Reply #56: Best protest song ever, IMHO.........For What is Worth.....

[anarchy1999]

Buffalo Springfield

"Something is happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear.

Stop now, what's that sound
Everybody look
What's going round.

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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
THE STORY OF BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
by John Einarson with Richie Furay
There's somethin' happening here,
What it is ain't exactly clear.
There's a man with a gun over there,
Tellin' me I gotta beware.
I think it's time we stop,
Hey, what's that sound,
Everybody look what's going down.


- For What It's Worth, Stephen Stills, 1966


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An updated, expanded edition of "For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield"
will be published in early 2004 and can be ordered now at Amazon.com.
Used versions of the first edition are also available.
John Einarson's latest book, Desperados - The Roots of Country Rock chronicles the
history of Southern California country rock from its rise from an unknown form, to a
genre that spawned the best selling album of all time: The Eagles Greatest Hits.

And keep an eye out for John's next effort, a biography of The Byrd's Gene Clark, entitled
Gene Clark: Tambourine Man, to be published by Backbeat Books in the spring of 2005.




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The lyrics from the Buffalo Springfield's 1967 hit For What It's Worth have come to symbolize the turbulent decade of the 1960s. Employed in virtually every documentary, television special, and feature film (including Forrest Gump and Oliver Stone's Born On The Fourth Of July) chronicling that era in America, For What It's Worth has transcended the pop charts to become an anthem, a touchstone for an entire generation. In 1967, the Buffalo Springfield captured the restless, confrontational mood of that generation railing against the establishment and went on to be revered as one of rock music's most influential groups. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock 'N' Roll cites the band among a handful of seminal rock pioneers. A glance at rock's greatest movers and shakers of the 1970 and 80s reveals just how significant the Buffalo Springfield legacy has been: Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Poco, Loggins and Messina, Souther, Hillman & Furay, Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All arose from the ashes of the Springfield.
Hailed as the quintessential sixties California pop group, the Buffalo Springfield