Unfortunately, when Stephen Stills joined CSN, he forgot about the last two lines of this song that he wrote–he refused to step out of line and resist the evil. All that “Laurel Canyon CIA stuff.” Guess he was too scared to be “taken away.” One of my fave songs otherwise (and why my WordPress site is called “somethinghappeninghere’.)
“This was used in a commercial for Miller beer. The antiestablishment message was, of course, ignored and the song was edited to avoid the line ‘There’s a man with a gun over there, telling you you’ve got to beware.’ The commercial replaced this line by pulling up the chorus of ‘Everybody look what’s going down.’ ” http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3035
The sunset strip riots,Pandoras Box.great song.
Unfortunately, when Stephen Stills joined CSN, he forgot about the last two lines of this song that he wrote–he refused to step out of line and resist the evil. All that “Laurel Canyon CIA stuff.” Guess he was too scared to be “taken away.” One of my fave songs otherwise (and why my WordPress site is called “somethinghappeninghere’.)
“This was used in a commercial for Miller beer. The antiestablishment message was, of course, ignored and the song was edited to avoid the line ‘There’s a man with a gun over there, telling you you’ve got to beware.’ The commercial replaced this line by pulling up the chorus of ‘Everybody look what’s going down.’ ”
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3035
http://flashbak.com/great-songs-made-silly-unfortunate-uses-of-classic-tunes-in-commercials-36602/
Thank you, Larry.
Great choice. Quite fitting. 😉 🙂 😀
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