The Unlikely Genesis of Buffalo Springfield

“What we didn’t know was that Neil was coming down to California, driving his big ol’ hearse with Bruce Palmer—specifically looking for Stephen Stills. They had been there about three weeks and we almost never got together. But one day, he and Bruce were heading west on Sunset Boulevard and we were going east back to our little apartment when we both got stuck in traffic. The hearse goes by us and Stephen says, ‘That’s gotta be Neil.’ I still can’t believe it. Here we are, man, in this big, monstrous city. It just doesn’t happen in a place like L.A. But we saw each other go by, we both pulled over into Ben Frank’s parking lot, and that was basically the beginning of the Buffalo Springfield.” 

As told to Uncut Magazine by Richie Furay, former member of Buffalo Springfield; Photo of Neil’s hearse courtesy of Owen Clark 

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