He has also produced Wild West Shows, rodeos, the World Chile Cook-off in Terlingua, TX, several 3-day
music festivals, an arts and craft festival on the strip in Vegas and a concert in a Vegas casino.  Benford
produced one of the most important symposiums in the nation for runaway and missing children, plus
many other events & shows, and too many club dates for one person to remember.  He has co produced
several record projects, including the Official State Ballad of Montana, and two award winning music videos
that were dedicated to runaway and missing children, a subject he has written two books on.  He has
produced and co produced many benefits for children and youth, and written major legislation for kids and
help establish the Runaway Hotline in Austin, Texas.  He also wrote a book about an ancient Indian tribe
that lived around Austin, Texas, that will soon be a documentary.

Benford's history in the entertainment business goes back to 1967, when he organized a band while he was
in college in the West Texas town of Alpine, where he went to ride bulls and rodeo.  Playing drums in a

country western rock 'n roll band in the sixties was a great beginning for a career that spans these past four

decades. Because of his business studies in college and being raised by a banker, he moved to producing

and management in 1970, after he moved to Austin, Texas about the time the "progressive country" music

scene was started,  that gave birth to Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael Martin Murphy and the "Armadillo cosmic

gonzo cowboy" scene.  Then Willie Nelson moved to town, taking  the lead in creating the "Outlaw" sound.

Through these years Benford was right in the middle of this "happening," and producing many of the cutting

edge concerts in Austin, TX.

Standley began to study "multimedia" in 1993, while negotiating a one million dollar CD-Rom deal with IBM.
He was turned on to the world of multimedia by Dan Jones, Native American producer working with Kevin
Costner, and while working with Willie Nelson on Farm Aid 1994, he began to tinker with this new Super
Informational Highway..  After seeing the Internet he quoted Gary P. Nunn saying, "I might have been born
yesterday, but I stayed up late last night..."  He saw the future and got on board the cyberspace band

wagon that day on the bus with Willie and Computer Bob.

In 1995, he produced one of the very first live video/audio Internet cybercast.  The webcast was from the
world famous Troubadour in Hollywood. On the lineup were some  classic LA acts including, The Bum
Steers, John York from the Byrds, Greg Harris of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Buck Page, founding member
of the Riders of the Purple Sage, county "hit" writer Steve Hill,  producer Sid Smith (Circus of the Stars,
Bob Hope's Christmas Specials for ten years, Miss Universe Pageants) was playing the cardboard box and
some other LA top acts.  In 1997, while living back in Austin, Tx, he produced a live Internet cybercast of
Willie Nelson and Friends playing for the 100 year birthday party of Jimmie Rodgers ( Father of Country
Music). The cybercast was produced in concert with Sony/Columbia Online and he produced  the show on
a Bob Dylan website. The show was a Yahoo "Pick of  the Week," and a pick by CitySearch.com, and
was so successful that the Sony server system crashed in San Francisco.

In 1998, he returned to Los Angeles to launch his new project the StudioClub.com.   A  Virtual Entertain-
ment InterNetwork on the World Wide Web.  The site was launched on June 22, 1998, with a taped show
produced on May 26, '98.  For the past three years he has produced over 100 shows on the Internet, includ-
ing webcasting the taped audio and pictures and text of the weekly Ronnie Mack Barn dance, which was
from a honkey tonk at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, the most famous street corner in the world.

In February of 2000, he produced a 5 hour live audio-video webcast of the First American in the Arts Awards
Ceremony, which went off without a hitch and was broadcast via YAHOO!  His site received over 700,000
hits in 2000 and at present is getting 2 million hits per month with a monthly increase being seen for
the past two years.  In 2001 his company again produced the First American In the Arts Awards show with
his partners at Yahoo.com.  Benford Standley has also been producing several folk shows, songwriter nights,
lady performer nights and 1950's style shows with great names and legends over the past few years, most

of which were virtual webcasts.

He's presently working with Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, Kristofferson, Aaron Neville and others on a docu-

mentary DVD, TV show and Internet Cybercast about the life of "The man that started it all", also known as

"The Father of Country Music," Jimmie Rodgers.  You can see more at SingingBrakeman.com

He is finishing a ten year writing project on the state and fate of children in the U.S. during the last quarter of

the last century.  You can see more on his work at the Some Ran West button at the StudioClub.com.  Or

go to StudioClub.com/Colorado.htm

Benford is also producing Kicking Up Dust a online eDocumentary and possible cable television show about

the history of the music business and writing the book.  Benford is doing the rough edit on a music documentary

working with the Eric Clapton Camp, Ramblin', Jack Elliott and other greats at PioneerTroubadours.com, and

has just produced a trailer for Merle Haggard's documentary movie, working very close with Haggard on the

project for eight months, two ofwhich were on the road with Bob Dylan and Merle Haggard.

After producing a series of shows in Hollywood on the Sunset Strip he is producing HollywoodCountyLine.com

For info on past Internet productions visit West Multimedia link above

1335 N. La Brea Ave., Suite 2222

Hollywood, CA   90025

CONTACT:  Benford Standley at:

323-850-8919
email-- buffalobenford@gmail.com

 

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