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MEANWHILE
BACK
AT
THE BUFFALO RANCH
By Benford Earl
"Buffalo" Standley

This Digital
Media Story is another cutting edge digital venture of
Benford
"Buffalo" Standley
A
INDEPENDENT VIRTUAL MULTI-PLATFORM MEDIA VENTURE
TRAVELS
ON AN INTERNETWORK TRACK THROUGH CYBERSPACE
AUGMENTED
MEMORIES OR WERE "MY DREAMS WERE DREAMING
ME" TO QUOTE
WILLIE NELSON...I KNOW WE WERE HIGH.
The Saga of Writer,
Producer, Dad, Granddad, and Carnie Benford "Buffalo"
Standley...from
his days riding bulls in High School,
water skiing with then astronaut John Glen's kids, then
off to college in West Tx. during the 60ties where he started a
Fraternity and a country rock band, he opened a psychedelic club
called The 5th Season in Alpine,
Texas a town just West
of the Pecos River, and did his share of
the drugs distributed to the mass of youth... chasing Pop Festivals,
then back to college to study psychology and work with autistic children, while
working in surgery at a large Ft. Worth, Tx hospital.
With many trips to Mexico while
working in the take off of
the Austin progressive country music scene
with the Cosmic Lost Gonzo Armadillo Outlaws... and doing a University Internship working in mental hospitals in Austin...
Dead children on the
backwards then leading to his
whistle blowing on the conditions that children faced in
these hospitals that then had the Governor
of Texas calling
up the Texas Rangers, the Senate and House Human Resources
Committees to investigate what he dug up...followed by the
U.S. Justice Department and FBI looking into the can of
worms that he opened
on the Texas Department of Mental
Health...leading to serious changes in
the state and fate of
institutionalized children...after they tried to shoot the
messenger.
After all this, plus
Kent State and Watergate, Buffalo decided to hit the road
with some amigos to many places South of the Border,
including years living with the Mayan in Guatemala during
the 70tys, traveling every country in
Central America and on
to Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil in South
America...months sailing the Greek Islands
on LSD, and months in
Rome, Italy... then to working with Bucky Fuller and Laura
Huxley in Canada, and back to his Gypsy life South of the
Border...building a house in Costa
Rica and a cabana hut on his land on Roatan Island in the Caribbean
sea
where he helped produce a record, and
producing concerts in Guatemala
on a ancient volcano lake with Gary P. the Cosmic Armadillo
Gonzo Okie
Nunn.
speaking
of
BACK
at the buffalo ranch...
Use your
BACK
button to retrace and back-track the story
and/or
FOLLOW THE LINKS here and there deep into 13
years in cyber space
and a half a century as a carnie,
producer,
promoter, dreamer, writer, history buff, gypsy
gypsy,
gonzo, hippie, cowboy, dad and granddad
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Born a 3rd generation Okie and
raised in Baha Oklahoma, some call Texas, the Indians called it "Tejas".
Mother
and dad divorced when I was 3 or 4 and I lived with my Grandmother
and Grandfather, and with my mother off and
on while she worked in
Dallas, and started dating the man that would become my step-father, who then
adopted
my sister and I...the rest of my life I just wanted to be
away from him...thus began a life of a certain feeling of
aloneness in the world...Later he
killed my mother...
In high school sports kept me in
line, straight that is, and popular, I got a set of drums and then begin to think about
Rickey Nelson, Buddy Holly and the cool cat Elvis, at the same time a growing fan of
Bob Wills, Chuck Berry and
Sam and Dave, and dating cheerleaders,
while I rode bulls in rodeos and did not drink or smoke pot.
Then when
I was 18, I drove off to college in my black Ford
Mustang to play football at a college in West Texas...3 weeks
of that and I quit...dang I
could get hurt...at the time there were no social fraternities
on the campus...it was 1965,
I was ready to party like it was
1969, I had a country band that I played drums in called the
Country Bunch, and
opened the first club in
Alpine, Texas where Buffalo roamed and it was called The Fifth
Season, we painted the
walls black, had strobe
lights and had rock and country bands. They wouldn't give
us a beer license, whatever...
we were only 80 miles from
Old Mexico, so weed was in town before many places in the
country. I inhaled. Went
to the Dean of Men and the
President of the college about the idea
of getting a National Fraternity on campus.
We all said
"Toga Toga Toga." and here came Tau Kappa Epsilon, that is when I became a fraternity
brother with
Les Paul, but more on that later when I meet Les
Paul, and then introduce him to Merle Haggard on a tour with him
and Bob Dylan.
More of that at the link below with me in front of one of
Haggard's busses on that tour.
EACH SQUARE BELOW IS A
CHAPTER...OF SORTS
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FROM COW CHIPS TO COMPUTER CHIPS SOME LINKS
WILL TAKE YOU DOWN TRACKS THAT
WILL END UP IN 50 YEARS AGO, SOME ON THE RED
CARPETS OF HOLLYWOOD, THE
STREETS OF AUSTIN, NASHVILLE, MISSOULA, NEW YORK,
YOU WILL WALK THROUGH DOORS OF
PERCEPTION THAT FEEL LIKE A CYBER COLLAGE
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Bruce Ricker mentor and
Eastwood Atorney
with me in the middle and Mr.
Make My
Day on my right looking from
my computer.
For the first
months and beginning
Chapters of this
Saga it will jump
from past, to
present and future...
no rhyme or
reason, as sometimes
there does not
seem to be in my
life on the
TRAIN of fate and destiny
that I travel
and roam...this is for my
kids and myself
at this time in my
life to look
back so that I can better
see dead-ahead, after
seeing
where I have been.
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Somebody told me I was
in town
tonight...I sez,
"Well...I didn't come
here, and I ain't leavin'

There were those in Alpine,
Tx. Missoula, Mt. and Paso Robles,
Ca. that wanted to hang me to
a
tree for the shows I was bother-
ing them with, and I am proud
the battle I fought to
produce
fun and historical event in
Vegas, Austin, Beverly Hills,
Malibu, Montana, Guatemala,
Mexico, Oklahoma, all over
Texas and and here and there.
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DIGITAL MEDIA
FESTIVAL 2013
SILICON VALLEY
I produced in
Silicon Valley, being
the first
one...how'd
that happen that I was
the first
"digital"
film festival in the
Valley of Silicon?

