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Written by Jared Thomson
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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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