Posted on 11/01/2024 2:52:11 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I turned 18 in May 1968.
It’s hard to explain the domestic impact of Vietnam to people who were born after it was over.
linkin park released a new song... emptiness machine...
Will be very relevant Wednesday morning.
Indeed!
Crosby from the Byrds
Stills from Buffalo Springfield
Nash from the Hollies
The main thing how future generations were taught that it was “Nixon’s War”, as if LBJ never existed.
“For What It’s Worth” was a song about the 1966 “Sunset Strip Riots” that took place in W. Hollywood when a 10:00PM curfew was going to be imposed along with other actions which with the “counter-culture” and the “hippies” fiercely disagreed. The intial protests occurred at the Whiskey a Go Go nightclub located on The Strip, and is still at the same location.
Yes, 60s videos show the unrest. Preposterously and not knowing “they had it so good” the cops bludgeoned kids who mostly just tried to get into the clubs for some rock music.
They had button down Oxford weave shirts like the Kingston Trio and Highwaymen and many of the girls had full skirts and blouses they wore to school. No rap. No vulgarity.
When Stephen Stills wrote it he brought it to the others and said “I wrote a song, for what it’s worth.”
You must’ve been in so Cal. I used to listen to 93 KHJ on my homemade crystal set when I was growing up in Orange County. My parents wouldn’t let me have a transistor radio.
“Nixon and Mitchell better start shakin’
Today’s pig is tomorrow’s bacon”
I learned an awful lot from my exposure to Movement people, I got to meet and to interact a bit with “leaders”, which was horrifying.
Not only did the gaslighting machine sell “Nixon’s war” (what? you all think the Federal-corporate-Hollywood-media brainwashing is NEW?) - but they sold the Watergate story, and I’m ashamed to say I bought it hard, as a lot of people here still do.
I gradually picked up small bits of Watergate reality, but it wasn’t until I learned about Crossfire Hurricane that something clicked and I instantly could connect Dallas-Watergate-RussiaRussiaRussia as the work product of a secret government that dates back to 1945-1947.
Just think - the whole “independent Justice Department” lie was started by the Watergate conspirators - and imagine if, instead of Woodward and Bernstein, you had known at the time that the author was the Deputy Director of the FBI.
Correct, but just like the Yardbirds "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place", which was about London slums, it clicked right into the whole Vietnam turmoil.
Yardbirds? I thought it was by the Animals.
You are correct.
My mistake.
Yep, Animals
Once in a while it will be heard on a film soundtrack. Forrest Gump and Tropic Thunder (with Ben Stiller) are a couple, plus TV ads.
The hip-hop group Public Enemy sampled “For What It’s Worth” on their 1998 song “He Got Game” which featured Stills singing again in a portion of the version.
It was about his favorite bar being closed down.
I like this song, but it’s definitely overplayed. Some of the deeper cuts are great, I’d suggest “Question” and “I Am a Child” as examples for those not familiar with the older LPs to show the breadth of their music.
Stills, Furay, and Messina were the rocket fuel. Neil Young went along for the ride.
There’s a funny video of them doing Mr. Soul and Stills is just doing all these crazy moves while playing guitar distracting the audience from Neil. I don’t think Neil took it too well.
From then to now nothings has changed.
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