It was looking good there for a while. After a decades-long gap between performances, the surviving original members of Buffalo Springfield came very close to a full blown reunion tour. But for now, we'll have to be satisfied with what we've had in the last couple of years.

Here's a timeline of events involving the four original members of the band: Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay (guitars and vocals) / Bruce Palmer (bass) / Dewey Martin (drums & vocals)

1966-1968: Buffalo Springfield forms, flourishes, falls apart

• April 1966: Buffalo Springfield is born
• December 1966: Buffalo Springfield is released
• January 1967: Palmer is busted on drug charges and deported to Canada
• June 1967: Palmer returns, Young leaves, David Crosby fills in for Young at Monterey Pop Festival
• October, 1967: Young returns, Buffalo Springfield Again is released
• January 1968: Palmer busted and deported again, Jim Messina replaces him
• April 1968: Young, Messina and Furay are busted on drug charges, decide to break up
• May 1968: Buffalo Springfield plays final concert
• July 1968: Last Time Around is released

1968-1988: New lineups come and go

• September 1968: Martin forms New Buffalo Springfield with a group of little known musicians
• January 1969: Stills and Young file suit to stop Martin from using the band's name
• February 1969: Guitarist and bassist are replaced
• June 1969: Guitarist is replaced again
• August 1969: Martin is fired, band dissolves
• 1984-1988: Palmer, Martin and two little known musicians form Buffalo Springfield Revisited and tour for more than four years, with the blessings of Young and Stills

1997-2012: Re-connections made and missed

• 1997: Buffalo Springfield is inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, all but Young attend induction ceremony
• 2000: Young's album Silver and Gold includes a track titled "Buffalo Springfield Again" in which he expresses the desire to "see those guys again and give it a shot"
• October 2004: Bruce Palmer dies
• January 2009: Dewey Martin dies
• October 2010: Stills, Young and Furay reunite as Buffalo Springfield at Young's annual Bridge School Benefit
• June 2011: Buffalo Springfield-- Stills, Young, Furay, Joe Vitale (Crosby Stills & Nash drummer) and Rick Roasas (Young's bassist) --play six concerts and the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival; Furay says a 30-date tour will begin in September
• July 2011: Furay says the tour has been pushed into 2012 because of Young's tour plans
• August 2011: Furay's manager says there's no definite timeline for the tour but that it is "at the top of [Young's] list [of] priorities"
• February 2012: Furay announces that Buffalo Springfield is once more on hiatus, with no more tour plans. In an interview with Baltimore radio station WBAL, Furay says, "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."