Rapper FIRST time REACTION to Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

[@wildgreek1]

In 1967 I was 20 years old and wanted change. Today I am 76 years old, and I still want change. In those 56 years I have seen that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@LadyIarConnacht]

That's the way the people that control the world want it to be. They are very manipulative - keep us fighting each other all the time. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong. We never get the things we really want or need.

[@Gunny1971]

Amen brother. We step forward yet leap backwards. Same as it ever was.

[@jameslanders8517]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,

[@patticrichton1135]

I was 20 years old in 1967 also, a student at Kent State University.

[@redevil7081]

“Vietnam anti-war” signal, it still means the same…nothing against the veterans, most of them were drafted… I had an uncle who did twenty five yrs in the USMC…WW2, Korean conflict, Vietnam advisor after the French left Southeast Asia…he told my grandfather, my father and two uncles(all veterans), “ we don’t belong in this if we don’t do it 100%”, I was eleven in 1963…he was right.

[@Lee4364]

As relevant TODAY as it was back in the day!

[@waygone6657]

Yup, unfortunately it is a cyclic prophecy.

[@floyd2222]

Neil Young on the electric guitar solos..... amazing baby!!!

[@kimdart8178]

This is relevant EVERYDAY.

[@TPaine1776]

Yes, maybe even more so.

[@hopeklemann1]

Vietnam, civil Rights movement, all of that was going on during this time.

[@dannymoore6886]

Steven Stills is a HIGHLY under rated guitarist. His writing and singing is always top notch. Later in Crosby, Stills, & Nash he really was one of the best!

[@bkm2797]

Steven Stills, Manasses, also a favorite album from him.

[@drogusmaxwell6640]

His solo work in the 80's is immaculate. Neil Young played lead guitar on this track.

[@beadybaby]

Plus he was almost on The Monkees with Peter Tork!

[@Michael-ro8vc]

In case you don't know, there are Stills/Hendrix jam sessions readily available.

[@clare1061]

& Young

[@shezarae8827]

Yes this is the original and the writer. "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield is often considered an anti-war song, but it's actually about the group's stance on anti-loitering laws and the 1966 Sunset Strip riots. The song was written by Stephen Stills after witnessing a riot outside a club on the Sunset Strip where young people were protesting a curfew. The Sunset Strip was a popular area for rock and roll counterculture in the 1960s, and the song also addresses the closing of the West Hollywood nightclub, Pandora's Box. Another song by Buffalo Springfield, Bluebird kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3yrimuDjcycsJIsi=U9aTPAADPNnpSEwJ The band members interchanged making different groups in the 60, and the members are more famous that the bands, so for people not living back then, learning the members is more important in understanding the dynamics of the music. It was a great time to be alive and made this music the most meaningful in my lifetime, though I love all music. My only hope it that all others who sample these songs know the meaning and cost to humanity and what the young people wanted to birth in these times of great unrest. We were changing the world and only got credit for making things worse. We are the Boomers. We started the fires of change, but did not really have control of world events that became our reality. Today is another big time of change with huge cost to human rights and death of humanity... Shine on all you crazy diamonds.

[@bkm2797]

Learned something new, Thanks!

[@toniyoung5131]

I've tried to make the argument about Boomers taking the blame for current sh!t in the world. The people who created the crap we're living through now are the next generation from the Boomers. How they came to be the way they are with the example set by the Boomers generation is beyond my comprehension.

[@docdurdin]

Yep.. One of the most misunderstood songs of my era. Parents letting kids run on the streets was terrible. I ran into many 12 year old girls smoking bud and drinking. and whatever. With the war going on and crazy politics, it's easy to see why it was lost in the mix.

[@ElsieDee001]

So correct, fellow Boomer. We were the first generation to question the Status Quo and not want to continue blindly doing “just because”. We questioned The Establishment” and the military industrial complex.

[@lunadyana3330]

​@@ElsieDee001what about the Beats? You were not the first, nor last, to question bourgeois capitalism and it's war machine, but glad you did

[@sibkiss2009]

I still love this song 55 years later

[@joecarcione6636]

Gotta love a young Neil Young with those legendary sideburns....

[@midi510]

Chops.

[@hannejeppesen1809]

One of the great songs of my generation. We were lucky we had the best music.

[@dougskriver6216]

A young Neil Young in there.

