Mr. Soul - Buffalo Springfield 🦋

[appalachiablue]

- 1967.

- Buffalo Springfield was a rock band formed in Los Angeles by Canadian musicians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer & Dewey Martin & American musicians Stephen Stills & Richie Furay. The group, widely known for the song "For What It's Worth", released 3 albums & several singles from 1966 to 1968. Their music combined elements of folk music & country music with British Invasion & psychedelic rock influences.

Like contemporary band the Byrds, they were key to the early development of folk rock. The band took their name from a steamroller parked outside their house.

The band formed in Los Angeles in 1966 with Stills (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Martin (drums, vocals), Palmer (bass guitar), Furay (guitar, vocals) & Young (guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals). In 1966 they released their debut single "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", which became a hit in LA. The following Jan., they released the protest song "For What It's Worth", which became their only US top 10 hit & a counterculture anthem. Their 2nd album, Buffalo Springfield Again, marked their progression to psychedelia & hard rock & featured other well-known songs such as "Bluebird" & "Mr. Soul"...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Springfield

[patphil]

1. Any girl in the world could have easily known me better.

Great beat, and wonderful lyrics. One of my favorites by them.

This is another one of their great songs:

In the background of the video, it looks a lot like a Kabbalah...very strange

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2. This is a classic too, thanks. Their music was the soul of an era and hearing

it again is a joy and comfort. 🌼

[patphil]

3. I gotta add one more...just one, I promise

[BigmanPigman]

4. Time to put my album on my turntable and dance in the kitchen.

You can NOT sit still once the needle drops on this one.

[twodogsbarking]

5. To clarify

While it's often recognized as an anti-war protest anthem, "For What It's Worth" wasn't actually based on Vietnam. Stills, who wrote the song, was instead inspired by a confrontation back home that erupted on a few famous blocks in Los Angeles.

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6. Thanks, more from the wiki above which links to the song:

.. Although "For What It's Worth" is often considered an anti-war song, Stephen Stills was inspired to write the song because of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles in November 1966, a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, the same year Buffalo Springfield had become the house band at the Whisky a Go Go.[12] Local residents and businesses had become annoyed by how crowds of young people going to clubs and music venues along the Strip had caused late-night traffic congestion. In response, they lobbied Los Angeles County to pass local ordinances stopping loitering, and enforced a strict curfew on the Strip after 10 p.m. The young music fans, however, felt the new laws infringed upon their civil rights.[13]

On Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed on the Sunset Strip inviting people to join demonstrations later that day. Several of Los Angeles's rock radio stations also announced a rally 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 such as Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda (who was handcuffed by police) gathered to protest against the curfew's enforcement. Although the rallies began peacefully, trouble eventually broke out.[14] The unrest continued the next night, and periodically throughout the rest of November and December, forcing some clubs to shut down within weeks.[13] It was against the background of these civil disturbances that Stills recorded "For What It's Worth" on December 5, 1966...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_What_It%27s_Worth

[303squadron]

7. Three "Tone Poems"

Broken Arrow
Bluebird
In The Hour of Not Quite Rain

Some of the most unique and creative songs for their time and they still hold up today.