Bruce Palmer

Bruce Palmer (September 9 1946 – October 1 2004) was a Canadian musician most famous for playing bass guitar in the influential folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield.

Born in L

Bruce Palmer (September 9 1946 – October 1 2004) was a Canadian musician most famous for playing bass guitar in the influential folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield.

Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada and raised in Toronto, it was there where Palmer met Neil Young while performing with a group known as the Mynah Birds. The group, fronted by future funk legend Rick James, was signed to Motown Records and did some preliminary recordings (subsequently destroyed) before it was discovered that James had been AWOL from the Navy for a year. The group was forced to disband, and a fatalistic Young and Palmer drove the former's hearse out to Los Angeles in the hope of possibly reacquainting themselves with Stephen Stills, a journeyman folk musician whom Young had briefly played with in Canada several years prior.