Crosby Stills and Nash was formed when Stephen Stills and
Neil Young left Buffalo Springfield in August 1968. Richie
Furay who started out in Au Go Go Singers together with
Stephen Stills and Jim Messina who also played in Buffalo
Springfield formed Poco together with Rusty Young and
George Grantham. At first they called them selves Pogo.
Pogo was a comic strip written by Walt Kelly. Since Kelly
served them a lawsuit, they had to change name.
The name Pogo was beginning to be established, so they
needed something similar. It became Poco. Grantham and
Young came from a Colorado band called Boenzee Cryque. On
the first album Randy Meisner played bass guitar. Meisner
came from the L.A. band The Poor. Meisner left after the
first album (1969) and joined up with Rick More...
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