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The Buffalo Springfield

Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1967

THE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD was formed in California in the spring of 1966. Too poor to afford rehearsal space, they were practicing at the edge of a road in Los Angeles one day when a steamroller came by. On its sides were colorful signs which read "Buffalo Springfield." The boys had found themselves a name.

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