The plans for Buffalo Springfield to embark on a 2012 reunion tour have received another blow, after Richie Furay told the radio station WBAI the veteran band are now unlikely to play any shows this year.
The tour was originally scheduled to have gotten underway last year, before a spokesman revealed the plans had been postponed until 2012, saying: “The Buffalo Springfield tour has been scheduled for 2012. Richie, Stephen and Neil remain incredibly excited about the tour. As soon as routing and dates are confirmed, Buffalo Springfield will announce all details to the public.”
However, Furay has now said the tour is highly unlikely to go ahead this year. “I was actually told, ‘We’re doing this 30-day tour’,” he explained. “And, you know, Neil is just fickle, and even though it boils down to all three of us making a decision, without the three of us, really there can’t be anything that would even resemble a Buffalo Springfield.”
“I gotta say that we probably lost a little bit of our momentum. That isn’t to say it couldn’t be picked up again, but I certainly don’t see anything happening this year.”
The group, best known for launching the careers of Neil Young and Stephen Stills, released three albums between 1966-68.