Buffalo Springfield gave their first ever performance during the “Monday Night Hootenany” at Los Angeles’ famed Troubadour Lounge on April 11, 1966. The newly formed group featured Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Richie Furay and Bruce Palmer. They had connected almost entirely by coincidence.Having met through previous bands, Young and Stills both expressed an interest in working together and recruited fellow bandmates from earlier projects. After Young’s band with funk singer Rick James fell through, he moved to Los Angeles in hopes of reconnecting with Stills. After a week of searching for Stills without his contact information, Young and Palmer found Stills and Furay on Sunset Boulevard while stuck in traffic.The band took their name from a steamroller that was parked in front of a friend’s house where the band was staying during their formation. In his book “There Something Happening Here,” Richie Furay said that the Buffalo Springfield roller company supported the use of the name.