Buffalo images from Henry Diltz ©️ 1966

Buffalo Springfield at Monterey Pop Festival (1967)

Buffalo Springfield standing behind the cabin Neil Young rented from Steve Hodel at 8451 Utica Dr, Laurel Canyon. Photo by Dennis Hopper.

Stephen Stills and Peter Tork, early 1960s.

“I did some work accompanying Steve Stills when he was with Ron Long and the Buffalo Fish. I accompanied this black trio called the [Apollas], on the stand-up string bass.” - Peter Tork, Goldmine, May 1982

“I’d run into Stephen earlier when he was playing with Peter Tork and John Hopkins, and I thought they were really doing it right.” - Richie Furay, Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (1984)

“[Stills] put together a short-lived folk duo called Buffalo Fish with bass player Ron Long (another refugee from Greenwich Village). Together, they hit the Southern California folk circuit in late 1965, playing mostly folk and blues standards. One night, when they hit the Golden Bear, in Huntington Beach, Peter Tork was working in the club’s kitchen. ‘I was between gigs,’ says Tork, ‘washing dishes and jerkin’ beer at the Golden Bear, when all of a sudden I hear this voice coming from out in the club. I look and it’s Stephen, who I hadn’t seen since leaving New York.’ Over beers, Stills and Tork renewed their friendship and Buffalo Fish became a trio, with Tork adding some vocal support and comedic touches. But after a few more times around the circuit, Buffalo Fish spread apart.” - Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (1984)

"[Peter] has had a great effect on the way I perform. The way he used to move, the way he used his accent, his whole attitude toward the theater, the entire theater, gave him a great basis from which to work. He never looks past the fact that he’s supposed to be up there: to entertain the people. And every time he got up there he would perform and do his whole number, exuding all the personality he could and he did some marvelous comedy routines. It was mostly by watching him that I picked up some of those things.” - Stephen Stills, Tiger Beat, June 1967

"When we’re not playing music or listening to music, we’re usually picking things apart — groups, ideas we hear from people, pieces of music, each other’s brain." - Stephen Stills, Tiger Beat, July 1967 (x)

Photo by Alan Pappe

The Loner/Buffalo Springfield again

Buffalo Springfield - Stephen Stills & Neil Young

Peter Tork introduces the Buffalo Springfield onstage at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967

new Buffalo at the psychedelic wall image dropped

♫ It's time we stop. Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look, what's going down? ♫ Oh hello Mr. Soul I dropped by to pick up a reason. For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season ♫

"When we (Buffalo Springfield) got to our first recording session and started to cut some songs, a voice came over the talk-back saying, 'No, that's too long. Play it faster.' Neil and I decided we better learn how to work this shit ourselves and it was a race to see who could learn the most about making records." -Stephen Stills via Facebook

There's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind

Buffalo Sprield