"For What It's Worth"

[Ramone45]

Buffalo Springfield. Nothing changes, so there is hope. "Nobody's right if every body's wrong."

 

[jaF0]

Do you know the motivation/inspiration for that song?

 

[Fata Morgana]

Do you know the motivation/inspiration for that song?

It always seems to be playing in films about Vietnam.

 

[jaF0]

Stephen Stills was inspired to write the track because of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in November 1966, a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip

lobbied the city to pass local ordinances that stopped loitering and enforced a strict curfew on the Strip after 10pm. Young music fans, however, felt that the new laws were an infringement of their civil rights.[8]

On Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed on Sunset Strip inviting people to join demonstrations later that day. Several of Los Angeles' rock radio stations also announced that a rally would be held outside the Pandora's Box club on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights. That evening as many as 1,000 young demonstrators, including future celebrities like Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda (who was handcuffed by police), gathered to protest against the enforcement of the curfew laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_What_It's_Worth

It was because of 'Rump-like oppression of the people.

 

[Hypoxia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_What_It's_Worth

It was because of 'Rump-like oppression of the people.

I was there.

I don't try hard to recall it.

Those weren't the best of times for me.