Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

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[DallasBiff]

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind

[DallasBiff]

I know Buffalo Springfield and every boomer knows this song, you all.

Millenials and Z'ers will not understand this song from 57 years ago..

The modern radical democrat libs are the LBJ democrats and are the offspring of the modern lib democrat radical of today.

Flame away.

[mairdie]

Due South - For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTJ63DKr-8

[llevrok]

If I recall, this was about youth riots on the Sunset Strip, not the Vietnam war.

The cops were cracking down on under age youth violating city curfews (remember those??) and congregating in the night club area. Police brutality was claimed and riots ensued

[Paladin2]

Great Song.

One of my favs.

[CatOwner]

This is from their performance on the Smothers Brothers show. Tommy's appearance at around 0:29 in the video is hilarious. Dick makes a similar appearance later in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndOWwqva0sM

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Fascinating time in history. One small group of people re-invented music before Charles Manson ended it.

[Larry Lucido]

Buffalo Springfield were all right.

But from 1967 I preferred “To Sir With Love” by Lulu and “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison.

[Larry Lucido]

Oh, and don’t forget Daydream Believer by The Monkees.

[Steely Tom]

Someone put a “Hooray For Our Side” sign in the middle of a bunch of road-side candidate banners near my house.

[llevrok]

Someone put a “Hooray For Our Side” sign in the middle of a bunch of road-side candidate banners near my house.

We were a little behind the times. Our signs said "Hooray for Hazel". And the rest is history

[packrat35]

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware...

[Gay State Conservative]

Buffalo Springfield: just about the most underappreciated group of the 1960s!

[Fiji Hill]

“For What It’s Worth” was played regularly on my go-to station, Boss Radio 93 KHJ, throughout December, 1966, so I have always thought of it as a 1966 song. The station (as well as its rivals KRLA and KFWB) were most likely playing demo discs, as the tune was not formally released until early in the new year.

At the time I thought the lyrics referred to Mao Tse-tung’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, but they actually were inspired by teenagers who rioted in West Hollywood, Calif. over a curfew.

[Fiji Hill]

"To Sir, With Love," "Brown-Eyed Girl" and "Daydream Believer" were fixtures on Boss Radio 93 KHJ's playlist. These are some of my favorites from 1967:

Mary in the MOrning--Al Martino

Go With Me--Gene & Debbe

My World Fell Down--Sagittarius

[SpaceBar]

Conservatives constitute the modern counter-culture that the establishment is terrified of.

[old school]

Wasn’t Janice Joplin part of that group, once upon a time?

[Jim Noble]

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

[rktman]

Basically CSN before they were. 😊👍

[old school]

The Vietnam War was well under way by then!

[Jim Noble]

Wasn’t Janice Joplin part of that group, once upon a time?

No she wasn't, but they both performed at Monterey Pop.