Stills wrote "For What It's Worth" in reaction to the Sunset Strip Riots, and recorded it with Buffalo Springfield in early December, '66.
Right. I thought you might have been continuing my inside joke to Clay (Westerly) because I made a long "history lesson" post a few months back which included that same info, when he last mentioned wishing he could have been born a generation earlier.
guess I'm going to have to watch Riot on Sunset Strip as well.
If you like vintage "Dragnet" production values, especially the notorious "Blue Boy" LSD-comes-to-Los-Angeles episode (which ironically was the very first color episode), AND you love classic garage rock (Standells, Chocolate Watchband performance cameos), you'll
love it.
It sits on my shelf next to
the Trip and
Psych-out .
Just now went to Imdb to see if there were any updates to the film's soundtrack notes, and there were a couple of different replies to a question about the party scene music.
One guy claims it's an alternate version of the seminal "East/West" by Butterfied Blues Band, while another guy claims it's by a guy named Karger who scored other stuff for the producer. That one sounds more credible to me, for the music I remember.
ImDB:
Riot on Sunset Strip
I'm pretty darn sure there's no East/West on the DVD I have, I think I woulda recognized it, besides the credits/royalties issue (no credit), but I might have to go revisit it myself this weekend. Maybe jut not not present on DVD version.
Steering course back to Mr. Campbell, that Wiki page on Mike Curb indicates he was a regular on Glen Campbell's TV show.
Glen was too straight-laced for me as a teenager (and Curb became a pretty conservative guy himself, I mean, frankly, most of his stuff belongs in the elevator music category) but in retrospect it probably helped him dodge a lot of bullets, no Viet Nam puns intended.
Always loved "Wichita Lineman", though, and "Bowling Green" was a pretty good toe-tapper on the album my folks owned..