[@marilynbrockington8213]

I have always loved that song. That is Neil Young with the huge sideburns.!

[@bkm2797]

Yes it's really cool, and how they came together later and also did their own things, both super talented.

[@stevenseul361]

They were called mutton chops

[@mountainbase-tehachapilive]

I noticed him too. This led to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, another great band.

[@donnaralph4413]

I'm 70 so I grew up when music was made by the people who actually played the instruments and sang without fine tuning! I don't care for rap ,hip hop, I know it's a new generation thing, where's the actual talent? I appreciate you diving into our generation of music 🥰

[@sandralybrand9425]

I'm 76 and am so grateful to have been around for decades of great music. And like you said just great songwriters and talent! No auto tune, and to me the sound was so much better! ❤️

[@patticrichton1135]

@@sandralybrand9425 I agree with you. I turned 77 in March, so we are close in age. I am so glad I was born when I was, so that I would be growing up during that period.

[@lesliebrown1517]

I don't think you need to apologize for the "sampling" by hip hop or other genres. It's an excellent way to get introduced to a band. I love that you go digging for the originals.

[@renlessard]

Rock music stood on the shoulders of the blues so hip hop using rock to enhance makes complete sense

[@Cchan53]

Believe me most, not all, young black youth who love rap are not going to know where the sample was taken or anything about the rock band it was "borrowed" from. I'm sure they would never listen to the original!

[@noradeclark9283]

most hip hoppers are void of talent so they sample those that had talent back in the day. It's not right.

[@HemlockRidge]

So you don't think it's "Cultural Appropriation"?

[@renlessard]

@@noradeclark9283 Many artists stole liberally from black artists. Elvis, Led Zeppelin etc. They stole from really talented people who got no money or credit. It's not right

[@maureencollins5177]

The song is a protest song Stephen Stills wrote about a curfew law on the Sunset Strip. At the time Buffalo Springfield was the house band at the iconic club Whisky A Go Go. Local residents and businesses in Hollywood were complaining about loitering on the streets. There was a big demonstration protesting the curfew and Stills wrote the song for it. He sang lead, Neil Young played the famous guitar hook. Then they released it as a single. Yes, Public Enemy used this for the Spike Lee movie "He Got Game" and Stills actually recorded his part for them and appeared in the video.

[@noneofurbizness5838]

This song, "Ohio" by CSNY, "Eve of Destruction" by Barry Maguire. Lennon. You can't hear war protest songs anymore on the radio because of franchising. It was a better world when people called out evil, rather than just talk about women and $$.

[@reedcoles1215]

Also, phil ochs but he didn't have much radio time

[@gremlyn1439]

Don't forget about Country Joe and the fish.

[@shannonotoole3526]

yasssssssssssss BP please check out those 2 songs!!!!

[@yanoharris9706]

Don't forget the grand daddy of them all! Masters of War by Dylan

[@captainmoretokin2172]

@@gremlyn1439 What are we fighting for? Don't ask me i don't give a damn (yada yada) Well we ain't got time to wonder why, WHOOPEE were all gonna die. sORRY I WAS IN A HURRY TO SPIT OUT THE HOOK.

[@davesage4931]

“Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.”

[@Frostrazor]

should be the tagline for 2020

[@kens32052]

Reminds me of politics.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yeah we know how it goes

[@davesage4931]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN yeah we do. Post anything and some dbag makes a dbag comment. Just can’t help themselves.

[@Tijuanabill]

@@davesage4931 The idea of the comment section is discussion, not graffiti. Just sayin...

[@DougRayPhillips]

Buffalo Springfield existed from 1966-68. Released three albums. This was their biggest hit. Obviously, a protest song. The lead singer is Stephen Stills. After the band broke up, Stills united with David Crosby (formerly of The Byrds) and Graham Nash (formerly of The Hollies) and formed... wait for it... "Crosby, Stills and Nash." They also had Dallas Taylor on drums and Greg Reeves on bass. Sometimes Neil Young, who had also been in Buffalo Springfield, joined with them. So, they alternately operated as CS&N or as CSN&Y. Young is the composer and lead singer of the group's 1970 protest song "Ohio," about the Kent State shootings. Both Stills and Young have substantial bodies of work as solo and informal collaboration artists as well.

[@amykiel]

Recognizing cycles is important. It’s hard to miss the similarities in what’s happening today. Always been a favorite of mine. Thanks for this one!

