![]() ![]() “He’d already been seeing the images in his songs as scenes from a movie.” “They were going that way and we were going this way,” Bruce Palmer told Young biographer Jimmy McDonough in Shakey. And it’s a good thing they did, or Buffalo Springfield might never have existed. He and Palmer were actually on their way to San Francisco when Stills and Furay found them. Young’s first hearse, Mort, had shit the bed a few years prior (which was immortalized in “Long May You Run”) but this new hearse, Mort II, kept Young making an entrance in style. Shooing a fly off his arm, Furay saw in his peripheral a black hearse with Ontario plates traveling in the other direction, and immediately knew who that was. Stills was driving with Richie Furay in a white van when they got stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. And it was a traffic jam that finally brought Buffalo Springfield together. from New York first, but had no idea where. ![]() When Young drove out West from Toronto with fellow Canadian and certified roustabout Bruce Palmer, he’d already cut his teeth playing with Stephen Stills back at Fort William in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I didn’t know then that a traffic jam brought Young his first success in Los Angeles. ![]()
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