Episode 152: “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Love in Spoonful by Steve Stills
After the company's tour of canada, stills moved back to new york for a while. He now wanted to move in a fokvok direction. For a while he tried to persuade his friend john sebastian to let him play bass in his new band. But when the love in spoonful decided against having him in the band, he decided to move west to san francisco. Soon after he got there, he hooked up with two other musicians, a guitavist named steve young and a singer, guitarist and pianist named van dyke parks. The squires even renamed themselves the high flying birds, after the song that stills had recorded
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