Norton Buffalo, a singer-songwriter and the harmonica player for the Steve Miller Band since 1975, died Friday, Oct. 30, at the age of 58. Buffalo first wrote about being diagnosed with lung cancer in September after feeling ill following a concert. No one called him a space cowboy, no one called him the gangster of love, I'm guessing more than a few people called him Maurice (woo woooooooo) because the importance of remembering a harmonica player's name ranks right up there with the importance of the word "pompetous" in the English language... Maurice is better than "Mr. Buffalo" anyway.
Norton's music took him from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to a coma...
...Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A...
Well, no, Steve Miller's music did that for Mr. Buffalo... and while Steve took the money and ran, Norton heard a "who?" every time he introduced himself.
Looks like time kept on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the present this time around for this Abra-abracadaver.
Way to die like an eagle Mr. Buffalo. (eagles commonly die of lung cancer right? I'm pretty sure that's what I read somewhere, so that line is AWESOME!)
When Miller was asked yesterday if he thought the band could possibly continue on without Buffalo, he erupted into a fit of laughter that at the time of this writing was just finally simmering down into the "light chuckle" phase.
I guess Harmonica Power! isn't quite as powerful as some might have hoped. Someone put John Popper on notice... they're comin' for him next.
Love,
Chris Real
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