Eric Burdon has covered Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" to mark his 76th birthday. You can hear Burdon's version below. https://soundcloud.com/ericburdon/eric-burdon-for-what-its-worth-baked-5-10-2017 “The whole idea of recording this song came as a result of a conversation I had wi...
Eric Burdon has covered Buffalo Springfield‘s “For What It’s Worth” to mark his 76th birthday.
You can hear Burdon’s version below.
“The whole idea of recording this song came as a result of a conversation I had with a young fan backstage, when she asked me, ‘Where are the protest songs today?’” he says in a statement. “Right then and there, I wanted to write to say something about the brutality that’s going on in the world today—but I couldn’t find any better way to say it than Buffalo Springfield did in ‘For What It’s Worth.’ I thought of reintroducing this classic, which is as relevant today as it was during the Vietnam war and speaks to this generation just as it spoke to mine.”
“The message is clear. Racism is back, stronger than it ever has been. The struggle between the sexes is at a boiling point. Violence is out of control. Our very home planet is under threat. It’s time to grow up and take responsibility. We must wake up before it’s too late. Everything we believed in, everything people fought and died for in the ’60s, is under attack today.
“So join me, sing with me, speak out against the madness,” he continues. “We are not afraid.”