For what it's worth folks,

[gab13by13]

[secondwind]

1. Takes me waaayy back.....

I married my sweetheart that summer. Thanks for the memories!!

[Delmette2.0]

2. I remember explaining the lyrics to my young sons.

Then I replayed the song. Oh, they were so young and innocent, they had no reference at that age, to Vietnam or Civil Rights.

[gab13by13]

3. I played bass guitar in a band back in the 60's.

was headed to Vietnam when I was in a bad car wreck. My draft number was 126 which means I'm going.

The protests in the 60's were righteous, it seems today the Magats have co-opted protesting for ignoble purposes, to put it nicely.

We had the long hairs and the whiskey people back in the 60's. It's sad to see how far our country has fallen.

I will do my little part every day. I talked a casual acquaintance into making an appointment with a surgeon who fixed my A-fib. She has been dealing with it for years. It's a 2 hour trip and she tried the excuse that she's afraid to drive in city traffic so I volunteered to drive her. I see her in church all the time, she's on oxygen all the time. We just have a small rural hospital and I need to get her to a doctor who does 150 ablations a year. There's a good possibility she voted for Trump, so I'm not asking.

Good has to conquer evil.

As we used to say, For What It's Worth is a bad tune.

[FakeNoose]

4. Such a great song, brings back great memories

[GReedDiamond]

5. While it is completely applicable as an anti-Viet Nam war song, "For What It's Worth"...

...was actually written as a response to the 1966 Sunset Strip curfew on teenagers who had been swarming nightly to the Strip, causing many complaints from the uptight squares with businesses there. There were a few movies made about the "Sunset Strip Riots" of '66.

Back in 1978-79, the first band I was ever in (Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero - as a "special fx vocalist") included the former Buffalo Springfield drummer, Dewey Martin. Dewey also played/recorded with Patsy Cline, The Dillards, The Standells and others, before he was in Buffalo Springfield.

When he decided to leave Atascadero, he sold me his early 60s, Oak Lawn badge Camco drum kit, which he used specifically on studio recordings, including on "For What It's Worth." I paid him $800 for the kit - I understand it could be worth upwards of $25,000, and that was 10 or more years ago.

The Dewey Camcos (kick and toms), after being refurbished with all new DW hardware about 12 years ago:



Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero on the Gong Show ("Peter" is one of the guitar players, the video was posted to YouTube by his brother):

[dmr]

6. Thank you. I love the guitar in this recording.

It's nice going back in time.