Galt's Gulch

For What it's Worth

Posted by LetsShrug 8 years, 9 months ago to Entertainment
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Buffalo Springfield
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 9 months ago
    As relevant as it was in the year of my birth, 1967.
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    • Posted by SaltyDog 8 years, 9 months ago
      1967, huh? You really know how to hurt a fellow, J! I remember watching Buffalo Springfield on television, on a show called Hollywood Palace.

      Interestingly, For What It's Worth was not, as many believe, an anti war song.

      At the time, Buffalo Springfield was the house band at the Whiskey. Back then, there were a number of rock venues on the Strip like Pandora's Box, the Whiskey a Go-Go and the Troubadour to name a few, and the locals wanted them shut down, or at least have a curfew. There were demonstrations that summer, and that became known as the Sunset Strip Riots. One of them drew the ire of LAPD, and it got predictably out of hand. Three weeks or so later, Stills wrote this song about those demonstrations.
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      • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 9 months ago
        I knew some of this history, but you added something I didn't know. Thanks. Despite my youth, my band played 60-70-80s rock-n-roll, with probably more emphasis on the 60s than any other decade.
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