[@LisaLou4sho]

Yeah, about every 50 years or so.

[@rhwinner]

Highly underrated band - really cleared the way for CSNY a few years later.

[@kathyperkins435]

I was 10 years old. Got Buffalo Springfield for Christmas. The late 60's and 70's was the best music.

[@nitab1971]

Steven Stills. Brilliant writer. This is a protest song. No over thinking needed.

[@zachheim-co3hd]

Neil Young, Steven Stills, Bruce Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) Jim Messina are Rock Royalty! Buffalo Springfield is Rock Royalty!

[@lynda3860]

it was Carl Palmer who was drummer in Emerson Lake & Palmer they were all from the UK. Keith Emerson and Greg Lake were the other 2 members. Love Stephen Stills and the guys that were in Buffalo Springfield

[@michaelrice384]

Hard to believe that this song is still relevant even today.

[@kens32052]

Society has gotten worse not better.

[@sandralybrand9425]

Even more so today! 😭

[@ValerieBoyco]

Unbelievably sad

[@SheilaKnight-l4n]

I was 14 when this was popular. I still love this song.

[@ADogNamedBoo]

Me too!! Neil Young was my 1st rock’n’roll crush with the sideburns and fringed suede jackets! Love this band to this day. This was “my” band, when everyone was looking at the Beatles and Stones.

[@lynnestamey7272]

Me too, I've always loved this band. This song is the best!

[@sherigrow6480]

I don't have the words to convey how it felt growing up during this time, the music keeping time with all the things happening in our world. It influences us to this day,

[@Sithdog-z3t]

I'm 72 and I still want change, it's not just the young.

[@SCVIndy]

I’m 72 as well and agree .. great reactors are hearing these songs

[@AngB517]

Stephen Stills (of Buffalo Springfield) was on the song with Public Enemy, and he does sing the original hook. My husband said to me that he loves it when rap artists sample classics because it makes him want to go hear the original. He first heard this song on The Muppet's I heard in my parents vinyl collection.

[@JaneWalters-ni7se]

Essential song that you NEED to know, bro. Huge part of rock history.

[@nancymjohnson]

I was 9 when this came out. Played over and over and over etc on my record player. Still listen regularly

[@anniem4026]

One of my all-time favorites. It is still relevant today.

[@jeffreymullins5200]

One of those songs that means the same today as it did then...Think of the title.....For What it's Worth....It's Humanity.

[@dogsoldiertoo1099]

A lot of people think it's a war protest song but according to the songs writer Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills & Nash) the song was about the Los Angeles curfew riots in 1966.

[@lillianvanalst9453]

Yes. Correct.

[@iamhere4now980]

Yes I deleted my comment cuz I know there's going to be a lot of damn arguing over it.

[@margaretmarks6685]

The larger context was the war.

[@tjsongman]

#truestory

[@KevinPerry-wi5dw]

It's a Protest song

[@nancywengert7301]

We need to bring back some of these songs, they are just as relevant today as they were when I first heard them back in college.

[@joanallen5253]

When I was 15 years old, my best friend and I had a band and we did this song. I still have the recording of us.

[@barbarastrayhorn4667]

They protested anything they thought was wrong. I studied Rachel Carson in high school. She wrote Silent Spring about the dying species and this was 1962. I studied her in late 60s. We knew. We cared.

[@The1Mommalau]

2 Great parts of CSNY. Stephen Stills & Neil Young. Saw them 3x ❤ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young! You must check out "Teach your Children" and "Our House" Amazing Harmonies! RIP David Crosby.🎉

[@isabeljimenez6067]

I'd describe young people as not only being much more passionate but much less cynical. As the years go by, reality wears you down, and you have much more to lose. It just becomes easier to fall in line. Love to all you young people fighting the good fight. ❤

[@nataliemorton5568]

Another oldie but goodie revived by Black Pegasus!! Thanks again. ☺👍

[@66rodedawg]

Yes, Finally For What it's worth, a song by Buffalo Springfield, written by Stephen Still of Crosby Stills & Nash sometimes Young. One Hell of a song. Here is my take of the first part of the song in my view. World Freedom For What It's Worth,... I hope we all remember that song. Released on Dec, 5, 1966 Songwriter: Stephen Stills. Recorded by: Buffalo Springfield. They warned us, not just for that time for all times, but did we listen The sh!t of it is, it didn't stop then, it just changed. It morphed. World Freedom, There's something happening again, What it is, is getting clearer, It starts when we gave into fear, There was a man who once said, The Only Thing We Have have To Fear Is...Fear Itself, It's time We stop And find that sound! Everybody!: wake up to what's going down?

