The song "For What It's Worth," brought to popularity by Buffalo Springfield in 1967, was a song inspired by an event by which the residents and business owners in the Sunset Strip district encouraged the passage of a strict curfew and loitering law in an attempt to reduce traffic congestion as a result of crowds of young club patrons. This was perceived by the young rock and roll music fans as an infringement of their civil rights which eventually led to the Sunset Strip riots. Many mistake the song for an anti-war song, but it was the Sunset Strip riots that inspired Stephen Stills (a then Buffalo Springfield band member) to write the song and then record it about three weeks after the riots.
This is a remix of the song "For What It's Worth" that I think is pretty decent as it keeps most of the original song intact and brings a subtle difference that gives the song just a slightly different feel.
Good post. I am a BS fan, such that I am also a fan of Stills, Furay, Young, and all their incarnations afterward, such as Manassas, Souther, Hilman, Furay Band, Poco, CSN, etc. (including offshoots such as Loggins & Messina). This was MY era in MY town ...a brat that cruised the strip in the '60's.
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