Friday Music

This tune has a reputation as an anti-war song - yet about the time Buffalo Springfield had become the house band at the Whisky a Go-Go on the Sunset Strip - Stephen Stills was inspired to write the track because the Strip experienced rioting at curfew time.  Hollywood culture clashes with the establishment. 

The single peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and persists as number 63 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 

I think that the Athens, Georgia band Widespread Panic performs one of the best covers of this song.  And if you listen to the words it remains timely to this day.  Turn-up the volume on your workstation and enjoy…