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For What It's Worth
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 in Hollywood, California, beginning in mid-1966, the same year Buffalo Springfield had become the house band at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip.[7] It was within this period local residents and businesses had become annoyed by how crowds of young people going to clubs and music venues along the Strip caused late-night traffic congestion. In response, they lobbied the city to pass local ordinances stopping loitering and enforced a strict curfew on the Strip after 10pm. Young music fans, however, felt the new laws infringed their civil rights