[@jacqueline4514]

The year I was born, and is one of my 78 year old mother’s favorite songs. Grew up to her listening to the good stuff; Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Stones; she’s still Rockin!!! ❤ Shout out to Public Enemy! My favorite is “Night Of The Living Baseheads” 🔥

[@lynette.]

Love being with you on your career change as an archaeologist.😅

[@dirtinmyeye6505]

This is so thought-provoking. Memories are running through me - my heart, my soul, and my brain. Too much to talk about.

[@grannyLynnsCreations]

Saw your short early this morning with you holding your precious baby girl, congratulations, she is beautiful.

[@kevinogracia1615]

In the mid-sixties, a lot of youngsters would congregate around Sunset Blvd., in L.A. There were great music venues and sometimes the kids would even stop traffic. This was when the "freaks" got loose, and the cops were called in to break it up. The cops came in and broke some heads, too. Thus, Stephen Stills reaction via "For What It's Worth." Peace on earth.

[@wendymartin4892]

I graduated highschool in 1967... Vietnam was probably the biggest protest focus....so was racist issues... the whole "God is dead" thing.... hippy lifestyle issues...it wasn't a pretty time, but then when has there been a really pretty time where humans are involved 😢😢😢

[@purpleelephantdebh]

what comes around goes around. and here we are again. it was a very volatile time. i see so much going on now that i've seen before. it's time for us to grow as a society again, and there are always growing pains. this song is as relevant today as it was back in '67.

[@hoyode49]

Buffalo Springfield was my favorite band in college. I actually attended their final concert as headliners. One-hit-wonders October Country opened followed by Gary Puckett and the Union Jack. Great concert!

[@garycamara9955]

That was Gary Pucket and the Union gap!

[@LisaLou4sho]

I'm 64, I remember these protests on the news as a kid. Of course my parents thought these kids were rebellious and stupid. I never thought that. Even as young as I was. I grew up at the tail end of hippie Era. I also grew up rebellious, opinionated and resistance to authorities especially government and police. I never protested but got into a few situations where I was arrested. My stand was on equality and race. Ppl that treated others differently based on sex, race and personal choices. Anyhoo..now I'm older. History repeats itself. The young have the energy and wear with all to protest and make waves. I salute them all, no matter the cause. This song is what was happening at the time, race wars and Vietnam War. Old Bob Dylan did many tributes to these causes....I always shed a tear when I hear these songs. Stay blessed.❤

[@bobseki7051]

That was "Pandora's Box", (a nightclub on the Sunset Strip) just before the scene where they are rocking the car. On Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed along the Strip inviting people to demonstrate later that day. Hours before the protest one of L.A.'s rock 'n' roll radio stations announced there would be a rally at Pandora's Box. That evening, as many as a 1,000 youthful demonstrators, including such celebrities as Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda (who was handcuffed by police), erupted in protest against the perceived repressive enforcement of these recently invoked curfew laws and the forced closure of Pandora's Box. (from Wikipedia)

[@maureencoyle666]

Its not being irrational…its all about feeling invincable, and that it was our responsibility to make the changes the grown-ups wouldn’t. “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!” (Popular bumper sticker of the day).

[@czkid3034]

love when classic songs are sampled.... sincerest form of flattery

[@wendyt7958]

Congratulations on your new baby! SO precious

[@lisal6121]

I’ve always loved this song! ❤❤❤❤

[@kympeplau1635]

The man with the gun over there is most likely a riot police officer. There was a demonstration on Sunset Strip in the 1960’s and as CSNY always do, they tell real stories or events such as Ohio. Steven Stills is the singer in this band and I think Graham Nash was in here as well. I’m not sure about David Crosby. I’ve heard yes and no on that. Neil Young might be in here. I’ve heard that as well. But Steven Stills was and they observed or heard what happened and wrote this song. The demonstrators were blocking traffic so the riot police were called and the demonstrators were hauled in to the police station. Interesting note: I saw an interview with Robin Williams and he said he was there and ran so he got out of there.

