14 Facts About Bruce Palmer

Bruce Palmer was a Canadian musician best known as the bassist in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

Bruce Palmer started out playing with Robbie Lane and the Disciples, then graduated to a local, otherwise all-black group fronted by Billy Clarkson.

The group was forced to disband, and Young and Bruce Palmer drove Young's hearse to Los Angeles in the hope of meeting Stephen Stills, a journeyman folk musician with whom Young had played briefly in Canada two years earlier.

Bruce Palmer was replaced in the band by a rotating group of bassists that included Jim Fielder and Ken Koblun.

However, the group had lost trust in Bruce Palmer and continued to rely on session players despite his return.

Bruce Palmer continued to rack up a lengthy arrest record, which included another drug possession bust and driving without a licence.

In January 1968, Bruce Palmer was removed from the band and officially replaced by Jim Messina.

The attorney lost track of Bruce Palmer and hired an investigator to find him.

Bruce Palmer was caught and arrested a year later in January 1971, in Los Angeles.

Bruce Palmer was deported for the final time in 1972.

In 1971, Bruce Palmer released his lone solo record, The Cycle Is Complete, on Verve Records.

The album was a commercial disaster, and Bruce Palmer seemingly retired from music.

Bruce Palmer was inducted with his Buffalo Springfield bandmates into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

Bruce Palmer died of a heart attack on October 1,2004, in Belleville, Ontario, at the age of 58.