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Buffalo Springfield
It
is one of music history's most fascinating episodes: four
Liverpudlian's crash land in the USA and re-wire the continent's
youth to their own musical history.
Such, undoubtedly, was the context for the meeting of Stephen
Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay, and the formation of Buffalo
Springfield (the name was borrowed from that of a steamroller
resurfacing a road in LA).
Listen to a long-lost 1966 Neil Young
demo entitled I'm Your Kind Of Guy or Stills' Go &
Say Goodbye and, for all their authors subsequent achievements
and misdemeanours, they sound not unlike The Rutles!
As with The Byrds, however, while they
got all the cod-Fabbery out of their system, they were minting a
strain of what Gram Parsons would
later call "Cosmic American Music".
Buffalo
Springfield were only together for two years, but they drew on
folk, blues, R&B and country to produce an array of absolute
pearls: Young's Mr Soul and Expecting To Fly,
Stills' Rock & Roll Woman and For What It's Worth
- The band was simply too full of singer/songwriters to survive.
Guitarist Steve Stills formed Crosby, Stills
and Nash - which soon added Neil Young. Rhythm guitarist
Richie Furay and bassist Jim Messina formed a country band called Poco.
What a mind-boggling era the 60s was!
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Stephen Stills
Guitar, vocals
Neil Young
Guitar, vocals
Richie Furay
Guitar, vocals
Jim Messina
Bass
Bruce Palmer
Bass
Ken Koblun
Bass
Jim Fielder
Bass
Dewey Martin
Drums
Doug Hastings
Guitar, vocals
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