Sound Track For Town Hall Meetings
Buffalo Springfield [Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Jim Messina, and Bruce Palmer in 1966]
For What Its Worth
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
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going downThere’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going downWhat a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you awayWe better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
This is Jefferson Airplane , also appropriate.
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My unit in Vietnam’s marching song was the song “Fixin’ to die rag” by Country Joe and the Fish.
We went with “We gotta get out of this place” by the Animals.
Fortunately, for me, I was a “tourist” usually, but not always, able to fly around, land, re-fuel, and fly back to a country “that wasn’t involved in the conflict in any way, and those really aren’t US planes, they just look similar”. No one loves spooks, even when they wear uniforms.
This administration is tone deaf. (sigh)
He’s appealing to preachers to help him with health care. What do preachers have to do with health care? What is the concept here? He’s the one with the microphone, why isn’t he selling this?
Excellent song, and right on Bryan!! 🙂 (Also the White Rabbit vid). 🙂 I listen to these often, and others. They are in my regular 60/70’s playlist. I can’t function without my music! 😉
I found a Youtube of a young kid playing along with the song. He does a good job too! Shows it’s not just *us oldies* who appreciate it and get it. That’s kinda nice to know. 🙂
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth (Full Cover)
And her’s a good vid of Buffalo Springfield live in Monterey ’67 (with the BUS!!) LOL See if you know ho’s doing the intro. 😉
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth (Monterey 1967)
Quality isn’t as good as the one you posted Bryan, but the vid is good. 🙂
BTW… Happy 40th anniversary of Woodstock!! One of my very few real regrets is I wasn’t there.
Some cool photo’s and info on the Woodstock 40th Anniversary concert.
Love and Peace. 🙂
I was in Alaska at the time, although I passed by the site earlier in June on the way from NYC to Florida on leave.
Seeing that intro was rather a surprise, because, yes I know who that was, but not why they would have let him into the event as anything other than a paying customer. Monterey County is weird and the people who put on the events aren’t really familiar with the music.
It was a good time for music if little else.
LOL heehee… The Monkeys were the equivalent of the Spice Girls for that time, and possibly the first of that kind of *marketing band*. 😉 Of course, the Spice Girls were way more popular, which shows fewer people have any taste these days, especially considering the much larger population now. 😉
It wasn’t just the music at that time, it was the people. Many understood, but few had any power to do more than make songs and complain about it. *shrug*. These days, there are many more people, but fewer who really give a damn.
Actually, Stills had a peripheral tie to the Monkees when they were being created. I think he tried out for the band, or actually played on their sound track, something like that. A gig is a gig.
It is an odd switch that the right is acting like they are the oppressed these days, they are taking on the role of the “counter-culture” while they control most of the power. The attempt to make Georgetown the new Haight-Ashbury is very weird.