie perfected his craft. Andy reformed Spy
Satellite shortly after Corbie's move. The band reformed with a
collective mindset. Featuring a rotating cast of characters, the name
remained firmly lodged in the back of Asheville's mind.
In the summer of 2008 a band named Finn Riggins, an amazing co-ed
three piece from Idaho, invited Corbie to join them for the
southeastern leg of their fall tour. Corbie did not have a band at the
time but had a solid set of sad songs he'd been playing in the
Greenville underground. Corbie invited Andy to join Where the Buffalo
Roamed. They held a practice in Corbie's back yard one warm October
day and took it to the road.

Where the Buffalo Roamed, now a band, is also a two-headed creature.
The live set is a healthy mix of Spy Satellite instrumentals and sad
WtBR story songs.

 
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