Buffalo Springfield Trivia Quiz

Answer: Stephen Stills

Peter Tork who passed the audition and became a Monkee was a friend of Stills and a huge fan of the band. Tork took the stage to introduce Buffalo Springfield at their appearance at the legendary 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

Answer: Rick James

Both Neil Young and Bruce Palmer played with Rick James in a Toronto band called the Mynah Birds in 1965. Neil Young said Rick James had a Mick Jagger type stage routine. Palmer humorously told journalist Scott Young, "As far as we knew he (James)was white back then."

Answer: Stephen Still & Richie Furay had a chance encounter with Neil Young & Bruce Palmer in a traffic jam on Sunset Strip.

Band members Young, Palmer, Furay, and Stills all recount the same story of the historic traffic jam. In fact, Neil Young had gone to L.A. in search of Stills whom he had met a year earlier in New York. Young and Palmer were just about to give up their search for Stills and head out of town to San Francisco, when Stills spotted Young's distinctive black hearse in the traffic jam. Stills knew Young drove a hearse and concluded it had to be Neil Young when he saw the Canadian plates on the car.

Answer: Band members saw a steam roller with "Buffalo Springfield" on the nameplate.

All of the band members affirmed the steam roller origin of the Buffalo Springfield name in the liner notes booklet of the 2001 edition of "Buffalo Springfield Box Set" release.

Answer: The Herd

According to the history provided in the "Buffalo Springfield Box Set", from their earliest gigs on, Buffalo Springfield fans frequently referred to Buffalo Springfield as "The Herd" presumably because of the buffalo portion of their name.

Answer: Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing

"Clancy" was a regional hit and most of the sales and airplay of the song was in Southern California. Neil Young wrote "Clancy" long before the formation of Buffalo Springfield, and Stephen Stills and Richie Furay were performing their own arrangement of "Clancy" prior to the formation of the band. Neil taught the song to Stephen when they first met in Greenwich Village about a year before Buffalo Springfield was formed.

Answer: For What It's Worth

Stephen Stills wrote "For What It's Worth" during the confrontation on Sunset Strip between the club kids of Sunset Strip and LAPD in 1966. "Plastic People" by Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention is a more sarcastic account of the Sunset Strip Youth-Qauke of 1966. The Sunset Strip riots of 1966 were a harbinger of the Sixties culture warfare between hippies and the establishment.

Answer: Steve

Stephen Stills was the acknowledged leader of Buffalo Springfield but there was a great deal of tension between Stills & Young over the creative direction of the band. Neil Young had so much unused material from his Buffalo Springfield days, he released a solo album just a few months after the release of Buffalo Springfield's final album.

Answer: Bruce Palmer

Bruce Palmer was deported to Canada in January 1967 and was eventually replaced by Jim Fielder of the Mothers of Invention. In June of 1967 Palmer illegally re-entered the United States and rejoined the band.After his re-entry to the United States, Palmer began playing with his back to audience at live gigs and on television appearances to avoid being identified by law enforcement authorities.

Answer: David Crosby

On the updated outakes section of the classic D.A. Pennebaker documentary, "Monterey Pop" DVD you can see David Crosby singing and playing rhythm guitar with Buffalo Springfield on the song "For What It's Worth."

Answer: Buffalo Springfield Again

"Buffalo Springfield Again" is the most acclaimed of their trilogy of albums. "Buffalo Springfield Again" included such classics as "Rock and Roll Woman", "Bluebird" and "Mr. Soul." At live appearances, Buffalo Springfield frequently played an extended version of "Bluebird" in which Neil Young and Stephen Stills exchanged volleys of lead guitar crossfire for as long as a half an hour!

Answer: A Child's Claim To Fame

James Burton got his start with the earliest edition of the Rick Nelson band and went on to become one of Nashville's most acclaimed dobro and guitar session players.

Answer: Questions

Stephen Stills begins signing the lyrics to "Questions" about three minutes into the 1970 Crosby Stills and Nash recording of "Carry On."

Answer: On the Way Home

Neil Young recycled a slower acoustic version of "On the Way Home" on the 1971 live album "Four Way Street" by Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

Answer: Poco

According to All Music Guide, Poco's original name was Pogo, until Walt Kelly, creator of the syndicated comic strip "Pogo" threated a trademark infringement lawsuit. The amended name of the Furay and Messina band became Poco.