There's Something Happening Here

"Stop, Hey, What's That Sound, Everybody Look What's Going Down". These lyrics from the Buffalo Springfield 1967 hit For What It's Worth have come to symbolize the turbulent decade of the 1960s, employed in virtually every television documentary and feature film (including Forrest Gump and Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July) chronicling that era. In 1967, the Buffalo Springfield - namely, Bruce Palmer, Dewey Martin, and Neil Young all from Canada as well as Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, and Jim Messina - captured the mood of a generation railing against the establishment and went on to be revered as one of most influential groups in the history of rock music. Hailed as the quintessential late 1960s California band, the Buffalo Springfield spawned several rock music genres, including folk rock and country rock, with no lesser talents than The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, and The Eagles openly acknowledging the influence of the Springfield on their own sound. The direct Springfield lineage includes the groups Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Poco, Loggins and Messina, The Souther, Hillman, Furay Band, and Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Told from the eye-witness perspective of founding band member Richie Furay by well-known rock historian John Einarson, For What It's Worth is more than the story of an influential and inspirational group - it is the story of North American pop culture and politics in the 1960s and 1970s.