I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artist wrote a song that was thought to be a war protest song when what really prompted the songs was a 10:00 curfew instituted in  LA that lead to many arrests. Any guess the artist or the song??

The year was 1966 and a young Stephen Stills was playing in the band Buffalo Springfield at the Whiskey A Go Go in LA. The LA Times reported that the residents and other businesses in the area  had lobbied to pass a 10:00 curfew to get the young partiers off the streets early, reduce traffic and keep the noise down. This was subsequently perceived by young, local rock and roll music fans as an infringement on their civil rights, and on Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed along the Strip inviting people to demonstrate later that day. The quiet protest turned into what the Times called a Sunset Strip Riots where as many as 1000 young people showed up to protest and subsequently got arrested.  Some of the more famous participants who got hauled off in cuffs were Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda. And it was these protests events that inspired Stephen Stills to write ‘For What It’s Worth’ for his band Buffalo Springsteen. His passion paid off too as the song made it all the way to number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and currently ranks at number 63 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.