[@kympeplau1635]

Correction. CSNY members originally in Buffalo Springfield were Steven Stills and Neil Young. I’m 68 and I agree with you on the things you said. History is repeating itself and I never thought I would see that in my lifetime. I’ve always been a peace loving person but never deluded myself into thinking we would ever have perfect peace. But I still lean that way. Not political, just some understanding between people. Also the sampling issue. It does not bother this old lady. As someone pointed out our generation did steal samples and whole songs. So who are we to blame? And there’s a plus in there. Some of us older folks who wanted to teach the kids about our music? Well the kids who are grown up now are listening and learning as they hear us playing our music and they realize they heard a piece of it in a sample, commercial on TV or a movie or TV show. You can’t teach what someone is not ready to learn. And me? I’ve actually started to listen to some rap. I said some. It has to be slowed down to my hearing level to understand tho. LOL.

[@wgb_jd]

"What a field day for the heat"

[@amyheltonwalker]

When you are young you’re naive and think you can make a difference and change the world. I thought I could when I started teaching, my brother thought he could make a difference and help people when he became a police officer, we’re older and as hard as we tried we couldn’t overcome the system. We couldn’t overcome the corruption. That’s the reality of it.

[@RockinMamaT]

A lot of artists from this time we're singing about being against Vietnam. So relevant today. Peace out ✌️ ☮️

[@1bigrowdy]

But the war wasn't what the song was about

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Not about the war

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

​@1bigrowdy yup too many wimpy boys trying to be recognized spouting garbage

[@jaccilowe3842]

We were the first generation that didn't want to be just like our parents; that wanted change, that wanted an end to war and had a voice to be heard. It was certainly an amazing time to be a teenager/young adult.

[@williambill5172]

We were also the first teenagers…term was invented for our generation.

[@patticrichton1135]

@jaccilowe3842, yes it was, I was of that age during that time too.

[@jameschatwick5754]

74 year old black Vietnam veteran. That war was wrong.

[@garycamara9955]

75 yr old Nam Vet, ex combat medic. I always liked this song.

[@garycamara9955]

And yes it was wrong. But then all wars are!

[@wendyryder2708]

TOTALLY agree!

[@BlackMasakari]

99,9% of wars are wrong, maybe even 100%

[@MtnBadger]

The amount of talent in that group is nuts. Steven Stills, the guy with the "mutton chops" (big sideburns) is the infamous Neil Young, David Crosby, Jim Messina (of Logins and Messina) and more. They wrote this song about what was happening in the streets outside the club they were playing called the "Whiskey A GO-GO" in Hollywood.

[@michaelhoward900]

This was one of the most popular protest songs of the era.

[@cherylwitter5038]

Great song

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

one of the defining songs of the 1960s

[@bridgethockney2303]

I LOVE when they are sampled!!!! It forces me to go look up my favorite original!!!

[@ozlovescoffee5595]

This song is still fitting of the times.

[@laurad324]

One of my faves from the 60s - before I was born!

[@craiger991gm]

It was originally about the riots over the curfews imposed in LA but it is so well done each generation since has been able to apply it to hte issues of the day. I think we could all use their advice today: "Stop children, what's that sound? Everybody look whats going down."

[@carladicarlo3255]

There are absolutely cycles. I don’t always think we look back and realize we’re wrong. I’m in my 50s and still think as I did in my 20s. What I realized is that it’s not as easy to create change as we thought when we were young. Not giving up, but changing strategies to something more realistic.

[@l-bird]

Google search brought this up: “For What It's Worth,” by Buffalo Springfield is often mistaken for an anti-Vietnam War song, but really the song reflects group's stance on anti-loitering laws and the Sunset Strip Riots of 1966.

[@Cchan53]

Oh you mean like what's happening now these past yrs? History does indeed repeat itself doesn't it??

[@karenpowell6063]

Yes that's true but the anti war movement quickly adopted this song that they identified with. I was in college in early 70s when the anti war protests were prevalent on most college campuses including my own . This song was extremely popular with the anti war protesters, I remember that all too well

[@KevinPerry-wi5dw]

Protest song either way

[@RachelDacusAuthor]

This song was about the Sunset Strip riots of 1966, but it's meaningful for every kind of protest and movement to change the world. It will always meet resistane initially.

[@jorinkema9877]

I loved it back and still love it and find it relevant still. I am 71.

