My husband's (Blake Hamilton)
parents owned the Buffalo Tavern from 1976-80. Their names are
Jack
and Connie Hughes.
He remembers Robert Cray playing
there,as
well as Quarter Flash (when known as Seafood Momma), Jr. Cadillac,
Queen
Ida, High in The Saddle, Baby Knockers, The Skyboys, and Charlie
Musselwhite.
He has two Buffalo Tavern
windbreakers,
and a chrome zippo Buffalo Tavern lighter. An image of the back
of
one of the windbreakers is pictured above.
Paul Hammons, a man who worked
for
them and built the larger stage and made some modifications, recently
died.
Ali Hamilton, July 2010
Every Friday night the rock radio
stations
listed bands playing at local taverns and the Buffalo was always
rocking.
Some of the other bands that played
there
were Dynamic Logs, Big Momma Thornton, Joe Lee Hooker, Loverboy, and
Zydeco.
When the Hughes bought the
Buffalo,the
bar already had a huge buffalo head, and Jack stuck a joint in its
mouth.
A customer drew the picture, and the rest was history.
Ali Hamilton, July 2010
I always loved the layout of
the
Buffalo - as good a tavern layout as I ever played in.
I played sax there with Annie
Rose and The Thrillers, The Dynamic Logs,
and also Cool Ray and the Shades (our first gig was there). I
played
with Kidd Afrika for a while, and I
believe
we played there also. They were both excellent regional bands and
were very popular, full time working bands during their era. Both
played
numerous originals, as well as covers. I’ll always have fond
memories
of the Buffalo!
Aloha,
David Link, June 2015
