Stephen Stills Talks His DNC Performance With TheeBillyPorter of ‘For What It’s Worth’
While Stills first wrote and sang the song — which is perhaps better known by its subtitle, “Stop, Hey, What’s That Sound?” — as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1967, it has become a generation-spanning protest anthem for times when the world seems particularly upside-down, for political reasons and otherwise.
While the song was first inspired by the November 1966 riots on Sunset Strip in Hollywood — which started when police began enforcing a decades-old 10 p.m. curfew for people under the age of 18 — it quickly became an anthem for the counterculture in the late 1960s and beyond. “It kinda had to be [spontaneous],” he continues, “because if you try too hard it becomes pontificating, y’know? That’s why I’m careful not to put more than a couple of protest songs on my albums — I’ve never liked that term, by the way, because then you end up writing, like, op-eds to limericks, and it becomes hackneyed. You’ve gotta wait until something really strikes you.”
While he says he always felt strongly about the song, he didn’t realize how special it was “until we recorded it and they decided to take one of my other songs off the album and replace it with that one” — after the song was recorded, Atlantic quickly re-released Buffalo Springfield’s debut album to include it — and he adds with a laugh, “then everybody in the room wanted a piece of the...
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