[@gizmo5925]

They were protesting the Vietnam War and the draft. In 1967, 11,363 American troops were killed in Vietnam. Keep in mind that the military was not all-volunteer in those days as it is today. Young men were being drafted and sent to their death or a long-term case of PTSD. A huge cultural shift happened in the 1960s, and we're still dealing with the aftermath.

[@darost]

, young men are more volatile... glad you're digging into past popular music. Music spans centuries but still evokes feelings no matter when. Thank you for keeping it alive, real!

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

Buffalo Springfield was the short-lived but awesome 60s band that brought us legends Stephen Stills and Neil Young, among others. Check out "Mr. Soul" from their second album. 😊

[@The1Mommalau]

Yay! CSNY!! 🎉

[@lynnesears6254]

Richie Furay went on to form Poco, some of whose members went on to be with Eagles and Loggins & Messina. 🙂

[@schirpik]

Also Firefall

[@lynnesears6254]

@@schirpik oh, who was in Firefall?

[@schirpik]

@@lynnesears6254 My bad it was Rick Roberts but it was Still's band Manassas not Buffalo Springfield.

[@quintondees4501]

This one is timeless 👏👏👏

[@russallert]

Buffalo Springfield was (in retrospect) rock & roll royalty, because it was made up of members who later went on to form bands like Crosby, Stills & Nash (& sometimes Young), Poco, Loggins & Messina and The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, not to mention the solo careers of Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Richie Furay and Jim Messina. The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield were basically responsible for launching the LA rock and pop scene of the 60s and 70s, and their musical footprints are all over other genres like country and Americana. Stephen Stills wrote the song about the Sunset Strip Riots of 1966, particularly the attempts to close down the nightclub Pandora's Box. Stills, who'd grown up partly in Latin America, saw the protests happening and then saw the riot police approaching, and it reminded him of the repressive Gestapo-like approach of Latin American riot police. He got the hell out of Sunset Strip, went home and wrote the song.

[@catherinelarkin247]

Thank you for explaining "sampling." They respected this, at least. Buffalo Springfield led to CSN. Very important band.Both Stephan Stills and Neil Young.

[@SandyMcMasters]

It's an anthem - check out CSN & sometimes Y, they defined a generation - Woodstock (written by Joni Mitchell) Ohio (about shooting of unarmed student protesters at Kent State), Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, just a very wonderful rabbit hole to go down.

[@michaelpond6386]

My generation. Heavy stuff back then.

[@tahoemike5828]

It was about a riot in LA, caused when the city/mayor tried to crack down on the hippies and kids on the strip at night, by imposing a curfew. That did not go down well. The song isn't specific to the event, but captures the spirit of all such events such that it is now timeless. Hooray for our side!

[@patriciaroberts308]

I was 12 when this album (vinyl) was newly released. I had a mad "crush" on the lead singer Stephen Stills (cowboy hat). My "crush" turned into administration for his talent.. I'm still a fan of Crosby Stills Nash (Young) all these years later. I'm a Southern California native. 😉

[@shadow1674]

Oh wow far out goovy. song thank you thank you thank you so much😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@bkm2797]

We'll fly high like a bird up in the sky...Billy Preston

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

"Singing songs and carrying signs...Mostly say 'Hooray for our side' "...such a prophetic lyric given all the 'protests' these days where the 'protesters' resemble the fans out to support their favorite football team...

[@dillodefense]

There were no music videos when this was performed. Someone put this together.

[@jwarrior852]

The sounds that came out of this Era are amazing!!! Not easily duplicated. Songs like this, Spirit in the Sky, House of the Rising Sun, and many more❤❤❤ Hey BP. I remember the Public Enemy video having this gentleman in it. Playing that mean riff and singing those lines.

[@anniebygrave9300]

Some people are saying it was a vietnam war protest but it wasn't. It was kids protesting about a curfew which was enforced on them by the authorities and meant they couldn't meet up and go to their music club in the evening. Local shopkeepers had complained it was hurting trade. The police rounded them up every evening and arrested them and put them in vans and charged them for just being there. Then they said they were going to shut the club down. It was it's last night of opening. The kids came out with signs and stood in front of the club. It was a quiet protest, but then the police were called and intimidated them, and all of a sudden it became serious. It was a total over reaction by the police chief to send his men in force like that to deal with basically what was a bunch of teens. It turned into a riot, kids got hurt, property got damaged. Some members of Buffalo Springfield were driving in that direction and were stopped and turned back by an armed policeman. They found out what it was afterwards and wrote that song.

