One of the best bands of the 1960s was Buffalo Springfield. After making three albums the group broke up in 1968 with three members going on to longer careers - Steven Stills as part of Crosby, Stills & Nash, a solo career, and he's still touring, currently with Judy Collins who, so many years ago, inspired his writing Suite: Judy Blue Eyes; Neil Young as the junior partner in Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, and with a monster solo career; and Richie Furay as the founder of country-rock band Poco and now as a minister (Richie tells some funny stories about meeting Steven and Neil and on the intersection between his post-Buffalo Springfield career and his ministry).
Recently a YouTube video popped up showing all five original members (including Dewey Martin and Bruce Palmer) casually rehearsing for a planned tour in 1986. The tour never happened (my guess is the always difficult Young was the reason why) but it's a lot of fun to see the band finding their way through a new Neil Young song (which eventually evolved into the song Eldorado, which sounds like a Mark Knopfler tune, along with an intermediate period when it was called Road of Plenty, which Young never recorded; plus you can hear the beginnings of the riff that became Like A Hurricane). About three minutes in you can listen to Young and Stills discussing where to take the song. Enjoy.
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