Buffalo Springfield

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.