Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Named after a steamroller...

On March 4th, 1966, (some will say April, but that was their debut), Stephen Stills, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, Rich Furay and Neil Young formalized the formation of a new folk-rock music group.

Stills and Furay were staying with record producer Barry Friedman. Parked outside Friedman's house was a steam-roller embossed with the name of the manufacturer - Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company.

This was their first release:



OK, ok. They went on to produce this:

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