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.
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
Great Song.
One of my favs.
Fascinating time in history. One small group of people re-invented music before Charles Manson ended it.
Buffalo Springfield were all right.
But from 1967 I preferred “To Sir With Love” by Lulu and “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison.
Someone put a “Hooray For Our Side” sign in the middle of a bunch of road-side candidate banners near my house.
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...
Buffalo Springfield: just about the most underappreciated group of the 1960s!
“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.
Conservatives constitute the modern counter-culture that the establishment is terrified of.
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
linkin park released a new song... emptiness machine...
Will be very relevant Wednesday morning.
“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.
It was about his favorite bar being closed down.
From then to now nothings has changed.
Oh that album ... I used to listen to that at someone’s house ...
I was 17 when that song came out and saw Buffalo Springfield perform in person at my high school the year before.
Many thanks for the post, DB. Many talented members played with Buffalo Springfield. This is the song from which I learned how to play the harmonic on the high-E string.) Cheers!