Graham Nash initially met both David Crosby and Stephen Stills in 1966 during a Hollies US tour.Ĥ. Young was there with the Squires, a Winnipeg group he had been leading and Stills was on tour with The Company, a spin-off from the Au Go Go Singers.ģ. Neil Young and Stephen Stills first met in 1965, at the Fourth Dimension in Thunder Bay, Ontario. David Crosby was a founding member of the Byrds, Stephen Stills had been a guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter in Buffalo Springfield (which also featured Neil Young), and Graham Nash had been a guitarist, singer and songwriter with The Hollies.Ģ.