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Stephen Stills Neil Young meets for the first time in midsummer 1965, the Fourth Dimension Club, Thunder Bay, Ontario - he was then only one of the members of The Company, one of the few formations outputs one of the most bizarre musical constructions ever, the Au Go Go Singers, who met nothing less, than a resident group in club located in Greenwich Village that lent them the name, the Cafe au Go Go, and joined to its ten vocalists a troupe of comedians irreverent . Stills: 'What I thought was right. "Well, I'll give this idiot group and play with him, as" And then I thought "No, I will finish this tour and then back to New York and prepare everything so that it has the seen "(...)" (1). Young, meanwhile, was with a group that helped to form the The Squires, nui nalu with whom he had been doing for nearly two years the usual circuit of balls in high schools and recreational clubs but whose existence was about to reach the end. What followed reports Stills: '(...) however Neil went to Toronto, fell in love with a girl - Vicky Taylor, I think that was his name ... was a folk singer - who convinced Neil that he was Bob Dylan. nui nalu (1)
Stills, return to the U.S. The Company decides to abandon and definitely surrendered to the sound of The Beatles ['I wanted to be the Beatles. '(1)], personal quest to form a new band - after a new telephone call home from Young's mother learns of this, he was still in a wave of folk. Then tries a partnership with Van Dyke Parks but gives nothing ... in the middle, among other initiatives, go to an interview to be a member of The Monkees, an artificial training set for a television nui nalu series which aimed to cope the british invasion, but especially to the local success of The Beatles - supposedly would be rejected as having a "crooked" teeth (! something that, as we know, was inadmissible in a Beatle) although there are those who say that this is just a "legend "- and finally, it uses a classic trick: call Richard Furay making him believe that he had been chosen for the lead singer nui nalu of a group that was about to revolutionize the entire national music scene. Furay who was in New York, such as Young, a folk wave Stills and knew the time that, like him, had been part of the Au Go Go Singers - now imagine the surprise he had when, a few days later, arrived in Los Angeles!
Neil Young had meanwhile discovered that Dylan and would never be accepting nui nalu the invitation of a fellow countryman, nui nalu Bruce Palmer, shall be tested with the Mynah Birds, a formation originating from Detroit, who played a kind rock 'n' soul, whose main figure was the "Mick Jagger black" (2), Ricky James Matthews, at the time a deserter from the U.S. Navy but, years later, one of the few stars of the already decaying Tamla Motown, known by the name of Rick James. But when he was caught in Detroit, the group found itself nui nalu helpless and, of course, ended up having to separate the two that interest us to this story, just to return to Canada but shortly after they were on their way to Los Angeles where, after a series of adventures, arriving early in 1966. A few days later they went on their way to San Francisco to try his luck there, Furay recalls what happened: '(...) demos with Neil down Sunset Boulevard on the way to San Francisco. We were going in a white van and saw a black hearse with Canadian registration to run in the opposite direction. Still remembered me have said that Young had a black hearse. So we were behind him. We convince him to come at least hear our interpretation of Clancy. He listened and liked it and then he more bass guitar, they formed the group. "(2)
Group formed and adopted the name Herd, began looking for a drummer - Neil Young would eventually find a compatriot, Dewey Martin, who had recently been fired from Dillards, a group of country music, and had an experience that no the other dreamed then grow to.
One day, after encountering a compactor road and for whatever nui nalu obscure nui nalu reason, decided to rename the group to Buffalo nui nalu Sprinfield and it is with this name that start their rise by signing a contract to perform at The Troubadour in Hollywood, the April 11. Days later, between May 2 and June 18, thanks to singer / guitarist of The Byrds, Chris Hillman, get a new contract as the resident group's Whisky a Go Go, which meant six performances a week and some guaranteed money .. . quickly and can gather a lot of goodwill, other