Neil Young and Stephen Stills met in 1965 at the Fourth Dimension in

Neil Young and Stephen Stills met in 1965 at the Fourth Dimension in Thunder Bay , Ontario. Young was there with the Squires , a Winnipeg group he had been leading since February 1963, and Stills was on tour with the Company , a spin-off from the Au Go Go Singers . When Stills’ band broke up at the end of that tour, he moved to the West Coast , where he worked as a session musician and auditioned unsuccessfully for, among other bands, the Monkees . Told by record producer Barry Friedman that work would be available if he could assemble a band, Stills invited fellow Au Go Go Singers alumnus Richie Furay and former Squires bass player Ken Koblun to come join him in California . Both agreed, although Koblun chose to leave before very long and joined the group 3’s a Crowd .