PRODUCING 6 DIGITAL
FILM FESTS
The Paso Digital Film Festival
THE FIRST DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL
OF ITS KIND IN
THE WORLD
2008
IT'S IN THE BOOK |
In the Hills of Beverly...
Malibu
and Hollywood
Thomas Steinbeck & Buffalo
Benford
kicking
up dust, and I could not live
this good
even if I was rich...while
writing
their story "How to make
movies in Hollywood on $7.00 a
day if
you friends are home.
"onward through the
fog..."
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TO BACK TRACK...
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My life is a track that I have been ridin' on...somewhat to the desire
of fate and destiny. If I look back at the
pictures alone,
and many of them
at events that I dreamed up, then I became possessed with
the dream,
the "producer" if you will, but got to wear the
"promoter" hat as well.
And the BS hat...cause you sure got to
talk big when
you have a BIG, or unbelievable,
to most people, idea that you are in the process of trying to
get off the ground... An
idea can take control of you. Willie Nelson sez, "My
dreams are dreaming me."
My friend Ken Kragen, who
created We Are
The World and Hands Across America told me about
those two ideas he had and all his friends said he was crazy...Ken told me he learned about dreams..
"That they were impossible enough to be possible."
From Cow Chips to Computer Chips
I have no idea how, but I have
been on the digital
cutting edge since Willie Nelson
turned me on to the
Internet on his bus in 1994,
after I co produced the
short wave radio broadcast of
Farm Aid that year.
Takes you to the cutting edge of digital
history
Producer
Benford Standley in the
Beverly Hills Hotel Webcast Room at end of FAITA Webcast |
One Ran East...One Ran
West...
They're all running
around in the cuckoo's nest
a 15 year
online his-story of the state and fate of children and
youth in this U.S. of America...Stories from
Benford's work with
the F.B.I. to the Texas Rangers
and his story from the streets

LINK TO 40+ YEARS
DOING WORK FOR OUR NATION'S
YOUTH
I was a whistle
blower and the Gov. of Texas called up
the
Texas Rangers to investigate...in the
end I won the fight.
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MALIBU FILM FESTIVAL

I lived in Lilly Lawrence's
incredible castle for a year
in Malibu...and from 1999 to 2003 I
photographed
and posted the Malibu Film Festival
and Fashion
Show online for 4 years, first
of it's kind for a
film festival and led me to the
digital fests in 08 |
Movies and the Biz in
Digital

Will be a number of
links to my years wearing
my paparazzi hat, with
camera and Press Passes
to cover any big movie
event in Hollywood...
More history on all
these stories from the
red carpets of
Hollywood |
Okie Carnie Delux
a Hillbilly Hobo

Since I was a boy, and
while I was growing
up I watched my
mother play her tenor
guitar or ukulele and
sing. In younger days
she dreamed of being a
musician...I took
that from her and most
my lived lived worn
many hats in the
business of entertainment. |

Launched
in 1998 till 2018 is
20 years go backstage to
the
red carpets of
Hollywood
  
 
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Legends Living and those
past...
More links to this
through the venture following
me kickin' up dust
in the biz of music. Started
with a call to do a project with Eric Clapton.
I
said, "With God?" Widerman said, "Yes."
I
said, "I'll do
it" ... so we made some history
and recorded it
in Dallas, Tx with thousands. |
THE MAKING OF THE
Jimmie Rodgers Saga
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The most awarded entertainer in
history,
my passion for 30 years of my
life...
coming soon. |
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I'zz born again
1967, the Summer of
Love. I'm an ole Hippie and proud of it,
like my
yogurt, granola,
bean sprouts,
and herbal teas...and
I tripped
and
don't want down...outlaw,
deadhead,
cowboy I inhaled and
followed the
Grateful Dead

This track my life
floated down
is known to give
FLASHBACKS |
Hollywood
County Line
Summer of 2005 I
produced a country night
with partner
Peter Kennedy and Cy Langston
joined by Mark
Sellers & the Bunkhouse Band
and the
beautiful dancin' Cow Bells every
Monday
night at the world famous
Whisky a GoGo on
the Strip
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THE FASHION STAGE |
Armadillos to
Mastodons

History of the Texas Hill Country
And
the great Tonkawa Nation
DEDICATED TO BARTON SPRINGS
AND
THE STORIES THEREOF |
KICKIN' UP
DUST

Following
music history from
the Native American drum
to wandering
troubadours,
medicine shows, tent shows
rag operas,
singing cowboys,
vaudeville on
to rock & roll.
Buck Page from Riders of the
Purple Sage, with me and
Dave
Somerville, founding
member of The Diamonds. |
Backstage with a Press Pass
   
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the history
the saga
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Merle told me this at the last concert
he ever performed. We were in Oakland,
Ca. in February of 2016, he died two
months later in his bus on his ranch.
I AM WRITING A BOOK ON MY 12 YEARS
WITH THE HAG...
STAY TUNED FOR MORE ON ME AND MERLE

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