[@davehannis9165]

yep, that's it, in those days you could get trip through the justice system for lots of simple things.

[@ohrick8707]

Pandora’s Box.

[@Kerrawin69]

My father told me this song was about Protesting the Draft for Vietnam. I was born 2 years after this song was released. It seems to be one of those Iconic songs that stays prevalent through out lifetimes.

[@optimusvalerius8824]

@Black Pegasus did you realize that the lead singer in this Buffalo Springfield performance is Stephen Stills who went on to form Crosby, Stills and Nash ?

[@Cchan53]

Why would he...he's not of that era , age wise, and he's admitted he's just learning all this music after having been mainly a rap fan and artist ...

[@wesmiddaugh230]

Was in Hollywood for new years eve and heard them a few months before this was released. Great live band

[@marknorthrup4897]

A protest song that has been used in many instances over the years and is generic enough to work for any cause still. brilliant on them.

[@davebooth5847]

Brother - and I hope won't be offended by an old white guy calling you that - You nailed it. Talking about the cycles. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.This last week I put "Ohio" in my setlist. May 4th is tagged as "Star Wars Day" these days, but old farts like me remember May 4th for a very different reason. You get it. You see it. Hell, you're a black man in America, you've fucking LIVED it way more than I ever could. You're a hip-hop artist - so I regard you as a legitimate inheritor of the folk tradition I've been performing in all my life. You tell the true stories, you tell them from the inside. "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming..."

[@stevengardiner5516]

"Paranoia strikes deep. Into your life it will creep."

[@mymusiclegacy1963]

I was born in 1963. You're doing a good job. There is a video out there that is so awesome that hardly anyone plays. Steve Ray Vaughn and Jimmie Vaughn playing a Double Neck Guitar at the same time. Called PIPELINE. I was actually at that concert in Austin when this was filmed.

[@allenruss2976]

This and Country Joe McDonald and the Fish's I feel like I'm a fixin to die are probably the two biggest protest songs from the 60s

[@mrcryptozoic817]

This was in the midst of the Vietnam war and they were observing the politics of it, this song is as strong today as it was then. Deep meaning. I am reminded of "Masters of War" (Bob Dylan).

[@rogermalloy6545]

Young men and women were more passionate than in later years

[@keithhart3689]

Buffalo Springfield, the father band of Crosby, Stilles, and Nash, and the inventers of country rock POCO the best band ever on planet earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shadow1674]

Wow this was like what year and nothing's changed and it's still 2024 and it still happening what does that tell you about the world

[@bkm2797]

Tells me we are just going in circles, which tells me we need to change these crazy cycles.

[@shadow1674]

@@bkm2797 therefore the next song he needs to do is will it go round in circles

[@chaunapierce8678]

Crosby skills Nash and young recorded a song for dead in Ohio in 1970 that was speaking about the riots that were going on at Kent State University 4 of the protesters were fatally shot. It was a very Violent time in our country until the Vietnam war finally ended.

[@boxerpaws55]

Kent State. you don't forget

[@lynnesears6254]

That would be "Ohio"

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

@@lynnesears6254 And it would be several years later

[@traceybaucom5755]

Four dead in Ohio

[@nancykorensek4083]

I was still in high school about 25 miles from Kent State with friends who were students there. I remember.

[@mrnobody3161]

This was after Stephen Stills saw Protesters in L.A., being attacked by the Cops. 🐽

[@sharoncole4868]

This was not written as a protest song but became one during Vietnam War, per Stephen Stills.

[@deenafrayo]

We didn’t have music videos back then, that all started with MTV in the 80s. These videos you see are from recorded television shows. We had a lot of variety shows back then, so there was almost always a musical guest. No climate protests until the 70s. This was during the Vietnam war. Young people just out of school always think they now know everything, it’s not until you actually live life that you find out how stupid you were in your 20s. Experience beats higher education.

[@captainmoretokin2172]

And one of the founders of MTV was none other than Michal Nesmith from the Monkeys if memory serves me

[@OLGABURROLA]

I glad your noticed so quick!!!! Amazing .. good job!! This is the original!! Listen to the lyrics, you’ll love it.❤