Was basically the working title of For What It's Worth until Stills made an offhand comment mentioning it to Ahmet Ertegun, before playing it for him and blowing him away...
That's just one of the many fascinating facts I learned after watching this extremely interesting day-old video, from a guy whose channel I had never heard of called the Professor of Rock. I must say I'm jealous that some punk kid gets to not only personally interview both Richie and Steven, but check out what he gets to sit on while talking to Steven...
It just seems so damn unfair- here is some kid that wasn't even born yet when FWIW was recorded, getting to interview one of my earliest musical heroes (Stills), as well as talk to one of the founders of a band I provided a great deal of financial support to over the years (I think I bought at least 11 Poco albums).I also helped to finance all of CSNY together, as solos, duets and a trio as I've seen them all multiple times and bought most of their albums. On Poco, I only managed to see them once live, outside of St Louis of all freaking places.
That was also the summer of my extended Senior year at IU where as part of a Poly Sci class on police/community relations a bunch of us spent the entire summer living in St Louis and riding around with cops thruout the metro area observing and doing daily reports on what we saw each shift.
There were 4 of us who drove to Colorado one 3 day weekend we had off, and I was able to complete a pilgrimage to a destination I had dreamed of visiting ever since I heard the first Manassas album as a junior in high school. One night of shivering in what felt like sub-freezing temps on a late June night in the Rockies cured me of my romanticized desire to live in the Mountains. In much the same way that my 3-day visit to Bonnaroo in 2009 cured me of any future notions of roughing it or even sleeping in a tent...
At any rate, I thought this was really good and I'll likely explore his channel further...Thought some might enjoy...
Btw, FWIW is probably not among my favorite Stills' songs, not even the best protest song he wrote as a member of Springfield...I actually enjoy Four Days Gone more...A live version from a '74 Chicago show when he was between Manassas and various CSN&Y reunions...I just wish he could still sing like this...
That's just one of the many fascinating facts I learned after watching this extremely interesting day-old video, from a guy whose channel I had never heard of called the Professor of Rock. I must say I'm jealous that some punk kid gets to not only personally interview both Richie and Steven, but check out what he gets to sit on while talking to Steven...
It just seems so damn unfair- here is some kid that wasn't even born yet when FWIW was recorded, getting to interview one of my earliest musical heroes (Stills), as well as talk to one of the founders of a band I provided a great deal of financial support to over the years (I think I bought at least 11 Poco albums).I also helped to finance all of CSNY together, as solos, duets and a trio as I've seen them all multiple times and bought most of their albums. On Poco, I only managed to see them once live, outside of St Louis of all freaking places.
That was also the summer of my extended Senior year at IU where as part of a Poly Sci class on police/community relations a bunch of us spent the entire summer living in St Louis and riding around with cops thruout the metro area observing and doing daily reports on what we saw each shift.
There were 4 of us who drove to Colorado one 3 day weekend we had off, and I was able to complete a pilgrimage to a destination I had dreamed of visiting ever since I heard the first Manassas album as a junior in high school. One night of shivering in what felt like sub-freezing temps on a late June night in the Rockies cured me of my romanticized desire to live in the Mountains. In much the same way that my 3-day visit to Bonnaroo in 2009 cured me of any future notions of roughing it or even sleeping in a tent...
At any rate, I thought this was really good and I'll likely explore his channel further...Thought some might enjoy...
Btw, FWIW is probably not among my favorite Stills' songs, not even the best protest song he wrote as a member of Springfield...I actually enjoy Four Days Gone more...A live version from a '74 Chicago show when he was between Manassas and various CSN&Y reunions...I just wish he could still sing like this...
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